Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Mysteries of Antiquity

CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Introduction by Andrew Welburn......Page 10
The Mysteries and Initiation......Page 24
Birth and Rebirth......Page 29
The Hidden God......Page 38
Heraclitus of Ephesus......Page 45
Pythagoras of Samos......Page 58
The Mystery of Immortality......Page 63
The Mystery of Creation......Page 75
The Mystery of Love......Page 81
The Structures of Myth......Page 86
From Myth to Philosophy......Page 90
Myths of Initiation......Page 95
the Myth and Mysteries of Eleusis......Page 105
The Egyptian Mysteries : Becoming Osiris......Page 109
The Life of an Initiate : Buddha and Christ......Page 114
The Evidence of the Gospels......Page 124
Parables and Signs......Page 125
The Mysteries and the Jews......Page 129
Jesus and the Preaching of the Kingdom......Page 130
The "Miracle" of Lazarus......Page 133
The Seven Letters......Page 146
The Son of Man......Page 150
The Book with Seven Seals......Page 153
The Seven Trumpets......Page 156
666 : The Beast and the Abyss......Page 159
The Mystery-Temple......Page 160
Jesus in His Historical Setting......Page 163
From the Mysteries to Christianity......Page 167
The Gnostic Crisis......Page 170
The Esoteric Tradition......Page 172
Philo Judaeus : The Mystery of the Logos......Page 176
Plotinus and Neoplatonism......Page 181
Mysticism and Fact......Page 183
Augustine and the Church......Page 185
Appendix......Page 194
Foreword to the First Edition (1902)......Page 195
Foreword to the Second Edition (1910)......Page 199
Points of View......Page 202
Aditional Remarks (1910)......Page 208
Afterword by Michael Debus......Page 212
Translator's Notes......Page 234
Further Reading......Page 254
Index......Page 258