Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I. Preliminaries
1. Introduction
An Ancient Path for Modern Times
Three Degrees of Wisdom
A Nine-month Program
Hypatia, the Most Holy and Revered Philosopher
Why Hypatia’s Philosophy is Important Today
2. Spiritual
Practices
Philosophy as a Way of Life
Concentrating Inward
Expanding Outward
Additional Practices
Living Philosophically
3. Sources
for Hypatia’s Philosophy
Pythagoras and Plato
Plotinus
Porphyry and Iamblichus
Hypatia’s Philosophy
Later Neoplatonism
Part II. The First Degree of Wisdom
4. Seeking
Tranquility in the Garden
Goals of the First Degree
The Garden
Atoms and the Void
Classifying Desires
Tranquility
Sufficiency
Pain
Fear of the Gods
Fear of Death
The Fourfold Cure
Live Hidden
Justice
Friendship
The Death of Epicurus
Miscellaneous Maxims
Part III. The Second Degree of Wisdom
5. The
Discipline of Assent
Goals of the Second Degree
Historical Background
Goals of Wisdom
Nature
Human Nature
Three Fundamental Disciplines
The Discipline of Assent
Practicing the Discipline of Assent
6. The
Discipline of Desire
Introduction
Desire, Impulse, and Nature
Good, Evil, and Indifferent
Circumscribing the Self
Indifference to Misfortune
Personal and Transpersonal Guides
The View From Above
Providence or Chaos?
Consent to Destiny
Universal Love
The Stoic God
7. The
Discipline of Impulse
Introduction
Action and Nature
Criterion I, First Standard: Altruism
Criterion I, Second Standard: Difficult People
Criterion I, Third Standard: Friends
Criterion II: Worth and Justice
Criterion III: Reservation
Nature’s Sympathy
Part IV. The Third Degree of Wisdom
8. The
Macrocosm
Introduction to the Third Degree
The World Body
The World Mind
The Platonic Forms
Being and Becoming
Truth, Beauty, and Justice
The World Soul
Nature, Wisdom, and Daimons
The Inexpressible One
The God of the Philosophers
Images of the Cosmos
The Geocentric Image
The Central Light
The Golden Chain
9. The
Microcosm and the Archetypes
Microcosm: The Tripartite Soul
Polytheistic Pagan Interpretation
Monotheistic Interpretation
Evolutionary Jungian Psychology
The Archetypes
Evolutionary Neuropsychology and the Archetypes
Complexes and Daimons
The Shadow
The Evolution of the Archetypes
The Self and the Inexpressible One
Individuation
10. The Path of Love
Three Paths of Ascent
History of the Ascent by Love
Purpose of the Ascent by Love
Awakening — The Body
Interlude — Gaius’ Story
Purification — The Soul
Illumination — The Nous
Perfection — The One
11. The Path of Truth
Introduction
Awakening
Purification 1: The Purifying Virtues
Purification 2: Dialectics
Purification 3: The Contemplation of Nature
Interlude — The Five Things
Illumination
Arrow Prayers and Invocation of the Name
Four Degrees of Prayer
Perfection — Union
12. The Path of Trust
Introduction
Different Ways to The One
Symbols
Invocation
Animation
Incubation
Alliance
Deification
Individuation
Additional Reading
Glossary
Bibliography
Endnotes
