Structure of The Work
The work consists of 26 chapters.
- Part One: Never Dying, Always Reviving
- Part Two: Time and History
- Part Three: The Sacred
- Part Four: False Contrasts
- Part Five: Dualism: For and Against
- Part Six: God: Creator and Father
- Part Seven: Human Nature and Freedom
- Part Eight: Fall or Rise?
- Part Nine: The Primacy of Mankind
- Part Ten: Beneath and Beyond Good and Evil
- Part Eleven: The Shapes of History
- Part Twelve: Messianism and Utopianism
- Part Thirteen: Space and Time
- Part Fourteen: Iconoclasm and Beauty
- Part Fifteen: The Universal and the Particular
- Part Sixteen: Monotheism and Polytheism
- Part Seventeen: Tolerance and Intolerance
- Part Eighteen: Universalism and Particularism
- Part Nineteen: Politics and Anti-Politics
- Part Twenty: Man's Place in Nature
- Part Twenty-One: Sex and the Body
- Part Twenty-Two: Early Christianity and Late Paganism
- Part Twenty-Three: Divine Immanence, Human Transcendence
- Part Twenty-Four: The Coincidence of Opposites and the Problem of Evil
- Part Twenty-Five: Tolerance and Inner Freedom
- Part Twenty-Six: The Return of the Gods
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