CONTENTS

Editorial Note XI
Foreword XV

Part One: Metaphysics & Cosmology

1 The Demiurge 1
2 Monotheism & Angelology 16
3 Spirit & Intellect 20
4 The Eternal Ideas 25
5 Silence & Solitude 29
6 'Know Thyself' 34
7 On the Production of Numbers 42

Part Two: Traditional Arts & Sciences

1 Initiation & the Crafts 53
2 On Mathematical Notation 59
3 The Arts & Their Traditional Conception 78
4 The Conditions of Corporeal Existence 84

Part Three: Some Modern Errors

1 The ‘Empericism’ of the Ancients 107
2 The Diffusion of Knowledge & and the Modern Spirit 112
3 The Superstition of ‘Value’ 117
4 The Sense of Proportions 124
5 The Origins of Mormonism 129
6 Gnosis & the Spiritist Schools 142
7 Concerning a Mission to Central Asia 172
8 Profane Science in Light of Traditional Doctrines 180
Index 187