In the beginning. God as a creative spirit --
The spirit of man in the highest place --
The real and its representation --
Adam, Eve, pride, self-consciousness, and the fall. The image of God in the eternal garden --
Pride versus the sacred moral order --
The incompleteness of Adam and the arrival of Eve --
The eternal sins of Eve and Adam --
Naked suffering as the fruit of sin --
Loss of Paradise and the flaming sword --
Cain, Abel, and sacrifice. The identity of sacrifice and work --
The hostile brothers of good and evil --
The sacred patterning of the political --
The good shepherd as archetypal leader --
The sacrifice pleasing to God --
Creatively possessed by the spirit of resentment --
Humility and faith versus pride, despair, and vengeful anger --
Fratricide, then worse --
Noah: God as the call to prepare. Giants in the land --
Sin and the return of chaos -- Salvation by the wise and the reestablishment of the world --
The faithless son doomed to enslavement --
The tower of Babel: God versus tyranny and pride. Lucifer and the engineers --
Pride and the fall, reprise: Descent into hell itself --
Inability to understand one another --
Abraham: God as spirited call to adventure. Go forth --
The devil at the crossroads --
Life as a sacrificial secession --
Sacrifice and transformation of identity: Abram, Sarai, and Jacob --
With the angels into the abyss --
The pinnacle of sacrifice --
Moses I: God as dreadful spirit of freedom. The Jews as unwelcome sojourners and slaves --
The fiery tree as revelation of being and becoming --
Return to the tyrannical kingdom --
Back to the land of doubling down --
The inevitable interregnum of chaos and the guiding spirit --
The subsidiary state as alternative to tyranny and slavery --
The Commandments as explicit revelation of custom --
Moses II: Hedonism and infantile temptation. Materialism and orgiastic celebration --
Desperate reestablishment of the covenant - Jonah and the eternal abyss. Jonah repents of his virtue --
