Questions sur l’Amour de Dieu. By Jean-Joseph Surin. Edited, with valuable introduction, notes and appendices, by A. Pottier and L. Maries (Paris, 1930).
Le Père Louis Lallemant et les grands spirituels de son temps. By Aloys Pottier, S.J. (Paris, 1930. 2 vols.)
La Doctrine Spirituelle du P. Louis Lallemant. By Pierre Champion. First published in 1694. The best modern edition is that of 1924.
Histoire Littéraire du Sentiment Religieux en France. By Henri Bremond (Paris, 1916 and subsequent years). Contains excellent chapters on Lallemant and Surin.
INDEX
Adam, the apothecary, 25, 40, 41, 45, 47, 113, 140, 148, 169, 224
Aelianus Montaltus, 166
Agnes, Sister, 144, 184, 185, 188, 190, 191, 194, 250-251
Alcohol, as means to self-transcendence, 313-314, 316, 324
Alteratives, 78-79, 322
Altomarus, 166
Alvarez, Father, 75
Ambrose, Father, 201, 202, 208
Anginot, Father, 307
quoted, 228
Animal Magnetism, 91, 173
Animals, bewitchment of, 125, 128
“Animals” (Whitman), quoted, 81
Anne of Austria, 269, 273, 274
Antimony, 169-170
Apothecary’s shop, 39-40
Aquaviva, 75
Archangel, Father, 214-215, 220
Architecture, 261-262
Armagnac, Jean d’, defense of castle by, 59, 61-62, 142
friendship of, for Grandier, 15, 41, 50, 52, 53, 58, 59, 63
restoration of castle by, 56
as royal favorite, 58, 60-61, 149, 197
Armagnac, Mme. d’, 58, 61
Arts, 261
As You Like It, 83
Asceticism, 76
Astronomia Philolaica (Boulliau), 16
Atheism, 75
Atman, 69, 89
Attente du Clystere, L’, 115 n.
Attichy, Father d’, 238, 240, 282
Aubin, Guillaume, 148, 201
quoted, 22, 186 n.
Augustinianism, 74, 77
Automatic writing, 92
Autosuggestion, 253, 322
Auxonne, possession at, 118, 119
Averroes, 166
Awareness, spiritual, 324
Bacon, Sir Francis, 133
Baker, Augustine, 299
Baptism by colonic lavage, 113 n.
Barbe Buvée et la pretendue possession des Ursulines d’Auxonne (Garnier), quoted, 118
Barré, Curé of Saint-Jacques, death of, 275
and possession at Chinon, 275
role of, in possession at Loudun, 111-113, 114-115, 116, 117, 119, 138-141, 146, 179, 180, 188, 225
Bassompierre, 263
Bastide, Father, 296, 298, 307
Bayle, Pierre, 86
quoted, 7, 157-158
Beaufort, Duc de, 255
Beaufort, M. de, 274, 307
Belciel, Jeanne de. See Jeanne des Anges
Belciel, Louis de, 96
Bellegarde, 263
Beloquin, 275
Bembo, Cardinal, 15, 16
Bernier, René, 217
Biran, Maine de, 297
Blanchard, Elizabeth, 184
Blosius, 292
Bodhisattva, 70
Bodin, Jean, 137
quoted, 132
Boehme, Jacob, quoted, 311
Boguet, 136
Bohyre, Father, 227
Boinet, Madeleine, 229, 231
Bona, Cardinal, 101
Bontemps, the jailer, 151, 202
Bordeaux
Archbishop of, see Sourdis, Henri de Jesuit College of, 3
Bosses, political, 196, 209
Bothwell, 127, 137
Bouchard, Jean-Jacques, 8-10, 11, 115 n.
Boucher, François, 115 n.
Bougreau, 47, 52, 53
Boulliau, Ismaël, 16, 134, 153, 211
Boulliau, Martin, 49, 52, 54
Bourgneuf, de, 197
Bovarism, 99-101, 278-279
Bovary, Mme., 99
Boyle, Robert, 40
Brahman, 69
Breathing, types of, 298
Bremond, Abbé, 76, 176
Bright, 166
Brossier, Marthe, 178
Brou, Madeleine de, 41-44, 45, 108, 182, 194
Brou, Mme. de, 35, 37, 42
Brou, René de, 41
Browne, Sir Thomas, 133
Brutality toward criminals, the insane, etc., 294-295
Buron, Father, 194
Burton, Robert, 168, 173
quoted, 115 n., 159-160, 166, 170, 171
Bussy-Rabutin, quoted, 28
Butler, 29
Calvinists, 147, 193
Camera, 320
Capuchins, 145
Carmelites, 145, 230
Cartesian doctrine, 83;
see also Descartes, René
Casuistry, 74, 75
Catalepsy, 162, 163
Catatonia, 291
Catéchisme Spirituel, Le (Surin), 299-300
quoted, 305
Catherine of the Presentation, Sister, 185
Caussade, de, 286
Celibacy, Grandier’s treatise against, 14, 43-44
Centuries of Meditations (Traherne), 306
quoted, 84
Cerisay, Guillaume de, 16, 119, 120, 138-139, 140, 180, 182, 194, 196, 197
Cerutti, quoted, 1
Champion, Father, 76-77
quoted, 78
Chantal, Jeanne de, 271, 272-273
Chapman, Dom John, quoted, 187 n.
Chastity and obscenity, 187
Chauvet, Charles, 197
Chauvet, Louis, 49, 119, 120, 196, 197, 225
Chaux, Bertrand de, 267
Cherbonneau, 47, 52, 53
Chevreuse, M. de, 268
Chevreuse, Mme. de, 267
Chinon, possession at, 275
Christ, 81, 301
Surin’s visions of, 290
union with, 71, 72, 73, 77, 92
Christianity
role of devils in, 173-175
theory of human nature and, 158-163
Church, Catholic. See Roman Catholic Church
Civilization, 198, 327
Claire of St. John, Sister, 139-140
Claire de Sazilly. See Sazilly, Claire de
Clairvoyance, 173
test of, 176, 182-185
Clyster, 115 n.
Coarseness, 85
Coke, Sir Edward, quoted, 121
Comedy, 280
Communism, 127, 175, 208
Concini, 23
Condé, Henri de, 143-144
Confession, 208
Confessions (Bouchard), 10, 11
Consciousness, 164
cosmic, 90-91
individual, 69-70
Contemplation, 75-76, 77, 87-88
Convent, 17th-century, life in, 94-95
Conversion
of Jeanne des Agnes, 242-244
political, 325
Corneille, Pierre, 3, 83, 261
Corruption
ecclesiastical, 6-8, 44 n.
state policy toward, 7-8
Couldray-Montpensier, Marquis de, 165
Counter Reformation, 6
Coussay, Prior of, 22-23
Credulity, 235, 266
Crimes of passion and idealism, 301
Crowd-delirium, 316-321, 322, 325, 326
Cudworth, 133
Culture, 17th-century, 260-264
Dai-o Kokushi, quoted, 301
Dampierre, demoiselles de, 143
Dauphin. See Louis XIII
De emendatione temporum (Scaliger), 48
Dead, possession by spirits of, 172-173
Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (Harsnett), quoted, 129
Deism, 75
Deleuze, J. P. F., quoted, 91-92
Demagogues, 325-326
Demonologie (James I), 132
Démonomanie de Loudun (Mesnardière), 153
Démonomanie des Sorciers (Bodin), 132
Descartes, René, 3, 9, 163, 164, 260
Devil is an Ass, The (Jonson), 170-171
Devils
in Christian religion, 173-175
educated and uneducated, 179, 180, 181
modern, 148
necessity of postulating, 177
new doctrine on truthfulness of, 152-153, 193, 196, 197, 198, 235
Dianic cult, 136-137
Dictionary (Bayle), quoted, 7
Dionysius the Areopagite, 93
Dionysos, 315
Discipline
ecclesiastical, 8 n.
in Jesuit colleges, 2
self, see Self-punishment
Discours à Madame de la Sablière (La Fontaine), 83
Discourse of the Subtill Practices of Devils by Witches, A (Gifford), quoted, 129
Discovery of Witchcraft (Scot), 132
Disease, witch-caused, 126-127
Dispensary (Garth), quoted, 39
Divine right of kings, 261, 264
Doctrine Spirituelle du Père Louis Lallemant, La, 77
Donne, John, quoted, 78
Dreux, Mme. de, 49, 52
Drugs. See Narcotics
Drugstore, 39-40
Du Bellay, Marquis, 46
Du Chene, Dr., 234
Du Houx, Mme., 277, 278
Duncan, Mark, 185-186
Du Tillet, Mlle., 55
Du Tronchay, Louise, 5, 295
quoted, 5
Du Verger, Mme., 228-229
Education
Jesuit methods of, 2, 3
moral, induction in, 29-30
public interest in, 1, 2
sex, 10, 11-12
use of, to exploit urge to self-transcendence, 320
Ego, 69, 89
Ehrenwald, Jan, 183
Elizabeth, Queen, 137
Enema, use of, in exorcism, 113, 115
Epernon, Duke of, 56
Esbat, 136
Eschillais, Charlotte Goumart d’, 96
Escoubleau, Anne d’, 184
ESP, 72, 177, 182, 185, 186
Estrées, Gabrielle d’, 54
Eusebius, Father. See Saint-Michel, Eusèbe de
Evil
preoccupation with, 175
Radical, 128
in religion, 123
Evreux, Bishop of, 274
Exhibitionism, 190
Exorcism
defense of, 134
during Grandier’s torture and execution, 204, 211, 219, 221
encouragement of possession by, 188, 189, 227
of Jeanne des Anges, 112, 113, 114-115, 119-120, 223-224, 248-249, 251-252, 254-255, 258
modern, 172;
see also Psychiatry
relation between exorcist and demoniac in, 118, 183
of Ursulines, 110-112, 117-118, 138-141, 151-152, 155
Faith, 134
Fame, transitoriness of, 15-16
Fanton, Dr., 37, 255, 256
quoted, 256-257
Fervaque, M. de, 113 n.
Fifth Column, 148
Filatreau, Françoise, 184
Fitzdottrel, 170-171
Flagellation. See Whipping
Fourneau, 203-204
Fournier, Pierre, 197
Fracastoro, 15, 16
Francis de Sales, St., 82, 286
quoted, 20
Fraud, 134
“Free thought,” 75
Freudian psychology, 90
Frogier, Father, 194
Gabrielle of the Incarnation, Sister, 112
Galen, 166
Galileo, 260
Garnier, Samuel, quoted, 118
Garth, Samuel, quoted, 39
Gastynes, de, quoted, 215
Gauffridi, Louis, 120, 207
Gaultier, Jules de, 99
quoted, 264
Genêt, Jean, 316
George III, 166
Germany, Nazi, 127, 320
Gifford, George, 128, 132
quoted, 129
Giloire, M., 275
Glanvil, 133
God
Kingdom of, 65, 310
Surin’s reflections on, 310-311
union with, 70, 71, 72, 73, 77, 92
Gondi, M. de, 268
Goodness, 175
Surin’s idea of, 238
Gouiller, Lucas, 50
Grace
capacity for, 90
substitutes for, 313-327
Graces of Interior Prayer, The (Poulain), quoted, 237 n.
Grammont, Chevalier de, 28
Grande Mademoiselle, La, 263
Grandier, Françoise, 42
Grandier, Mme., 149-150
Grandier, Urbain
absolution of, 54
accusations against, 47, 49-50, 120, 121, 137, 143, 144, 196
address of, to judges, 205-206
appeals of, 139, 140, 149-150
appearance and manners of, 6, 21
arguments of, against celibacy, 14, 43-44
attempts to extort confession from, 207-208, 210, 213, 215
attitudes toward, 6, 14, 15, 16
background of, 10, 13
campaign against, 40-41, 45, 46-60, 10-120, 143-151, 152, 188
beginning of career of, 3-4, 13-36
eloquence of, 15, 18-19, 24, 26
enemies of, 16-18, 19, 25, 46
execution of, 217-222
first imprisonment of, 50-54
first sentencing of, 52
marriage of, to Madeleine de Brou, 41-44
monks and, 19, 21-22, 145
moral atmosphere of world around, 10-12
prepared for execution, 203-204
protests against case of, 195-196
question of guilt of, 133-135, 176
quoted, 50-51
received by Louis XIII, 49
Richelieu and, 147
second imprisonment of, 148, 151
second sentencing of, 203, 205
seduction of Philippe by, 31-37
self-love of, 17-18
Surin and, 64
sympathy for, 201-202, 206, 210, 214, 216, 217, 218
torture of, 154, 211-214
trial of, 197-203
Ursulines’ obsession with, 104-109
Grillau, Father, 208, 216, 224
Guémenée, Prince de, 268
Guianerius, 166
Guilloré, Father, 101
Guilt. See Remorse
Gustavus Adolphus, 28
Gymnastics of demoniacs, 189-190
Hale, Sir Matthew, 125, 133
Hall, Joseph, quoted, 1
Hammon, Catherine, 144-145
Harsnett, Samuel, 128, 132
quoted, 129
Harvey, 260
Helmont, van, 260
Helvétius, 74
Henri IV, 12, 54, 58, 260, 263
Herbert, George, 297
Herd-intoxication, 316-321, 322, 325, 326
Héroard, Dr. Jean, 11
Heroin, 316
Hervé, 47-48, 61, 62, 196
Histoire Littéraire du Sentiment Religieux en France (Bremond), 76, 176
Historiettes (Tallemant), quoted, 55
History of Sacerdotal Celibacy (Lea), quoted, 8 n., 44 n.
Holy Spirit
docility to, 85-86, 87, 88-89
union with, 71, 72, 73, 77
Holy Wisdom (Baker), 299
Homosexuality, 10
Hopkins, quoted, 68
Huguenots, 4, 48, 57, 147, 193
Human nature
“scientific” theory of, 163-164
17th-century theory of, 158-163
Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death (Myers), 172
Humanity, reduction of, to subhumanity, 209, 317
Hypnosis, 91, 161, 162
Hysteria, 172, 188, 253;
see also Possession
Idealism, crimes of, 301
Ignatius, St., 292
Ignorance, voluntary, 182, 235
Imagination, 160, 163
Imitation of Christ, The, 99
Immortality, 164
Impotence, caused by witches, 126, 127
Indra, 315
Induction, 29-30, 187, 254
Innocence, Grandier’s reflections on, 27-28
Inquisition, 148
Insanity, 291
brutality toward victims of, 294-295
Inspiration, 92, 240
divine and nondivine, 85-87, 88-89
Intelligence, 85
nonhuman, 173
Intoxication
alcohol and drug, 314-315
crowd, 316-321, 322, 325, 326
Irrigation, colonic, 113, 115
Isabel of the Angels, Sister, 66
Italy, Fascist, 320
James, William, 324
James I, quoted, 132
Jansenists, 20, 74, 276
Jeanne des Anges, 96-99, 101, 102-109
alleged levitation of, 185
attempted suicide of, 191
autobiography of, 274, 281
as a comic figure, 280-281, 282
conversion of, 242-244
correspondence of, with Surin, 276-277, 278
death and subsequent fame of, 279
early career of, 96-103
exorcism of, 112, 113, 114-115, 119-120, 223-224, 248-249, 251-252, 254-255, 258
interview of, with Anne of Austria, 269, 273
interview of, with Richelieu, 264-265, 269
miracles of, 247-254, 255-256, 257, 265, 274, 276
pilgrimage of, 258, 265, 267-273
possession of, 104-109, 116, 144, 151, 155, 161, 179-180
quoted, 97-98, 102, 103-104, 116, 230-231, 232, 233, 241, 245, 249-250, 254, 255, 256, 257, 268, 269, 273
remorse of, 230-231, 233, 281
sanctification of, 236, 240-258
supposed pregnancy of, 232-235
Surin and, 182-183, 231-254
Jesuit College of Bordeaux, 3
Jesuits
attitude of, toward the possession, 227, 229, 235
austerity of, 75
as educators, 1, 2, 3,
feud of, with Jansenists, 20, 74
feud of, with Sorbonne, 20
friendship of, for Grandier, 51-52
ideal of, 80
policy of, on contemplation, 75-76
John of the Cross, St., 93, 292, 307
quoted, 277
Jonson, Ben, 170
Joseph, Father, 145, 146
Journal (Héroard), 11
Jungian psychology, 90
Kierkegaard, 86
Killigrew, Thomas, 190, 250, 277
quoted, 117 n., 163, 251, 252
King Lear, 83
Kingdom of God, 65, 310
Kramer and Sprenger, 121
quoted, 122, 124, 126-127, 128, 130
Labadie, Jean, 2
La Bourdaisière, Isabeau Babou de, 54
La Charité, Antonin de, 110
La Colombière, Father de, quoted, 94-95
Lactance, Father, 190, 193, 204, 207-214, 219-220, 221-223, 224, 237, 282
La Fontaine, 83
La Grange, 210, 211, 214, 215, 218, 220
Lallemant, Louis, 76
doctrine of, 76-88
quoted, 86, 87, 304
La Marbelière, Louise de, 267-268
La Mesnardière, Pillet de, 153, 184
La Motte-Baracé, Agnes de. See Agnes, Sister
Lancre, de, 136
Language, as instrument of progress, 300-302
Language test, 176, 177-182
La Rochepozay, Henry-Louis
