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Tables of Contents for The Tao and the Tree of Life
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
x
Introduction
xvii
The Shaman and the Three Worlds
1
10
A Shamanic Journey
Taoist Yoga and the Kabbalah
The Missing Link: Jewish and Western Kabbalah
11
8
Early History of the Kabbalah
The Tree of Life
Modern Jewish Kabbalism
Western Kabbalism
The Structure of the Universe
19
20
Wu Chi and Ein Soph
Tai Chi and Kether
The Sephiroth
The Three Elemental Forces
Energies, Forces, and Elements
The Microcosm
The Elements
Chi and Akasha
Shamanic Structure
Taoist Yoga
39
30
Early History
Taoist Yoga in the West
Mantak Chia and the Healing Tao
The Chi Energy System
The Two Main Energy Channels
The Mind Directs the Chi
The Tan Tien
Restoring Prenatal Chi
The Inner Smile
The Six Healing Sounds
Sexual Practice
Healing Love
Testicle and Ovarian Breathing
Iron Shirt Chi Kung
Fusion of the Five Elements
Inner and Outer Fusion
Controlling Effect of the Elements
The Energy Body or Pearl
Fusion of the Elements, Part 2
The Creation Cycle
The Thrusting Routes
The Belt Routes
Fusion of the Five Elements, Part 3
The Sepher Yetzirah and Franz Bardon
69
26
Maaseh Merkabah
The Workings of the Chariot
The First Written Book of the Kabbalah
The Author of the Sepher Yetzirah
The 32 Mystical Paths
The Alchemical Tradition
Taoist Inner Alchemy
Kan and Li Alchemical Formulas
Lost Traditions of the Sepher Yetzirah
Franz Bardon
Further Mysteries of the Three Mother Letters
The Power of Sound
Balancing the Elements
The Seven Double Letters
The Twelve Simple Letters
The Bardon Kabbalistic System
The Tao and the Tree
95
22
The Golden Dawn
The Training of a Western Kabbalist
Pathworking
The Middle Pillar Exercise
The Lightning Flash and the Serpent's Path
The 32 Paths and the 32 Meridians
The Goals of Taoist Yoga and Western Kabbalah
The Higher Mysteries of Inner Alchemy
The Energy Body and the Body of Light
The Sexual Mysteries
117
22
The Hebrew Mysteries
The Zohar
The Shekinah
Sexual Partners for the Western Kabbalist and Taoist
Western Sexual Mysteries
Ritual Sex
Sex Magick
East Meets West
Taoist Sexual Secrets and the Western Kabbalah
Testicle and Ovarian Breathing Explained
The Big Draw
The North Star and the Teli
139
20
The Intermediate Formulas
Kan and Li
The Planets and the Stars
The North Star And the Big Dipper
The Sealing of the Five Senses and the Seven Double Letters
Star Magick
Aleister Crowley and the Book of the Law
The Congress of Heaven and Earth
Return to the Source
Conclusion
159
4
Appendix A: Taoist Meditations
163
36
The Inner Smile and the Six Healing Sounds
The Microcosmic Orbit
Fusion of the Five Elements
Healing Love
The God and Goddess
Appendix B: Kabbalistic Meditations
199
22
The Lightning Flash, The Serpent's Path And the Middle Pillar
Building the Tree of Life and the Aura
Three Mother Letters Meditation
Bibliography
221
4
Index
225