NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT vi LIST OF PLATES ix LIST OF TEXT FIGURES xi EDITOR'S FOREWORD xiii A NOTE ON ERANOS, by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn xv PAUL MASSON-OURSEL 1. The Indian Theories of Redemption in the Frame of the Religions of Salvation 3 2. The Doctrine of Grace in the Religious Thought of India [both 1936] 8 WALTER F. OTTO The Meaning of the Eleusinian Mysteries (1939) 14 C. KERENYI The Mysteries of the Kabeiroi (1944) 32 1. The Meaning of the Term 'Mysteria' 32 2. The Legend of the Foundation of the Shrine of the Kabeiroi near Thebes 42 APPENDIX: The Castello of Tegna 60 WALTER WILI The Orphic Mysteries and the Greek Spirit (1944) 64 1. The Orphic Mysteries 64 2. Orphism and the Greek Spirit 79 PAUL SCHMITT The Ancient Mysteries in the Society of Their Time, Their Transformation and Most Recent Echoes (1944) 93 1. Eleusis: The Local Cult and Early Christianity 93 2. Scrapis: The Universal Mystery Religion 104 3. Mysteries in Poetry 115 GEORGES NAGEL The "Mysteries" of Osiris in Ancient Egpt (1944) 119 JEAN DE MENASCE The Mysteries and the Religion of Iran (1944) 135 FRITZ MEIER The Mystery of the Ka'ba: Symbol and Reality in Islamic Mysticism (1944) 149 MAX PULVER Jesus' Round Dance and Crucifixtion According to the Acts of St. John (1942) 169 HANS LEISECANG Tlu Mystery of the Serpent (1939) 194 1. The Inscription 197 2. The Serpent and the Four Winds 215 3. The Worship of the Serpent 233 6. The Parallels 245 JULIUS BAUM Symbolic Representations of the Eucharist (1944) 261 1. The Symbolic Character of Early Christian Art 261 2. Representations of the Consecration 264 3. Representations of Communion 268 4. The Heavenly Banquet and Feasts of the Dead 271 C. G. JUNG Transformation Symbolism in the Mass (1941) 274 1. Introduction 274 2. The Sequence of the Rite of Transformation 278 3. A Parallel from Pagan Antiquity 290 4. The Psychology of the Mass 313 HUGO RAHNER The Christian Mystery and the Pagan Mysteries (1944) 337 1. The History and Significance of the Comparison between the Christian Mystery and the Ancient Mysteries 338 2. The Mystery of the Cross 369 3. The Mystery of Baptism 387 APPENDICES Biographical Notes 405 Contents of the Eranos-jahrbucher 409 List of Abbreviations 419 INDEX 421
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