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