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This classic of mystical theology was written by Augustin Poulain, S.J. (1836-1919). It contains the following chapters: I. Principal Definitions II. Of the Four Degrees of Ordinary Prayer and of the Last Two in Particular III. The Various Kinds of Mystical Graces IV. Historical Explanation of the Word Contemplation V. First Fundamental Character of the Mystic Union: God’s Presence Felt VI. Second Second Fundamental Character of the Mystic Union: The Interior Possession of God: The Manner in Which it is Felt VII. The Mystic Union: Its Ten Subsidiary Characters. Description of the First. VIII. The Fourth and Fifth Characters of the Mystic Union IX. The Sixth Character of the Mystic Union X. The Seventh and Eighth Characters of the Mystic Union XI. The Ninth Character of the Mystic Union XII. The Tenth Character of the Mystic Union XIII. The Eleventh Character of the Mystic Union XIV. Twelfth Characteristic of the Mystic Union: The Ligature XV. The Two Nights of the Soul, the Borderland of the Mystic State XVI. Further Details Regarding the Prayer of Quiet (the First Stage of the Mystic Union) XVII. Details Regarding the Full Union (The Second Stage of the Mystic Union) XVIII. Ecstasy (The Third Stage of the Mystic Union) XIX. The Spiritual Marriage (Fourth and Last Stage of the Mystic Union) XXI. On Revelations and Visions (Of Created Things) Descriptive XXI. Revelations and Visions (continued) Illusions to be avoided XXII. Revelations and Visions (continued) Course to be Followed in our Judgments With Regard to Them XXIII. Revelations and Visions (continued) Rules of Conduct XXIV. Trials XXV. On the Desire for the Mystic Union XXVI. Qualities Necessary for a Director XXVII. On Quietism XXVIII. Rarity or Frequency of the Mystic States XXIX. Terminology, and That of St. Teresa in Particular 1. Should infused contemplation be called a “gratuitous” grace [gratia gratis data]? XXX. Scientific Methods in Descriptive Mysticism XXXI. The Mystic Union O life, my thirsting spirit’s hidden need! Biographical Index
There are some who would question the need to republish papers that have already appeared elsewhere. Walter Pauel once said that scholars should think in terms of books rather than research papers since the latter become lost in the literature. When he told me this year ago I was not entirely convinced. Surely the young scholar must publish papers to secure his academic position. In addition, throughout his career he attends conferences many of which will require the publication of his papers in the resultant conference volumes. By their very nature such papers often discuss topics in greater detail than that scholar's subsequent books. In this case also the papers tend to become "lost" even when there exit extensive guides to the literature such as the Critical Bibliography published annually in Isis for historians of science. Many of my own papers over the past forty-five years have indeed appeared in such conference volumes as in journals.