La Rochepozay, Louis de, 48
La Tourette, Gilles de, 253
Laubardemont, Jean de Martin, Baron de, 60-62, 142-156, 191-198, 202, 204, 206, 207, 211, 213, 215, 216, 224, 227, 234, 276
Lauderdale, Duke of. See Maitland, John
Laughter, 97
Laurentius Valesius, 166
La Vrillière, 62
Lawrence, D. H., 106, 316
Lea, Henry C., quoted, 8 n., 44 n.
Lefèvre, Father A., quoted, 174
Legué, Gabriel, 156, 253
Le Pelletier, Marthe, 37, 38
Lettre de la Cordonnière de Loudun, 144, 145, 149
Levitation, 176, 185
L’Hermite, Tristan, 83
Lilies, Christ’s example of, 81-82
Lodovicus Mercatus, 166
Loudspeaker, 320
Loudun
castle of, 4, 57-58, 59, 61-62, 142
city of, 4
spiritual life in, 5
Ursuline convent at, 95-96
Louis XIII, 11-12, 49, 60, 61, 133, 142, 146, 150, 197, 198, 260, 261, 269, 274
Louis XIV, 133, 269, 273, 308
Louis of Jesus, Sister, 140, 184, 185, 194
Louviers, possession at, 274
Love
Disinterested, 20
divine, 283
Loyalty, partisan, 19-21
Lucas, Michel, 61
Luçon, Bishop of. See Richelieu, Armand-Jean du Plessis de
Luynes, 23
Lysenko, 74
Macbeth, 83
Mackenzie, Sir George, 133
Maillezais, Bishop of. See Sourdis, Henri de
Maitland, John, 180, 253, 277
Mallarmé, 113
quoted, 114
Malleus Maleficarum (Kramer and Sprenger), 121-122, 183
quoted, 122, 124, 126-127, 128, 130
Mannoury, the surgeon, 25, 40-41, 140, 148, 154, 203, 224-225
Mantram, 322
Marcel, Gabriel, quoted, 84
Marillac, Charles de, 8 n.
Marsillac, 28
Martha, Sister, 140
Marvell, Andrew, quoted, 261-262
Masturbation, 10
Materialism, primitive, 167-168
Mather, Cotton, 135
Ma-tsu, quoted, 70-71
Mazarin, Cardinal, 274, 276
Médecin malgré Lui, Le, 115 n.
Medical theories and treatment, 166-167, 168-171
Mediumistic utterances, moral tone of, 92
Melancholy, medical treatment of, 170-171
Ménage, 134
Menstrual blood, supposed properties of, 9
Menuau, Pierre, 46, 148, 196
Meschin, Gervais, 49, 52, 54
Mesmer, 163
Michelet, 1, 123
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A, 83
Mignon, Canon, 40, 41, 108-112, 116, 119, 120, 138-144, 148, 180, 188, 190, 218, 227, 230, 242
Miracles of Jeanne des Anges, 247-254, 255-256, 257, 265, 274, 276
Molière, 257
Montague, Walter, 163, 250
Montaigne, quoted, 131, 132
Montespan, Mme. de, 127
Montglat, Mme. de, 12
More, Henry, 133
Moussaut, Canon, 107
Moussaut, Louis, 58, 62, 196, 216-217
Murray, Margaret, quoted, 135
Music, 321-322
Myers, F. W. H., 92, 172, 173
quoted, 178
Mystical experiences, 90-92
Mystical Theology (Dionysius the Aeropagite), 93
Nadal, Octave, quoted, 83
Nantes, Edict of, 147
Narcotics, 314-315, 316, 324
Nationalism, 56-57, 175
Nature, human
“scientific” theory of, 163-164
17th-century theory of, 158-163
Nature, nonhuman
appreciation of, 83-85
hostility to, 80-83, 285, 286-287, 305
ignoring of, characteristic of 17th-century France, 82-83
Navagero, Andrea, 15, 16
Nemours, 28
Neri, St. Philip, 298
Nicolas, Armelle, 88-89
1984, 130
Nion, de, 179, 185
quoted, 186, 189-190
Nothingness, 113-114
Notre-Dame de Recouvrance, 21-22
Notre-Dame des Ardilliers, 21-22
Not-self, 323-324
Noyes, John Humphrey, 324
Occultism, 72
Oesterreich, T. K., 172
Œuvres (Francis de Sales), quoted, 20
Oneida Community, 324-325
Oratorians, 22
Oratory, devices of, 18-19
Original Sin, 90
Original Virtue, 90, 92
Orléans, Gaston d’, 245, 266, 267-268
Otherness, 325
Pacts, devils’, 155
Paediotrophiae Libri Tres (Sainte-Marthe), 15, 16
Pain, 78, 79, 323
Paracelsus, quoted, 170
Pascal, 74, 75
quoted, 81 n., 272 n., 278, 327
Passion, crimes of, 301
Patin, Gui, 169
Pattison, Mark, quoted, 48
Pelagianism, 74
Penance, physical, 77-80, 243-244, 247, 323
Pensées (Pascal), quoted, 278
Perfection, aspiration to, 77, 80, 81
Perpetual Pills, 169
Personality of Man, The (Tyrell), 172
Petronius test, 178
Pharmacy. See Apothecary’s shop
Physical austerities, 77-80, 243-244, 247, 323
Physical strength, preternatural, test of, 176, 185-186
Physiological Unconscious, 164
PK phenomena, 177, 186
Politics
bosses in, 196, 209
conversion in, 325
power, 302
Port-Royal, 95
Possédés, Les (Oesterreich), 172
Possession
acrobacy displayed in, 189-190
at Auxonne, 118, 119
belief in, 180, 188-189
at Chinon, 275
encouraged by exorcists, 188, 189, 227
hypothesis of, 161, 171-176
at Loudun, 107-119, 138-144, 146, 151-155, 188, 194, 275-276
of parts of body, 183-184
purgation and, 240
secular nature of, 237
by spirits of the dead, 172-173
tests for, 176-186
Pottier, 76
Poulain, A., quoted, 237 n.
Power politics, 302
Practical Instruction in Animal Magnetism (Deleuze), quoted, 91-92
Pratique de l’Homopathie, La (Vannier), quoted, 298 n.
Prayer, mental, 241, 243, 244, 282
Preaching, art of, 19
Prevision, 72, 173
test of, 176, 177, 185, 186
Prince, Dr. Morton, 161
Probabilism, 74, 75
Protestant College, confiscation of, 193
Protestants, 2, 4, 48, 57, 111, 134, 147, 193
Proverbs, 81
Provincial Letters (Pascal), 74, 75, 276
Psychiatry, 165 n., 172
Psychic experiences, 79, 90-92, 306
Psychic factors, 73, 172
Psychics, moral tone of utterances of, 92
Psychology, 90
Punishment
infinite, for finite offenses, 75
self, 77-80
Purification
of the heart, 77
of the soul, 82
Puritanism, 74
Purity, Grandier’s reflections on, 27-28
Quakers, 86
Questions sur l’Amour de Dieu (Surin), 310
Quietism, 20, 70, 76
Racine, 83
quoted, 95
Radical Evil, 128
Radio, 320
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 133
Rangier, Pierre, 111, 112
Realization, 70
Reformation, 6
Religion
bovarism in, 100-101
corporal penances of, 323
devils in 173-175
evils of, 123
fertility, 135
individual consciousness in, 69-70
and irreligion, 187, 254
primitive, 321
public worship in, 322
“works” and, 71, 72, 73
Religionists, 325-326
Remarques et Considérations pour la Justification du Curé de Loudun, 196
Remorse, 190-192, 230-231, 232, 281, 294
Remy, 136
Renaudot, Théophraste, 16, 134, 169
Respectability, Era of, 6-8
Ressès, Father, 254, 255, 258
Revolution
herd-intoxication and, 319
nationalistic, 56-57
Rhythmic movement and sound, 321-322
Ribot, quoted, 164
Richelieu, Alphonse de, 270-271, 292
Richelieu, Armand-Jean du Plessis de, 4, 23, 56-57, 60, 62, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 156, 191, 198
interview of Jeanne des Anges with, 264-265
and the new doctrine, 153
opinion of the possession held by, 135, 266-267
personal attributes of, 263-264
quoted, 266
wealth of, 274
Rigoleuc, Father, 76
Rigorism, 74, 77, 81, 228
Roman Catholic Church
attitude of, to witchcraft, 128, 130-131
corruption in, 6-8
dissension within, 20, 74
Jesuits’ policy of strengthening, 1
monarchy and, 7-8
physical penance in, 78
and the possession, 172
rules for exorcism laid down by, 189
strengthening of, 75
tests for possession prescribed by, 176
Ronsard, quoted, 13, 15
Rouseau, Father, 141
Rousseau, Canon, 120
Rubens, 261
Russia, Communist, 320
Sabazios, 315
Sabbath, 136-137
Sade, Marquis de, 115 n., 317
Saint-Charles, Pierre-Thomas de, 110
Saint-Marthe, Abel de, 24
Saint-Marthe, Scévole de, 15, 16, 24
Saint-Jure, Father, 274, 276
Saint-Michel, Eusèbe de, 110, 112
Saints enivrés d’Amour, Les (Surin), quoted, 299
Saints, fashions in, 22
Saint-Simon, 260
St. Vitus’s dance, 321
Saltpêtrière, 295
Sanchez, Thomas, 157
Satan, 174
Saxonia, Hercules de, 166
Sazilly, Claire de, 109, 112, 143, 144, 184, 186 n., 188, 190, 191, 194
Scaliger, Joseph, 48
Sceptical Chemist, The (Boyle), 40
Science Experimentale, La (Surin), 308
quoted, 283
Scientific spirit, 40
Scot, Reginald, 132
Selden, quoted, 131-132
Self-identification with highest causes, 327
Selflessness, 71, 72, 73
Self-punishment, 77-80, 243-244, 247, 323
Self-transcendence
avenues to, 73-74, 313-327
downward, 73, 79, 114-115, 192, 313-321, 324, 326
horizontal, 73, 79, 326-327
through sex, 28, 114; see also Sexuality, elementary
upward, 79, 322, 323, 327
urge to, 67-74, 78, 114, 259-260, 261
Sens, Archbishop of, 270
Sensitives, 72
Seraphica, Sister, 184
Sexuality, 8-12, 186-187
change in thoughts about, 158
elementary, 315-316, 317, 324-325
experiments in, 7-11
“in the head,” 106, 119
importance of conquests in field of, 28
for self-affirmation or self-transcendence, 28
Shakespeare, quoted, 39
Shock treatment, 165, 243-244
Silly, Mesmin de, 40, 61, 142, 143, 145, 148, 193
Sinistrari, Father Ludovico, 174, 175
Social classes, 4-5
Soma, 315
Somnambulism, 91-92
Son, union with, 71, 72, 73, 77, 92
Sophier, René, 8 n., 53
Sorbonne, feud between Jesuits and, 20
Sorcery. See Witchcraft
Soul, 162, 164
special faculties of, 168
Surin’s reflections on, 308, 309
vegetal, sensitive and rational, 159-160, 167
Sourdis, François de, 54-55
Sourdis, Henri de, 51, 52-53, 55-56, 59, 134, 141, 149
Sourdis, Jeanne de, 55
Spiritists, 172
Spirituality, nature and, 84
Sravaka, 70
Stanzas (Ronsard), quoted, 13
Stigmatization, 252-253
Storms, witch-invoked, 126, 127
Subconscious activity, 89-90, 162, 164-165, 177
Superstitions, 125-127
Surin, Jean-Joseph, 64, 65-67, 76, 79, 117, 227-229
attempted suicide of, 292-293
belief of, in Original Virtue, 90
belief of, in possession, 182-183, 229, 230, 235, 271-272
correspondence of, with Jeanne des Anges, 276-277, 278
death of, 311
ideas of, on God and universe, 85, 286-287, 305
illness of, 282-296
Jeanne’s pilgrimage joined by, 271-273
in Loudun, 229-254, 258
possession of, 237-240, 245
quoted, 79 n., 96-97, 228, 238-240, 244, 247, 253, 273, 282-283, 283-284, 286, 287, 290, 291, 292, 293, 296, 305, 306-307, 308-309, 310-311
recovery of, 297-304, 306
and Sœur Jeanne, 231-254
as a tragic figure, 281-282
visions of, 290-291, 306
writings of, 299-300, 308, 310
Surin, Mme., 65
Suso, Henry, 292
Synteresis, 90
Tahureau, quoted, 25
Tallemant des Réaux, quoted, 55, 56, 165
Tantric yoga, 324
Tarantism, 321
Tartufe, 82, 101
Telepathy, 173, 183
Teresa, St., 93, 292
quoted, 243-244
Teste, quoted, 230
Theology, Christian, 70
new doctrine of devils in, 152-153, 193, 196, 197, 198, 235
Theophanies, 90-92, 324
Thibault, Jacques de
attack of, on Grandier, 46, 52, 63
counterattack of, 49, 50
at Grandier’s execution, 218
Thirty Years’ War, 274, 276
Thomas, Father, 271, 272, 273
Thoracic dilation, 298
Totalitarianism, 209
Traherne, 306
quoted, 84
Tranquille, Father, 133, 188, 193, 196, 203-214, 220, 222, 224, 225-226, 230, 237, 258, 282
quoted, 147, 186
Treatise on Sacerdotal Celibacy (Grandier), 149
Trincant, Françoise, 29, 30, 32
Trincant, Louis, 16, 24-25
friendship of, for Grandier, 29, 30
as Grandier’s enemy, 37-38, 40, 46, 47-48, 49, 53, 54, 61, 62, 145, 148, 193, 196
at Grandier’s execution, 218
retirement of, 58
Trincant, Philippe, 25, 27, 28, 30, 54, 62
marriage of, 58-59
pregnancy of, 34-36, 37
seduction of, 31-34
True Relation of the Just Proceedings Observed in the Matter of the Possession of the Ursulines of Loudun and in the Trial of Urbain Grandier (Tranquille), 133-134
Truth, worship of, 327
Tyrell, G. N. M., 172
Unconscious, Physiological, 164
Unknowableness, 71-72
Unwin, J. D., 316
Ursuline convent, life in, 95-96
Ursulines
medical treatment of, 168-169
opinion of Mother Superior entertained by, 102, 245
“possession” of, 107-119, 138-144, 146, 151-155, 194
remorse of, 190-192, 231, 232, 281
tests of possession of, 179-186
Van Dyck, 261
Vannier, Léon, quoted, 298 n.
Varieties of Religious Experience (James), 324
Vaughan, Henry, 297
Vendôme, Duke of, 260
Versailles, 262
Viau, Théophile de, 83
Vingt-Cinquième Heure, La, 130
Visitation, nuns of the, 94-95
Vitelleschi, 76, 227, 258
Voltaire, quoted, 2
Wallenstein, 28
Watson, J. B., 74
Weier, Johann, 132
Whipping, 165-166, 243, 246, 247
Whitman, Walt, quoted, 81
Witch-Cult in Western Europe, The (Murray), quoted, 135
Witch hunts, 127
modern, 122-123
Witch trials, 124-125, 130, 147
Witchcraft, 121-125, 128-130, 194
believers in, 132-133, 134, 135
the Church and, 128, 130-131
disbelief in, 131-132, 134, 135
Operative and Ritual, 135, 136-137
physical tests of, 125-127, 153-154
rustic life and, 128-129
Words, 300-302
need for controlling, 301
Working hypotheses, 300-302
Works, inspiration and, 86-88
World, the, 64-65
Wright, Thomas, 166
Zen, Patriarch of, quoted, 82, 85
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