Man and transformation

Hardbound; xviii + 413 pp., including 10 black-and-white illustrations, bibliographic references in footnotes, three appendices, and an index. Bollingen Series 30 comprises six volumes of papers gleaned from the earliest years of the "Eranos-Jahrbücher," which has been published more-or-less annually since 1933, initially under the editorship of Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn. The papers in Volume 5 were originally published in French, German, or English in "Eranos-Jahrbücher" VII (1939), XVIII (1950; Jung Festschrift), and XXIII (1954) by Rhein-Verlag, Zürich, Switzerland. Contents: Plates [List] Editor's foreword / Joseph Campbell Mystery and spiritual regeneration in extra-European religions [1954] / Mircea Eliade The transformation of man in mystical Islam [1954] / Fritz Meier Divine epiphany and spiritual birth in Ismailian gnosis [1954] / Henry Corbin The importance of new being for Christian theology [1954] / Paul Tillich The awakening of a new consciousness in Zen [1954] / Daisetz T. Suzuki Theogony and the transformation of man in Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schilling [1954] / Ernst Benz The growth of ideas [1954] / Lancelot Law Whyte The dove and the darkness in ancient Byzantine mysticism [1954] / Jean Daniélou Metamorphosis in animals: The transformations of the individual and the type [1954] / Adolf Portman Death and rebirth in the light of India [1939] / Heinrich Zimmer Immortality [1950] / G. van der Leeuw Appendices Biographical notes Contents of the "Eranos-Jahrbücher" List of abbreviations Index