Introduction
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45 [1]
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Linear Time and Axis Time:
Cultural Diffusion. Linear Speculation (47). Jaspers and
Toynbee.
Mankind and Mystery [2].
The Beginning and the Beyond:
Historiogenesis.
Stratification
of Consciousness (51). The Presence of Divine Reality. Two Modes of Experience.
Cosmological Myth and Cosmogonic Myth. The Secondary Field of Differentiations
[7].
The Tension of Consciousness—Plato, Aristotle, Israel:
The Philosopher's
Myth(56). The Infinite Cosmos. The Creative Beginning [11].
The Tension in the
Gospel of John:
The Word of the
Beginning and the World of the Beyond. The Presence of the "I am" (58). The
ego eimi
Sayings. The Death of the Beginning and the Life of the Beyond. The language of
Revelation and the Myth of Creation. The Gnostic Influences in John [13].
The
Balance
Lost—Gnosticism:
Essential Core and Variable Parts (66). The Impact of Empire. The
Contraction of Divine Order. Multicivilizational Piety. Syncretistic
Spiritualism. The Hymn of
the Pearl. The Israelite-Judaic Exodus. Magic Pneumatism. The Loss of Balance
[20].
The Balance Regained—Philo:
The Mystery of the Cosmos Recovered(74). Philo's
Allegoresis.
His Cosmopolites. Philo's Pattern of Inadequate Analysis [27].
Allegoresis:
Origin of
the Symbolism (80). Literal and Underlying Meaning. The Encounter of Philosophy
with
the
Torah [33].
The Deformation of Philosophy into Doctrine:
The Classic Rejection,
the
Stoic Acceptance, of Allegoresis. The Stoic "Dreams." Spiritual Insecurity. The
Literalization of Mythopoetic Symbols. The Stoic Materialism. Prepositional
Metaphysics [36].
Religion:
Cicero's Introduction of the Symbolism (91). Doctrinal Theology. Ecumenic
Spiritualism. Cicero's Confession of Faith. Tertullian on the Plurality of
Religions. Stoic
Doctrine as a Millennial Constant [43].
Scripture:
The Torah as a Protective
Device(96).
The Cosmogony of Genesis.
Creatio ex nihilo.
Wisdom, in Proverbs, in Sirach.
The "Fear
of the Lord." Wisdom and Torah. The Word of Creation. The Torah as Scripture.
The
Deformation of the Word of God and of History [48].
Conclusion
(106)[57].
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Chapter 1 Historiogenesis
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108 [59]
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§I. MYTHO-SPECULATION
The Quest of the Ground. Theogony, Anthropogony, Cosmogony, Historiogenesis,
Equivalence to Philosophy of Being. Pragmatic Historiography, Mythopoesis,
Noetic Speculation. The Roman Case.
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109 [60]
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§2. HISTORIOGENETIC SPECULATION
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113 [64]
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Motives. Sumerian King List. The Timeless Line of Time. Hegel. Its Ubiquity.
Millennial
Constant.
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§3. EXISTENCE AND NON-EXISTENCE
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117 [67]
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1.
The Primary Experience of the Cosmos
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118 [68]
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Intra-Cosmic Divinity. The Ruler under God. Hatshepsut. Crisis of Empire and
Noetic
Advance. Existence out of Non-Existence. Eliade's statisation du devenir.
Leibniz' Questions. Between Something and Nothing.
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2.
The Cosmological Style of Truth
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126 [75]
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Instability of the Style. The In-Between Reality of the Cosmos; The Dynamics of
Disruption. Kant.
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3. The Modes of Time
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128 [78]
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The Lasting of Reality. The Multiple Modes of Lasting. Cyclical Time. Eternal
Recurrence. Celestial Cycles. The Great Year. The Hierarchy of Times.
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§4. NUMBERS AND AGES
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133 [82]
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Projection of History into Past and Future. Numerical Speculation. The Sumerian
King
List. Berossus. Israelite Speculations. Declining Ages and the Fall.
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§5. IMPERIAL MEDIATION OF HUMANITY
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141 [90]
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The Survival of Historiogenesis. Empire and the Truth of Humanity. The Turin
Papyrus
and the Palermo Stone. Antiochus Soter. The Israelite Case.
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§6. THE HELLENIC CASE—EUHEMERUS'
Historia Sacra
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153 [101]
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The Non-Imperial Civilization. Hesiod. Herodotus. The Hellenistic Sequel.
Egyptian
Influences.
Hiera Anagraphe.
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§7. HISTORIOMACHY
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162 [109]
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Berossus and Manetho. Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Josephus Flavius. Clement
of
Alexandria. Eusebius.
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Chapter 2 The Ecumenic Age
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167 [114]
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§1. THE SPECTRUM OF ORDER
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168 [115]
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Temporal and Spiritual Order. Ethnic Societies and Ecumenic-Imperial Society.
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§2. THE PRAGMATIC ECUMENE—POLYBIUS
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171 [117]
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Imperial Expansion. Persia-Macedon-Rome. Polybius on Empire: The Course of
Pragmatic
Events; the Spectacle of Conquest; the Ecumene; General History. Ecumene:
Cultural,
Pragmatic, Jurisdictional, Messianic. The Telos of Pragmatic History. Rome and
the
Cycle of Constitutions. Fortune. Ecumenic Empire and Ecumenic Age.
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§3. THE SPIRITUAL ECUMENE
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188 [134]
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1.
Paul
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189 [134]
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The Salvational Telos of the Ecumene. The Temptation of Christ. Missionary
Fervor. The
Ecumene to Come. The Delay of the Parousia. Ecumenicity and Universality.
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2.
Mani
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193 [138]
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The Sequence of Messengers. Regional Limitations and Ecumenicity. Unwritten and
Written Wisdom. The Ecumenic Paraclete. Succession of Empires and Succession of
Religions.
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3.
Mohammed
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198 [142]
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The Convergence of Empire and Church. The Byzantine and Sassanian Models. The
Seal
of the Prophets. The War of Ecumenic Truth.
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§4. THE KING OF ASIA
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201 [145]
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1.
Achaemenian Prologue
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202 [146]
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The Dissociation of Cosmological Order into Power and Spirit. Literalist
Derailment.
De facto Ecumenism. Ecumenic Literalism from Cyrus to Xerxes. The Truth of
Ahuramazda. The Autolouange of Darius. The Persepolis daiva Inscription of
Xerxes.
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2.
Alexander
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210 [153]
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Motives of the Campaign. Alexander's Letter to Darius. Plutarch on Alexander.
Opis.
Homonoia. The Marriage Feast of Susa. Proskynesis. The Divine Fire. Alexander's
Divinity. Aristotle. The Oracle of Ammon. Pothos.
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3.
Graeco-lndian Epilogue
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222 [165]
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The Maurya Empire. The Kingdom of Bactria. Demetrius. The Title Soter.
Eucratides.
Menander's Kingdom.
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Chapter 3 The Process of History
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229 [171]
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§1. THE PROCESS OF REALITY
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229 [171]
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1.
The Subject of History
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230 [172]
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The In-Between Reality of History. The Identification of Subjects—Augustine,
Hegel.
The Two Histories. Toynbee.
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2.
Anaximander's Truth of the Process
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232 [174]
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Apeiron and Time. Mortals, Immortals. The Metaxy of Existence. Tragical
Meditation.
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3.
The Field of Noetic Consciousness
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235 [176]
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Truth and Things. The Discovery of Consciousness. Psyche-Depth-Nous-Philosophy.
The
Truth of the Search.
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§2. THE DIALOGUE OF MANKIND
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237 [178]
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1.
Herodotus
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237 [178]
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The Wheel of Human Affairs. The Imperial Entrepreneurs. Success and Envy of the
Gods. The Divided Self. Concupiscential Exodus.
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2.
Thucydides
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240 [181]
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The Melian Dialogue. Tragic Consciousness and Untragic Vileness. The Succession
of
Empire and the Senselessness of History.
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3.
Plato
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243 [183]
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The Revelatory Character of Symbols. The One and the Unlimited. Noetic
Conscious-
ness. Diotima. The Dialogue of the Soul. The Continuity of the Dialogue in
Society and
History.
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4.
Aristotle
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246 [187]
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Constitution of Meaning in History. Before-and-After. The Irreversibility of
Meaning.
Equivalences of Symbolic Forms. From Apeiron to Nous. The Noetic Movement.
Metaleptic Reality. Myth and Philosophy. The Modern Revolt against the Dialogue.
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§3. Jacob Burckhardt on the Process of History
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253 [192]
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Selfishness of Evaluation. Egoism and Infantilism. Ethics and the Plethos. The
Moralist
Apocalypse. Metaleptic Consciousness and the Unconscious.
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§4. EXPANSION AND RETRACTION
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258 [197]
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1.
The Pseudo-Aristotelian
De Mundo
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258 [198]
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Concupiscential and Spiritual Exodus. Truth and Power. Cosmos and Empire.
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1. Oikoumene and Okeanos—
The Horizon in Reality
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262 [201]
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Homeric and Imperial Ecumene. Ecumenes in the Plural. The Habitat of Man. The
Horizon. Okeanos: The Divine Border of the Ecumene. The Horizon from Homer to
Alexander. Knowledge and Conquest. The Plurality of Ecumenic Empires.
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3.
The Polybian Symbolism Resumed
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268 [207]
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The Roman Perspective. The Meaning of the Telos. Ecumenic Consciousness in the
Restricted Empires. Ecumenic Society and Civilization. The Global Ecumene.
Thomas
More.
Cusanus.
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Chapter 4 Conquest and Exodus
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274 [212]
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§ 1. EXODUS WITHIN REALITY
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276 [214]
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The Non-Finality of Ecumenic Finality. The Receding Horizon. Reality Moving
toward
Eminent Reality. Participation in the Directional Flux of Reality. Plato and
Aristotle on
the Factors beyond Human Control. The Paradigms.
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§2. PLATO ON HISTORY
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281 [218]
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Cosmic Rhythm and Uniqueness of Meaning. The Laws on History. The Hellenic
Federation. Ethnos and Multicivilizational Empire. Civilizational Progress. The
Plurality
of Civilizations. The Lasting of the Cosmos and the Limits of Memory. The Cosmic
Cataclysms. The Ages of Cronos, Zeus, and Nous.
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§3. THE BALANCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
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291 [227]
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Lasting and Transfiguration. The Postulate of Balance. Reason and Revelation.
The
Theophanic Event. Messengers—Old Gods—Father God. The Hyperouranion. The
Platonic Uncertainties. The Beyond. The Danger of Gnosticism. The Exodus into
Ecumenic Death. The Intelligibility of Reality Revealed.
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Chapter 5 The Pauline Vision of the Resurrected
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303 [239]
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§1. THE PAULINE THEOPHANY
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304 [240]
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1.
Noetic and Pneumatic Theophany
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305 [241]
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From Anaximander's
phthora
to Paul's
aphtharsia
. Plato and Paul on the
Structure of
Reality. Vision, not Dogma.
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2.
Vision and Reason
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308 [244]
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Pneumatic Center and Noetic Periphery. The Code for Tongue-Speakers. Pauline-
Aristotelian Equivalents. Participation and Anticipation.
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3.
Death and Transfiguration
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312 [247]
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Vision and Hope. Vision, the Beginning of Transfiguration. The Tale of Death.
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4.
The Truth of the Pauline Myth
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314 [249]
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Compact Types of Myth. The Pauline Differentiation. The Dynamics of Theophany.
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5.
Truth and History
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316 [251]
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The Classic Consciousness of History. The Theophanic Turbulence in Reality.
Theophanic Turbulence and Man-Made Revolution. Aphtharsia through Revolution.
The
New
Christs. Transfiguration as an Historical Constant.
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6.
The Truth of Transfiguration
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321 [256]
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The Vision of the Resurrected and the Presence of God. The Apostle. The
Self-Analysis
of Romans 7. Abraham and Paul. History of Faith. The Distribution of Revelation
over
Israel and Hellas. The Open Field of Theophany and Dogmatic Construction.
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§2. THE EGOPHANIC REVOLT
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326 [260]
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1.
The Egophanic Deformation of History
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327 [260]
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The Construction of Egophanic History. The Ancient Gigantomachia and the Modern
Christs. Hegel's Forcing the Parousia into History. The Definition of Chalcedon
Inverted.
Egophany Dogmatized. Participation and Identification. Modern Deculturation.
Revelation Delivered Speculatively.
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2.
The Constancy of Transfiguration
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333 [266]
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Paul's Metastatic Interpretation of his Vision. The Non-Occurrence of the
Parousia.
Augustine's
saeculum senescens
. Otto of Freising and Joachim of Flora.
Petrarca's Dark
Age. The Degradation of Symbols into Systems. The Mystery of Transfiguration in
Reality. The Bias in Reality toward More Reality.
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Chapter 6 The Chinese Ecumene
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340 [272]
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§1. THE HISTORIOGRAPHIC FORM
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343 [274]
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Historiogenetic Speculation. Chinese Traditional and Modem Critical History.
Genealogical Construction. The te. The Shang Dynasty. The Five-Hundred-Year
Periods. The
Thinkers as Successors to the Kings.
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§2. The Self-Designation of the Ecumene
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351 [282]
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Chung-kuo' chung-hua, t'ien-hsia. The Near Eastern Cosmological Form. The
Identity
of China and Mankind.
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§3. The Incomplete Breakthrough
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354 [285]
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Max Weber on China. The Conflicting Opinions on Chinese Philosophy, Science, and
Religion. The Muted Differentiation.
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§4. SYMBOLS OF POLITICAL ORDER
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356 [287]
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The Western Rise and Fall of Empire and the Chinese Internal Periods. The
wang
and the
t'ien-hsia
. The
Po-hu-t'ung
on Pre-imperial Kingship.
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§5. T'IEN-HSIA AND KUO
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361 [291]
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The Pre-established Harmony between
t'ien-hsia
and
kuo
. Expansion by Cultural
Attraction. The Sets of Symbols. Power Organization and Cultural Substance.
Mencius on
t'ien-hsia
and
kuo
. The Historical Course.
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§6. CYCLES
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366 [296]
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The Dynastic Cycle. The Five-Hundred-Year Cycle. The Cycle of Sages. From Clan
Society to the Ecumene of Civilized Mankind.
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Chapter 7 Universal Humanity
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371 [300]
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§I The Western Ecumenic Age
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371 [300]
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Characteristics of the Western Configuration. The Field of Disorder and the
Realm to
Come. The Phantasy of Two Realities. The Truth of Order Emerging. The Insights
Gained.
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§2. Eschatology and Earthly Existence
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376 [304]
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The Plurality of Ecumenic Ages. Universal Mankind, an Eschatological Index.
Participation in the Divine Flux of Presence. Material Civilization and
Differentiation of
Consciousness. Plato, Feng Hu Tzu, Lucretius. History as the Ecumenic Horizon.
The
Triad of Ecumenic Empire, Spiritual Outburst, and Historiography.
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§3. Absolute Epoch and Axis-Time
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380 [308]
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Hegel's Absolute Epoch in Christ, Jaspers' Axis-Time. The Jaspers-Bultmann
Debate
on Demythization. The State of Experiential Analysis.
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§4. The Epoch and The Structure of Consciousness
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385 [313]
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The Horizon of Divine Mystery. The Events of Consciousness and the
Consciousness of
the Events. Eschatology. The Modes of Universal Participation.
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§5. Question and Mystery
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388 [316]
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The Question as a Symbolism
sui generis
. The Question in the Primary Experience
of the
Cosmos. Cosmological Construction from the Ground. The Ascending Question of the
Upanishadic Type. The
Apocalypse of Abraham
. The Divine Beyond and the Divine
Within. The Consciousness of Epoch. Apocalyptic Brutality. The Question as a
Constant
Structure in the Experience of Reality. Trust in Cosmic Order and the
Differentiating
Question. The Response of the Buddha. The Question and Epoch. The Mystery of
Reality.
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§6. The Process of History and the Process of the Whole
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404 [330]
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The Question in the Metaxy. Openness to Reality and Contraction of the Self.
The Long
Breath of History. What is Worth Remembering about the Present. The Length of
Time.
The Stop-History Movements. The Interdict on the Question. The Process of the
Whole.
The Fallacies of Time. The Eschatological Direction.
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