CONTENTS

Editorial Note Foreword

1. Against Popularization 2. Metaphysics and Dialectic 3. The Malady of Anguish 4. Custom Versus Tradition 5. Initiatic Affiliation 6. Spiritual Influences and 'Egregores' 7. The Necessity of Traditional Exoterism 8. Salvation and Deliverance 9. Ritual and Moral Points of View 10. The 'Glorification of Work' 11. The Sacred and The Profane 12. Conversions 13. Ceremonialism and Estheticism 14. Recent Confusions 15. 'Intellectual Pride' 16. Direct Contemplation and Reflected Contemplation 17. Doctrine and Method 18. The Three Ways and The Initiatic Forms 19. Ascesis and Asceticism 20. Guru and Upaguru

21. True and False Spiritual Teachers 22. Innate Wisdom and Acquired Wisdom 23. Collective Initiatic Work and Spiritual 'Presence' 24. The Role of the _Guru_ 25. On the Initiatic Degrees 26. Against Quietism 27. Apparent Madness and Hidden Wisdom 28. The 'Popular' Mask 29. The Meeting of Extremes 30. Is the Spirit in the Body or the Body in the Spirit? 31. The Two Nights 32. Ascending and Descending Realization

Appendices