VII. The Sayings-Passages: Three Tests for discriminating Authentic from Secondary Sayings 462, 463 VIII. Conclusion: At least Six Stages in the Upbuilding of the Complete Book of 1551. The Slight Changes introduced since then. First Claims to Authorship for Catherine 463-466 “He is not far from every one of us; for in Him we live, and move, and have our being.”--Acts xvii, 27, 28. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”--2 Corinthians iii, 17. THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT OF RELIGION PART I INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I THE THREE CHIEF FORCES OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION INTRODUCTORY. 1. _An enigma of life: the Universal and Abiding does not move the will; and what does move it is Individual and Evanescent._ Amongst the apparent enigmas of life, amongst the seemingly most radical and abiding of interior antinomies and conflicts experienced by the human race and by individuals, there is one which everything tends to make us feel and see with an ever-increasing keenness and clearness. More and more we want a strong and interior, a lasting yet voluntary bond of union between our own successive states of mind, and between what is abiding in ourselves and what is permanent within our fellow-men; and more and more we seem to see that mere Reasoning, Logic, Abstraction,--all that appears as the necessary instrument and expression of the Universal and Abiding,--does not move or win the will, either in ourselves or in others; and that what does thus move and win it, is Instinct, Intuition, Feeling, the Concrete and Contingent, all that seems to be of its very nature individual and evanescent. Reasoning appears but capable, at best, of co-ordinating, unifying, explaining the material furnished to it by experience of all kinds; at worst, of explaining it away; at best, of stimulating the purveyance of a fresh supply of such experience; at worst, of stopping such purveyance as much as may be. And yet the Reasoning would appear to be the transferable part in the process, but not to move; and the experience alone to have the moving power, but not to be transmissible. 2. _Our personal experience as regards our own convictions._