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Published: 21st January 1979
ISBN: 9780691018232
Number Of Pages: 496
Essays by Julius Baum, C. G. Jung, C. Kerenyi, Hans Leisegang, Paul Masson-Oursel, Fritz Meier, Jean de Menasce, Georges Nagel, Walter F. Otto, Max Pulver, Hugo Rahner, Paul Schmitt, and Walter Wili.
| Note of Acknowledgment | p. vi |
| List of Plates | p. ix |
| List of Text Figures | p. xi |
| Editor'S Foreword | p. xiii |
| A Note On Eranos | p. xv |
| Paul Masson-Oursel | |
| The Indian Theories of Redemption in the Frame of the Religions of Salvation | p. 3 |
| The Doctrine of Grace in the Religious Thought of India [both 1936] | p. 8 |
| Walter F. Otto | |
| The Meaning of the Eleusinian Mysteries (1939) | p. 14 |
| The Mysteries of the Kabeiroi (1944) | p. 32 |
| The Meaning of the Term 'Mysteria' | p. 32 |
| The Legend of the Foundation of the Shrine of the Kabeiroi near Thebes | p. 42 |
| Appendix: The Castello of Tegna | p. 60 |
| The Orphic Mysteries and the Greek Spirit (1944) | p. 64 |
| The Orphic Mysteries | p. 64 |
| Orphism and the Greek Spirit | p. 79 |
| The Ancient Mysteries in the Society of Their Time, Their Transformation and Most Recent Echoes (1944) | p. 93 |
| Eleusis: The Local Cult and Early Christianity | p. 93 |
| Scrapis: The Universal Mystery Religion | p. 104 |
| Mysteries in Poetry | p. 115 |
| The "Mysteries" of Osiris in Ancient Egpt (1944) | p. 119 |
| The Mysteries and the Religion of Iran (1944) | p. 135 |
| The Mystery of the Ka'ba: Symbol and Reality in Islamic Mysticism (1944) | p. 149 |
| Round Dance and Crucifixtion According to the Acts of St. John (1942) | p. 169 |
| Tlu Mystery of the Serpent (1939) | p. 194 |
| The Inscription | p. 197 |
| The Serpent and the Four Winds | p. 215 |
| The Worship of the Serpent | p. 233 |
| The Parallels | p. 245 |
| Symbolic Representations of the Eucharist (1944) | p. 261 |
| The Symbolic Character of Early Christian Art | p. 261 |
| Representations of the Consecration | p. 264 |
| Representations of Communion | p. 268 |
| The Heavenly Banquet and Feasts of the Dead | p. 271 |
| Transformation Symbolism in the Mass (1941) | p. 274 |
| Introduction | p. 274 |
| The Sequence of the Rite of Transformation | p. 278 |
| A Parallel from Pagan Antiquity | p. 290 |
| The Psychology of the Mass | p. 313 |
| The Christian Mystery and the Pagan Mysteries (1944) | p. 337 |
| The History and Significance of the Comparison between the Christian Mystery and the Ancient Mysteries | p. 338 |
| The Mystery of the Cross | p. 369 |
| The Mystery of Baptism | p. 387 |
| Appendices | |
| Biographical | |
| Notes | p. 405 |
| ConTents of the Eranos-jahrbucher | p. 409 |
| List of Abbreviations | p. 419 |
| Index | p. 421 |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780691018232
ISBN-10: 0691018235
Series: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks : Book 2
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 496
Published: 21st January 1979
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 15.88
x 3.18
Weight (kg): 0.69
