Christ and the Eastern Soul Author:Charles Cuthbert Hall Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SYLLABUS LECTURE I ELEMENTS OF SUBLIMITY IN THE ORIENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS Satisfaction and joy of the lecturer in returning to India. Reference to his form... more »er course of Barrows Lectures, in which he attempted to separate the essence of the Christian religion from accretions occurring in the West; and to present it for consideration upon its merits as intrinsically applicable to human consciousness. Reflection upon his former experience in India suggests correspondences between the Christian religion and the Oriental Consciousness. Opportunity afforded by the second appointment of the lecturer to express in India the results of this reflection. Psychological relation of Indian personality to the most lofty elements of the Christian religion. 1. Indication of three lines of procedure, to be followed in the present course of lectures. First: To analyse the Oriental Consciousness from the point of view of an outside observer in sympathy with his subject. Attempts to analyse Oriental Consciousness have been made by those not in full sympathy therewith. The effort of the lecturer undertaken reverently, with a view to exhibiting the presence of sublime elements. Secondly: To unfold certain metaphysical aspects of the Christian religion which are characteristic of it. These aspects frequently hidden by forms and institutions, which, while useful, must be discriminated from the underlying things of the Spirit. Thirdly: To exhibit the significance for the world of this cor- respondence between the sublime elements of Oriental Con- sciousness and the profoundly mystical aspects of the Chris- tian religion. 2. The subject approached in no spirit of flattery. Analysis of the word "flattery" and repudiation of its spirit by the lecturer. Neither is he depreciating the qualiti...« less