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THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT
OF RELIGION
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[Illustration: _The Venerable Battista Vernazza
(Tommasina Vernazza)
1497-1587._]
THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT
OF RELIGION AS STUDIED
IN SAINT CATHERINE OF
GENOA AND HER FRIENDS
BY BARON FRIEDRICH VON HÜGEL
MEMBER OF THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY
[Illustration]
VOLUME SECOND
CRITICAL STUDIES
LONDON: J. M. DENT & CO.
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
MCMVIII
RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED,
BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND
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CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME
The frontispiece consists of a reduced facsimile, in photogravure, of
a lithograph by F. Scotto, entitled “Ven. Batta. Vernazza,” which
was printed and owned by the firm of Gervasoni, and which appeared
in the large 4to volume, _Ritratti, ed Elogi di Liguri Illustri_,
with the text printed by Ponthenier, all in Genoa. This book was
published there, in monthly parts, from 1823 to 1830. Scotto’s highly
characteristic lithograph no doubt reproduces an authentic likeness;
and probably the original portrait was, in the first instance, owned
by the Canonesses of S. Maria delle Grazie, Battista’s own convent
in Genoa. The picture now in the possession of the Nuns of S. Maria
in Passione, the successors of those Canonesses, is of a quite
conventional, secondary type.
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PART III.--CRITICAL
CHAPTER IX.--PSYCHO-PHYSICAL AND TEMPERAMENTAL QUESTIONS 3-61
Introductory 3-9
I. Catherine’s Third Period, 1497-1510 9-13
II. Conclusions concerning Catherine’s Psycho-physical
Condition during this Last Period 14-21
III. Catherine’s Psycho-physical Condition, its Likeness and
Unlikeness to Hysteria 22-27
IV. First Period of Catherine’s Life, 1447-1477, in its Three
Stages 28-32
V. The Second, Great Middle Period of Catherine’s Life,
1477-1499 32-40
VI. Three Rules which seem to govern the Relations between
Psycho-physical Peculiarities and Sanctity in general 40-47
VII. Perennial Freshness of the Great Mystics’ Main Spiritual
Test, in Contradistinction to their Secondary, Psychological
Contention. Two Special Difficulties 47-61
CHAPTER X.--THE MAIN LITERARY SOURCES OF CATHERINE’S
CONCEPTIONS 62-110
Introductory 62, 63
I. The Pauline Writings: the Two Sources of their
Pre-Conversion Assumptions; Catherine’s Preponderant
Attitude towards each Position 63-79
II. The Joannine Writings 79-90
III. The Areopagite Writings 90-101
IV. Jacopone da Todi’s “Lode” 102-110
V. Points common to all Five Minds; and Catherine’s Main
Difference from her Four Predecessors 110
CHAPTER XI.--CATHERINE’S LESS ULTIMATE THIS-WORLD DOCTRINES 111-181
Introductory 111, 112
I. Interpretative Religion 112-121
II. Dualistic Attitude towards the Body 121-129
III. Quietude and Passivity. Points in this Tendency to be
considered here 129-152
IV. Pure Love, or Disinterested Religion: its Distinction
from Quietism 152-181
CHAPTER XII.--THE AFTER-LIFE PROBLEMS AND DOCTRINES 182-258
I. The Chief Present-day Problems, Perplexities, and
Requirements with Regard to the After-Life in General 182-199
II. Catherine’s General After-Life Conceptions 199-218
III. Catherine and Eternal Punishment 218-230
IV. Catherine and Purgatory 230-246
V. Catherine and Heaven--Three Perplexities to be considered 246-258
CHAPTER XIII.--THE FIRST THREE ULTIMATE QUESTIONS 259-308
I. The Relations between Morality and Mysticism, Philosophy
and Religion 259-275
II. Mysticism and the Limits of Human Knowledge and Experience 275-290
III. Mysticism and the Question of Evil 290-308
CHAPTER XIV.--THE TWO FINAL PROBLEMS: MYSTICISM AND PANTHEISM,
THE IMMANENCE OF GOD, AND SPIRITUAL PERSONALITY, HUMAN AND
DIVINE 309-340
Introductory 309, 310
I. Relations between the General and the Particular, God and
Individual Things, according to Aristotle, the Neo-Platonists,
and the Medieval Strict Realists 310-319
II. Relations between God and the Human Soul 319-325
III. Mysticism and Pantheism: their Differences and Points of
Likeness 325-335
IV. The Divine Immanence; Spiritual Personality 336-340
CHAPTER XV.--SUMMING-UP OF THE WHOLE BOOK. BACK THROUGH
ASCETICISM, SOCIAL RELIGION, AND THE SCIENTIFIC HABIT OF MIND,
TO THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT OF RELIGION 341-396
I. Asceticism and Mysticism 341-351
II. Social Religion and Mysticism 351-366
III. The Scientific Habit and Mysticism 367-386
IV. Final Summary and Return to the Starting-point of the Whole
Inquiry: the Necessity, and yet the Almost Inevitable Mutual
Hostility, of the Three Great Forces of the Soul and of the
Three Corresponding Elements of Religion 387-396
INDEX 397
THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT OF RELIGION
PART III
CRITICAL