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Index
Cover
Copyright
Title Page
Contents
Preface
16. The Religions of Ancient China
126. Religious beliefs in the Neolithic period
127. Religion in the Bronze Age: The God of Heaven and the ancestors
128. The exemplary dynasty: The Chou
129. The origin and organizing of the world
130. Polarities, alternation, and reintegration
131. Confucius: The power of the rites
132. Lao Tzŭ and Taoism
133. Techniques of long life
134. The Taoists and alchemy
17. Brahmanism and Hinduism: The First Philosophies and Techniques of Salvation
135. “All is suffering . . .”
136. Methods of attaining the supreme “awakening”
137. History of ideas and chronology of texts
138. Presystematic Vedānta
139. The spirit according to Sāmkhya-Yoga
140. The meaning of Creation: Helping in the deliverance of spirit
141. The meaning of deliverance
142. Yoga: Concentration on a single object
143. Techniques of Yoga
144. The role of the God in Yoga
145. Samādhi and the “miraculous powers”
146. Final deliverance
18. The Buddha and His Contemporaries
147. Prince Siddhārtha
148. The Great Departure
149. The “Awakening.” The preaching of the Law
150. Devadatta’s schism. Last conversion. The Buddha enters parinirvāna
151. The religious milieu: The wandering ascetics
152. Mahāvīra and the “Saviors of the World”
153. Jain doctrines and practices
154. The Ājīvikas and the omnipotence of “destiny”
19. The Message of the Buddha: From the Terror of the Eternal Return to the Bliss of the Inexpressible
155. The man struck by a poisoned arrow . . .
156. The four Noble Truths and the Middle Path. Why?
157. The impermanence of things and the doctrine of anattā
158. The way that leads to nirvāna
159. Techniques of meditation and their illumination by “wisdom”
160. The paradox of the Unconditioned
20. Roman Religion: From Its Origins to the Prosecution of the Bacchanals (ca. 186)
161. Romulus and the sacrificial victim
162. The “historicization” of Indo-European myths
163. Specific characteristics of Roman religiosity
164. The private cult: Penates, Lares, Manes
165. Priesthoods, augurs, and religious brotherhoods
166. Jupiter, Mars, Quirinus, and the Capitoline triad
167. The Etruscans: Enigmas and hypotheses
168. Crises and catastrophes: From the Gallic suzerainty to the Second Punic War
21. Celts, Germans, Thracians, and Getae
169. Persistence of prehistoric elements
170. The Indo-European heritage
171. Is it possible to reconstruct the Celtic pantheon?
172. The Druids and their esoteric teaching
173. Yggdrasill and the cosmogony of the ancient Germans
174. The Aesir and the Vanir. Óðinn and his “shamanic” powers
175. War, ecstasy, and death
176. The Aesir: Týr, Thór, Baldr
177. The Vanir gods. Loki. The end of the world
178. The Thracians, “great anonyms” of history
179. Zalmoxis and “immortalization”
22. Orpheus, Pythagoras, and the New Eschatology
180. Myths of Orpheus, lyre-player and “founder of initiations”
181. Orphic theogony and anthropogony: Transmigration and immortality of the soul
182. The new eschatology
183. Plato, Pythagoras, and Orphism
184. Alexander the Great and Hellenistic culture
23. The History of Buddhism from Mahākāśyapa to Nāgārjuna. Jainism after Mahāvīra
185. Buddhism until the first schism
186. The time between Alexander the Great and Aśoka
187. Doctrinal tensions and new syntheses
188. The “Way of the boddhisattvas”
189. Nāgārjuna and the doctrine of universal emptiness
190. Jainism after Mahāvīra: Erudition, cosmology, soteriology
24. The Hindu Synthesis: The Mahābhārata and the Bhagavad Gītā
191. The eighteen-day battle
192. Eschatological war and the end of the world
193. Krsna’s revelation
194. “Renouncing the fruits of one’s acts”
195. “Separation” and “totalization”
25. The Ordeals of Judaism: From Apocalypse to Exaltation of the Torah
196. The beginnings of eschatology
197. Haggai and Zechariah, eschatological prophets
198. Expectation of the messianic king
199. The progress of legalism
200. The personification of divine Wisdom
201. From despair to a new theodicy: The Qoheleth and Ecclesiasticus
202. The first apocalypses: Daniel and 1 Enoch
203. The only hope: The end of the world
204. Reaction of the Pharisees: Glorification of the Torah
26. Syncretism and Creativity in the Hellenistic Period: The Promise of Salvation
205. The Mystery religions
206. The mystical Dionysus
207. Attis and Cybele
208. Isis and the Egyptian Mysteries
209. The revelation of Hermes Trismegistus
210. Initiatory aspects of Hermetism
211. Hellenistic alchemy
27. New Iranian Syntheses
212. Religious orientations under the Arsacids (ca. 247 B.C. to 226 A.D.)
213. Zurvan and the origin of evil
214. The eschatological function of time
215. The two Creations: mēnōk and gētik
216. From Gayōmart to Saoshyant
217. The Mysteries of Mithra
218. “If Christianity had been halted . . .”
28. The Birth of Christianity
219. An “obscure Jew”: Jesus of Nazareth
220. The Good News: The Kingdom of God is at hand
221. The birth of the Church
222. The Apostle to the Gentiles
223. The Essenes at Qumran
224. Destruction of the Temple. Delay in the occurrence of the parousia
29. Paganism, Christianity, and Gnosis in the Imperial Period
225. Jam redit et Virgo . . .
226. The tribulations of a religio illicita
227. Christian gnosis
228. Approaches of Gnosticism
229. From Simon Magus to Valentinus
230. Gnostic myths, images, and metaphors
231. The martyred Paraclete
232. The Manichaean gnosis
233. The great myth: The fall and redemption of the divine soul
234. Absolute dualism as mysterium tremendum
30. The Twilight of the Gods
235. Heresies and orthodoxy
236. The Cross and the Tree of Life
237. Toward “cosmic Christianity”
238. The flowering of theology
239. Between Sol Invictus and “In hoc signo vinces”
240. The bus that stops at Eleusis
List of Abbreviations
Present Position of Studies: Problems and Progress. Critical Bibliographies
Notes
Index
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