Edited by Joseph Campbell

NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT vi
LIST OF PLATES ix
LIST OF TEXT FIGURES xi
EDITOR'S FOREWORD xiii
A NOTE ON ERANOS, by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn xv
PAUL MASSON-OURSEL
1. The Indian Theories of Redemption in the Frame of the Religions of Salvation 3
2. The Doctrine of Grace in the Religious Thought of India [both 1936] 8
WALTER F. OTTO The Meaning of the Eleusinian Mysteries (1939) 14
C. KERENYI The Mysteries of the Kabeiroi (1944) 32
1. The Meaning of the Term 'Mysteria' 32
2. The Legend of the Foundation of the Shrine of the Kabeiroi near Thebes 42
APPENDIX: The Castello of Tegna 60 WALTER WILI The Orphic Mysteries and the Greek Spirit (1944) 64
1. The Orphic Mysteries 64
2. Orphism and the Greek Spirit 79
PAUL SCHMITT The Ancient Mysteries in the Society of Their Time, Their Transformation and Most Recent Echoes (1944) 93
1. Eleusis: The Local Cult and Early Christianity 93
2. Scrapis: The Universal Mystery Religion 104
3. Mysteries in Poetry 115
GEORGES NAGEL The "Mysteries" of Osiris in Ancient Egpt (1944) 119
JEAN DE MENASCE The Mysteries and the Religion of Iran (1944) 135
FRITZ MEIER The Mystery of the Ka'ba: Symbol and Reality in Islamic Mysticism (1944) 149
MAX PULVER Jesus' Round Dance and Crucifixtion According to the Acts of St. John (1942) 169
HANS LEISECANG Tlu Mystery of the Serpent (1939) 194
1. The Inscription 197
2. The Serpent and the Four Winds 215
3. The Worship of the Serpent 233
6. The Parallels 245
JULIUS BAUM Symbolic Representations of the Eucharist (1944) 261
1. The Symbolic Character of Early Christian Art 261
2. Representations of the Consecration 264
3. Representations of Communion 268
4. The Heavenly Banquet and Feasts of the Dead 271
C. G. JUNG Transformation Symbolism in the Mass (1941) 274
1. Introduction 274
2. The Sequence of the Rite of Transformation 278
3. A Parallel from Pagan Antiquity 290
4. The Psychology of the Mass 313
HUGO RAHNER The Christian Mystery and the Pagan Mysteries (1944) 337
1. The History and Significance of the Comparison between the Christian Mystery and the Ancient Mysteries 338
2. The Mystery of the Cross 369
3. The Mystery of Baptism 387
APPENDICES Biographical Notes 405
Contents of the Eranos-jahrbucher 409
List of Abbreviations 419
INDEX 421