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