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