Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning
by Edward Carpenter
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About this eBook
- Author
- Carpenter, Edward, 1844-1929
- Credits
- Charles Keller and David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism
- Subject
- Christianity and other religions
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 1561
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1561
- Release Date
- December 1, 1998
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Pagan & Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning — By Edward Carpenter
- 2.Untitled
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN CREEDS: THEIR ORIGIN AND MEANING
- 5.I. INTRODUCTORY
- 6.II. SOLAR MYTHS AND CHRISTIAN FESTIVALS
- 7.III. THE SYMBOLISM OF THE ZODIAC
- 8.IV. TOTEM-SACRAMENTS AND EUCHARISTS
- 9.V. FOOD AND VEGETATION MAGIC
- 10.VI. MAGICIANS, KINGS AND GODS
- 11.VII. RITES OF EXPIATION AND REDEMPTION
- 12.VIII. PAGAN INITIATIONS AND THE SECOND BIRTH
- 13.IX. MYTH OF THE GOLDEN AGE
- 14.X. THE SAVIOUR-GOD AND THE VIRGIN-MOTHER
- 15.XI. RITUAL DANCING
- 16.XII. THE SEX-TABOO
- 17.XIII. THE GENESIS OF CHRISTIANITY
- 18.XIV. THE MEANING OF IT ALL
- 19.XV. THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES
- 20.XVI. THE EXODUS OF CHRISTIANITY
- 21.XVII. CONCLUSION
- 22.APPENDIX — THE TEACHING OF THE UPANISHADS — I. REST
- 23.II. THE NATURE OF THE SELF
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