Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Eranos 2: The Mysteries

by Joseph Campbell

Overview

Essays by Julius Baum, C. G. Jung, C. Kerényi, Hans Leisegang, Paul Masson-Oursel, Fritz Meier, Jean de Menasce, Georges Nagel, Walter F. Otto, Max Pulver, Hugo Rahner, Paul Schmitt, and Walter Wili.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691018232
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	01/21/1979
Series:	Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks , #82
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT vi

LIST OF PLATES ix

LIST OF TEXT FIGURES xi

EDITOR'S FOREWORD xiii

A NOTE ON ERANOS, by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn xv

PAUL MASSON-OURSEL

1. The Indian Theories of Redemption in the Frame of the Religions of Salvation 3

2. The Doctrine of Grace in the Religious Thought of India [both 1936] 8

WALTER F. OTTO The Meaning of the Eleusinian Mysteries (1939) 14

C. KERENYI The Mysteries of the Kabeiroi (1944) 32

1. The Meaning of the Term 'Mysteria' 32

2. The Legend of the Foundation of the Shrine of the Kabeiroi near Thebes 42

APPENDIX: The Castello of Tegna 60
WALTER WILI The Orphic Mysteries and the Greek Spirit (1944) 64

1. The Orphic Mysteries 64

2. Orphism and the Greek Spirit 79

PAUL SCHMITT The Ancient Mysteries in the Society of Their Time, Their Transformation and Most Recent Echoes (1944) 93

1. Eleusis: The Local Cult and Early Christianity 93

2. Scrapis: The Universal Mystery Religion 104

3. Mysteries in Poetry 115

GEORGES NAGEL The "Mysteries" of Osiris in Ancient Egpt (1944) 119

JEAN DE MENASCE The Mysteries and the Religion of Iran (1944) 135

FRITZ MEIER The Mystery of the Ka'ba: Symbol and Reality in Islamic Mysticism (1944) 149

MAX PULVER Jesus' Round Dance and Crucifixtion According to the Acts of St. John (1942) 169

HANS LEISECANG Tlu Mystery of the Serpent (1939) 194

1. The Inscription 197

2. The Serpent and the Four Winds 215

3. The Worship of the Serpent 233

6. The Parallels 245

JULIUS BAUM Symbolic Representations of the Eucharist (1944) 261

1. The Symbolic Character of Early Christian Art 261

2. Representations of the Consecration 264

3. Representations of Communion 268

4. The Heavenly Banquet and Feasts of the Dead 271

C. G. JUNG Transformation Symbolism in the Mass (1941) 274

1. Introduction 274

2. The Sequence of the Rite of Transformation 278

3. A Parallel from Pagan Antiquity 290

4. The Psychology of the Mass 313

HUGO RAHNER The Christian Mystery and the Pagan Mysteries (1944) 337

1. The History and Significance of the Comparison between the Christian Mystery and the Ancient Mysteries 338

2. The Mystery of the Cross 369

3. The Mystery of Baptism 387

APPENDICES Biographical Notes 405

Contents of the Eranos-jahrbucher 409

List of Abbreviations 419

INDEX 421