Mysticism Chapter 1 Spreading the Babylonian Mysteries (No. B7_1)
Establishing the Nature of Mysticism
Theistic and Monistic Mysticism
Mystical Experience
Greek Influence on the Origins of Christian Mysticism
Philo and the God Who Speaks
Plotinus
The Extent of the Spread of Mysticism
The Ascent
Medieval Developments
Eastern Indo-Aryan Religion
Shamanism
Eastern Mystical Ascent
Mysticism in the Pacific
Australia
Maori Concepts
Tracing the Path
Mysticism Chapter 2 The Egyptian Gods and the Exodus (No. B7_2)
Moses’ Life as the Plan
The Second Forty Years
The Third Forty Year Period
Miracles
1. The Serpents
2. Blood
3. Frogs
4. The Flies
5. The Plague of the Cattle
6. Boils
7. Hail
8. Locusts
9. Darkness
10. The Killing of the Firstborn
The Pillar of Fire and Cloud
Middle East Cosmology
Mysticism Chapter 3 The Golden Calf (No. B7_3)
The Finger of Ashirat
The Bull
Mysticism Chapter 4 Judeo-Christianity (No. B7_4)
Original Judeo-Christian Concepts
Cosmology
Overview: How God is One
The Godhead as Eloah, The Elohim, Morning Stars and the Sons of God
The Elohim
The Elohim as a Plurality
Morning Stars
Cherubim
The Spirit of Man and the Angelic Order
Original Millennial Doctrines
The Logos and Creation
Will and Nature
Christianity After the Edict of Toleration
Arles
War in Christianity
The Roman Army
Roman Persian Buffers
Concepts of God and the Christian Factions Prior to 590AD
Mysticism Chapter 5 Islam (No. B7_5)
Religious History to the Birth of Islam
Arab Beliefs
Tribal Dispositions and Power
The Rise of Islam
The Arabs in Islam and Later Doctrines
Expansion and Syncretism
Early Conquests
Islam in China
The Abbasids
Overthrow of the Umayyads
Baghdad
Loss of Territory
Economic Resources
Literature
Islamic Anthropomorphic Puritanism
Decline of the Abbasids
Later Indo-Aryan Influence on Islamic Theology
The Emergence of Mystical Syncretism in Islam
Sufi Mysticism
The Rise of Sufism
The Sufi Orders
Mysticism Chapter 6 Origins of the Indian Religious Systems (No. B7_6)
Early Aryan Religion
The Ramayana
Yoga, Pantheism and Monotheism
Indian Syncretic Pantheism
Indian Monotheism
Mother Goddess Theology in Asia
Developments of the Indo-Aryan System in the First Millennium CE
Mysticism Chapter 7 Buddhism (No. B7_7)
Liberation Theology
The Buddha
The Dharma
Monasticism in Buddhism
The Denial of Independent Existence
Bhakti as Faith and Infallibility
Arhants and the Mystical Ascent
Buddhism in Asia
The Revolution
The Development of Mystical Thought in Buddhism
The Diamond and Matrix Systems
The Medieval Systems
The Intrusion of the Mother Goddess Cult into Buddhism and the Development of Animistic Practices
Tara
The Goddess and Tantric Mysticism in Southeast Asia
Mysticism Chapter 8 East Asia – China and Japan (No. B7_8)
Origins of the Chinese
The Move from the West
Chinese Religion
Creation from Primodial Chaos and the First God
Taoism
From Dualism to Singularist Tao
Taoist Pseudo-Monotheism
Mother Goddess Figures
The Taoist High Priest
The Taoist – Confucian Conflict
Syncretic Myths
The Kings of Heaven and Other Myths
Chinese Dragons
Indo-Aryan Time Myths
Prehistory and the Archaeological Record
Tracing the Bronze Age
The Chinese Dynasties
The Nexus
Isolating Early Chinese Occultists
Mysticism Chapter 9 South East Asian Systems (No. B7_9)
Original Religious Systems
Buddhism and Indianization in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asian History from the Twelfth Century
The Development of Islam in Southeast Asia Chinese Influence
The Origins and Method of Islam’s Arrival in Sumatra
The Spread of Islam under the Mongols
East and West Asian Mysticism Meet in Aceh
Nineteenth Century Islamic Theology in Southeast Asia
Modern Day Religion on Java
Mysticism Chapter 10 Summary of Volume 1 The Origin of World Religions (No. B7_10)