Creative Mythology : The Masks of God, Volume IV,9780140194401

Creative Mythology : The Masks of God, Volume IV

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780140194401
ISBN10: 0140194401
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-03-01
Publisher(s): Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Summary

This volume explores the whole inner story of modern culture since the Dark Ages, treating modern man's unique position as the creator of his own mythology.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: The Ancient Vine
Experience and Authority
Creative Symbolization
3(6)
Where Words Turn Back
9(18)
The Trackless Way
27(10)
Mountain Immortals
37(5)
The World Transformed
The Way of Noble Love
42(4)
The Devil's Door
46(7)
Heloise
53(12)
The Crystalline Bed
65(2)
Aesthetic Arrest
67(8)
The Potion
75(9)
The Word Behind Words
Symbolic Speech
84(11)
The Classical Heritage
95(15)
The Celto-Germanic Heritage
110(18)
The Legacy of Islam
128(17)
The Gnostics
145(30)
PART TWO: The Waste Land
The Love-Death
Eros, Agape, and Amor
175(11)
The Noble Heart
186(7)
Anamorphosis
193(7)
The Music of the Land below Waves
200(7)
Moon Bull and Sun Steed
207(13)
The Legend of the Fair Isolt
220(37)
Phoenix Fire
O Truly Blessed Night!
257(5)
The Left-Hand Way
262(16)
Puer Aeternus
278(4)
Chaos
282(16)
The Balance
Honor against Love
298(10)
The Individual and the State
308(13)
Erotic Irony
321(12)
Identity and Relationship
333(16)
Beauty Way
349(9)
The Altar and the Pulpit
358(15)
Democracy and the Terror
373(10)
The Amfortas Wound
383(22)
PART THREE: The Way and the Life
The Crucified
The Turning Wheel of Terror-Joy
405(11)
The Maimed Fisher King
416(12)
The Quest beyond Meaning
428(5)
The Paraclete
The Son of the Widow
433(19)
First Intermezzo: The Restitution of Symbols
452(8)
The Ladies' Knight
460(6)
Illuminations
466(10)
Second Intermezzo: The Secularization of Myth
476(16)
The Castle of Marvels
492(22)
Third Intermezzo: Mythogenesis
514(40)
The Crowning of the King
554(9)
Envoy: To Each His Own
563(10)
PART FOUR: New Wine
The Death of ``God''
The Crime of Galileo
573(1)
The New Reality
574(4)
Names and Forms
578(10)
The New Universe
588(12)
The Knight of the Rueful Countenance
600(8)
Toward New Mythologies
608(17)
The Earthly Paradise
All the Gods within You
625(22)
Symbolization
647(34)
Reference Notes 681(30)
Index 711

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