OCCULT PHILOSOPHY: An introduction, the major concepts, and a glossary - Marc Edmund Jones
Contents: Foreword An Introduction to Occult Philosophy:
1. The meaning of philosophy
2. The historical roots of occultism
3. The four profane mysteries
4. The seven basic truths.
The Major Concepts of Occult Philosophy:
5. Individual perspective in time
6. Individual perspective in space
7. Existence identified in pattern
8. Existence identified in consciousness
9. Experience identified in being
10. Experience identified in self
11. Social perspective in integration
12. Social perspective in manifestation.
A glossary of occult philosophy
Index
 
Here is a clear & lucid exposition of the Profane Mysteries, the Lesser or Lunar Mysteries, and the Greater or Solar Mysteries. These are presented in terms of (1) the popular ideas in occultism, such as the Solar Myth, belief that Anglo-Americans are the ten lost tribes of Israel, and the theory that the Shakespearian plays were written by Francis Bacon, (2) the established doctrines of an age-old esotericism concerning such matters as transmutation or the elixir of life, the adepts or Masters of Wisdom with miraculous powers, and man's destiny as charted through karma & reincarnation, and (3) the organization of all existence and experience on a Pythagorean basis of number, a Plotonic structure of operational concepts, and an Aristotelian organization through functional or pragmatic logic.
The history of occult origins & development is given in considerable detail, together with a thorough account of the various schools of thought & points of view. Bibliographical references are unusually full, and the glossary provides a complete orientation in both Western & Eastern terminology.



























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