CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
	Al-Fatihah	[v]
	To Man	[3]
I	Probing the Trivial	[5]
II	The City of Baal	[14]
III	Via Dolorosa	[25]
IV	On the Wharf of Enchantment	[34]
V	The Cellar of the Soul	[46]
VI	The Summer Afternoon of a Sham	[58]
VII	In the Twilight of an Idea	[70]
VIII	With the Huris	[83]
BOOK THE SECOND
IN THE TEMPLE
	To Nature	[97]
I	The Dowry of Democracy	[99]
II	Subtranscendental	[115]
III	The False Dawn	[125]
IV	The Last Star	[130]
V	Priesto-Parental	[143]
VI	Flounces and Ruffles	[154]
VII	The Howdaj of Falsehood	[167]
VIII	The Kaaba of Solitude	[181]
IX	Signs of the Hermit	[192]
X	The Vineyard in the Kaaba	[202]
BOOK THE THIRD
IN KULMAKAN
	To God	[217]
I	The Disentanglement of the Me	[219]
II	The Voice of the Dawn	[231]
III	The Self Ecstatic	[239]
IV	On the Open Highway	[249]
V	Union and Progress	[274]
VI	Revolutions Within and Without	[287]
VII	A Dream of Empire	[298]
VIII	Adumbrations	[311]
IX	The Stoning and Flight	[325]
X	The Desert	[333]
	Al-Khatimah	[341]