CONTENTS

Editorial Note XI
Introduction 1

1. Quality and Quantity 11
2. Materia Signata Quantitate 16
3. Measure and Manifestation 23
4. Spatial Quantity and Qualified Space 31
5. The Qualitative Determinations of Time 38
6. The Principle of Individuation 45
7. Uniformity against Unity 49
8. Ancient Crafts and Modern Industry 55
9. The Twofold Significance of Anonymity 62
10. The Illusion of Statistics 68
11. Unity and 'Simplicity' 74
12. The Hatred of Secrecy 82
13. The Postulates of Rationalism 89
14. Mechanism and Materialism 96
15. The Illusion of 'Ordinary Life' 101
16. The Degeneration of Coinage 107
17. The Solidification of the World 113
18. Scientific Mythology and Popularization 120
19. The Limits of History and Geography 128
20. From Sphere to Cube 137
21. Cain and Abel 144

22 The Significance of Metallurgy
23 Time changed into Space
24 Toward Dissolution
25 The Fissures in the Great Wall
26 Shamanism and Sorcery
27 Psychic Residues
28 The Successive Stages in Anti-Traditional Action
29 Deviation and Subversion
30 The Inversion of Symbols
31 Tradition and Traditionalism
32 Neo-Spiritualism
33 Contemporary Intuitionism
34 The Misdeeds of Psychoanalysis
35 The Confusion of the Psychic and the Spiritual
36 Pseudo-Initiation
37 The Deceptiveness of 'Prophecies'
38 From Anti-Tradition to Counter-Tradition
39 The Great Parody: or Spirituality Inverted
40 The End of a World
Index