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...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...cy of conversions. 7 William James LECTURES XI, XII, AND XIII SAINTLINESS Sainte-Beuve on the State of Grace— Types of char- acter as due to the bala... ...on— Tonic effects of mystic states— They describe by nega- tives— Sense of union with the Absolute— Mysticism and music— Three conclusions— (1) Mystic... ....g., sex-deities and obscene rites in polytheism, and ecstatic feelings of union with the Savior in a few Christian mystics. But then why not equally ... ...ments during which it presses closer upon the divine sweetness.” Chemin de la Perfection, ch. xxxi.; Amour de Dieu, vii. ch. i. In fact, one might alm... ...n- scendentalist cult. In that address to the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this wor... ...ce. On the previous night I had had, after getting into bed at my rooms in College, a vivid tac- tile hallucination of being grasped by the arm, which... ...y he devotes a series of sections of his work on Nature to the Plaisirs de la Ruine, Plaisirs des Tombeaux, Ruines de la Nature, Plaisirs de la Solitu... ...ious ideals. I can do no better than quote, as to this, some remarks which Sainte-Beuve in his History of Port- Royal makes on the results of conversi...

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