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Dedication |
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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 |
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III. |
Concerning the prophecy of the Immaculate Conception |
7-9 |
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IV. |
Concerning Revelation |
9-11 |
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V. |
Concerning the Interpretation of the Mystical Scriptures |
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--Part 1 |
11-13 |
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--Part 2 |
13-15 |
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VI. |
Concerning the Mosaic Cosmogony |
15-17 |
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VII. |
Concerning the Fall |
17-19 |
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VIII. |
Concerning the prophecy of the Deluge |
19-20 |
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IX. |
Concerning the prophecy of the Book of Esther |
20-22 |
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X. |
Concerning the prophecy of the vision of Nebuchadnezzar |
22-23 |
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XI. |
Concerning the prophecy of the time of the End. |
23-27 |
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XII. |
Concerning the Soul; its origin, nature, and potentialities |
27-34 |
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XIII. |
Concerning Persephone, or the Soul's descent into matter |
34-35 |
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XIV. |
Concerning the Genius or Daimon |
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--Part 1 |
36-40 |
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--Part 2 |
40-42 |
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XV. |
Concerning the "Powers of the Air" |
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--Part 1 |
43-45 |
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--Part 2 |
45-46 |
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XVI. |
Concerning the Devil and devils |
46-47 |
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XVII. |
Concerning the Gods |
47-48 |
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XVIII. |
Concerning the Greek Mysteries |
48-52 |
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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 |
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XX. |
Concerning the Great Pyramid, and the Initiations therein |
55-57 |
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XXI. |
Concerning the "Man of Power" |
57-60 |
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XXII. |
Concerning the "Work of Power" |
60-63 |
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XXIII. |
Concerning Regeneration |
63-65 |
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XXIV. |
Concerning the Man Regenerate |
65-68 |
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XXV. |
Concerning the Christ and the Logos |
68-69 |
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XXVI. |
Concerning the perfectionment of the Christ |
69-70 |
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XXVII. |
Concerning Christian Pantheism |
70-71 |
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XXVIII. |
Concerning the "Blood of Christ" |
71-73 |
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XXIX. |
Concerning Vicarious Atonement |
73-77 |
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XXX. |
Concerning Paul and the Disciples of Jesus |
77-79 |
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XXXI. |
Concerning the Manichæanism of Paul |
80 |
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XXXII. |
Concerning the Gospels: their origin and composition |
80-84 |
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XXXIII. |
Concerning the actual Jesus |
84-87 |
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XXXIV. |
Concerning the previous lives of Jesus |
87-88 |
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XXXV. |
Concerning the Holy Family |
89-90 |
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XXXVI. |
Concerning the Metempsychosis or Avatâr |
90-92 |
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XXXVII. |
Concerning the Æon of the Christ |
92-93 |
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XXXVIII. |
Concerning the doctrine of Grace |
93-94 |
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XXXIX. |
Concerning the "Four Atmospheres" |
94-95 |
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XL. |
Concerning the Hereafter |
96.99 |
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XLI. |
Concerning the true Ego |
99-101 |
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XLII. |
Concerning God |
101-104 |
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XLIII. |
Concerning Psyche, or the Superior Human Soul |
104-108 |
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XLIV. |
Concerning the Poet, as type of the heavenly personality |
108-111 |
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XLV. |
Concerning Psyche (continued from No. XLIII) |
111-113 |
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XLVI. |
Concerning Consciousness and Memory in relation to Personality |
113-116 |
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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 |
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XLVIII. |
Concerning the Christian Mysteries |
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--Part 1 |
120-121 |
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--Part 2 |
121-123 |
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XLIX. |
Concerning Dying |
123-124 |
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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 |
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II. |
The "Lord's Prayer": being a prayer of the Elect for interior perfectionment |
134 |
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III. |
Concerning Holy Writ |
135 |
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IV. |
Concerning Sin and Death |
135-137 |
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V. |
Concerning the "Great Work," the Redemption, and the share of Christ Jesus therein |
137-140 |
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VI. |
Concerning Original Being; or, "Before the Beginning" |
141-142 |
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VII. |
Alpha, or "In the Beginning" |
142 |
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VIII. |
Beta, or Adonai, the Manifestor |
142-143 |
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Gamma, or the Mystery of Redemption |
143-145 |
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Delta, or the Mystery of Generation |
145-147 |
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Epsilon, or the First of the Gods--Proem |
147 |
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Hymn to Phoibos |
148 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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XV. |
Lambda, or the Last of the Gods: being the Secret of Satan |
169-173 |
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XVI. |
The Seven Spirits of God and their Correspondences |
173 |
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XVII. |
The Mysteries of the Kingdoms of the Seven Spheres |
173-174 |
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PART THE THIRD |
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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 |
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Definitions and Explanations |
201-210 |
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