CONTENTS.
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| Chap. | Page
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|---|---|---|
| 21. | Description of the Perfect Man, or Gnostic, | 199 |
| 22. | The true Gnostic does Good, not from fear of Punishment or hope of Reward, but only for the sake of Good itself, | 202 |
| 23. | The same subject continued, | 207 |
| 24. | The reason and end of Divine Punishments, | 210 |
| 25. | True Perfection consists in the Knowledge and Love of God, | 212 |
| 26. | How the Perfect Man treats the Body and the Things of the World, | 215 |
| Book V. | ||
| 1. | On Faith, | 220 |
| 2. | On Hope, | 228 |
| 3. | The objects of Faith and Hope perceived by the Mind alone, | 229 |
| 4. | Divine Things wrapped up in Figures both in the Sacred and in Heathen Writers, | 232 |
| 5. | On the Symbols of Pythagoras, | 236 |
| 6. | The Mystic Meaning of the Tabernacle and its Furniture, | 240 |
| 7. | The Egyptian Symbols and Enigmas of Sacred Things, | 245 |
| 8. | The use of the Symbolic Style by Poets and Philosophers, | 247 |
| 9. | Reasons for veiling the Truth in Symbols, | 254 |
| 10. | The opinion of the Apostles on veiling the Mysteries of the Faith, | 257 |
| 11. | Abstraction from Material Things necessary in order to attain to the true Knowledge of God, | 261 |
| 12. | God cannot be embraced in Words or by the Mind, | 267 |
| 13. | The Knowledge of God a Divine Gift, according to the Philosophers, | 270 |
| 14. | Greek Plagiarisms from the Hebrews, | 274 |
| BOOK VI. | ||
| 1. | Plan, | 302 |
| 2. | The subject of Plagiarisms resumed. The Greeks plagiarized from one another, | 304 |
| 3. | Plagiarism by the Greeks of the Miracles related in the Sacred Books of the Hebrews, | 319 |
| 4. | The Greeks drew many of their Philosophical Tenets from the Egyptian and Indian Gymnosophists, | 323 |
| 5. | The Greeks had some Knowledge of the true God, | 326 |
| 6. | The Gospel was preached to Jews and Gentiles in Hades, | 328 |
| 7. | What true Philosophy is, and whence so called, | 335 |
| 8. | Philosophy is Knowledge given by God, | 339 |
| 9. | The Gnostic free of all Perturbations of the Soul, | 344 |
| 10. | The Gnostic avails himself of the help of all Human Knowledge, | 349 |
| 11. | The Mystical Meanings in the proportions of Numbers, Geometrical Ratios, and Music, | 352 |
| 12. | Human Nature possesses an adaptation for Perfection; the Gnostic alone attains it, | 359 |
| 13. | Degrees of Glory in Heaven corresponding with the Dignities of the Church below, | 365 |
| 14. | Degrees of Glory in Heaven, | 366 |
