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