Introduction

Part One: The World of the Spirit--A Metaphysical Context for the Cultivation of Sacred Science

1. God is Reality

2. Self-awareness and Ultimate Selfhood

3. Time--The Moving Image of Eternity

Part Two: The Unity of the Divine Stratosphere--The Diversity of the Human Atmosphere

4. One is the Spirit and Many its Human Reflections--Thoughts on the Human Condition Today

5. The Philosophia Perennis and the Study of Religion

Part Three: Science: Traditional and Modern

6. Western Science and Asian Culture

7. The Traditional Sciences

8. The Spiritual Significance of Nature

Part Four: Tradition, Sacred Science, and the Modern Predicament

9. Sacred Science and the Environmental Crisis--An Islamic Perspective

10. The Concept of Human Progress through Material Evolution: A Traditional Critique

11. Reflections on the Theological Modernism of Hans Kung

Postscript: The Need for a Sacred Science

Index