Table Of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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| Dedication | v | ||
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| Preface to First Edition | xi-xvii | ||
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| Preface to Second Edition | xviii-xxxii | ||
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| PART THE FIRST |
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| ILLUMINATION |
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| 1. | Concerning the three Veils between Man and God | 1-3 | ||
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| II. Part 1. Concerning Inspiration and Prophesying | 4-6 | ||
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| Part 2. A prophecy of the Kingdom of the Soul, mystically called the Day of the Woman | 6-7 | ||
| III. | Concerning the prophecy of the Immaculate Conception | 7-9 | ||
| IV. | Concerning Revelation | 9-11 | ||
| V. | Concerning the Interpretation of the Mystical Scriptures |
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| --Part 1 | 11-13 | ||
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| --Part 2 | 13-15 | ||
| VI. | Concerning the Mosaic Cosmogony | 15-17 | ||
| VII. | Concerning the Fall | 17-19 | ||
| VIII. | Concerning the prophecy of the Deluge | 19-20 | ||
| IX. | Concerning the prophecy of the Book of Esther | 20-22 | ||
| X. | Concerning the prophecy of the vision of Nebuchadnezzar | 22-23 | ||
| XI. | Concerning the prophecy of the time of the End. | 23-27 | ||
| XII. | Concerning the Soul; its origin, nature, and potentialities | 27-34 | ||
| XIII. | Concerning Persephone, or the Soul's descent into matter | 34-35 | ||
| XIV. | Concerning the Genius or Daimon |
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| --Part 1 | 36-40 | ||
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| --Part 2 | 40-42 | ||
| XV. | Concerning the "Powers of the Air" |
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| --Part 1 | 43-45 | ||
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| --Part 2 | 45-46 | ||
| XVI. | Concerning the Devil and devils | 46-47 | ||
| XVII. | Concerning the Gods | 47-48 | ||
| XVIII. | Concerning the Greek Mysteries | 48-52 | ||
| XIX. | Concerning the origin of Evil, and the Tree as the type of Creation |
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| --Part 1 | 52-53 | ||
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| --Part 2 | 53-54 | ||
| XX. | Concerning the Great Pyramid, and the Initiations therein | 55-57 | ||
| XXI. | Concerning the "Man of Power" | 57-60 | ||
| XXII. | Concerning the "Work of Power" | 60-63 | ||
| XXIII. | Concerning Regeneration | 63-65 | ||
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| XXIV. | Concerning the Man Regenerate | 65-68 |
| XXV. | Concerning the Christ and the Logos | 68-69 |
| XXVI. | Concerning the perfectionment of the Christ | 69-70 |
| XXVII. | Concerning Christian Pantheism | 70-71 |
| XXVIII. | Concerning the "Blood of Christ" | 71-73 |
| XXIX. | Concerning Vicarious Atonement | 73-77 |
| XXX. | Concerning Paul and the Disciples of Jesus | 77-79 |
| XXXI. | Concerning the Manichæanism of Paul | 80 |
| XXXII. | Concerning the Gospels: their origin and composition | 80-84 |
| XXXIII. | Concerning the actual Jesus | 84-87 |
| XXXIV. | Concerning the previous lives of Jesus | 87-88 |
| XXXV. | Concerning the Holy Family | 89-90 |
| XXXVI. | Concerning the Metempsychosis or Avatâr | 90-92 |
| XXXVII. | Concerning the Æon of the Christ | 92-93 |
| XXXVIII. | Concerning the doctrine of Grace | 93-94 |
| XXXIX. | Concerning the "Four Atmospheres" | 94-95 |
| XL. | Concerning the Hereafter | 96.99 |
| XLI. | Concerning the true Ego | 99-101 |
| XLII. | Concerning God | 101-104 |
| XLIII. | Concerning Psyche, or the Superior Human Soul | 104-108 |
| XLIV. | Concerning the Poet, as type of the heavenly personality | 108-111 |
| XLV. | Concerning Psyche (continued from No. XLIII) | 111-113 |
| XLVI. | Concerning Consciousness and Memory in relation to Personality | 113-116 |
| XLVII. | Concerning the Substantial Ego as the true Subject |
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| --Part 1 | 116-118 |
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| --Part 2 | 118-120 |
| XLVIII. | Concerning the Christian Mysteries |
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| --Part 1 | 120-121 |
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| --Part 2 | 121-123 |
| XLIX. | Concerning Dying | 123-124 |
| L. | Concerning the One Life: being a recapitulation | 125-130 |
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| PART THE SECOND |
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| THE BOOK OF THE MYSTERIES OF GOD |
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| I. | The Credo; being a summary of the spiritual history of the Sons of God, and the mysteries of the kingdoms of the Seven Spheres | 134 |
| II. | The "Lord's Prayer": being a prayer of the Elect for interior perfectionment | 134 |
| III. | Concerning Holy Writ | 135 |
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| IV. | Concerning Sin and Death | 135-137 | |
| V. | Concerning the "Great Work," the Redemption, and the share of Christ Jesus therein | 137-140 | |
| VI. | Concerning Original Being; or, "Before the Beginning" | 141-142 | |
| VII. | Alpha, or "In the Beginning" | 142 | |
| VIII. | Beta, or Adonai, the Manifestor | 142-143 | |
| IX. | Gamma, or the Mystery of Redemption | 143-145 | |
| X. | Delta, or the Mystery of Generation | 145-147 | |
| XI. | Epsilon, or the First of the Gods--Proem | 147 | |
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| Hymn to Phoibos | 148 | |
| XII. | Zeta, or the Second of the Gods--Part I. Proem | 149-150 | |
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| Hymn to Hermes | 150-151 | |
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| Part 2. An exhortation of Hermes to his Neophytes | 152-153 | |
| XIII. | Eta, or (mystically) the Third of the Gods--Part I. Proem | 153 | |
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| Hymn to the Planet God | 154-160 | |
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| Part 2. Hymns to the Elemental Divinities-- |
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| (alpha) To Hephaistos | 160-161 | |
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| (beta) To Demeter | 161-162 | |
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| (gamma) To Poseidon | 162 | |
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| (delta) To Pallas Athena | 163 | |
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| Epode | 163 | |
| XIV. | Theta, or (mystically) the Fourth of the Gods-- |
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| Part 1. The Hymn of Aphrodite | 164-166 | |
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| Part 2. A Discourse of the Communion of Soules, and of the Uses of Love between Creature and Creature; being part of the Goldene Booke of Venus | 166-169 | |
| XV. | Lambda, or the Last of the Gods: being the Secret of Satan | 169-173 | |
| XVI. | The Seven Spirits of God and their Correspondences | 173 | |
| XVII. | The Mysteries of the Kingdoms of the Seven Spheres | 173-174 | |
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| Concerning the Divine Image; or the Vision of Adonai | 177-182 | ||
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| APPENDIX |
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| Notes | 187-201 | ||
| Definitions and Explanations | 201-210 | ||