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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPLATES ix EDITOR'S FOREWORD xi MIRCEA ELIADE Mystery and Spiritual Regeneration in Extra-European Religions [1954] 3 1. Australian Cosmology and Mythology 3 2. The Karadjeri Initiation 5 3. Mystery and Initiation 7 4. "Men's Societies" and Secret Societies 12 5. The Initiatic Meaning of Suffering 17 6. The "Mysteries of the Woman" 19 7. Secret Feminine Societies 23 8. Engulfment by a Monster 28 9. The Symbolism of Initiatic Death 32 FRITZ MEIER The Transformation of Man in Mystical Islam [1954] 37 HENRY CORBIN Divine Epiphany and Spiritual Birth in Ismailian Gnosis [1954] 69 1. The Metamorphoses of Theophanic Visions 69 2. Ebionite and Ismailian Adamology 86 3. Hierarchies and Cycles: The Fundamental Angelology of Ismailism 94 4. Imamology and Docetism, I 13 5. The Eternal Imam 127 6. The "Quest" of the Imam 140 PAUL TILLICH The Importance of New Being for Christian Theology [1954] 161 DAISETZ T. SUZUKI The Awakening of a New Consciousness in Zen [1954] 179 ERNST BENZ Theogony and the Transformation of Man in Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling [1954] 203 LANCELOT LAW WHYTE The Growth of Ideas [1954] 250 JEAN DANIELOU The Dove and the Darkness in Ancient Byzantine Mysticism [1954] 270 1. The Wings of the Dove 271 2. A Philosophy of Change 280 3. The Dove and the Darkness 287 ADOLF PORTMANN Metamorphosis in Animals: The Transformations of the Individual and the Type [1954] 297 HEINRICH ZIMMER Death and Rebirth in the Light of India [1939] 326 G. VAN DER LEEUW Immortality [1950] 353 APPENDICES Biographical Notes 37I Contents of the Eranos-Fahrbucher 376 List of Abbreviations 391 INDEX 393
