Preface
Contents
I. Orientation
1. The Pole of Orientation
2. The Symbols of the North
II. The Man of Light and His Guide
1. The Hermetic Idea of Perfect Nature
2. The Nous of Hermes and the Shepherd of Hermas
3. Fravarti and Walkyrie
4. The Heavently Twin (Mandeism and Manicheism)
III. Midnight Sun and Celestial Pole
1. The Cosmic North and the "Oriental Theosophy" of Sohravardi (1191)
2. Visions of the Pole in Ruzbehan of Shiraz (1209)
3. The Pole as the Abode of the Angel Sraosha
IV. Visio Smaragdina
1. Najmoddin Kobra (1220)
2. Light and Spiritual Warfare
3. The Trilogy of the Soul
4. Like with Like
5. The Function of the Dhikr
6. The Green Light
7. The Senses of the Suprasensory World
8. The Orbs of Light
9. The "Heavenly Witness"
10. The Scales and the Angel
V. The Black Light
1. Light without Matter
2. the Doctrine of Photisms according to Najm Razi (1256)
3. Black Light in the "Rose Garden of Mystery" (1317)
VI. The Seven Prophets of Your Being
1. Alaoddawleh Semnani (1336)
2. The World of Colors and the Man of Light
3. The "Physiological" Colors according to Goethe
Notes
Bibliography
Index