John Michael Greer is the award-winning author of more than fifty books, including The New Encyclopedia of the Occult, The Druidry Handbook, The Celtic Golden Dawn, and Circles of Power: An Introduction to Hermetic Magic. An initiate in Freemasonry, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, Greer served as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) for twelve years. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife Sara. Greer is also the author of eleven fantasy and science fiction novels and ten nonfiction books on peak oil and the future of industrial society, and also blogs weekly on politics, magic, and the future at [...]

INTRODUCTION

PART I COSMIC EVOLUTION

CHAPTER ONE The Dawn of Manifestation

CHAPTER TWO The Forces of (Negative) Evil

CHAPTER THREE The Twelve Rays and the Seven Cosmic Planes

CHAPTER FOUR The Building of the Atom

CHAPTER FIVE Atomic Evolution upon the Cosmic Planes

PART II SOLAR EVOLUTION

CHAPTER SIX The Beginnings of a Solar System

CHAPTER SEVEN The Evolution of a Solar System

CHAPTER EIGHT The Evolution of a Great Entity

CHAPTER NINE The Creation of a Universe

CHAPTER TEN The Beginnings of Consciousness

CHAPTER ELEVEN The Evolution of Consciousness

CHAPTER TWELVE The Beginnings of Mind

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Evolution of the Divine Sparks

CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Evolution of a Planetary Spirit

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Evolution of the Lords of Flame, Form, and Mind

CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Influences of the Lords of Flame, Form, and Mind

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Lords of Mind as Initiators

PART III HUMAN EVOLUTION

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Influences Acting on Human Evolution

CHAPTER NINETEEN The Logoidal Relationship to the Manifested Universe

CHAPTER TWENTY Influences of the Manifested Universe, Part 1

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE Influences of the Manifested Universe, Part 2

CHAPTER TWENTY TWO The Lords of the First Three Swarms and Natural Laws

CHAPTER TWENTY THREE Influences Which Humanity Exerts Upon Itself

CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR The Law of Action and Reaction

CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE The Law of Limitation, Part 1

CHAPTER TWENTY SIX The Law of Limitation, Part 2

CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN The Law of the Seven Deaths

CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT The Law of Impactation

CHAPTER TWENTY NINE The Law of Polarity

CHAPTER THIRTY The Law of the Attraction of Outer Space

CHAPTER THIRTY ONE The Law of the Attraction of the Centre

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX