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Abu, Sa’id, 278
Action, 43, 148, 159, 272, 300
Acton, 121
Adoration, 223
Advertising, 202, 219, 294
Aeschylus, 78
Al-Ghazzali, 73, 126, 222
Amelot, 223
Ancren Riwle, The, 217
Animals, kindness to, 195
Ansari of Herat, 84, 88, 221, 259, 276
Anselm, St., 225
Aphorism, Sufi, 106
Aquinas, St. Thomas, 82, 126, 133, 295, 298
Aridity, 294
Aristotle, 18, 20, 65
Arnold, Thomas, 252
Art, artist, 117, 131, 137, 170
Ashvaghosha, 292
Asoka, 199
Atman, 2, 5-7, 9, 56, 131, 191
Atonement, 54, 192, 232
Attention, 290
Augustine, St., 69, 70, 92, 178, 209, 221, 292, 299
Aurobindo, Sri, 61
Avatar, 48, 50, 56, 128, 191
Bagehot, W., 239
Baker, Augustine, 101, 224, 226, 294
Barclay, Robert, 14
Bayazid of Bistun, 12, 276
Beatitude, 110, 209
Beauty, 137
Becker, Thomas, 266
Benet of Canfield, 47, 281, 282, 284
Bernard, St., 11, 24, 53, 57, 69, 83, 144, 163, 174, 213, 263
Bérulle, 39
Bhagavad-Gita, 3, 5, 46, 50, 148, 152, 179, 190, 264, 265, 272
Bhagavatam, Srimad, 85, 199, 214
Blake, W., 189
Blood, 269
Bodhisattva, 61, 64, 66, 232
Body, 26
Boehme, Jacob, 212
Boethius, 161, 185, 186
Bourgoing, 223
Brahman, 2, 6, 7, 33, 56
Brhadaranyaka Upanishad, 33, 269
Broad, C. D., 265
Buddha, 1, 9, 45, 50, 100, 118, 126, 127, 142, 162, 202, 260, 269, 279
Buddhaghosha, 298
Butler, S., 78
Byron, 68
Camus, Jean Pierre, 43, 90, 100, 123, 260, 274, 293
Carnal love, 191
of Christ, 53
Cassian, 278
Caste, 159
Castellio, Sebastian, 1, 13, 249
Catherine, St., of Genoa, 11, 84, 104
Catherine, St., of Siena, 145, 163, 165, 231
written down by Tommaso di Petra, 145
Catholicism, 154
Causation, 135
Caussade, J. P. de, 43, 75
Chandogya Upanishad, 4
Chantal, St. Jeanne, 226
Chapman, Abbot John, 104, 132
Charity, 54, 83, 85, 89, 95, 102, 150, 163, 169, 174, 236, 274
Ch’êng-ên, Wu, 127, 142
Chiang Chih-chi, 247
Chih-chi, Chiang, 247
Christ, 13, 48, 49, 53-55, 106, 109, 157, 248, 252, 269, 270, 272
carnal love of, 53
following of, 180, 231
imitation of, 297
Chuang Tzu, 7, 8, 77, 91, 102, 103, 106, 116-118, 140, 162, 169, 170, 218, 245, 300
Chudamani, Viveka, 5
Civilization, 158
Claver, St. Peter, 195
Cloud of Unknowing, The, 37, 38, 257, 277, 278, 282, 285
Condren, Charles de, 180, 256, 260
Constitution and temperament, 146, 155
Contemplation, 90, 148, 159, 227, 264, 281, 294, 295, 301
Controversy, 139, 140
Conversion, 155
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K., 51
Coué 244
Craving, desire, 45, 81, 227
Culture, 109
Curé d’Ars, 71
Daishi, Yoka, 127
D’Ars, Curé, 71
Darwin, 299
De Caussade, J. P., 43, 75
Decentralization, 95
De Condren, Charles, 180, 256, 260
Deliverance, liberation, 6, 7, 23, 40, 47, 53, 91, 134, 189, 200, 214, 219
Denk, Hans, 1, 13, 93, 246
Descartes, 28
Desire. 24, 73, 86, 104, 144, 175, 219, 221
Detachment, 85, 87, 103, 105
De Vigny, Alfred, 78
Devotion, 85, 148, 152, 225
Dharma, 141, 153, 155, 157, 228, 273
Dhammapada, 93, 179
Dhyana, 58
Diamond Sutra, 127, 212, 263
Dionysius, the Areopagite, 33, 34
Disease, 229
Disquietude, 103
Distraction, 218, 284, 287
Eckhart, 2, 12, 16, 25, 29, 30, 32, 38, 39, 57, 66, 73, 76, 84, 87, 88, 96, 107, 125, 130, 133, 162, 174, 175, 178, 179, 189, 190, 212, 231, 283, 287, 292, 301
Ectomorphy, 150
Education, 10, 250
Eightfold Path, 118
Emotion, feeling, 85, 254, 257
Endomorphy, 150
Enlightenment, 56, 59, 61, 88
Erigena, Scotus, 35
Eternity, 29, 56, 76, 91, 141, 146, 240, 241, 242
Everard, John, 92, 93, 246
Evil, 178, 182, 184, 203, 231, 240
Experience, 132, 135, 255
Extraversion, 150
Faith, 234
Fall, the, 182, 228
Fate, 185
Fear, 163
Feeling, emotion, 85, 86, 89, 254, 257
Fénelon, 89, 114, 164, 217, 222, 254, 257, 288
Folk-lore, 220
Following of Christ, The, 180, 231
Foreknowledge, 186
Form, 183, 190
Fox, George, 13, 14, 289
Francis, St., of Assisi, 286
François de Sales, St., 42, 89, 98, 100, 104-106, 122, 170, 173, 217, 221, 226, 227, 274, 285, 288
Freedom, 94
Garrigou-Lagrange, R., 154, 259, 296
Ghazzali, Al, 73, 126, 222
Gilson, Étienne, 163
Gita, Bhagavad, 3, 5, 46, 50, 148, 152, 179, 190, 264, 265, 272
Godhead, 21, 25, 29-31, 38, 40, 56, 59, 86, 96, 110, 130, 138, 153, 177, 227, 237, 269, 296
God, nature of, 21-24, 55-58, 70, 73, 83
see especially chapters II, III and IV
Good, 178, 183, 184, 194, 229
Gopi maidens, 166
Gospels, Synoptic, 49
Grace, 68, 166, 232, 253, 259 gratuitous, 68
Green, T. H., 20
Gregory, St., the Great, 80, 210
Grellet, Stephen, 271
Grou, N., 112
Guénon, Rene, 59
Hakuin, 66
Healing, 260
Hillel, 15
Hilton, Walter, 107, 295
Hinayona 9, 66
Hinayanisis, 9
Hippocrates, 147
History, 52
Hobbes, 186
“How Men Behave in Crisis,” 41
Huang-Po, 57, 59, 73
Hubris, 77, 165, 220, 251
Hugo, Victor, 78
Hui Neng, 56, 65, 127, 139
Humanitarianism, 77
Hume, 38, 135
Humility, 88, 98, 162-164, 225, 254, 297
Idealists, 244
Idolatrous, 11, 95
Idolatry, 11, 44, 91, 95, 109, 138, 140, 209, 242, 243, 250, 268, 283, 299
Ignorance, 161
Imagination, 254
Imitation of Christ, The, 297
Immanence, 2
Immanent, 2, 22, 23
Immortality, 211
Incarnation, 21, 48, 54
Incarnations, 53
Inge, Dean, 249
Inner Light, 14, 119, 195
Inquisition, the, 193
Inspiration, 117, 168, 171, 173
Intellect, 133, 141
Intercession, 222
Introversion, 281
Introvert, 151
James, William viii
Japam, 279
Jerome, St., 101
Jesuits, 275
Jesus, 48, 71, 120, 129, 240
Logia of, 60
Jews, 269
Jnana, 131
Job, 172
John, 1:4, 80
John, St., of the Cross, 25, 55, 85, 91, 100, 103-106, 129, 130, 133, 168, 188, 216, 218, 255, 256, 292, 297, 300
Johnson, Samuel, 42, 46
Jones, Rufus, 13
Juliana of Norwich, 240
Jung, C., 148
Kabir, 10, 47, 105, 198, 221
Karma, 46, 237, 239, 240
Kierkegaard, S., 172
Kindness to animals, 195
Knowledge, vii, x, 12, 20, 22, 31, 35, 45, 46, 56, 80, 81, 92, 98, 110, 111, 130, 133, 135, 144, 146, 148, 152, 185, 202, 227, 240, 262, 292, 296, 297
Kokushi, Dai-o, 126
Krishna, 50, 51
Kung-chia Ta-shih, 84
Lacordaire, 164
Lallement, Father L., 70
Landscape painting, 62
Language, 10, 17, 128, 135, 144, 233
Languages, 34
Lankavatara Sutra, 8, 58, 64, 133, 208, 281
Lao Tzu, 24, 93, 104, 115, 120, 127, 145, 165, 168, 216, 272
Lawrence, Brother, 286
Law, William, 1, 2, 39, 46, 81, 84, 85, 97, 109, 130, 139, 166, 168, 174, 175, 177, 178, 180-182, 198, 207, 216, 217, 222, 223, 225, 243
Lawyers, 54, 236
Legalism, 23, 55
Leibniz, vii
Liberal Protestantism, 156
Liberation, deliverance, 6, 7, 99, 106, 110, 119, 163, 208, 262
Liberty, 122
Logia of Jesus, 60
Logos, 12, 28, 48, 49, 51, 92, 93, 115, 166, 271
Love, viii, 80, 81, 83, 88, 105, 133, 246, 282, 301
carnal, of Christ, 53
spiritual, 53
Loyola, St. Ignatius, 103
Luther, 835, 249
Machinery, 171
Magic, 268
Magnus, Albertus, 111
Mahayana, 9, 22, 32, 51, 56, 62, 188, 280
Mahayanists, 9, 53, 66
Maitrayana Upanishad, 112, 206, 209
Mallarmé, 139
Man’s final end, 80, 90, 118, 154
Mantram, 278
Maxwell, Clerk, 235
Meditation, 90
Memory, 188
Mental prayer, 275
Mesomorphy, 150
Meyerson, E., 5
Milton, 140
Mind, 8, 10, 26, 57, 59, 60, 64, 74, 87, 127, 184
Mind and body, 26, 115
Miracles, 260
Monkey, 143
More, Dame Gertrude, 98, 101
Mortification, 71, 96, 99, 108, 115, 171, 189, 217
Mo Tsu, 61
Mysticism, 55
Nature, 68, 69, 76, 77, 78, 79, 93, 107
Nemesis, 77, 79, 81
Neng, Hui, 56, 65, 127, 139
Neri, St. Philip, 225, 231
Nicholas of Cusa, 130, 169, 186
Niffari, 210
Nirvana, 45, 61, 62, 64, 70, 88, 189, 207, 208, 237, 292
No-mind, 72
Non-attachment, 102, 108, 152
Obedience, 123
Objections, 99
Olier, J. J., 31, 259, 288
Oman, Dr. J., x, 70
One Hundred and One Zen Stories, 120
One-pointedness, 299
Otto, Rudolf, 131
“Oxherding Pictures,” 71
Panchadasi, 226
Pascal, 82
Patience, 293
Paul, St. Vincent de, 301
Paul, St., 48, 49, 55, 87, 129, 165, 189
Peace, 87, 88, 194
Pelagius, 292
Penn, William, 14
Perennial Philosophy, vii, x, 1, 2, 7, 16, 19, 21, 34, 36, 38, 49, 51, 65, 72, 77, 80, 95, 96, 104, 116, 128, 137, 146, 165, 177, 182, 184, 187, 189, 202, 214, 236, 242, 249, 250, 255, 270, 294
Personality, 36, 38, 42, 49, 87, 168, 215
selfness, 36
Petition, 219
Philo, 15, 32, 69, 97, 156, 301
Plato, 15
Plotinus, 5
Plutarch, 246
Po, Huang, 57, 59, 73
Poverty, 120
Power, 77, 94, 95, 124, 270, 273
Prayer, 98, 219, 241, 300
mental, 275
Progress, 77, 78, 79, 91, 142, 294
Prophecy, 259
Protestantism, liberal, 156
Providence, 185
Prunabuddha-sutra, 61
Psychism, 19, 99
Psychic, 19
medium, 265
Quakers, 1, 13, 119, 195
Quietism, 65
Rabi’a, 102
Radin, Dr. Paul, 20, 148
Raven, Canon, 70
Reality, viii-xi, 5, 40, 43, 46, 56, 145
Recollectedness, 271
Remorse, 256
Revolution, 193
Rhetoric, 137, 216
Richelieu, Cardinal, 81
Right livelihood, 118
Rites, 265
Ritual, 262
Rumi, Jalal-uddin, viii, 15, 80, 91, 121, 139, 141, 173, 178, 187, 188, 213, 222, 238
Ruskin, 172
Ruysbroeck, 12, 31, 57, 145, 163, 174, 300
Ryo-Nen, 138
Sacraments, 60, 262, 270
Sa’id Abu, 278
St. Anselm, 225
St. Augustine, 70, 92, 178, 209, 221, 292, 299
St. Bernard, 11, 24, 53, 57, 69, 83, 144, 163, 174, 213, 263
St. Catherine of Genoa, 11, 84, 104
St. Catherine of Siena, 145, 163, 165, 231
written down by Tommaso di Petra, 145
St. Francis of Assisi, 286
St. François de Sales, 42, 89, 98, 100, 104-106, 122, 170, 173, 217, 221, 226, 227, 274, 285, 288
St. Gregory the Great, 80, 210
St. Ignatius Loyola, 103
St. Jeanne Chantal, 226
St. Jerome, 101
St. John of the Cross, 25, 55, 85, 91, 100, 103-106, 129, 130, 133, 168, 188, 216, 218, 255, 256, 292, 297, 300
St. Paul, 48, 49, 55, 87, 129, 165, 189
St. Peter Claver, 195
St. Philip Neri, 225, 231
St. Teresa, 55, 85, 98, 100, 293
St. Thomas Aquinas, 82, 126, 133, 295, 298
St. Vincent de Paul, 301
Saints, 44
Sales, St. FranÇois de, 42, 89, 98, 100, 104-106, 122, 170, 173, 217, 221, 226, 227, 274, 285, 288
Salvation, 200, 207
Samsara, 61, 62, 70
Saunders, Kenneth, 271
Saviours, 207
Scotus Erigena, 35
Scriptures, ix, 14, 18, 127, 199
Seccho, 62
Self, 4, 97, 177-180, 243
-knowledge, 162, 164, 286
-will, 98
Selfness, personality, 36, 49
Sen T’sen, 14
Shakespeare, 81
Shankara, ix, 5, 7, 24, 85, 208, 213, 237, 295
Sheldon, William, 147, 149
Shih-t’ou, 127, 226
Shruti, ix
Silence, 73, 216, 218
Simplicity, 112, 115
Sin, 180, 240, 278
Sincerity, 113
Singh, Sadhu Sundar, 199
Slavery, 195
Smriti, ix, x
Smith, John, 129, 144, 212
Song of Songs, 166
Soul, 11, 12, 15, 89, 96, 105, 130, 182, 212
Specialization, 229
Spirit, 36, 38, 51, 54, 55, 85, 115, 146, 187, 225
Spiritual authority, 124, 159, 273
exercises, 274
Spirituality, 72
Sterry, Peter, 146
Stout, G. F., 135
Suchness, 53, 74, 92
Suffering, 228
vicarious, 231
Sufi, 187
aphorism, 106
Sufis, 1, 22, 56, 260, 276
Sufism, 73, 210
Superstition, 246
Survival, 211, 215
Suso, 57, 100
Sutra, Diamond, 127, 212, 263
Sutralamkara, 127, 206
Sutra, Lankavatara, 8, 58, 64, 133, 208, 281
Sutra, Prunabuddha, 61
Sutra, Surangama, 88, 267
Sutra on the Distinction and Protection of the Dharma, 102
Sutta, Metta, 84
Swift, Dean, 92
Symbol, 246, 264, 269, 283
Synoptic Gospels, 49
Ta-shih, Kung-chia, 84
Tao, 28, 115, 116, 145, 169, 830
Taoism, 7, 271
Taoist, 7
Tathagata, 9, 58, 212
Tattva, Tantra, 64
Temperament and constitution, 146, 155
Temple, Archbishop, 241
Temptation, 95, 270
Tennant, F. R., x, 132, 238
Teresa, St., 55, 85, 98, 100, 293
Tevigga Sutta, 50
Theologia Germanica, 13, 14, 55, 111, 177, 806, 210
Theology, 54, 131, 132, 153
Three Bodies, The, 22
Tibetan Book of the Dead, 283
Time, 52, 53, 91, 96, 189, 191, 242
Tolstoy, Leo, 170
Traherne, Thomas, 66, 68, 76, 107, 110
Transcendence, 2, 22
Transcendent, 2, 22
Trench, Richard, 10, 144
Trinity, 21
Truth, 66, 74, 75, 82, 84, 111, 125, 127, 137, 141, 263, 295
true, 74, 126, 129, 131
T’sen, Sen, 14
Tsu, Mo, 61
Tzu, Chuang, 7, 8, 77, 91, 102, 103, 106, 116-118, 140, 162, 169, 170, 218, 245, 300
Upanished, Brihad Aranyaka, 33, 262
Upanishad, Ghandogya, 4, 206
Upanishad, Katha, 208
Upanishad, Maitrayana, 112, 206, 209
Upanishad, Svetasvatara, 212
Upanishads, 5, 32, 61
Vedanta, 30, 55, 271, 278
Vedantists, 30
Vicarious suffering, 231
Vigny, Alfred de, 78
Violence, 194
Virtue, 282, 295
Visvanatha, 138
Viveka-Chudamani, 5
Waley, Arthur, 142
War, 95, 119, 160, 235
Whichcote, Benjamin, 214
Will, 17, 40, 72, 73, 86, 98, 100, 134, 166, 169, 173, 174, 183, 226, 250
Woolman, John, 195, 233
Words, 24, 75, 126, 128, 129, 131, 133, 134, 217, 263
Wordsworth, 68, 172
Wu Ch’êng-ên, 127, 142
Yengo, 64
Yogavasistha, 212
Yung-chia Ta-shih, 226
Zen, 8, 58, 62, 64, 128, 138, 247