A fascinating analysis of the most important work of occult philosophy in the 20th Century.
Dion Fortune’s The Cosmic Doctrine is a foundational text which has been required reading for students of the occult since it was first published in 1956. In it she attempts to explain the meaning and evolution of the cosmos from the first beginnings to our lives today.
However, the The Cosmic Doctrine isn’t an easy book to read. It’s conciseness makes it hard going, for every sentence requires close attention, but the challenge it offers to its readers goes well beyond this. In a phrase that has become famous in occult circles since its publication, The Cosmic Doctrine is intended to train the mind, not to inform it; it attempts to communicate to the reader an unfamiliar way of thinking, and so a great deal of patience and hard work are required to grasp what it has to say.
Some of the difficulties, however, can be smoothed out by reframing and rephrasing the ideas Fortune presents, and this is what this book aims to do.
John Michael Greer provides a learned and elucidating commentary on this classic text to allow students and teachers alike to more easily digest and understand this fantastic book.
Table of Content
INTRODUCTION
PART I COSMIC EVOLUTION
CHAPTER ONE The Dawn of Manifestation
CHAPTER TWO The Forces of (Negative) Evil
CHAPTER THREE The Twelve Rays and the Seven Cosmic Planes
CHAPTER FOUR The Building of the Atom
CHAPTER FIVE Atomic Evolution upon the Cosmic Planes
PART II SOLAR EVOLUTION
CHAPTER SIX The Beginnings of a Solar System
CHAPTER SEVEN The Evolution of a Solar System
CHAPTER EIGHT The Evolution of a Great Entity
CHAPTER NINE The Creation of a Universe
CHAPTER TEN The Beginnings of Consciousness
CHAPTER ELEVEN The Evolution of Consciousness
CHAPTER TWELVE The Beginnings of Mind
CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Evolution of the Divine Sparks
CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Evolution of a Planetary Spirit
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Evolution of the Lords of Flame, Form, and Mind
CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Influences of the Lords of Flame, Form, and Mind
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Lords of Mind as Initiators
PART III HUMAN EVOLUTION
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Influences Acting on Human Evolution
CHAPTER NINETEEN The Logoidal Relationship to the Manifested Universe
CHAPTER TWENTY Influences of the Manifested Universe, Part 1
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE Influences of the Manifested Universe, Part 2
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO The Lords of the First Three Swarms and Natural Laws
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE Influences Which Humanity Exerts Upon Itself
CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR The Law of Action and Reaction
CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE The Law of Limitation, Part 1
CHAPTER TWENTY SIX The Law of Limitation, Part 2
CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN The Law of the Seven Deaths
CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT The Law of Impactation
CHAPTER TWENTY NINE The Law of Polarity
CHAPTER THIRTY The Law of the Attraction of Outer Space
CHAPTER THIRTY ONE The Law of the Attraction of the Centre
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
About the author
John Michael Greer is the award-winning author of more than fifty books, including The New Encyclopedia of the Occult, The Druidry Handbook, The Celtic Golden Dawn and Circles of Power: An Introduction to Hermetic Magic. An initiate in Freemasonry, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Martinist Order, and three Druid traditions, Greer served as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) for twelve years. He is also the author of seventeen fantasy and science fiction novels and ten nonfiction books on peak oil and the future of industrial society. He lives in Rhode Island and blogs weekly on politics, magic, and the future at www.ecosophia.net.
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