The Masks of God, Vol. 4 Creative Mythology - Joseph Campbell

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PART ONE: THE ANCIENT VINE
Chapter 1. Experience and Authority
I. Creative Symbolization
II. Where Words Turn Back
III. The Trackless Way
N. Mountain Immortals
Chapter 2. The World Transformed
I. The Way of Noble Love
II. The Devil's Door
III. Heloise
IV. The Crystalline Bed
v. Aesthetic Arrest
VI. The Potion
Chapter 3. The Word Behind Words
I. Symbolic Speech
II. The Classical Heritage
IJI. The Celto-Germanic Heritage
IV. The Legacy of Islam
v. The Gnostics
PART TWO: THE WASTE LAND
Chapter 4. The Love-Death
I. Eros, Agape, and Arnor
II. The Noble Heart
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III. Anamorphosis 193
IV. The Music of the Land below \\raves 200
v. Moon Bull and Sun Steed 207
VI. The Legend of the Fair Isolt 220
Chapter 5. Phoenix Fire
I. o Truly Blessed Night!
II. The Left-Hand Way
III. Puer Aeternus
IV. Chaos
Chapter 6. The Balance
I. Honor against Love"-
II. The Individual and the State
III. Erotic Irony
IV. Identity and Relationship
v. Beauty Way
VI. The Altar and the Pulpit
VII. Democracy and the Terror
VIII. The Amfortas Wound
PART THREE: THE WAY AND THE LIFE
Chapter 7. The Crucified
I. The Turning Wheel of Terror-Joy
II. The Maimed Fisher King
III. The Quest beyond Meaning
Chapter 8. The Paraclete
I. The Son of the Widow
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II. First Intermezzo: The Restitution of Symbols 452
III. The Ladies' Knight 460
IV. Illuminations 466
v. Second Intermezzo: The Secularization of Myth 476
VI. The Castle of Marvels 492
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IX. Envoy: To Ea"" Hi. Own
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