Preface
1. Prolegomena for Methodological Reorientation in the History and Evolution of Religions
PART ONE--EGYPTIAN LIGHT
Preface to Egyptian Light
2. Heliopolitan Theology: A Reconstruction
3. Heliopolitan Theology in the Pyramid Texts
4. Heliopolitan Theology in the Coffin Texts
5. Other Ancient Egyptian Theologies
PART TWO--HEBREW FIRE
Preface to Hebrew Fire
6. The Monotheism of Moses
7. God and His Created World
8. Against Grand Domestication
9. Israel's Return to Grand Domestication
10. Universalistic Monotheism and Messianism
PART THREE--THE WISDOM OF GREECE
Preface to the World of Greece
11. From Mythology to Philosophy
12. Philosophy: From Thales to Anaxagoras
13. Philosophy: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
14. The Neo-Egyptian Philosophy of Plotinus
15. Neoplatonism: Ammonius and Plotinus
PART FOUR--THE BIRTH OF CHRISTENDOM
16. The Kingdom of Heaven at Hand
17. Gnosis Competition
18. The Kingdom of Heaven Spreading
19. Bequest of the Mother Religion
Bibliography
Index