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Tables of Contents for Journey into the Light
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
The Conflict
1
8
Matre Jacques, the Light of the Way
Reason and intuition
Maitre Jacques: ``I Am You''
9
12
The dualistic mind, cause of the drama of uncertainty
Free will
The stable elements of the human being
The reality of Maitre Jacques
Maitre Jacques versus Pierre du Coignet
21
12
The encounter with Maitre Pierre
The two patrons of Maitre Pierre
The dispute between fire and water
Maitre Jacques, ``pilgrim of the Spirit.''
The shell of Saint Jacques
The Atelier of Maitre Dominique
33
14
First teachings of the sage: illusions reveal the Truth
The Fifty-first Psalm (Miserere mei . . .)
Breaking the ``Barrier of Possibility''
47
18
Conflicts among peoples
Individualism and collectivism
Excess calls for the reversal of controls
The Two Aspects of Soul and Consciousness
65
16
Conditions for intuitive perception
Two aspects of the immortal soul
Their relationship to Human Consciousness
Human Consciousness defined
Moral meaning and religious meaning
Survival and immortality
Imagination and intuition
Mental and Human Consciousness
Vice, Virtue, and Art
81
16
Dame Angelica and Virtue
Discourse on Art
The Circus
97
18
The cycle of consciousness
The Family and the Couple
115
28
The family of today
Ignorance, the cause of conflict
Two aspects of the problem: for the Many and for the Few
Sexuality: normality and inversion
The spiritual problem of the couple
The illusion and the reality of Union
The true unification
The Marionettes
143
18
Thomas's last doubts
The strings of the marionettes
Conscious and unconscious motives
The Giant Clock
The details and totality of Human Consciousness
Its relationship to the Permanent Witness
Luck and chance
Free will and fatality
Simplicity
161
8
What is simple and simplicity
The mastery of natural simplicity
The Invisible Powers
169
24
Maitre Pierre's point of view: elementals; Satanic fire; angels and devils
The teachings of Maitre Dominique: Good and Evil; Heaven and Hell; salvation and damnation
The state of the man who has ``lost his soul.''
The Permanent Witness after death
Beings or ``states'' of the Invisible World
Their meta-physical principle
Remorse
193
16
Despair and responsibility
Suicide
Absolution in terms of repentance, contrition, and remorse
Brahmanism, Buddhism, Christianity
209
20
Parallels and differences in terms of today
The Compagnons du Devoir
229
20
Their tradition, their makeup
Their goal: Quality
Their cultivation of consciousness; their path toward perfection
Presence
249
14
Consecration and benediction
The Hindu Puja
The Shakti
Idolatry, faith, superstition
The significance of Presence
The Cosmic Virgin
263
16
Causal ``Activity-Passivity.''
Function
The Holy Spirit
Cosmic Femininity
Wisdom and the Christian Virgin
The Divine Feminine Principle in theology
Emotion
279
24
Definition
Discernment of emotions
Organic centers that generate emotion
Their areas of reaction
The two sides of the emotional scale
Relationships to physical, psychic, and emotional states
The role and the revelation of Maitre Jacques
The elite and the suprahuman realm
The call of the supra-human
The Christ Principle
303
The symbol of Christmas
The Aquarian Christmas: a new rhythm
The individual quest for knowledge
The profound meaning of the Gospels
The veiled teachings of the two aspects of the Soul-entity
The Lord's Anointed
The Christ Principle
The teachings of John
Christ in the Cosmic Activity