In the beginning. God as a creative spirit

The spirit of man in the highest place

The real and its representation

Eve from Adam

In God's image

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

The eternal serpent

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

God-or else

Abraham : God as spirited call to adventure. Go forth

The devil at the crossroads

Life as a sacrificial secession

Sex and parasitism

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

Conclusion.