The Order of the Ages: World History in the Light of a Universal Cosmogony
, by Bolton, RobertNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780900588310 | 0900588314
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/1/2001
Foreword | p. xiii |
Conflicting Ideas of Time | p. 1 |
Cyclic Time and Progress | |
The Need for a Theory of Time | |
An Excuse for Pessimism? | |
Modern and Ancient Sources | |
Prehistorical to Posthistorical | p. 12 |
History and Absolute Change | |
Self-Neutralizing Change | |
Recurrence and Actual Change | |
Civilization and the Natural Order | |
Abstract and Concrete Time | |
Freedom and Cosmic Conditioning | |
The Principle of Plenitude | p. 25 |
The Cause of Cosmic Descent | |
Plenitude Understood in Antiquity | |
The Real and the Possible | |
The Finite and the Infinite | |
The Reality of Created Being | |
From Form to Matter | p. 37 |
The Function of Duality | |
Form and Matter in Process | |
Three Levels of Change | |
Evils from Cosmic Necessity | |
Cyclic Law Reflected in Number | |
A Manichaean Idea of Evil | |
The Rhythms of Time | p. 51 |
Time's Union of Opposites | |
No Eternal Recurrence | |
The Law of Cyclic Analogy | |
Time, Creation, and Causal Transmission | |
Causality Theory and Theology | |
Cosmic Descent in Western Tradition | p. 64 |
The Four Mythical Ages | |
A Platonic View of Universal Time | |
The End Time in Biblical History | |
The Hermetic Apocalypse | |
Disorder a Condition for New Order | |
'The Great World Decays in the Little' | p. 80 |
The Historical Position of the Theory | |
The Microcosm and the Macrocosm | |
The Traditional Arguments | |
Cosmic Pessimism and the Modern Reaction | |
The Kali-Yuga | p. 93 |
The Four Ages in Indian Tradition | |
Characteristics of Successive Ages | |
The Beginning of the Dark Age | |
Interpretations of the Cyclic Changes | |
The Counterfeiting of Spirituality | |
Rising Entropy and Evolution | p. 105 |
The Cosmic Process According to Science | |
Only Physical Disorder is Probable | |
The Entropy Law and Biology | |
The Relation to Evolution | |
The Fundamental Problem of Evolution | |
The Submergence of Distinctions | p. 117 |
Visible Signs of Entropy | |
Personal Effects of Depleted Identity | |
Erosion of Social Barriers | |
Entropy in Nationalities and Cultures | |
Harmony from Differences | |
Political and Economic Indistinction | |
Conflation of Knower and Known | |
The Spiritual Dimension of Distinctions | |
'The Eternity of the World' | p. 138 |
The Age of the World in Tradition | |
Cosmic Time in Judaism | |
Christian Adaptations of Tradition | |
Transition to Theoretical Arguments | |
The Arguments of Proclus | p. 152 |
Christian and Pagan Ideas of Time | |
The Eighteen Arguments | |
Religious Orthodoxy and Timeless Creation | |
Transition to a New Cosmology | |
The Arguments of Philoponus | p. 168 |
Ancient Beliefs About Creation | |
The Infinity Arguments | |
Corrections to the Idea of Infinity | |
The Mature Creation Paradox | |
The Question of Coherence | |
An Ontology of Time | p. 182 |
A Dependent Mode of Being | |
The Three Levels of Being | |
Time, Soul, and Cosmic Process | |
Time, Creation, and the Forms | |
Unification under One Concept | |
Temporal Curvature and Contraction | p. 197 |
A Modern Analysis of Time | |
A and B Series and Cyclic Order | |
Cyclic Form and Cosmic Change | |
Contraction and Temporal Infinity | |
If Time Ceased to Pass | |
The Structure of Cycles | p. 210 |
Numerical Clues from Antiquity | |
A Universal Number | |
The Period for the Kali-Yuga | |
Further Numerical Relationships | |
Cyclic Periods in History | p. 221 |
Connection of Theory and Fact | |
Mythical History and the Bible | |
The Platonic Year or Great Year | |
The Length of the Kali-Yuga | |
The Mayan Chronology | |
To Find Intermediate Dates | |
An Alternative Time-Scale | |
The Time of the End | p. 238 |
Imitation, Counterfeit, and Confusion | |
The Role of Evolutionist Beliefs | |
The Real Opposite of Order | |
Understanding the Great Beast | |
The Inversion of Religion | |
Liberation Through Knowledge | p. 253 |
Slaves of Plenitude | |
Changes that Require Darkness | |
Moral Right and Wrong | |
Adjustable Quantities? | |
Destruction and Transformation | |
Index | p. 265 |
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