TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGES

Dedication

v

Preface to First Edition

xi-xvii

Preface to Second Edition

xviii-xxxii

PART THE FIRST

ILLUMINATION

NO

1.

Concerning the three Veils between Man and God

1-3

II. Part 1. Concerning Inspiration and Prophesying

4-6

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

--Part 1

11-13

--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

--Part 1

36-40

--Part 2

40-42

XV.

Concerning the "Powers of the Air"

--Part 1

43-45

--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

--Part 1

52-53

--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

--Part 1

116-118

--Part 2

118-120

XLVIII.

Concerning the Christian Mysteries

--Part 1

120-121

--Part 2

121-123

XLIX.

Concerning Dying

123-124

L.

Concerning the One Life: being a recapitulation

125-130

PART THE SECOND

THE BOOK OF THE MYSTERIES OF GOD

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

Hymn to Phoibos

148

XII.

Zeta, or the Second of the Gods--Part I. Proem

149-150

Hymn to Hermes

150-151

Part 2. An exhortation of Hermes to his Neophytes

152-153

XIII.

Eta, or (mystically) the Third of the Gods--Part I. Proem

153

Hymn to the Planet God

154-160

Part 2. Hymns to the Elemental Divinities--

(alpha) To Hephaistos

160-161

(beta) To Demeter

161-162

(gamma) To Poseidon

162

(delta) To Pallas Athena

163

Epode

163

XIV.

Theta, or (mystically) the Fourth of the Gods--

Part 1. The Hymn of Aphrodite

164-166

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

PART THE THIRD

Concerning the Divine Image; or the Vision of Adonai

177-182

APPENDIX

Notes

187-201

Definitions and Explanations

201-210