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Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction to Magical Idealism

Genius and the Real Man 7
Qualifications for Initiation 8
The Elements of Sacred Magic 10
Phenomenology of the Medieval Mind 12
The Healing Power of the Mind 14
Creativity in German Philosophy 16
Spiritual Attitudes 17
Metaphysics of Freedom 19
The Will 21
The Art of Controversy 22
Human, All Too Human 24
Everything else is a Pastime 25
Awakening to Consciousness 27
Providence, Will, Destiny 30
Privation 32
The Cosmic Value of Human Action 34
Transformation is a Real Possibility 36
The Creative Power of the Individual 39
Builder of Worlds 41
The Three Trials 43
Essence and Existence 46
The Religious Attitude 50
Apollo and Dionysus 52
Knowledge and Power 55
Shakti Power as Play 58
The Religious Attitude 61
The Individual Self 63
Allowing Intelligence to resume command 65
Rational Man and Real Man 66
Magical Idealism in a Larger Whole 68
The Primacy of Will 71
Degrees of Existence 72
In pain there is something fortifying, manly, and profound 82
Metaphysics of Dueling 83
Plotinus: The Peak of Pagan Wisdom 86

Precursors of Magical Idealism

Spiritual waterboarding 95
The Essence of Magical Development 95
Carlo Michelstaedter 96
Giovanni Gentile 101
Hermann Keyserling 111

Purity as a Metaphysical Value

The Individual and the Becoming of the World
Philosophy 135
Initiation 155

Miscellaneous Writings

The Meaning of History 168
The Fire of Creation 170
The Idea of the World in the East 172
The Idea of the World in the West 176
Emile Coué 179
The New Spirit Movement 193