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W. J. Colville brings religious traditions, biblical symbolism and nineteenth-century psychical ideas into a wide-ranging series of discussions. He considers creation narratives, Egyptian and Greek mysteries, Pythagoras, yoga, astrology, Swedenborg, Buddhism and the interpretation of Exodus. Rather than following a single tradition, the book seeks connections among the spiritual teachings and symbolic systems that interested its author.
Further chapters examine healing, Gnostic ideas, the significance of colour, evolution and the appearance of Halley’s Comet in 1910. Colville also describes contemporary practitioners and institutions associated with mental therapeutics. The original edition retains its portrait, contents and closing account, presenting his synthesis in the form in which readers encountered it in 1910.