The mystic vision

Paperbound; xiv + 487 pp., including four black-and-white illustrations, bibliographic references in footnotes, three appendices, a list of abbreviations, and two indices. 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 6 were originally published in French or German in "Eranos-Jahrbücher" II (1934), III (1935), IV (1936), VI (1938), VIII (1940-41), XI (1944), XIII (1945), XIV (1946), and XVI (1948) by Rhein-Verlag, Zürich, Switzerland. Contents: List of plates Note of acknowledgment Editor's foreword / Joseph Campbell Two ways of redemption: Redemption as the solution of the tragic contradiction [1936] / Boris Vysheslawzeff On the origin of the mysteries in the light of ethnology and Indology [1944] / Wilhelm Koppers The Indian world mother [1938] / Heinrich Zimmer Dragon and mare, figures of primordial Chinese mythology [1934] / Erwin Rouselle Christ and St. Paul [1940] / Ernesto Buonaiuti Christology and ecclesiology in St. Paul [1941] / Ernesto Buonaiuti Symbols and rites in the religious life of certain monastic orders [1934/1935] / Ernesto Buonaiuti Gnostic man: The doctrine of Basilides [1948] / Gilles Quispel The Concept of Redemption in Manichaeism [1936] / Henri-Charles Puech Nature in Islamic thought [1946] / Louis Massignon The idea of the spirit in Islam [1945] / Louis Massignon The experience of the spirit in Christian mysticism [1945] / Jean de Manasce The Madonna as religious symbol [1934] / Friedrich Heiler Mystical man [1948] / Erich Neumann Appendices Biographical notes Contents of the "Eranos-Jahrbücher" Index of contributors List of abbreviations Index