ascendancy, this country has produced a richer crop of imaginative
literature than any other; and it is significant that, while in
Germany philosophy is falling more and more into the hands of the
empirical school, our own thinkers are nearly all staunch idealists.]




CONTENTS

LECTURE

I. General Characteristics of Mysticism

II. The Mystical Element in the Bible

III. Christian Platonism and Speculative Mysticism--(1) In the East

IV. Christian Platonism and Speculative Mysticism--(2) In the West

V. Practical and Devotional Mysticism

VI. Practical and Devotional Mysticism--_continued_

VII. Nature-Mysticism and Symbolism

VIII. Nature-Mysticism--_continued_

APPENDIX A. Definitions of "Mysticism" and "Mystical Theology"