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ANALYTICAL INDEX OF SUBJECTS
Absolute, see "God"
Alcohol, effects of, literary descriptions,
18 - 20 ; scientific observations and
measurements, 20 - 23, 26
Asceticism; (Suzo), 62 ; (Catherine of
Genoa), 68 - 69 : (Mine Guyon), 77 ;
(St Marguerite Marie), 111 ; causes
and utility of, 158 - 162 ; fasting
and hysteria, 195 - 196
Auto-erotism in grand mysticism,
143 - 153, see also "Love, human and
divine"
Automatism; (Mine Guyon), 77, 80 ;
(Santa Theresa), 103 ; (St Marguer-
ite Marie), 110, 113
See also "Ecstasy," "Hallucina-
tion,'' and "Trances"
Belief, opposed to rational conviction,
225 - 226 ; in the gods of the religions
and science, 300 - 304 ; disappear-
ance of the belief in a personal
supernatural cause and the welfare
of humanity, 319 - 332 ; statistics
of belief in a personal God and in
immortality, 324 - 325
Certainty, and the impression of
revelation, 274 - 277
Clearness, and the impression of
revelation, 274 - 277
Consciousness, discontinuity of thought
and creative thinking, 246 - 247
Creative thinking, see "Revelation"
Directors; (Catherine of Genoa), 70 ;
(Mme Guyon and Father La Combe),
80 - 84, 123 - 126 ; God as director,
77, 122, 280 ff.; the loved one, the
physician, and the hypnotizer as
directors, 280 - 286, 295 - 299
Divine Presence, see "Presence"
Dryness, 106 - 108 ; see also "Period-
icity"
Duty, the psychology, of its imperative-
ness, 131 - 137
Ecstasy, produced by drugs and other
physical means, 8 ff.; in India, 41 -
42 ; drug-ecstasy and early religions,
8 - 18 ; the most potent causes of
the fascination of drugs, 16 - 36 ;
disappearance of social restraints,
31 - 36 ; drug-ecstasy and the im-
pression of enhanced life, 35 - 56
In the higher religions; (Suzo),
62 ; (Catherine of Genoa), 67 - 68 ;
(Mme Guyon), 75, 78, 81, ; (St
Theresa), 101, 103 ; (St Marguerite
Marie), 110 - 111 ; (M.E.), 209 - 211,
(St Paul), 211, 213 ; ( J. A. Symonds),
212 - 213 ; (Mrs P.), 218 - 219 ;
(Madame D.), 219 - 220 ; (Carlyle),
220 - 221 ; ( George Moore), 221 ;
( Rousseau), 221 - 222 ; (Miss X.),
223 - 226 ; (Mlle V+00E9), 226 - 236
The interpretation of natural
ecstasy as due to God makes of it
a religious ecstasy, 213 - 215, and
epilepsy, 204 - 206, 213 - 215 ; and
other non-religious causes, 206 - 208 ;
in English poetry ( Wordsworth,
Tennyson, Lowell), 236 - 240 ; and
mental activity, 277 - 279 ; and the
immediate apprehension of God,
305 - 318 ; main traits of, 205 - 206,
208 - 209, 216 - 217, 252 - 253 ; philo-
sophical interpretation of, 305 - 318 ;
the practical utility of, 319
See also "Mysticism." "Pres-
ence" (divine), "Revelation,"
"Stages of Mystical Union,"
"Trance"
Education of the great mystics, 117-
118
Ethical Perfection of the Mystics;
(Catherine of Genoa), 117 ; (Mme
Guyon), 96 - 100 ; (St Theresa), 108 -
109, 188 - 190 ; temperament and, 193
Ethical Purpose, of the Christian
Mystics, 127 - 131, 188 - 190
Ether, effects of, 27
Goal, of the mystics, see "Directors,"
"Ethical perfection," "Love,"
"Motivation," "Self-affirmation
and self-esteem"
God, the gods of the religions are
causal explanations of physical and
psychical phenomena, 300 - 304, 305 -
318 ; evil of belief in a personal
divine Cause, 320 - 330
Hallucination, 62, 64, 65, 72, 80, 103,
111, 114 ; see also "Automatism,"
"Ecstasy," "Hysteria and other
disorders"
Hasheesh, effects of, 25, 26.
Hysteria and other Disorders; (Cather-
ine of Genoa), 69, 71 - 73, 193 - 196 ;
(St Theresa), 101, 191 ff., 197 - 199 ;
attacks of semi-sleep, 78, 84, 112 -
113 ; the great mystics and neuras-
thenia, 200 ff.; conclusions, 200 - 203

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Psychology of Religious Mysticism. Contributors: James H. Leuba - author. Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1925. Page Number: 333.
    
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