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Index
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TITLE PAGE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: THE ANCIENT SEXUAL MYSTERIES
What Were the Mysteries?
The Inner Meanings of the Dionysiac Mysteries
Hieros Gamos: Marriage with Deity
Some Conclusions About the Ancient Mysteries
CHAPTER 2: SEXUAL MYSTICISM IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY
Mystical Anarchists
Aphrodite Pandemos and Mystical Sexual Communion
Valentinus and the Mystery of the Bridal Chamber
The Gnostic Mysteries
Conclusions
CHAPTER 3: HERETICAL MYSTERIES
Lines of Transmission
The Secret Second Baptism
The Cathar Heresy
The Brethren of the Free Spirit
Conclusions
CHAPTER 4: THE REDISCOVERY OF CHRISTIAN SEXUAL MYSTICISM
Alchemy and Sexuality
Christian Theosophic Mysticism
John Pordage’s Inner Alchemy
The Buttlar Circle
An Eighteenth-Century Jewish-Christian Link
Secret English Traditions of Sexual Mysticism in the Nineteenth Century
William Blake and Friends
CHAPTER 5: AMERICAN SEXUAL MYSTICISM
Thomas Lake Harris
Alice Bunker Stockham
CHAPTER 6: EROS IN A NEW AGE
The Poet H.D.
Denis de Rougemont and Love in the Western World
Alan Watts
CHAPTER 7: THE SECRETS OF SEXUAL MYSTICISM
1. Nature and Magic
2. Egalitarianism, Spiritual Marriage, and Spiritual Hierarchy
3. Secret Teachings and Gnosis
4. Realization of the Transcendent
ENDNOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ABOUT INNER TRADITIONS • BEAR & COMPANY
BOOKS OF RELATED INTEREST
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