CONTENTS

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[Preface to the Second Edition]iii
I.—[Points of View]1
II.—[The Mysteries and their Wisdom]10
III.—[The Greek Sages before Plato in the Light of the Wisdom of the Mysteries]39
IV.—[Plato as a Mystic]63
V.—[The Wisdom of the Mysteries and the Myth]93
VI.—[The Mystery Wisdom of Egypt]127
VII.—[The Gospels]147
VIII.—[The Lazarus Miracle]159
IX.—[The Apocalypse of St. John]177
X.—[Jesus and His Historical Background]198
XI.—[The Nature of Christianity]203
XII.—[Christianity and Heathen Wisdom]215
XIII.—[St. Augustine and the Church]227
[Notes]239