CONTENTS OF
The Philosopher’s Stone
by HENRY T. LAURENCY,
by Sections Only
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Sections:
Translator’s Preface
1. EXOTERIC WORLD VIEW AND LIFE VIEW
(42 pages)
2. THE ESOTERIC WORLD VIEW
(71 pages)
3. ESOTERIC LIFE VIEW
(98 pages)
The Philosopher’s Stone is the translation of an original in Swedish, De vises sten. The translator is Lars Adelskogh. Translations into other languages are proceeding.
A complete enumeration of all sections, subsections, and chapters making up The
Philosopher’s Stone is found below in the document Contents by
sections, subsections, and chapters.
The Philosopher’s
Stone
CONTENTS BY SECTIONS, SUBSECTIONS, AND CHAPTERS
Translator’s Preface
1. EXOTERIC WORLD VIEW AND LIFE VIEW
1.1 THE WILL TO UNITY
EMOTIONAL CULTURE
1.2 MAN AS AN EMOTIONAL BEING
1.3 RELIGION
1.4 The Essence of Religion
1.5 Religious Mysticism
1.6 Religious Intellectual Constructions
1.7 MORALITY
1.8 Conventions
1.9 Rules of Conduct
1.10 Motives
1.11 Moral Valuations
1.12 The Voice of Conscience
1.13 Religious Morality
1.14 Sexual Morality
1.15 Honour
1.16 Right and Wrong, or Good and Evil
1.17 The Art of Living
POLITICS
1.18 Introduction
1.19 Political Problems
1.20 Political Systems
1.21 Freedom, Equality, and Brotherhood
1.22 Political Unity
1.23 Practical Politics
1.24 AESTHETICS
MENTAL CULTURE
1.25 PHILOSOPHY
1.26 Ideas
1.27 Clear Concepts
1.28 Logic
1.29 Criticism
1.30 What is Truth?
1.31 Sense and Reason
1.32 Reality
1.33 The Limits of Knowledge
1.34 World View and Life View
1.35 SCIENCE
1.36 HISTORY
1.37 Historical Facts
1.38 Historical Factors
1.39 Historical Views
1.40 Culture of History
INTRODUCTION TO THE ESOTERIC
KNOWLEDGE OF REALITY
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Matter
2.3 Matter and Energy
2.4 Matter and Consciousness
2.5 Visible and Invisible Material Reality
2.6 Biological Evolution and Finality
THE MATTER ASPECT OF REALITY
2.7 Introduction
2.8 Involvation
2.9 Involution
2.10 The Solar System
2.11 Elementals
2.12 Evolution
2.13 Evolutionary Beings
2.14 The Natural Kingdoms
2.15 The Chain of Triads
2.16 The Monad
2.17 Group-Souls and Transmigration
2.18 Causalization
2.19 The Envelopes of Man
2.20 Man’s Etheric Envelope
2.21 Man’s Emotional Envelope
2.22 Man’s Mental Envelope
2.23 Man’s Causal Envelope
THE CONSCIOUSNESS ASPECT OF REALITY
2.24 Consciousness
2.25 The Unity of Consciousness
2.26 Active and Passive Consciousness
2.27 Objective and Subjective Consciousness
2.28 Group Consciousness
2.29 Self-Consciousness
2.30 Man’s Consciousness
2.31 Man’s Emotional Consciousness
2.32 Man’s Mental Consciousness
2.33 Man’s Causal Consciousness
2.34 Essential Consciousness
2.35 Superessential and Higher Consciousness
ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY
2.37 The Age Classes of Mankind
2.38 The Levels of Human Development
2.39 The Involvations of the Causal Envelope
2.40 The Dissolution of the Envelopes of Incarnation
2.41 The Individual Self
2.42 The Collective Selves
ESOTERIC COSMOLOGY
2.44 The Seven-Globes
2.45 Involution and Evolution in the Seven-Globes
2.46 The Eons
ESOTERIC ONTOLOGY
2.48 The Periods of Manifestation
2.49 The Three Kinds of Solar System
2.50 The Departments
2.51 Expanding Collective Beings
2.52 The Tasks of Collective Beings
2.53 The Relations of Collective Beings to Mankind
GENERAL ESOTERIC
KNOWLEDGE OF REALITY
2.55 Dynamis, Energies, Vibrations
2.56 Higher Kinds of Matter Are Luminous
2.57 The Atom
2.58 The Origin of Material Forms and Forces of Nature
2.59 The Three Aspects of Reality
2.60 Primordial Matter
2.61 The Dynamic Energy of Primordial Matter (Dynamis)
2.62 Esoteric Terms, Exoteric Fictions, Addenda, Etc.
3.1 LIFE VIEW
3.2 LAWS OF LIFE
THE INALIENABLE DIVINE FREEDOM
3.3 Freedom and Law
3.4 Freedom through Insight and Understanding
3.5 Freedom of Choice
3.6 Freedom and Responsibility
3.7 Freedom and Development
3.8 Freedom and Guidance
THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COLLECTIVE
3.9 Ideal Law and Right
3.10 The Individual and the State
3.11 The Individual and the Laws
3.12 The Individual and Social Freedom
THE LAW OF UNITY
3.14 Individualism and Collectivism
3.15 Collectives
THE LAW OF DEVELOPMENT
3.16 CONSCIOUSNESS DEVELOPMENT
3.17 THE STAGE OF BARBARISM
THE STAGE OF CIVILIZATION
3.18 Emotionality at the Stage of Civilization
3.19 Mentality at the Stage of Civilization
3.20 Religion at the Stage of Civilization
3.21 The Striving at Art at the Stage of Civilization
3.22 The Conception of Right at the Stage of Civilization
THE STAGE OF CULTURE
3.23 Emotionality at the Stage of Culture
3.24 Mentality at the Stage of Culture
3.25 Religion at the Stage of Culture
3.26 Art
3.27 The Conception of Right at the Stage of Culture
3.28 THE STAGE OF HUMANITY
3.29 THE STAGE OF IDEALITY
3.30 THE STAGE OF UNITY
THE LAW OF SELF, OR OF
SELF-REALIZATION
3.31 SELF-REALIZATION
3.32 Self-Reliance
3.33 Self-Determination
3.34 The Tendency to Unity
3.35 The Law of Understanding
3.36 The Faults and Failings of Man
3.37 Evaluating the Personality
3.38 The Blindness to Ourselves
3.39 Ennoblement of the Personality
3.40 The Art of Living
OBSTACLES TO SELF-REALIZATION
3.41 The Tendency to Division
3.42 Dogmas
3.43 Dependence
3.44 Morality
3.45 Moralism
3.46 Public Opinion
THE LAW OF DESTINY
3.48 Individual Character
3.49 The Basic Tendencies of Individual Character
3.50 Self-Assertion and the Law of Compensation
3.51 The Destiny of the Self
3.52 The Common Destiny of the Collective
THE LAW OF REAPING
3.54 The Law of Reaping and Other Laws of Life
3.55 The Law of Reaping and the Ignorance of Life
3.56 The Law of Reaping and the "Iniquities of Life"
3.57 The Law of Reaping and the Agents of Reaping
3.58 The Law of Reaping and Suffering
3.59 The Sowing and Reaping of Consciousness Expressions
3.60 Good Sowing
3.61 Good Reaping
3.62 Bad Sowing
3.63 Bad Reaping
3.64 Collective Sowing and Reaping
3.65 The Factors of Reaping
3.66 The Law of Reaping and Traditional Fictions
THE LAW OF ACTIVATION
3.68 The Unconscious of the Personality
3.69 The Subconscious
3.70 The Superconscious
3.71 Control of Consciousness
3.72 The Method of Activation
3.73 The Group Activity
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