The Varieties of Religious Experience · William James
EMERSON, 32, 56, 167, 205, 239, 330.
Emotion, as alterer of life’s value, 150; of the character, 195, 261 ff., 279. Empirical method, 18, 327 ff., 443. Enemies, love your, 278, 283. Energy, personal, 196; mystical states increase it, 414. Environment, 356, 374. Epictetus, 474. Epicureans, 143. Equanimity, 284. Ether, mystical effects of, 392. Evil, ignored by healthy‐mindedness, 88, 106, 131; due to _things_ or to the _Self_, 134; its reality, 163. Evolutionist optimism, 91. Excesses of piety, 340. Excitement, its effects, 195, 266, 279, 325. Experience, religious, the essence of, 508. Extravagances of piety, 339, 486. Extreme cases, why we take them, 486. Failure, 139. Faith, 246, 506. Faith‐state, 505. Fanaticism, 338 ff. Fear, 98, 159, 161, 263, 275. Feeling deeper than intellect in religion, 431. Flower, 476. Fruits, of conversion, 237; of religion, 327; of Saintliness, 357. Genius and insanity, 16. Geniuses, see Religious leaders. Gentleman, character of the, 317, 371. “Gifts,” 151. Glory of God, 342. GOD, 31; sense of his presence, 66‐72, 272, 275 ff.; historic changes in idea of him, 74, 328 ff., 493; mind‐curer’s idea of him, 101; his honor, 342; described by negatives, 417; his attributes, scholastic proof of, 439; the metaphysical ones are for us meaningless, 445; the moral ones are ill‐deduced, 447; he is not a mere inference, 502; is _used_, not known, 506; his existence must make a difference among phenomena, 517, 522; his relation to the subconscious region, 242, 515; his tasks, 519; may be finite and plural, 525.
“Grace,” the operation of, 226; the state of, 260. Greeks, their pessimism, 86, 142. Guidance, 472. Happiness, 47‐49, 79, 248, 279. Healthy‐mindedness, Lectures IV and V, passim; its philosophy of evil, 131; compared with morbid‐mindedness, 162, 488. Heart, softening of, 267. Heroism, 364, 488, note. Heterogeneous personality, 169, 193. Higher criticism, 4. Hypocrisy, 338. Hypothesis, what make a useful one, 517. Illness, 113. “Imitation of Christ,” the, 44. Immortality, 524. Impulses, 261. Individuality, 501. Inhibitions, 261 ff. Insane melancholy and religion, 144. Insanity and genius, 16; and happiness, 279. Institutional religion, 335. Intellect a secondary force in religion, 431, 514. Intellectual weakness of some saints, 370. Intolerance, 342. Irascibility, 264. JESUS, HARNACK on, 100. Judgments, existential and spiritual, 4. Karma, 522. Kindliness, see Charity. Leaders, see Religious leaders. Leaders, of tribes, 371. Life, its significance, 151. Life, the subconscious, 207, 209. Logic, Hegelian, 449. Louis, Saint, of Gonzaga, 350. Love, see Charity. Love, cases of falling out of, 179. Love of God, 276. Love your enemies, 278, 283. Loyalty, to God, 342. Lutheran self‐despair, 108, 211. Luxury, 365. Lyre, 267. Mahomet, 171. See MOHAMMED. MARGARET MARY, see ALACOQUE. Margin of consciousness, 232. Meaning of life, 151. Medical criticism of religion, 413. Medical materialism, 10 ff. Melancholy, 145, 279; Lectures V and VI, passim; cases of, 148, 149, 157, 159, 198.
Melting moods, 267. Method of judging value of religion, 18, 327. Methodism, 227, 237. Militarism, 365‐367. Military type of character, 371. Mind‐cure, its sources and history, 94‐97; its opinion of fear, 98; cases of, 102‐105, 120, 123; its message, 108; its methods, 112‐123; it uses verification, 120‐124; its philosophy of evil, 131. Miraculous character of conversion, 227. Monasteries, 296. Monism, 416. Morbidness compared with healthy‐mindedness, 488. See, also, Melancholy. Mormon revelations, 482. Mortification, see Asceticism. Mystic states, their effects, 21, 414. Mystical experiences, 66. Mysticism, Lectures XVI and XVII, passim; its marks, 380; its theoretic results, 416, 422, 428; it cannot warrant truth, 422; its results, 425; its relation to the sense of union, 509. Mystical region of experience, 515. Natural theology, 492. Naturalism, 141, 167. Nature, scientific view of, 491. Negative accounts of deity, 417. NEWMAN, J. H., on dogmatic theology, 434, 442; his type of imagination, 459. Nitrous oxide, its mystical effects, 387. No‐function, 261‐263, 299, 387, 416. Non‐resistance, 281, 358, 376. Obedience, 310. Omit, 296. “Once‐born” type, 80, 166, 363, 488. Oneness with God, see Union. Optimism, systematic, 88; and evolutionism, 91; it may be shallow, 364. Orderliness of world, 438. Organism determines all mental states whatsoever, 14. Origin of mental states no criterion of their value, 14 ff. Orison, 406. Over‐beliefs, 513; the author’s, 515. Over‐soul, 516.
Oxford, graduate of, 220, 268. Pagan feeling, 86. Pantheism, 131, 416. Penny, 323. Persecutions, 338, 342. Personality, explained away by science, 119, 491; heterogeneous, 169; alterations of, 193, 210 ff.; is reality, 499. See Character. Philosophy, Lecture XVIII, passim; must coerce assent, 433; scholastic, 439; idealistic, 448; unable to give a theoretic warrant to faith, 455; its true office in religion, 455. Photisms, 251. Piety, 339 ff. Pluralism, 131. Polytheism, 131, 526. Poverty, 315, 367. “Pragmatism,” 444, 519, 522‐524. Prayer, 463; its definition, 464; its essence, 465; petitional, 467; its effects, 474‐477, 523. “Presence,” sense of, 58‐63. Presence of God, 66‐72, 272, 275 ff., 396, 418. Presence of God, the practice of, 116. Primitive human thought, 495. Prophets, the Hebrew, 479. Protestant theology, 244. Protestantism and Catholicism, 114, 227, 330, 461. Providential leading, 472. Psychopathy and religion, 22 ff. Purity, 274, 290, 348. Quakers, 7, 291. Rationalism, 73, 74; its authority overthrown by mysticism, 428. Reality of unseen objects, Lecture III, passim. “Recollection,” 116, 289. Redemption, 157. Reformation of character, 320. Regeneration, see Conversion; by relaxation, 111.
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