Note 122 — Chapter XI · CATHERINE’S LESS ULTIMATE THIS-WORLD DOCTRINES

My chief authorities throughout this section have been Bossuet’s Instruction sur les Etats d’Oraison of 1687, with the important documents prefixed and appended to it (Œuvres de Bossuet, ed. Versailles, 1817, Vol. XXVII); Fénelon’s chief apologetic works, especially his Instruction Pastorale, his Letteres en Réponse à Divers Ecrits ou Mémoires, his Lettre sur l’Etat Passif, and his two Latin Letters to Pope Clement XI (Œuvres de Fénelon, ed. Versailles, 1820, Vols. IV, VI, VIII, and IX); and Abbé Gosselin’s admirably clear, impartial, cautious, and authoritative Analyse de la Controverse du Quiétisme. I have studied these works, and the condemned propositions of the Beguards, of Molinos, and of Fénelon, very carefully, and believe myself to have, in my text, taken up a position identical with M. Gosselin’s.