But it was fixed in such a way as to bring the terrors and raptures of the mystics, of a S.Catharine or a S.Teresa, within the reach of all; to place spiritual experience _a la portee de tout le monde_.

The vulgarity is only equaled by the ingenuity and psychological adroitness of the method.

The soul inspired with carnal dread of the doom impending over it, passed into almost physical contact with the incarnate Saviour.

The designed effect was to induce a vivid and varied hypnotic dream of thirty days, from the influence of which a man should never wholly free himself.

The end at which he arrived upon this path of self-scrutiny and materialistic realization, was the conclusion that his highest hope, his most imperative duty, lay in the resignation of his intellect and will to spiritual guidance, and in blind obedience to the Church.