Abendländische Eschatologie
(Taubes),
253
Abraham, 50, 56, 64, 65, 178, 301
Absolutism, 53-58, 239-40
Achaemenides,
131-32
Actio,
275
Actium, battle of, 165
Activist immanentization, 186, 231,
300
Activist mysticism, 300
Adam, 194, 280; Christ as second Adam,
45
Adorno, Theodor, 4
Ad usum publicum,
157
Advent-recession cycle, 221-22
Adversas Haereses
(Irenaeus), 190-91
Aegyptus, 144
Aeneas, 124
Aeschylus, 140, 144-46, 146n40,
147,
224, 269
Agathon
(the good), 92, 140, 259
Agent versus representative, 117
Age of Reason, 191
Aggressiveness, 63
Agnoia
(ignorance), 143, 256
Agnostics, 188
Ahuramazda, 131-32
Aidos
(shame), 100
Akhenaton sun cult, 37-41, 42, 43-44,
56, 66-67
Alans, 125
Alaric, 154
Alethos pseudos,
143
Alexander, Samuel, 108n1
Alexander the Great, 12, 161, 254
Alienation, 248, 255
Altar of Victoria, 155-56, 157
Altercatio
(mutual accusations), 163
Altruism, 296
Amator sapientiae,
138
Ambrose, Saint, 155, 156-57, 158, 214
Amenhotep III, 36-37
America.
See
United States
Amicitia
(mutuality), 150
Amicitiae
(agreements), 163
Amon, 35-37
Amon Ra, 35
Amor Dei,
151, 238,
Amor sui,
151, 238, 239
Amour-propre,
239
Anabaptists, 180
Analogia entis,
32, 273
Analytic Posteriora
(Aristotle), 258
Anamnesis
(Voegelin), 16
Ancien regime,
241
Anthropological principle of Plato,
136-38, 141-42, 143
Anthropological truth, 13, 149-50,
196, 204, 218-19
Anthropology.
See
Philosophical
anthropology
Antichrist, 50, 206
Antiquities
(Varro), 153, 154, 158, 166
Antisthenes, 153, 153n14
Antony, 163, 164, 165
An-wesen
(presence), 275
Apocalypse: church as apocalypse
of Christ in history, 176; and
death of God,
195; and Gnosticism, 14;
Hebrew apocalyptic, 254; and
hierarchy, 50-52;
of inner-worldly community, 60-62;
and rise of Western
civilization, 194;
as symbol generally, 70;
symbols of, 50-52; of Third Rome,
183
Apokalypse der deutschen Seele
(Balthasar), 253
Apollinaris, 181
Apollinian Imperium, 191
Apostles, 57
Aquinas, Thomas.
See
Thomas Aquinas
Arche
(origin), 263, 274
Arendt, Hannah, 2-3, 7, 15
Argos, 144-45
Aristophanes, 147
Aristotle: on
aidos
(shame), 100;
analytical process of, 258-59;
compared with Christian Age, 45;
ethics of,
234-35; gnostics on, 226;
on God, 143, 150, 170;
on history, 184; method of,
for examination of symbols, 110-12,
114-16, 129, 152-53, 192;
on nous and
noetic self, 92, 140,
150, 215;
on philia,
140;
on
philia politike
(political friendship), 150;
and philosophical schools, 147;
Plato compared
with, 139; polis of,
54, 110, 185, 260; politics of,
49, 79, 89, 91, 103,
110,111, 144, 161,
185, 257; on
spoudaios
(mature man),
138-39;
and Thomas Aquinas, 49
—Works:
Analytic Posteriora,
258;
Ethics,
110;
Metaphysics,
170, 171;
Politics,
49, 110, 139
Articulation of society, 117-24, 127, 224
Artificial person, 236
Asceticism, 271
Asia, 222.
See also
specific countries
Associationism, 239
Assyria, 131
Athanasius, 173
Atheism, 32, 60, 247, 253
Athena, 146
Athenian politics, 11-13, 49,
79, 88, 89, 91, 137, 142, 144,
146-47, 149-50,
257, 259.
See
also
Aristotle; Greek philosophy; Plato
Aton, 36-38, 40
Attis mystery cult, 154
Au bout de la nuit,
229
Auctoritas majorum,
104, 159
Auctoritas philosophi,
159
Aufheben
(cancellation), 289
Augustine, Saint: on Christianity, 47-48,
158, 214; on
church, 47-48, 176-77, 181;
on God, 158-59; on history,
47-48, 159, 177,
184-85, 300-301, 308;
on
imperator felix,
157; on people, 121;
and Plato, 138; on Roman Empire,
48, 154,
157; significance of generally, 11;
on soul, 238; on state, 47;
symbols of, 50; on Varro,
153, 154, 158-59; on
warfare,
173-74
—Work:
Civitas Dei,
89, 153, 154, 157,
158, 176
Augustus, 166, 172
Aurelian, 167
Auschwitz extermination camp, 264
Austria, 1, 5, 6
Authoritarian State
(Voegelin), 5
Authority: Hobbes on, 213; order and
governmental authority, 205; and
sacral hierarchy, 42-43
Averroës (Ibn Rushd), 203-4
Averroism, 304
Axiological
component of Gnosticism,
299
Axiological immanentization, 186, 231,
299-300
Baal of Emesa, 167
Babylon, 206
Babylonia, 131
Bakunin, Mikhail, 232, 252
Balbus, 159-60
Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 247, 253
Baronagium,
118, 183
Barons, 118
Basileus,
172
Baur, Ferdinand Christian, 251
Behistun Inscription, 131-32, 134
Being: different types of, 31;
Heidegger on, 275-76;
order of, 31-32, 70, 224,
255, 258,
259, 261, 262, 286-87, 297-98;
philosophy springing from
love of, 273
Belief
(Glaube),
67-69
Bellum justum,
163
Benedict, 51
Bergson, Henri, 108n1,
136, 151, 216,
259
Berkhof, Hendrik, 168
Beyond, 31, 33, 60
Bible: Book of Revelation, 51, 176,
205-6; Book of Samuel, 124; epistles, 45,
54, 187,
187n24, 309, 311; Exodus,
310-11; Gnosticism and scriptural
camouflage, 200-201; Gospel of
John, 61; Hobbes on validity
of, 217;
interpretation of, 200-201, 204;
lex mosaica
of Old Testament, 50, 51;
lineage in Old Testament, 50;
Old and New Covenants
in, 54, 56, 57;
prophecies on peace of the
Lord in, 172; and revolutionary
political
action, 205-6
Bill of Rights, 205
Biondo, Flavio, 196-97, 301
Bios
theoretikos,
139
Bismarck, Otto von, 180, 259
Blackstone, Sir William, 57
Bloodlust, 69, 71
Bochenski, I. M.,108n1
Bodin, Jean, 43, 44, 89
Böhme, Jakob, 251
Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne, 177-78
Boulgakof, Serge, 152n7
Bourgeoisie, 61, 191, 302
Bousset, Wilhelm, 253
Brazil, 296
Breasted, J. H.,
72-73
Britain.
See
England
Brutus, 124
Buddha and Buddhism, 33, 102, 135
Byzantine Caesaropapism, 181, 217
Cabbala, 279-82
Caesar, 161, 162, 164, 165, 167
Caesaropapism, 181, 217
Cain, 270
Caius Caligula, 166
Calvin, 200-201, 211
Camus, Albert, 3, 247, 253
Caritas, 47
Cassirer, Ernst, 96, 296
Causality, 98, 226
"Cause" and movement, 198-200
Cave Parable, 143
Celsus, 169-70, 172
Censorship, 202, 213
Chaadaev, P. Y., 183
Charismata, 45, 46, 55, 125
Chiliasm, 177, 276
China, 131, 134, 135, 223, 228
Christ: as acme of advent-recession
cycle, 221; Augustine on era of, 50;
Celsus
on, 172; and christological
debate within Christianity, 172-73;
death of, 287; empire of, 51;
epoch of, 136; Eusebius on,
and
pax Romana,
172; Hegel on, 308;
incarnation of Logos in, 150,
177, 308; as leader of
Joachim of Fiore's
second age, 178, 301; mystical
Body of Christ, 45-46, 54,
122, 123;
and New Covenant, 57; precursor of,
303; Puritans on, 206-7; as second
Adam, 45; Second Coming of, 176-77;
separation within life of
Jesus, 176
Christianitas,
123
Christianity: Augustine on,
47-48, 158, 214; Celsus on revolutionary
character
of, 169-70; christological
debate within, 172-73; as civil theology,
220-21;
and ecclesia, 44-47;
and epoch of Christ, 136; expansion
of, 172; and fall from
faith, 188;
and Gnosticism, 188-92, 188-89n25,
221; Greek philosophers compared
with, 45; historical origin of, 175;
Hobbes on, 213-14, 215, 217;
incompatibility of paganism and, 169;
life of early Christian communities,
175-76; and metaphysics, 107;
monotheism of, 168, 170-73;
and New Covenant, 56,
57; and
pax Romana,
172; and perfection, 298-99, 304-5,
309; persecutions of Christians, 168, 169,
176; and re-divinization, 175; and
relationship between God and humans,
150-51;
as religion of Roman Empire, 47;
and revelation, 151; in Roman
Empire, 152n7,
154-59, 167-75, 177;
Schelling on three phases of, 302;
and soteriological
truth, 13, 150-51,
185; superiority of, over paganism,
152n7; as supernatural
theology,
154; symbols of, 186;
and tension between reason and
revelation, 260; and theory of human
existence in society, 151-52; Thomas
Aquinas on, 48-49; Trinity in, 50,
173,173n92, 178, 301; truth claims
of, 13; and uncertainty, 187-88, 193;
Weber and medieval Christianity,
103.
See also
Church; Faith
Christian Letter
(Hooker), 203
Christliche Gnosis
(Baur), 251
Church: and Absolutism, 53; as
apocalypse of Christ in history,
Augustine on, 47-48, 176-77,
Catholic Church as Satan,
61; and
civitas Dei,
47-48; and
Cluniac reform, 191, 217; as
corpus
mysticum
(mystical Body of Christ),
45-46, 54; dissolution of, through
spiritualization, 51, 52; feudal church,
Hobbes on Catholic Church, 55,
61; Inquisition of, 217; Joachim
Fiore on, 180; and positivism, 296;
Thomas Aquinas on, 48-49; and truth
soul, 220.
See also
Christianity
Cicero, 158, 159-62, 170, 173
Civilization: advent-recession cycle of,
221-22; future dynamics of, 222-23;
Gnosticism, 193-94; immortality
fame and holes of oblivion, 194; and
salvation, 194; simultaneous decline
progress of Western civilization,
192-93, 195; totalitarianism as end
of progressive civilization, 195.
also Progress; Society
Civil law, 213
Civil theology, 153, 214-17, 220-21,
233-34
Civitas,
47, 159
Civitas coelestis,
159
Civitas Dei,
47, 48, 177, 216, 217
Civitas Dei
(Augustine), 89, 153, 154,
158, 176
Civitas terrena,
47, 159
Cleisthenes, 12
Clement of Alexandria, 152n7,
255
Cleopatra, 163
Cluniac reform, 191, 217
Cochrane, Charles N.,
Cognitio fidei,
189
Cohn, Norman, 253
Collective body, 64, 71
Commonwealth, 237, 241
Commune consilium regni nostri
("common council of our realm"),
118
Communism, 52, 110, 114-16, 134, 179,
201-2, 228-33, 240, 252, 295,
304.
See also
Marx, Karl; Soviet
Union
Community: ecclesia as Christian
community, 44-47; of equals in
United States, 46-47; genealogical
descent as basis of, 44; inner-worldly,
33, 50-52, 59-69; Joachim of
on monks, 51, 178-80, 191, 304;
tribal, 44, 45, 124-25
Comrade of the people, 65, 66
Comte, Auguste: and activist
mysticism, 300; on altruism,
Gnosticism of, 194; on history,
104, 179, 180, 296, 301-2; as
leader, 304; positivism of, 93, 96,
107, 152, 192, 194, 201, 264,
on progress, 104; and prohibition
questions, 263, 264; refusal of
metaphysical arguments by, 106,
as revolutionary activist, 189;
superman of, 152, 303
—Work:
Cours de Philosophie Positive,
263
Conditio humana,
151, 177, 226
Condorcet, Marquis de, 152, 179, 191,
299, 303
Confucius and Confucianism, 102, 135
Conjuration of the West, 166
Conscience, 312
Consentement coutumier,
126
Constantine, 154, 168, 169, 172
Constantine IV Pogonatus, 173
Constantinople, 181-82, 181n11
Consuetudo Romae,
181
Contra Celsum
(Origen), 170
Contract theory, 54, 111, 236
Corpus, 46, 47
Corpus mysticum,
8, 45-46, 54, 64, 122,
123, 236
Cosmion, 112, 129, 131, 220
Cosmological truth, 13, 149
Cosmopolis, 161-62, 216
Cours de Philosophie Positive
(Comte),
263
Creation of humans, 262—63
Creation story of Egyptians,
37-39
Creative minority, 128
Critias
(Plato), 140
Dahl, Robert
A.,
2
D'Alembert, Jean
Le
Rond, 186, 201
Danaus, 144
Daniel, 177
Dante, Alighieri, 23,
28,
42-43, 46, 50,
52, 79, 191, 302
Darius I, 131-32
Dasein
(historical existence), 275
Death: as evil, 236; fear of, 236, 306; of
God, 8-9, 195, 247-48, 278-89; and
Last Judgment, 259, 311-12; Thanatos
as, 140; in war, 48
Death of God movement, 8-9, 195,
247-48, 278-89
Deception.
See
Lies and deception
Decline of Western civilization, 192-93
De-divinization, 104, 174, 175-77, 187,
189, 220
Definitions, 111-12
Defoe, Daniel, 5 7
Dekabrist revolt of 1825, 183
De laudibus legum Anglie
(Fortescue),
121
Delphic oracle, 44
Democracy, 118-20, 180, 232, 241, 259,
304
De Monarchia
(Dante), 42-43
Demonism, 99, 100-102, 151, 193,
225.
See also
Satan and "Satanic"
challenge
Demos
(political people), 5
Dempf, Alois, 73
De mundo,
170, 171n78
De
natura
deorum
(Cicero), 159-60
Depth psychology, 63
De re publica
(Cicero), 160-61
Descartes, René, 230
Deutero-Isaiah, 147
Deux sources de la morale et de la
religion
(Bergson), 136
Diadochi and Diadochian empires, 161,
254
Dialectical materialism, 108n1,
134,
255
Dialectics of Enlightenment
(Horkheimer and Adorno), 4
Diderot, Denis, 186, 201
"Die Tat" (Schumann), 69
Dike (justice), 140, 145-46, 224, 237,
271
Diocletian, 167
Diogenes, 282, 284
Dionysius Areopagita, 192, 201
Disease as nature of man, 239
Disenchantment
(Entzauberung),
104
Distentio
(dispersion of existence), 31
Divertissement,
193
Divinitas,
168
Dominic, 51
Dominium
politicum et regale
(constitutional government), 121
Dostoevski, Fyodor, 180, 183
Do-ut-des
principle, 155-56, 168
Doxa,
95, 97, 111, 152, 257, 260, 278
Drama, 147
Drame
de 1'humanisme athée
(Lubac),
247, 253
Dream world of Gnosticism, 224-27,
229
Dritte Reich
(Moeller van den Bruck),
180, 180n10
Durchsichselbstsein
(being-of-itself),
262, 279
Dux, 51, 179, 302-3
Dux
e Babylone,
178, 301, 303
Ecclesia,
8, 44-50, 54-59, 70
Ecclesiastical Polity
(Hooker), 197-98
"Economic and Philosophical
Manuscripts" (Marx), 262-65
Ecumenic Age
(Voegelin), 14, 16
Edict of Galerius, 168
Edict of Licinius, 168
Egypt: Akhenaton sun cult of, 37-41,
43-44, 56, 66-67; and empire as
cosmic analogue, 131; Osiris cult in,
state religion of, 34-41; universal
of, 215; world empire of, 36
Eichmann
in
Jerusalem
(Arendt), 7
Eichmann trial, 7
Eidos
(form) of history, 185-87, 224
Einführung in die
Metaphysik
(Heidegger), 275
Elagabalus, 167
Elect, 199
Elections, 113
Eleusis mystery cult, 154
Élites, 52
Elpis
(hope), 276
Emeth
(truth), 280, 281
Emotions, 30-31.
See also
Passions
Empires: as cosmic analogue, 130-35;
on emperor, 46; Joachim of
on, 50-51; Mongol empire,
132-35, 156; Parthian Empire, 254;
on, 55; Persian Empire, 254;
Sassanian Empire, 254; in seventh
century before Christ, 253-54.
See
Rome and Roman Empire
Encyclopédie
française,
201
Engels, Friedrich, 52, 208, 304
England: beginning of, 124;
consolidation of national state
182; democracy of, 241; Ferrers'
in, 119; Fortescue on, 121,
124; and Magna Carta, 118;
monarchy in, 118-19; Parliament in,
209; Puritan crisis in, 204-12,
240, 241; Reformation in, 190;
representation in, 113, 118-19, 121;
revolution in seventeenth century,
See also
Puritanism
Enlightenment: and American
Revolution, 241; Frankfurt School
4; and heresy, 251; on human
nature, 71; and immanentism, 189;
perfectibility of human reason,
as representative of new truth,
Voegelin's critique of, 11, 13
Entgöttlichung
(de-divinization), 104
Entzauberung
(disenchantment), 104
Epekeina,
259
Ephesians, Epistle to, 54
Episteme,
10, 97, 103, 111 277
Episteme politike
(political science),
110, 257-61
Epistles of Paul, 45, 54
Epula sacra,
157
Equality in United States, 46-47
Eros,
140, 259, 276
"Ersatz Religion" (Voegelin), 247,
295-313
Eruption, 121-22
Eschatology, 48, 110, 172, 176, 177, 180,
183-85, 193, 205-6, 223
Eschaton, 234, 240-41
Essentia,
262
Ethics, 99, 110, 139, 226, 234-35
Ethics
(Aristotle), no
"Ethics of intention," 100
"Ethics of responsibility," 99, 100
Euripides, 146-47
Eusebius of Caesarea, 171-73
Evangelium aeternum,
51, 201
Eve, 194, 270
Evil: death as, 236; different views of,
61; gnostic view of, 254-55; nature of,
9, 7, 24, 25; reality of, 71, 299-300;
root of, in "religousness," 6, 24; and
schism within ecclesia, 47
Existence of political society, 127
Existentialism, 99
Existential sense of representation,
116-17, 126, 127-28, 130, 147, 197,
213
Exodus, Book of, 310-11
Ex populo erumpit regnum,
121
Fabulous theology, 153
Facts, 94-95
Fairfax, Lord, 208-10
Faith, 63, 67-69, 71, 187-89, 187n24,
216, 255, 276, 309-13
Fascism, 5, 52, 65-67, 191, 252, 295
Faust
(Goethe), 303
Ferrers' case, 119
Feudalism, 49, 123, 191
Feuerbach, Ludwig, 190, 285
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 61, 180
Fides
(loyalty), 163, 164
Fides caritate formata,
151
Filofei of Pskov, 181
Fitzpatrick, William J., 248
Flavians, 166
Fondateur de
la
religion de 1'humanité,
96
Formal versus scientific analysis,
258-59
Forma securitatis,
118
Fortescue, Sir John, 121-24, 127, 236
Fortuna secunda
et
adversa,
224
Fourth Monarchy, 177
France: civil wars in, 212; consolidation
national state of, 182; demise
Third Republic in, 125-26; and
Mongols, 132; and positivism, 61;
representation in, 113; revolution in,
Third Republic of, 46; tyranny of
Louis XI in, 121
Franciscan spiritualists, 51, 179
Francis of Assisi, 51, 179, 302
Frankfurt, mystic of, 71
Frankfurt School, 4, 16
Frederick II, Emperor, 49-50
Freemasonry, 52
French Revolution, 46
"Friendship" (Schiller), 289
Frohliche Wissenschaft
(Nietzsche),
282-84
Führer
(leader), 51, 65-69
Führertum,
59
Fundamentalism, 204
Future,
2
Gagarin, Grigorii G., 183
Galerius, 168
Geisteswissenschaften
(humanities), 10
Geistig,
55
Genera
(kinds), 153
Genera theologiae,
214
Generatio aequivoca
(spontaneous
generation), 262
Genetische Entwicklung der
vornehmsten gnostischen Systeme
(Neander), 251
Genghis Khan, 134
Genossenschaftsrecht
(Gierke), 95
Gens
(people), 55
Gepids, 125
Germanic migrations, 54
German idealism, 251, 271n25
German Theology,
71, 71n6
Germany: Bismarck Reich in, 180, 259;
demilitarization of, 228; idealism
in, 251, 271n25; revolution in, 241;
Romanticism in, 65; Thirty Years'
War in, 212.
See also
Hitler, Adolf;
National Socialism
Gesinnungsethik
("ethics of
intention"), 100
Geworfenheit
(flungness), 255
Gierke, Otto Friedrich von, 95
Gilson, Etienne,152n7
Gladstone, William, 259
Glaube
(belief), 67-69
Glimpse of Sion's Glory,
206-8
Gnosis (knowledge), 188-92, 254-56,
265, 268-69, 272-73, 291, 296, 298,
311.
See also
Gnosticism
Gnosis
(Leisegang), 253
Gnosis als Weltreligion
(Quispel), 253
Gnosis und spädtantiker Geist
(Jonas),
247,253
Gnosticism: and advent-recession
cycle, 221-22; and apocalypse, 14;
building of civilization, 193-94;
Camus's interest in, 3; "cause" and
movement, 198-200; characteristics
254-56, 297-98; and Christianity,
188-92, 188-89n25, 221; as civil
theology, 221, 223; and codification
gnostic truth, 200-202; and
communism, 229-33; continuity
ancient to modern Gnosticism,
16, 189, 190, 247, 296-97; dangers
as civil theology, 221-29; and death
God movement, 8-9, 195, 247-48,
278-89; definition of gnostic mass
movements, 295-96; and disregard
principles of existence, 223-24;
world created by, 224-27,
in early Christianity, 190-91;
future dynamics of Western
civilization, 222-23; of German
master thinkers, 3, 13-14; and God,
207, 255, 266-71; and "God is
movement, 195, 247-48; and
Hobbes, 218-19, 233-34; immortality
fame and holes of oblivion, 194;
intellectual swindle, 264-65, 268,
274-75, 280; and modernity,
186-98, 240-41; origins of, 192,
253-54, 296-97; and parousiasm,
276-78; and perfection, 298-300,
304-5, 309; and pneumopathology,
225-27; and prohibition of theoretical
argument and questions, 203-4,
261-65, 267, 273-75, 278,
prophet of, 179; psychology
308-13; and Puritanism, 197-
219;
and re-divinization, 189; and
repression of truth of soul, 221,
222, 223; resistance against, 222-23,
240-41, 248; results produced by,
276-77; revolutionary nature of,
197, 204-12, 231—32; scholarly work
on, 247, 251-53; and scientism,
191-92; and scriptural camouflage,
200-201; self-defeating factor of,
223-229; and self-divinization, 190;
and self-interpretation principle,
225; symbols of, 298-313; taboo on
instruments of critique of, 202-4;
and transfigured world, 207-8, 211;
types of, 189-90; and uncertainty of
Christianity, 187-88, 193; Voegelin's
fading interest in, 15-16; Voegelin's
indictment of modern Gnosticism,
13; and warfare, 210-11, 227-30; and
Western national revolutions, 241;
and will to power, 15, 265-68, 280,
309
"Gnostische Politik" (Voegelin), 3
Gobineau, Joseph-Arthur de, 61
God: Aristotle on, 143, 150, 170;
Augustine on, 158-59; Bodin on, 43;
Celsus on, 169; death or murder of,
8-9, 195, 247, 278-89; in Egyptian
religion, 34-41, 56; Feuerbach on,
190; gnostics' view of, 189, 207,
255, 266-71; Hegel on, 286-91, 308;
Hobbes on, 212; idea of, 32; Ignatius
of
Loyola on, 63-64; and inner-worldly
community, 64; as invisible behind
world, 60; and Israelites, 56, 71, 310-
ii; and Leviathan, 53, 55, 56-57, 64,
237; Marx on, 190, 284-86; Mongol
Order of, 133-34, 156; Nietzsche on,
193, 195, 248, 278-79, 282-84; "order
of God," 59; and paramount reality
(realissimum), 32; Plato on, 142-43,
272; as projection, 285, 303; Puritans
on, 207; relationship between humans
and, 150-51; Romans on Christian
God, 168; and sacral hierarchy,
38-39, 41, 42-52, 54, 56, 70; soul's
relation to, 31, 141-42, 215, 259, 276;
Summus Deus
of Romans, 167-68,
170; as Trinity, 50, 173,
173n92,
178,
301; universal God, 215; Xenophanes
on, 142-43.
See also
Monotheism;
Polytheism
"Godded man," 190,190n28, 303
"God is dead" movement, 8-9, 195,
247-48, 278-89
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 303
Golem legends, 279—82
Gorgias
(Plato), 140, 311-12
Gospels.
See
Bible
Goths, 125
Governance of England
(Fortescue),
124
Governmental authority, 205
Grace, 150, 151, 177, 180, 185, 188, 237
Gratianus, 155
Great Britain.
See
England
Great Migration, 123-24
Greeff, Etienne de, 72
Greek philosophy: and anthropological
truth, 149-50; Cicero on, 161-62, 170;
compared with Christianity, 45, 107;
flourishing of, 260; histories of, 95;
polis, 11, 12, 13, 44, 49, 54, 110,
136-37, 144, 185, 216, 217, 224, 254,
and Roman thinkers, 160-62;
theory of human existence in
society, 151-52; and Weber, 103.
See
Athenian politics; specific Greek
philosophers
Gregory of Nazianzus, 173
Ground of the world
(Weltgrund),
32
Happiness, 235
Hartmann, Nicolai, 108n1
Hate, 63, 71
Hauptprobleme der Gnosis
(Bousset),
253
Hauriou, Maurice, 126, 128
Hebrews, Epistle to, 45, 187, 187n24,
309, 311
Hegel, G. W. F.: on alienation, 255;
Baur on, 251; and dialectic of three
stages of freedom and self-reflective
spiritual fulfillment, 179; as gnostic,
3, 13, 189, 247, 248, 272-74; on
God and death of God, 286-91, 308;
on history, 288-92, 302, 305, 308;
on humans, 64; importance of, 11;
Johannine Christianity of, 180; on
law and history, 89; and Marx, 272;
on order of being, 286-87; on people
and state, 29, 30; on philosophy,
272-74, 290; and philosophy of world
history, 290-92, 308; and prohibition
of questions, 273-74
—
Works: Phänomenologie, 272, 286-
90
Philosophische Weltgeschichte,
290-92
Heidegger, Martin, 3, 13, 247, 255,
275-76
Heimarmene,
270, 271
Henkel, Michael, 8
Henry VIII, 119
Heraclitus, 109, 135, 140, 142, 145, 272
Heresy, 217, 251
Hermes, 270
Herules, 125
Hesiod, 160, 270, 300
Hierarchy: of Akhenaton sun cult,
38-39, 41, 42, 43-44, 56, 66-67; and
apocalypse, 50-52; Bodin on, 43, 44;
of ecclesia, 44-47, 54; God and sacral
hierarchy, 38-39, 41, 42-52, 54, 56,
70; and Leviathan, 55-57, 64, 65-66;
order of being, 31-32, 70, 255, 258,
259, 261, 262; of Parliament, 118;
of ruler and subjects, 42; spiritual
and temporal schism within ecclesia,
47-50
Hinduism, 102, 223
Histoire critique du Gnosticisme
(Matter), 251
Histoire universelle
(Bossuet), 177-78
"Historical materialism," 102
Historical mission, 5 9
Historiography, 196
History: Aristotle on, 184; Augustine
47-48, 159, 177, 184-85, 300-301,
Bossuet on, 177-78; cause and
effect in, 226; Comte on, 61, 104,
180, 296, 301-2; cycles of, 184;
of, 185-87, 224; eschatological
interpretation of, 223-24; Hegel on,
288-92, 302, 305, 308; Heidegger
275; and Hobbes's everlasting
constitution, 218; immanentization
meaning of, 185-87; Jaspers's axis
of, 136; Jewish-Christian idea
end of, 184; Joachim of Fiore on,
50-51, 178-80, 184-85, 191, 300-304,
308; Marxist theory of, 52, 61, 111;
Paul on, 50; periodization of Western
history, 196-97; philosophy of, and
political theory, 88-89; Plato on, 184;
of political ideas, 95; profane versus
sacred history, 184; progressivist
interpretation of, 186; race theorists
on, 61; substance of, 151; Toynbee on,
11; Voltaire on, 178; Weber on, 104,
105
History of Political Ideas
(Voegelin), 9,
11, 14-15
History of the Lombards
(Paulus
Diaconus), 124-25
Hitler, Adolf, 7, 9, 15, 180, 189, 302
Hobbes, Thomas: on authority, 213; on
Bible, 217, 240; on Catholic Church,
57, 61; on Christianity, 213-14,
217; and Gnosticism, 218-19,
233-34; on God, 212; history and
everlasting constitution of, 218; on
nature, 234-38;
Leviathan
of,
53-58, 53n5, 64, 65-66, 212, 27, 237,
239-40, 305, 306-8; on order, 217-18,
253; on person, 236-37; on
Puritans, 234, 307; on reason, 212; on
representation, 212-15, 217-19, 233,
236-38; on rulers, 218; symbolism of,
238-40
Hoffmeister, Johannes, 290
"Holes of oblivion," 194
Holocaust, 264
Holy Spirit, 51, 52, 176, 178, 199, 301,
302
Homer, 160, 171
Homines novi,
179, 302
Homines politici,
99
Homines spirituales,
179
Homme révolté
(Camus), 247, 253
Homonoia
(spiritual agreement
between)
150, 235
Homo novus,
285
Homo-ousios,
169
Hooker, Richard, 76, 197-205, 225
Horkheimer, Max, 4
Horus, 34, 35
Höss, Rudolf, 264
Human agency, 4-5
Humanism, 189, 191, 193, 197
Humanitarianism, 24
Humans: aggressiveness of, 63;
Aristotle on mature man, 138-39;
brotherhood of
autonomous persons,
179-80;
collective person, 64; disease
as
nature of man, 239; emotions of,
30-31; Enlightenment on, 71; gnostic
of, 254-56; happiness of, 235;
on, 64; Heidegger on, 255;
Hobbes on, 234-38; Marx on, 262-63;
mystic of Frankfurt on, 71; natural
existence of, 30; Pascal on, 238-39;
passions of, 234-36, 237, 239, 306-7;
perfectibility of, 51-52, 60-61, 186,
298-300, 304-6; relationship between
and, 150-51; relationship
state, 28-30; suffering of, 33;
supermen, 152, 179, 190, 284,
303; universal community of
mankind, 215.
See also
People
Hundred Years' War, 121, 123
Husserl, Edmund, 96, 296
Hypostasis, 110
Idealism, 229, 251, 271n25
Ideals, 300
Ideal types, 98, 99
Idée directrice,
126
"Ideen zu einer Geschichte in
weltbürgerlicher Absicht" (Kant),
60-61
Ideology, 111,260
Ignatius of Loyola, 63-64
Immanentism and immanentization:
activist immanentization, 186, 231,
axiological immanentization,
231, 299-300; and communism,
232-33; and dream world of
Gnosticism, 226; and Enlightenment,
of eschaton, 234, 240-41;
Fortescue's
intencio populi,
and Gnosticism, 188-92, 197,
226, 231-34, 305-8; Hobbes
radical immanence in modern
politics, 238-41; and Joachim of
on meaning of history, 185-87;
Marxist movement, 110; and
parousiasm, 276-77; and perfection,
and secularization, 185, 190;
symbols of, 189, 305; ideological
immanentization, 186, 231,
199;
types of, 231, 299-300
Immigration, 47
Immortality, 61, 194
Imperator felix,
157
Imperium mundi,
157
Imperium Romanum,
162,
169
Imperium sine fine,
177
India, 135
Inimicitiae
(feuds), 163, 165
Innerweltliche Religionen
(inner-
worldly religions), 33
Inner-worldly community: and
apocalypse, 8-9, 50-52; apocalypse
60-61; and belief
(Glaube),
67-69;
collective body, 64, 71; and
comrades of the people, 65, 66;
corpus
mysticum
of, 64;
definition of, 33;
faith, 63; and myth, 62-63, 64;
inner-worldliness, 59-64; and
perfection of spiritual being, 51-52;
prerequisite for formation of, 54; and
science, 60, 61-62; symbols of, 62,
64-67.
See also
Fascism; National
Socialism
Innocent IV, Pope, 132-34
Inquisition, 217
Institutes
(Calvin), 200-201, 211
Intellectual swindle, 264-65, 268, 270,
274-75, 280
Intencio populi,
122-23, 127
Intentio,
31
Intramundane phenomenon, 185,
193-94
Irenaeus, 190-91, 256
Irrelevant facts, 94-95
Isaiah, Book of, 206-7
Isidorus, 125
Isis mystery cult, 154
Islam, 103, 191, 204, 223, 296, 312-13
Israel, 56, 64, 103, 135, 254.
See also
Jews
Italy, 52, 65.
See also
Rome and Roman
Empire
Ivan III (the Great), 181, 182
Ivan IV (the Terrible), 181, 182, 183
Jackson, Robert H., 205
Jaeger, Werner, 152n7
Jainism, 103
James, William, 72, 247
Japan, 160, 228
Jaspers, Karl, 3, 136, 151
Jenseits von Gut und Böse
(Nietzsche),
265
Jeremiah, 281-82
Jesus.
See
Christ
Jews: and Cabbala, 279-82; chiliasm of,
177; as chosen people, 171, 71n82;
as "counter race," 61; and faith,
310-11; and Gnosis, 191; and Hebrew
apocalyptic, 254; history of, 56,
57, 64, 124, 135, 254, 310-11; and
Holocaust, 264; king of Israelites, 56,
142; messianic movement of, 175;
monotheism of, 171, 177; theocracy
of, 56; Weber on Judaism, 103
Joachim of Fiore: and Beyond, 60; on
history, 50-51, 178-80, 184-85, 191,
300-304, 308; koran of, 201; symbols
of, 178-80, 183, 192, 238, 300-304
Job, Book of, 53n5
John, Gospel of, 61
John, Saint, 176, 190, 199, 205
John of Salisbury, 238, 238n23
John the Baptist, 51, 303
Jonas, Hans, 16, 247, 253, 254n2
Judaism.
See
Jews
Julian dynasty, 166
Jünger, Ernst, 48
Justinian, 181
Justitia, 49-50
Kalon
(the beautiful), 140, 259
Kant, Immanuel, 60-61, 64, 299
Kantorowicz, Ernst, 73
Kelsen, Hans, 2
Kephale,
54
Kerwin, Jerome G., 79
Khomyakov, Aleksey, 183
Kings.
See
Monarchy; specific kings
Knowledge.
See
Gnosis (knowledge)
Kohelet, 223-24
Koinon,
145
Korans,
201-2
Kreatürlich
(creaturely or natural
existence of humans), 30-31
Kreatürlichen Verlassenheit
(creaturely
or natural abandonment), 67
Kritik der Hegelschen Rechts-
philosophie
(Marx), 284-86
Kuyuk Khan, 132-34
Lactantius, 154n14, 168
Lagarde, Georges de, 73
Lao-tse, 135
La Rochefoucauld, Francois
de, 239
Last Judgment, 259, 311-12
Law, 50, 89, 126, 212-13
Laws
(Plato), 216
Leaders: Joachim of Fiore on, 179,
302-3.
See also
Monarchy; Rulers
Leisegang, Hans, 253
Lenin, V. I., 208, 210, 229-30, 252, 304
Leninism, 202
Leviathan, 53-58, 53n5, 64, 65-66, 212,
217, 237, 239-40, 305, 306-8
Lex mosaica,
50
Lex
naturalis,
50
Liberalism, 189, 193, 229-30
Libido,
239
Libido dominandi,
234, 265-67, 274,
307
Licinius, 167-68
Liebe zum Wissen
(love of knowledge),
272
"Lieder vom Reich," 67-69
Lies and deception, 131-32, 137-38,
143, 267-68.
See also
Truth
Lincoln, Abraham, 119-20
Logique du coeur,
233
Logos, 42, 92, 122, 140, 145, 150, 172,
177, 215-16, 222, 237, 308
Lombards, 124-25
Lord's Supper, 45
Louis XI, 121
Louis XIV, 43
Low Countries, 113
Lubac, Henri de, 247, 253
Machiavelli, Niccolo, 179, 226
Magna Carta, 118
Magnum latrocinium,
47
Maimonides, 42
Mangu Khan, 134
Manichaeism, 254
Mankind.
See
Humans;
People
Mann, Thomas, 1,
6
Mannheim, Karl,
111
Marcus Aurelius, 108n1, 271
Marx, Karl: and activist mysticism,
on dialectic of three stages
communism, 179; doctoral
dissertation of, 269, 269n18; as
Gnostic, 3, 13, 14, 189, 247, 262,
274-75, 279; on God and religion,
284-86; and Hegel, 272; on
history, 61; on human nature, 262;
intellectual swindler, 264-65,
274-75, 280; koran of, 202;
leader, 304; and metaphysical
questions, 106, 107; on nature, 262;
philosophy of history of, 52; and
prohibition of questions, 262-65, 267,
274-75, 278, 280; and proletariat,
on Prometheus symbol, 269-70;
revolt against God, 268-71; on
"socialist man," 263, 264, 274, 280;
superman of, 152, 179, 190, 285, 300,
on transfigured society, 208; on
"withering away of the state," 180;
world-historical speculation of, 180.
See also
Communism; Marxism
—Works: "Economic and
Philosophical
Manuscripts," 262-65;
Kritik der
Hegelschen
Rechtsphilosophie,
284-86
Marxism, 101, 102, 110-11, 134, 179,
186, 189, 222, 240, 247, 252, 295.
See also
Communism; Marx, Karl
Materialhuberei,
94
Mathematizing sciences, 90
Matter, Jacques, 251
Maximilian I, 182
Maximilian II, 182
Maximinus Daza, 167, 168
Maximus, 155
Means and ends in politics, 226
Melian dialogue, 147
Mendicant orders, 51
Merchants, 119
Merkur,
3
Messianism, 175, 183
Metaphysical monotheism, 170-71, 177
Metaphysics, 60, 61, 91, 92, 103-7
Metaphysics
(Aristotle), 170, 171
Meth
(dead), 280
"
Methodenstreit"
in social sciences, 10, 12
Methodology, 10, 90-97, 101, 104
Methodos,
92
Micah, Book of, 172
Middle Ages, 95, 177, 188, 191, 231,
276-77, 297, 301
Migration kingdoms, 123-24
Mill, John Stuart, 231, 296
Millennium and millennial prophecy,
180, 301
Milton, John, 194
Minority.
See
Creative minority
Minucius Felix, 153-54n14
Mithra mystery cult, 154
Modernity: definition of, 196; end
of, 220-41; German version
of, 4; and Gnosticism, 2, 186-
98, 240-41; as juggernaut of
spiritual disenchantment, 7; and re-
divinization, 175; and secularization
of world, 7
Moeller van den Bruck, Arthur, 180,
180n10
Monadism of imperial truth, 134-35
Monarchy: authority for, 42-43; Bodin
43, 44; Dante on, 42-43; Egyptian
kings, 34-41; in England, 118-19;
feudal conception of king, 123;
German tribal kings, 54, 124-25; of
Israelites, 56, 124; kings and empire
cosmic analogue, 131-32; of
Lombards, 124-25; papal supremacy
kings, 46; Philo of Alexandria
42; sacral hierarchy and kings,
42-44, 70; and
sacrum
imperium,
45;
Thomas Aquinas on, 123.
See also
Leaders; Rulers
Monasticism, 51, 178, 180, 191, 304
Mongol empire, 132-35, 156
Monks.
See
Monasticism
Monotheism, 40-41, 168, 170-73, 177
Moralistes,
239
More, Sir Thomas, 186, 299, 305-6, 307
Moscow: as the Third Rome, 180-83.
See also
Russia
Moses, 56, 311
Mosheim, Johann Lorenz von, 251
Motivation, psychology of, 239
Murder of God, 8-9, 195, 247-48,
278-89
Musil, Robert, 269
Mussolini, Benito, 9, 65, 302
Mystery cults, 40, 44, 45, 154, 254
Mystical Body of Christ, 45-46, 54, 122,
123
Mystic philosophers, 71, 73, 141, 148,
150-51, 215
Mystics, 190
Mystique humaine,
71
Mystiques politiques,
252
Myth: and inner-worldly community,
62-63, 64; of Troy, 124, 146;
truth of,
141
Mythical theology, 153
Napoleon, 61, 182
Napoleonic Wars, 183
National Socialism: and Auschwitz
extermination camp, 264; Austrian
version of, 6; condemnation of, 6,
23-24; conflicts with Christianity,
development of, and confused
of science, 252; and Führer,
65-69; Mann's criticism of Voegelin
concerning, 1, 6; as political religion
generally, 4, 6, 8-9, 17, 23-25, 295;
of, 228; as "satanic," 6, 7, 24;
Schumann's "Lieder vom Reich,"
67-69; and secularization thesis, 8;
success of, 232; suppression of debate
on race question by, 240; and Third
Realm, 179, 180; and
Volk,
5
Natur
(nature), 31
Natural law, 50, 212-13
Natural person, 236-37
Natural sciences.
See
Science
Natural theology, 153
Nature, 262-63, 279
Naturwissenschaften
(natural
sciences),
10
Nazism.
See
National Socialism
Neander, Johann August, 251
Neo-Kantian logic, 95
Neopaganism, 175, 190, 221, 252,
295-96
Neopositivism, 108n1, 252
Neo-Thomists, 108n1
New Covenant, 56, 57
New Jerusalem, 206
New Science, 2
New Science of Politics
(Voegelin):
availability of, in Germany in 1990s,
17; foreword to, 79; German ambience
of, 4-5; historical formations
discussed in, 11-12; reviews of and
reactions to, 2-3, 11; significance of
title of, 90; text of, 88-241; themes of,
1-2, 4-6, 10-13, 14, 15, 253
New Testament.
See
Bible
Newtonian physics, 93
Nicholas, Henry, 190n28
Nicholas I, 232, 296
Niebuhr, H. Richard, 151n5
Nietzsche, Friedrich: and deception,
265-68; on demonic diversion, 193;
Gnostic, 3, 13, 247, 248, 265-68,
on God and death of God, 193,
248, 278-79, 282-84; psychology
239; and self-salvation, 230;
superman of, 152, 284, 285, 303;
compared with, 105; on will to
power, 265-68
—Works:
Fröhliche Wissenschaft,
282-84;
Jenseits von Gut und Böse,
"Night Song," 266, 267;
Thus
Spoke Zarathustra,
266, 279
"Night Song" (Nietzsche), 266, 267
Nihilism, 152, 204-5
Noetic self, 140, 150.
See also
Nous
Nomos,
145, 153, 170, 172, 255
Nosema
(disease), 269
Nosema tes adikias
(sickness of
injustice), 269
Nosos
(madness), 269
92, 150, 215, 235.
See also
Noetic
self
Numa, 159
Numbers.
See
Sacred numbers; Trinity
Oakeshott, Michael, 11, 11n33
Objectivity, 96-105
Octavianus, 163, 164, 165-66
Old Covenant, 54, 56
Old Testament.
See
Bible
On the Form of the American Mind
(Voegelin), 12
On the Letter Omega
(Zosimos), 270-71
Ontology, 96, 106, 107, 255-56, 258,
275
Opitz, Peter J., 17
Oprichnina,
182, 183
Orbis
terrarum,
162, 225
Order: of being, 31-32, 70, 224, 255, 258,
261, 262, 286-87, 297-98; of God,
and governmental authority, 205;
history, 59; Hobbes on, 217-18,
236; of society as representative
cosmic order, 130-35, 224-25; and
summum
bonum,
235; true order of
137-38.
See also
Hierarchy
Order and History
(Voegelin), 2, 9, 11
Organic analogy, 121-23
Organic truth, 62-63
Orient, 11, 120
Orientation psychology, 239
Origen, 170
Original sin, 305-6
Origins of Totalitarianism
(Arendt), 2,
15
Osiris cult, 40
Paganism: Akhenaton sun cult in
Egypt, 37-41, 42, 43-44, 56, 66-67;
Gnosis, 191; incompatibility of
Christianity and, 169; and mystery
cults, 40, 44, 45, 154, 254; of Roman
Empire, 154-60, 166-70, 214, 215;
superiority of Christianity over,
152n7, 214.
See also
Neopaganism;
Polytheism; specific gods
Palestine, 57
Pandora, 271
Paracletes, 179, 189, 190, 302-3
Paradise, 194
Paralysis of Western nations, 232-33
Parliament of Britain, 118
Parmenides, 140
Parousia
(being as presence), 176, 275,
276
Parousiasm, 276-78
Parthian Empire, 254
Pascal, Blaise, 193, 238-39
Passions, 234-36, 237, 239, 306-7.
See Also
Emotions
Patres, 215, 216
Patronate, 162-65
Paul, Saint, 45, 46, 51, 54, 55, 190, 297,
302
Paulus Diaconus, 124-25
Pax Romana,
172, 173
Peace, 227-30
Pecherin (Pecerin), Vladimir, 183
Peitho,
145, 147, 260
Pelasgus, 144-45
Peloponnesian War, 146
Pentecost, 176
People: Augustine on, 121; Hobbes
the person, 236-37; and
intencio
populi,
122-23, 127; symbol of,
118-20, 127.
See also
Humans
Perfectibilitas,
52
Perfection, 51-52, 60-61, 186, 298-300,
304-6, 309
Periagoge,
143, 265, 267
Pericles, 259
Periodization of Western history,
196-97
Persecutions of Christians, 168, 169,
176
Persia and Persian Empire, 131, 135,
254
Persona,
237
Persons.
See
Humans; People
Persuasion, 146, 147, 199, 200, 204
Peter, Saint, 302
Peter the Great, 183
Petrarch, 191
Phaedrus
(Plato), 272-73
Phänomenologie
(Hegel), 272, 286-90
Philia,
140, 259, 276
Philia
politike
(political friendship), 150
Philo Judaeus, 170, 171
Philo of Alexandria, 42
Philosophia,
272-73
Philosophical anthropology, 97, 100,
239
Philosophical schools, 147
Philosophische Weltgeschichte
(Hegel),
290-92
Philosophos,
272
Philosophy: Cicero on, 161-62, 170;
on, 271-74, 290; Hegel's
philosophy of world history, 290-92,
and love of being, 273; mystic
philosophers, 71, 73, 141, 148,150-51,
questions of philosopher, 258;
tragedy to, 147; truth of Rome
versus truth of, 160-62; of Zosimos,
271
See also
specific philosophers
Phronesis
(wisdom), 259
Physical theology, 153
Physics, 93
Physique sociale,
93
Physis,
153
Pilgrim's progress, 298
Pistis
(faith), 276
Plato: on
Agathon,
92; analytical
process of, 258-59; anthropological
principle of, 136-38, 141-42, 143;
Aristotle compared with, 139; and
Parable, 143; compared with
Christian Age, 45; on contract symbol,
Dike
of, 140; on
doxa,
95, 111
on dying and philosophical man,
on
epekeina,
259; and
episteme,
Eros
of, 140; Gnostics on, 226;
God, 272; on history, 184; on Last
Judgment, 311-12; on
nosema tes
adikias
(sickness of injustice), 269;
peitho,
260; on
periagoge,
265,
and philosophical schools, 147;
philosophy, 258, 272, 276; on Polis
the Idea, 137; politics of, 11, 88,
103, 137, 144, 161, 185, 216, 217,
220,157, 259; on "serious play," 256;
soul, 137-38, 150, 216, 239; on
Thanatos, 140; theological principle
142-43; on
typoi peri theologias,
153; on
via
negativa,
140
—Works:
Critias,
140;
Gorgias,
140,
311-12;
Laws,
216;
Phaedrus,
272-
Republic,
91, 137, 143, 216;
Symposium,
140;
Timaeus,
140, 171
Pleasure-pain psychology, 239
Plebiscite, 66
Pleroma
(fullness), 45
Plotinus, 42
Pneuma
(spirit), 45, 46, 47, 54, 255-56
Pneumopathology, 225-27, 239, 269,
306
Policraticus
(John of Salisbury), 238
Polis,
11, 12, 13, 44, 49, 54, 110, 136-37,
185, 216, 217, 224, 254, 260
Polites
(citizen), 254
Political religions: Akhenaton sun
of Egyptians, 37-41, 42, 43-44,
66-67; and apocalypse, 50-52;
conclusions on, 70-72; and ecclesia,
44-50; Egyptian state religion, 34-41;
Frederick II, 49-50; and French
Revolution, 46; of Greek polis, 49;
and hierarchy, 38-39, 41, 42-52;
inner-worldly community, 8-9,
50-52, 59-69; and Leviathan, 53-58,
53n5, 64, 65-66; National Socialism
as generally, 4, 6, 8-9, 17, 23-25;
problem of, 27-33;
of
Roman Empire,
154-74; spiritual and temporal
schism within ecclesia, 47-50.
See also
Communism; Fascism;
Gnosticism; National Socialism
Political Religions
(Voegelin):
availability of, in Germany in
1990s, 17; German ambience of, 4, 5;
preface for, 1, 15, 23-25; publication
1, 23; sources of, 72-73; text of,
27-71; themes of, 4, 7-9, 252
Political science: analytical method
258-60; anthropological
presuppositions in, 260-61; classical
foundation of, 257; decline of,
definitions in, 111-12; and
objectivity, 96-105; and philosophy of
history, 88-89; and positivism, 90-98;
representation and existence,
109-28; restoration of, 88-90,
105-8; retheoretization in, 90; and
self-interpretation of society, 109-10;
subject matter of, 257-58; symbols of,
110-111; theory in, 88-89; Voegelin's
of, 10-11; and Weber, 98-105.
See also
Political theory; specific
writers
Political society.
See
Society
Political theory, 88-89, 110-11, 113-14,
129-30.
See also
Political science
Politics
(Aristotle), 49, 110, 139
Politike episteme
(political science),
110, 257-61.
See also
Political science
Polybius, 162n47, 254
Polypragmosyne,
140
Polytheism, 40, 41, 168, 169-70, 175,
188, 216.
See also
Paganism
Pompeians and Pompey, 164, 165
Pontifex
Cotta, 159
Pontifex maximus,
154, 155, 163
Popes, 46, 50, 123, 132-34
Populus Christianus,
46
Poseidon, 146
Positivism: of Comte, 93, 96, 105,
152, 192, 194, 201, 264, 296;
and France, 61; and immanentist
eschatology, 189, 194; neopositivism,
108n1, 252; and political science,
2, 10, 12, 90-98; as variant of
Gnosticism, 189, 247, 295; and
Weber, 103-6; and Westernization,
222
Power, 126, 235
Praeparatio evangelica,
152n7
Prayer and Islam, 312-13
Précis de droit constitutionnel
(Hauriou), 126
Premerstein, Anton von, 162
Presbyterian covenantism, 211
Pride, 235-36
Priesthood, 34-41, 45, 178
Princeps, 162-66
Princeps civis,
159, 160, 162, 164
Princeps
philosophiae,
159
Princeps senatus,
163
Principate, 164-66
Principe,
179
Principes civitatis,
153, 162, 163
Profane history, 184
Progress: Comte on, 104; Condorcet
299; and death of spirit, 195;
history as intramundane
phenomenon, 185; immortality of
and holes of oblivion, 194; Kant
61, 299; as religion of nineteenth
century, 52, 61; and simultaneous
decline of Western civilization,
192-93.
See also
Progressivism
Progressivism, 186, 189, 193, 222, 229,
232, 247, 295, 299.
See also
Progress
Prohibition of theoretical argument
questions, 203-4, 240, 261-65,
273-75,
278, 280
Projection, 285, 303
Proletariat, 61, 183, 209, 300, 302
Prometheus, 269-71, 279
Prometheus
(Balthasar), 247, 253
Prometheus Bound
(Aeschylus),
146n40, 269-70
Propaganda, 63, 64, 163, 204, 227, 232,
260
Pro partibus suis,
166
Prophets: gnostic prophet, 179, 298,
303-4; of Israel, 135, 136, 281-82;
Joachim of Fiore on, 179, 303-4
Proruption: in Fortescue, 121
Prosopon,
237
Prostasia,
146
Protagoras, 142
Protestantism, 102, 197, 248.
See also
Reformation
Provincialism, 127-28
Prudentia,
226, 233
Przywara, Erich, 72
Psalms, 172, 173-74
Psephismata,
145
Pseudos,
138, 160
Pseudo-Sadia, 280
Psyche, 137-38, 141-43, 148, 149-50,
255-56.
See also
Soul
Psychoanalysis, 295-96
Psychologism, 96
Psychology: depth psychology, 63;
disoriented man, 239; English
psychology, 239; French psychology,
German psychology, 239; of
Gnosticism, 308-13; of Hobbes, 234,
"modern" psychology, 239; of
motivation, 239; of motivations, 92;
Nietzsche, 239; of orientation, 239;
Pascal, 238-39; of projection, 285,
of will to power, 265-68, 309
Puritanism: in America, 240; and
codification of gnostic truth, 200-
and ecclesia, 46; and Gnosticism,
197-219; Hobbes on, 234, 307;
Hooker's portrait of, 197-200, 225;
intellectual defects of gnostic
position, 200; nihilistic component of
204-5; and pilgrim's progress,
revolutionary nature of, 204-12;
saints, 180, 193, 206-10; and
scriptural camouflage, 200-201; taboo
instruments of critique of, 202-4;
transfigured world, 207-8
Pursuit of the Millennium
(Cohn), 253
Queries to Lord Fairfax,
208-10
Quispel, Gilles, 16, 253
Ra(Re), 35, 36
Race theories, 6o, 61
Radix
(root), 24
Rasse und Staat
(Voegelin), 2-3
Ratio,
98, 106, 260, 261
Ratio
aeterna,
92
"Rational action" types, 104
Rationalism: Hobbes on reason, 212;
Kant, 60-61; reinterpretation of,
105-7; and Weber, 104-6
"Reactionary" stigma, 233
Realia
(realities), 33
Realissimum
(paramount reality), 9, 29,
33, 64, 65, 67, 71
Reality: paramount reality
(realissimum),
9, 29, 32, 33, 64,
67, 71; "second reality" of Musil,
269
Realm, 118-19,121, 122; 178.
See also
Third Realm
Realperson,
95
Realpolitiker,
312
Reason.
See
Rationalism
Re-divinization, 174, 175, 178-83, 189
"Reference to a value"
(wertbeziehende
Methode),
101, 102, 103
Reformation, 56, 95, 179, 180, 182, 190,
200, 202, 238, 297, 302
Reich
(empire), 67-69
Relativism, 101
Religion: and agitations of naturalness,
30-31; classification of religious
experiences, 106; definition of, 27; as
"irrational," 105; Marx on, 284-86;
"opium for the people," 6o; and
paramount reality
{realissimum),
29, 32, 33; Roman civil (pagan)
religion, 154-60, 166-70, 214, 215;
form of, in Egypt, 34-41; and
symbols, 32; trans-worldly religions,
Varro on, 158-59; Weber on,
101-3.
See also
Christianity; Church;
Inner-worldly community; Political
religions; Theology
Religiones,
51
Religiös unmusikalisch
(soul not
attuned to divine), 104
"Religious renewal," 6, 24
Renaissance, 276-77, 297, 302
Representation: and Aeschylus'
Suppliants,
145-46; agent
distinguished from representative,
and Aristotelian procedure for
examination of symbols, 110-12, 114-
16, 129, 152-53, 192; and articulation
of society, 117-24, 127; constitutional
sense of, 112-16, 126; and democracy,
118-20; and disintegration of society,
112-13, 125-26; elemental type of,
112-16, 126, 127-28; and eruption
and proruption, in Fortescue, 121-22;
and existence of political society,
88, 109-28; existential sense of,
116-17, 126, 127-28, 130, 147, 197,
213; Fortescue on, 121-24; Hauriou
on, 126, 128; Hobbes on, 212-15,
217-19, 233, 236-38; insufficiency of
elemental concept of, 114-16; and
Lombards, 124-25; and myth of Troy,
124; relationship of representative
ruler to other members of society,
117-20; and representative suffering,
146, 146n40, 147; in Roman Empire,
154-74; in Russia, 182-83; society as
representative of cosmic order, 130-
35; in Soviet Union, 114-16; summary
on, 127-28, 147-48; symbols and
self-interpretation of society, 109-10;
and symbols of political science,
110-111; tragic representation, 144-46;
transcendental sense of, 147-48, 149,
213; and truth, 129-48; in Western
Europe and United States, 113-14,
115, 118-23, 127; and will of the
people, 116
Republic
(Plato), 91, 137, 143, 216
"Responsibility" in politics, 99
Res publica,
126
Retheoretization, 90
Revelation, 151, 151n5, 260, 311
Revelation, Book of, 51, 176, 205-6
Revolutionary activism, 186, 189,
204-12, 231, 241
Rex
(king), 55, 125
Rex erectus est,
121
Romanticism, 65, 239
Rome and Roman Empire: adaptation
institutions of republican Rome
162-66; and Altar of Victoria,
155-56, 157; Augustine on, 48, 154,
Christianity in,152n7, 154-59,
167-75, 177; and Cicero, 160-62; civil
(pagan) religion of, 154-60, 166-70,
214, 215; and divinization of emperor,
166; emperors of, as non-Roman,
166; expansion of Roman Empire,
254; fall of Rome in 410, 47, 48,
154, 157, 225; military command
in, 163-66; oath to princeps in,
165-66; patronate in, 162-65; and
pax
Romana,
172, 173;
pontifex maximus
as title of ruler of, 154, 155, 163;
and princeps, 162-66; principate in,
164-66; representation in, 154-74;
and Third Rome (Moscow), 180-83;
truth of, versus truth of philosophy,
160-62; wars of third century, 163-64
Romulus, 159
Rosenberg, Alfred, 62
Rückspannung
(focus on God), 31
Rulers: Ambrose on, 156-57; Augustine
157; and empire as cosmic
analogue, 131-32; Hauriou on, 126;
Hobbes on, 218, 237-38; and internal
organization of society for action,
116-17; relationship
of
representative
ruler to other members of society,
117-20; and theocracy, 56, 157.
See
also
Leaders; Monarchy
Russell, Bertrand, 108n1
Russia: czars of, 182-83; distinguished
from Western nations, 182-83; and
positivism, 296; representation in,
182-83; revolution of 1917, 183, 208,
230; suffering after war in, 33;
Moscow as Third Rome, 180-83;
Westernization of, 183.
See also
Communism; Soviet Union
Sacraments, 180
Sacred history, 184
Sacred numbers, 50-52
Sacrum imperium,
45, 48-49, 55
"Sage" versus "vulgar," 204
Saint-Simon, Claude-Henri de, 61, 296
Saints, 180, 193, 194, 206-10
Salvation, 194, 195, 255-56, 297
Samuel, Book of, 124
Sanctificatio,
298
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 99
Sassanian Empire, 254
Satan and "Satanic" challenge, 6, 7,
24, 25, 57-58,
59, 61, 71.
See also
Demonism
Saul, King, 57
Scandinavia, 113
Scheler, Max, 72
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Josef, 60,
180, 189, 251, 302, 306
Schiller, Friedrich, 289
Schimpfwort
(abusive word), 60
Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 251
Schmitt, Carl, 8
Scholasticism, 48-49, 5 5
Scholem, Gerschom, 280, 281-82
Schumann, Gerhard, 67-69
Schütz, Alfred, 17
Science: as cooperative effort, 105;
criterion of truth in, 147-48;
definition of, 91, 97; definitions in,
111-12; and Gnosticism, 191-92; and
inner-worldly community, 60, 61-62;
mathematizing sciences, 90; methods
10, 90-97, 101, 104; Newtonian
physics, 93; and positivism, 90-98;
power over nature, 230; recent
transformation of, 252; "unified
science," 94; "value-free" science,
96-105; Weber on, 99-100.
See also
Political science; Social sciences
Science, Politics, and Gnosticism
(Voegelin): availability of, in Germany
in 1990s, 17; German ambience of, 4,
13-14; preface to American edition
247-48; text of, 251-313; themes
13-14
Scientia prima,
105
Scientific analysis versus formal
analysis, 258-59
"Scientific race theory," 60
"Scientific socialism," 60
"Scientific
Weltanschauungen,"
60
Scientism, 191-92, 222
Scipio, 160
Scotus Eriugena, 192, 201
Sebba, Gregor, 248
Second Coming, 176-77
"Second reality" of Musil, 269
Second Rome, 181
Secularization, 7, 8, 24-25, 179, 185,
201, 241, 303
Self-deception, 267
Self-divinization, 190
Self-interest, 239
Self-interpretation of
society, 109-10,
152-53, 184, 224-25
Self-salvation, 230, 256
Sertillanges, A. D., 151
Servus
servorum Dei,
123
Shû King,
131
Sicily, 147
Sin.
See
Evil; Original sin
Slavery, 254
Socialism, 106
Social sciences: definitions in, 111-12;
"
Methodenstreit"
in, 10, 12; and
objectivity, 96-105; and positivism,
90-98; scientific method not
appropriate for, 10, 93.
See also
Political science
Society: articulation of, 117-24, 127,
Bergson's closed and open
society, 136; as cosmion, 112, 129;
disintegration of, 112-13, 125-26;
epochal phase of, 120-21; existence
127; and internal organization
action, 116-17; and Plato's
anthropological principle, 136-37;
relationship of representative ruler
other members of society, 117-20;
representative of cosmic order,
130-35; self-interpretation of, 109-10,
152-53, 184, 224-25; truth of, versus
of soul, 216-17, 220.
See also
Civilization
Socrates, 44-45, 137, 144, 147, 160, 272,
312
Sol Invictus,
167
Solon, 142
Sophia,
226, 233
Sophon
(the wise), 138, 140, 259
Sorel, Georges-Eugène, 252
Soteriological truth, 13, 150-51, 185,
204, 218-19
Soul: agitation of, 30-31, 33, 67-69;
Augustine on, 238; gnostic view
221-23, 255-56; Heraclitus on,
mystic philosophers on, 150-
natural abandonment of, and
formation of Reich, 67-69; opening
141,215-16, 259; Plato on, 137-38,
216, 239; relationship with God,
31, 141-42, 215, 259, 276; salvation
of, 63; true order of, as standard,
137-38; truth of, versus truth of
society, 216-17, 220; and Weber's
disenchantment, 104
South America, 296
Soviet Union: aggressors against, 135;
of, 228; danger of, 232-33;
expansion of, 232; and Gnosticism,
institutions of, 114-16; and
vacuum created by Western
democracies, 232; suppression of
debate on Marxism by, 240; and
Western paralysis, 232-33.
See also
Communism; Russia
Spain, 164, 182
Spirit.
See Pneuma
(spirit)
Spirituales,
302
Spiritualis
intelligentia,
51
Spoudaios
(mature man), 139
Staatsperson
(personality of the state),
53-54
Stalin, Joseph, 304
Stalinism, 202
Stasis
(sedition), 169
State: and Absolutism, 53; Augustine
47; definition of, 27-30; Hauriou
126; human's relationship with,
28-30; and Leviathan, 53-58, 64,
65-66; Marx on "withering away"
52, 180; power of, 28-30; power
struggle between states, 30.
See also
Representation
Statistical methods, 94
Status civitatis
(political order), 160
Stoicism, 92, 153, 158, 160, 161, 215,
254
Strauss, Leo, 8, 17
Sub specie
mortis,
259
Süddeutsche Zeitung,
3
Suebes, 125
Suffering, 33, 146, 146n40, 147
Sui generis,
183, 190
Summodeism, 167-68
Summum bonum,
235, 236, 306, 307
Summum malum,
236, 306
Summus Deus,
168, 170
Sun cult.
See
Akhenaton sun cult
Sun imagery: and Akhenaton sun cult,
37-41, 42; and Louis XIV, 43
Superbia,
234, 305-6
Superman, 152, 179, 190, 284, 285, 303
Supernatural theology, 154, 214, 230
Suppliants
(Aeschylus), 144-46
Swindle.
See
Intellectual swindle
Switzerland, 113
Symbols: Akhenaton and sun
symbolism, 37-41, 42; of apocalypse,
50-52; Aristotelian procedure for
examination of, 110-12, 114-16, 129,
152-53, 192; assumptions on, 129; of
Augustine, 50; banning of symbols of
transcendent religiosity, 60; Cassirer's
philosophy of, 96; Christian, 186; and
ecclesia, 44-50, 54; of Gnosticism,
298-313; Hobbesian symbolism,
238-40; of immanentism, 189, 305;
inner-worldly community, 62,
64-67; from inner-worldly language
science, 60; of Joachim of Fiore,
178-80, 183, 192, 238, 300-304; of
Leviathan, 53-58, 64, 65-66, 239-40;
Louis XIV and sun symbolism,
modern age as gnostic symbol,
196-97; of the people, 118-20, 127; of
political religions generally, 70-71; of
political science, 110-11; and political
societies generally, 88; of realm, 118;
re-divinization, 178; and religion
generally, 32, 70-71; of Satan, 57-58,
and self-interpretation of society,
109-10, 184; social symbolization
theoretical truth, 129-30
Symmachus, 155-56
Symposium
(Plato), 140
Syncretism, 167
Tabula rasa,
110
Taoism, 102
Tatsachenurteile
(judgments
concerning facts), 96
Taubes, Jacob, 3, 253
Taxis
(order), 171, 71n83
Teleological component of Gnosticism,
298-99
Teleological immanentization, 186,
231, 299
Telos (goal), 186, 298-99
Terminiello
case, 205
Tertium
comparationis,
122
Thanatos, 140
Themistocles, 259
Theocracy, 56, 157
Theodicy, 9, 30, 71
Theodore I, 182
Theodosius, 155, 157, 158
Theokrasia,
167
Theologia civilis,
214-15, 217, 220
Theologia
supranaturalis,
214
Theological principle of Plato, 142-43
Theology: civil, 153, 214-17, 220-21,
233-34; fabulous, 153; mythical,
natural, 153; physical, 153;
civil (pagan), 154-60, 166-70,
215; supernatural, 154, 214, 230;
of, 152-54; Varro on, 158-59.
See also
Christianity; Religion;
specific theologians
Theophilos
(lover of God), 272
Theory: Aristotle's theory of mature
138-39; dependence of, on
classic and Christian range of
experience, 151-52; experiential
of, 140-41; as explication
experiences, 140-41; gnostic
prohibition of theoretical argument,
203-4; of human existence in society,
151-52; meaning of, 138; Platonic-
Aristotelian sense of, 138-41;
political, 88-89, 110-111, 113-14, 118,
129-30; as science of order, 147-48
Thessalonica massacre, 158
Third Age, 50-52
Third Realm, 179, 180, 191, 192, 196,
301-4
Third Reich.
See
National Socialism
Third Rome (Moscow), 180-83
Thirty Years' War, 212
Thomas Aquinas, 48-49, 55, 92, 103,
123, 150, 309-10, 311
Thucydides, 147
Thus
Spoke
Zarathustra
(Nietzsche),
266, 279
Timaeus
(Plato), 140, 171
Titans, 270
Totalitarianism, 8-9, 106, 195, 202, 203,
221, 239-40
Toth, 35
Toynbee, Arnold J., 11, 120, 128
Tragedy, 144-47
Transcendence: abolishing experiences
218-19, 265, 305; banning of
symbols of transcendent religiosity,
divine being as transcendent, 190,
259, 278; and Gnosticism, 190,
and Islam, 204; knowledge of,
opening of soul to transcendent
reality, 215, 276; order of society
transcendent order of being,
and psyche, 141; theorizing
differentiating experiences of,
152n7; transcendental irruption of
spirit, 185; transcendental sense of
representation, 147-48, 149, 213;
transcendent truth represented in
societies, 233-34
Translatio,
147
Trans-worldly religions
(überweltliche
Religionen),
32, 63-64
Travers, Walter, 202-3
Tribal communities, 44, 45, 124-25
Tricennial Speech
(Constantine), 172
Trinity, 50, 173, 173n922, 178-80, 301
Troads
(Euripides), 146-47
Troeltsch, Ernst, 299
Troy myth, 124, 146
True Discourse
(Celsus), 169-70
Truth: anthropological, 13, 149-50, 196,
218-19; authority of theoretical,
140-43; challenge to imperial, 135-
36; cosmological, 13, 149; criterion of,
in science, 147-48; and lies, 131-32;
monadism of imperial, 134-35; of
myth, 141; organic, 62-63; and Plato's
anthropological principle, 136-37,
141-42, 143; and representation,
129-48; of Rome versus truth
of philosophy, 160-62; social
symbolization and theoretical truth,
129-30; society as representative of
cosmic order, 130-35; soteriological,
13, 150-51, 185, 196, 204, 218-19; of
soul versus truth of society, 216-17,
22O; summary on, 147-48; and tragic
representation, 144-46; types of, 13,
149-51, !53
Tua res agitur,
146
Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques, 179,
301-2
Typoi peri theologias,
143, 153
Überweltliche Religionen
(trans-
worldly religions), 32
Ular, Alexander, 73
Unconscious, 140, 239
"Unified science," 94
Unio
mystica,
33, 64
United Kingdom.
See
England
United Nations, 117
United States: and Bill of Rights,
democracy of, 241; equality in,
46-47; foreign policy of, 128; gnostic
movements in, 247; immigration to,
politics of, 11, 12; representation
113, 115, 119-20; revolution in,
Supreme Court of, 94-95, 205
University of Chicago, 1-2, 5, 10, 79
University of Munich, 3-4, 13, 15,
16-17, 247
Upanishads,
135
Utopia
(More), 299, 305-6
Utopianism, 186, 231, 233, 299-300,
305-6, 307
Valentinian II, 155
Valentinians, 256
"Value-free" science, 96-105
"Value-judgments," 96-105
Varro, 153, 154, 158-59, 160, 166, 214
Versuch einer unparteiischen und
gründlichen Ketzergeschichte
(Mosheim), 251
Via dolorosa,
265
Via negativa,
140
Vicarius
Christi,
56
Vico, Giambattista, 61
Victoria Altar, 155-56, 157
Visigoths, 47, 154, 157
Visio
beatiftca,
298
Vita
civilis,
161
Vita contemplative,
71
Vita
quieta,
161
Voegelin, Eric: on Arendt's writings,
7, 15; "conservative" label for, 2;
of, 2; firing of, from Austrian
university, 1; flight to U.S. by, 1;
of interest in editing or revising
earlier works, 7, 14-15; retirement
return to U.S., 17; in U.S., 1-2, 7,
as U.S. citizen, 12; University of
Chicago lectures by, 1-2, 5-6, 10-13,
79; at University of Munich, 3-4,
13, 15, 16-17, 247.
See also
specific
works
Voegelin, Lissy, 1
Volk
(people), 5, 65
Volkstum
(popular nationhood), 62
Volonta obiettiva,
65
Voltaire, 93, 178
Vom
Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte
(Jaspers), 136
Vondung, Klaus, 14
Voting, 66
"Vulgar" versus "sage," 204
Warfare, 128, 172, 173-74, 210-11, 212,
227-30, 306
Weber, Max: and Comte, 296; on
"ethics of intention," 100; on "ethics
of responsibility," 99, 100; on history,
105; Nietzsche compared with,
and "rational action" types,
and rationalism, 104-6; on
science, 99-100; on sociology of
religion, 101-3; and "types," 104; and
value-free science, 98-105; Voegelin's
criticisms of, 3
Weltgeist
(world spirit), 30
Weltgrund
(Ground of the world), 32
Wertbeziehende Methode
("reference
to a value"), 101, 102, 103
Werturteil
(value-judgment), 96
Wesen
(being), 71
Westernization, 183, 222
Western paralysis, 232-33
Whitehead, Alfred N., 108n1
Will of the people, 116, 119-20, 205
Will to power, 14, 15, 265-68, 280, 309
Wirkliches Wissen
(actual knowledge),
272
"Wissenschaft, Politik, und Gnosis"
(Voegelin), 3
Wissenschaft
(science), 10
World War II, 228, 252
Wort
und Wahrheit
(Voegelin), 247
