The Masks of God Volume 4: Creative Mythology

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The Masks of God Volume 4: Creative Mythology
by Joseph Campbell

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Table of Contents

PART ONE: THE ANCIENT VINE

Chapter 1. Experience and Authority

1. Creative Symbolization
2. Where Words Turn Back
3. The Trackless Way
4. Mountain Immortals

Chapter 2. The World Transformed

1. The Way of Noble Love
2. The Devil's Door
3. Heloise
4. The Crystalline Bed
5. Aesthestic Arrest
6. The Potion

Chapter 3. The Word Behind Words

1. Symbolic Speech
2. The Classical Heritage
3. The Celto-Germanic Heritage
4. The Legacy of Islam
5. The Gnostics

PART TWO: THE WASTE LAND

Chapter 4. The Love-Death

1. Eros, Agape and Amor
2. The Noble Heart
3. Anamorphosis
4. The Music of the Land below Waves
5. Moon Bull and Sun Steed
6. The Legend of the Fair Isolt

Chapter 5. Phoenix Fire

1. O Truly Blessed Night
2. The Left-Hand Way
3. Puer Aeternus
4. Chaos

Chapter 6. The Balance

1. Honor against Love
2. The Individual and the State
3. Erotic Irony
4. Identity and Relationship
5. Beauty Way
6. The Altar and the Pulpit
7. Democracy and the Terror
8. The Amfortas Wound

PART THREE: THE WAY AND THE LIFE

Chapter 7. The Crucified

1. The Turning Wheel of Terror-Joy
2. The Maimed Fisher King
3. The Quest beyond Meaning

Chapter 8. The Paraclete

1. The Son of the Widow
2. First Intermezzo: The Restitution of Symbols
3. The Ladies' Knight
4. Illuminations
5. Second Intermezzo: The Secularization of Myth
6. The Castle of Marvels
7. Third Intermezzo: Mythogenesis
8. The Crowning of the King
9. Envoy: To Each His Own

PART FOUR: NEW WINE

Chapter 9. The Death of "God"

1. The Crime of Galileo
2. The New Reality
3. Names and Forms
4. The New Universe
5. The Knight of the Rueful Countenance
6. Toward New Mythologies

Chapter 10. The Earthly Paradise

1. All the Gods within You
2. Symbolization

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[This Table of Contents was originally posted to YouAreThat.org. I may have omitted some of the scholarly apparatus from this table of contents, such as Acknowledgements, the Index, etc.]

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