CONTENTS

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PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR 3
PREFACE OF THE TRANSLATOR 4
MEMOIR ON THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF DUPUIS 6

CHAPTER  I

 Of the God-Universe and his Worship 15

II

 Evidences of History and of Political and Religious Monuments of the Universality of the Worship of Nature 23

 III

 Of the Animated and Intelligent Universe 49

 IV

 Of the Great Divisions of Nature into Active and Passive Causes, and into Principles of Light and Darkness 63

V

 An Explanation of the Heracleid, or of the Poem on the Twelve Months and on the Sun, worshipped under the Name of Hercules .... 86

VI

 An Explanation of the Travels of Isis or the Moon, Worshipped in Egypt under that Name 99

VII

 An Explanation of the Dionysiacs, or the Poem of Nonnus on the Sun, Worshipped under the Name of Bacchus. 112

VIII

 Argonautics 174

IX

 An Explanation of the Fable, in which the Sun is the Object of Worship under the Name of Christ 214

X

 Of Worship and Religious Opinions, considered in their Affinities with the Duties and Wants of Man 300

XI

 Of the Mysteries 341

XII

 An Abridged Explanation of an Apocalyptic Work of the Initiates into the Mysteries of the Light and of the Sun, Worshipped under the Symbol of the Vernal Lam or the Celestial Ram 408

APPENDIX

 A Description of the Circular Zodiac of Denderah 427

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