Description

Some main passages from the Upanishads put into English verse.
CONTENTS (partial)
1) Foreward
2) Preface
3) Introduction: Survey of the Sacred Tradition
THE SELECTIONS
Brief Advice to the reader
Pronunciation of the Sanskrit
1 - The World as the Horse Sacrifice
- The First Eternal Aspect: The Horse at Liberty
- Second, Inner Aspect: The Horse Slain
- The Source of the Horse
2 - The Evolution of the Cosmos or the Attainment of a Body of Complete Self-Sacrifice
Analysis
A) Introduction
B) The Process of Evolution
- Death at the Beginning
- The Yearning of Death for a Body
- The First Stage of Evolution: The Body of Force
- Second Stage of Evolution: The Body of Life
- Third Stage of Evolution: The Body of the Spirit
C) Epilogue on the Two Fires
- The Two Fires, One on Earth, One in Heaven
- The Two Fires Are One Divinity
- The Triumph of Him Who Knows This
3 - The Emanations From & The Return To Itself of the Unitive Self
- Introduction
- The Descent: Six Increasingly Gross Emanations of the Self - At Last, the Person
- The Ascent: Five Increasingly Ethereal Persons
- Identity With the Sun
- Recapitulation of the Return
- The Rapturous Song of the Unitive Self After it has Returned to Itself
4 - Macrocosm & Microcosm
5 - The Open Way at Death
19 more chapters plus 6 appendices.