Tables of Contents for The Origins of Man and the Universe
ONE EVOLUTION The missing link -- The intelligence behind evolution -- The world of the psyche -- The emergence of the brain -- The body of primitive man -- The dawn of selfconsciousness -- A journey to the light
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TWO THE GODS The myth of myths -- The gods arrive -- The gods' game of love
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THREE HUMAN NATURE The end of Eden -- Man projects his new world -- Evolution by involution
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FOUR VIOLENCE AND CIVILISATION The first society -- The original gnostics -- The masters' power -- Westernisation -- Man, the fighter -- How violence grew sophisticated -- The birth of shame -- The art of civilisation -- Decline and fall -- A cosmic law -- Paranational terror -- The beginning of the end
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FIVE THE UNDERWORLD The genie gets out of the bottle -- Invasion from the dark -- How the self gets into the brain -- The vitality of the psyche -- The source of dread -- Psychic possession -- The return to immortality
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SIX THE UNIVERSAL MIND The origin of the earth-idea -- Terrestrial mind -- The intellect -- The position of the senses -- The perception of reality -- Death, the reasonable reality -- The fifth and sixth dimensions
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SEVEN THE SEVEN LEVELS The embodiment of mind -- Consciousness in the seven levels of mind -- Levels One, Two and Three -- The Band of Death -- Level Four -- Level Five -- Level Six -- Level Seven
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EIGHT THE THREE PLANES OF EXISTENCE The moon's gift to earth -- The Creation -- The Red Plane -- The Yellow Plane -- The Blue Plane
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NINE LIVING AND DYING The authentic being -- The sex drive -- Freedom from self -- The process of dying -- The world of the dead -- Purification -- Love in the world -- Man's character
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TEN HIGHER INTELLIGENCE Science and the Planes -- The permanent atom -- Presence of mind -- Communication from higher intelligences -- UFOs and the speed of time -- The human charade
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ELEVEN THE DRACONIC TRANSVERSE Draco, the myth -- Yang and Yin -- Real Energy -- Cosmic participation -- Astrology -- Man's sense of time -- The influence of the sun and moon
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TWELVE THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE The theories -- The real Big Bang -- The birth of intelligence -- The stationary universe -- Evolving intelligence -- The world of motion -- Perceiving reality -- Looking into eternity -- The original moment
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THIRTEEN POWER IN THE UNIVERSE The first three principles -- The will's first creation -- The formation of the stars -- The birth of the solar system -- Power, gravitation and force -- Force-lines on earth -- The reducing speed of light
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FOURTEEN THE OBJECTIVE UNIVERSE Induction and deduction -- The error of science -- The two sides of the universe -- The sense-machine -- The solid in which we live -- The living past -- Being objective -- Being subjective -- Mental associations -- Perceiving objectively
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FIFTEEN THE FUNCTION OF THE INTELLECT The degradation of the intellect -- The world of figments -- The activation of ideas
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SIXTEEN THE MYTHIC UNIVERSE Behind the human mind -- How ideas become manifest -- The timeless -- The limits of intelligence -- The cosmic body -- The limits of sense-perception -- The movement of intelligence
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SEVENTEEN THE GIRDLE OF ETERNITY The system of being -- Reality is an object -- The mirror of infinite mind -- Looking towards infinity -- The prospect of immortality -- The galleries of reality
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EIGHTEEN SOMETHING FROM NOTHING The ring of truth -- The echo of now -- The expansion of space -- The original word -- Original number -- The primary proposition of existence -- The truth of the beginning -- A journey through the higher galleries -- Our ultim ultimate dread
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NINETEEN THE PLANETS The planetary ideo-rings -- How man forms the universe -- Life on other planets
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TWENTY THE MYTH COMES TO LIFE The emergence of the psychic I -- The egoic intelligence realises itself -- Lunar enlightenment
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APPENDIX ORIGINS OF THE BOOK
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