Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION A Fresh Approach
Part One
Origins
ONE Cosmic Seasons and Astronomical Cycles
TWO Geological, Geographical, and Climatological Issues
THREE The Disappearing “Atlantes”
FOUR The Appearance of Culture and Civilization
Part Two
Traditions
FIVE Egyptian Magic and the Law of Hierarchy
SIX Two Egyptian Mystery Traditions Reconsidered
SEVEN Gods of the Abyss and Underworld
EIGHT The Ancient Esoteric Division of Egypt and the
Significance of Its Main Temples
Part Three
Knowledge
NINE Completing the “Jigsaw Puzzle” of Astronomical
Metaphors and Allegories
TEN Sacred Geometry and the “Living” Architecture of
Egypt
ELEVEN The Esoteric Significance of the Sphinx and
Pyramids
TWELVE The Internal Geometry of the Great Pyramid
THIRTEEN Reflections
APPENDICES
A The Relationship between the Sothic Year and the Annus
Magnus
B From Plato’s Timaeus
C On Geology
D From Schwaller de Lubicz’s Sacred Science
E From S. A. Mackey’s The Mythological Astronomy of the
Ancients (1824)
F Philological Issues
G The Egyptian Version of the Inner Constitution of Man
H Concerning the Duat
I Concerning the God-Name Seker
J Concerning Sebek, Set, and Horus
K The Circumpolar Stars and the “Mill of the Gods”
L Concerning Ursa Major
M The Astroterrestrial Axes among Egypt, Greece, and the
Levant
N Correlations between the Egyptian and Greek Mystery
Schools
O On the Significance of Double Statuary in Egypt
P The Meaning of Ether/Aether according to the Principles of
Hermetic Science
Q On the Levitation of Stone by the Use of Sound
NOTES
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
J. S. Gordon holds a master's degree in Western Esotericism from the University of Exeter and is a senior fellow of the Theosophical Society of England. He is the author of several books, including The Path of Initiation. He lives in Guildford.
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