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Index
Cover Image
Title Page
Epigraph
Table of Contents
PREFACE. Provenance
A Note about the Timing of This Book
PART ONE. THE LOST PILLARS IN ANTIQUITY
Chapter 1. Saving Knowledge from Catastrophe: The World’s First Archaeological Story
THE NEPHILIM
WHERE COULD JOSEPHUS’S SURVIVING PILLAR BE FOUND?
Chapter 2. “Sethites” in Egypt?
Chapter 3. Enoch and Hermes: Guardians of Truth
TRACING THE MYTH
THE EMERALD TABLET
Chapter 4. A Sense of Loss Pervades
THE FALLEN
GNOSTICS: RETURN OF THE SETHITES
Chapter 5. How Ancient Is the Ancient Theology?
Chapter 6. A Concise History of Religion
Chapter 7. From Apocalyptic to Gnosis—and Back to Religion
PART TWO. HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY: Seeking Concordance, or Reuniting the Fragments
Chapter 8. The Unitive Vision
KABBALAH
RAMON LLULL (1232–CA. 1316)
THE ALEMBIC OF FLORENCE: HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY REBORN
Chapter 9. Restoring Harmony: From the Sun to Infinity
FRANCESCO GIORGI: COSMIC HARMONY
COPERNICUS
GIORDANO BRUNO (1548–1600)
Chapter 10. The Lost Pillars of Freemasonry
LATE MEDIEVAL EVIDENCE FOR ANTEDILUVIAN PILLARS
ANTEDILUVIAN MASONRY
Chapter 11. Esoteric Masonry and the Mystery of the “Acception”
JOHN DEE AND PRIMAL MATHEMATICS
Chapter 12. The Return of Enoch
“OUT OF EGYPT I HAVE CALLED MY SON”
Chapter 13. Enter Isaac Newton
Chapter 14. “A History of the Corruption of the Soul of Man”
THE TEMPLE OF WISDOM
THE ANCIENTS KNEW ALREADY
NEWTON AND THE “DAIMON”
Chapter 15. Antiquarianism: Stukeley and Blake
STUKELEY, FREEMASONRY, AND THE PRISCA SAPIENTIA
Chapter 16. Blake and the Original Religion
ALL RELIGIONS ARE ONE
Chapter 17. From the Enlightenment to Theosophy: Persistence of Antediluvian Unity of Science and Religion
THE TRADITION
SAINT-YVES D’ALVEYDRE
THE SECRET DOCTRINE
PROBLEMS WITH THEOSOPHICAL INFLUENCE
Chapter 18. The Aim of Religion, the Method of Science: Aleister Crowley and Thelema
SCIENCE AND ANTEDILUVIAN MYTHOLOGY
PART THREE. Paradise Regained?
Chapter 19: Back to the One
ESSENTIAL COMMUNION IN ESOTERIC SYSTEMS
RELIGION FOR THE FUTURE
Chapter 20. Return of the Lost Pillar
Footnotes
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Author
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
Books of Related Interest
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