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"Serpent in the Sky" by John West

Acknowledgments                                     

Foreword to the first edition                    

Foreword to the revised edition               

Preface

Introduction

Pythagoras Rides Again

• The development of orthodox Egyptology in the historical context
• The pyramids and pyramidology
• The Symbolist interpretation of Egypt
• Pythagoreanism in history
• Looking for phi
• The question of secrecy
• The linguistic thesis
• The mathematical thesis
• Number : Key to function , process and principle

Serpent in the Sky

• Divide Duality
• Phi : the Golden Section
• Phi : consequence of scission
• The irrational as a function
• Pythagoras reborn
• Form and frequency
• Word and world
• Measure , volume and the eye
• Art old and new
• Egyptian art
• Art , clarity and logic
• Art for whom ?
• Art as 'magic'
• Symbolic art
• Nummary

Science and Art in Ancient Egypt

• Astronomy
• The calendar
• Mathematics
• The exception : 2/3
• Medicine
• The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus 

Myth, symbolism, language, literature

• Symbolism
• Language
• Literature
• The Eloquent Peasant

The Temple of Man

• The axes
• Deliberate effacement of reliefs and inscriptions
• The old as 'seed' of the new
• The grid
• The Royal Apron
• Meaning of the axes
• The five kings of the Holy of Holies

Egypt: Heir to Atlantis

• The origins of Egyptian civilization
• The mystery of the Sphinx and the riddle of 'Atlantis'
• The evidence : two approaches
• How 'hard' is geology ?
• The nature of the erosion of the Sphinx
• The evidence : positive approach
• The evidence : negative approach
• The Sphinx and the sand
• Erosion damage to other Egyptian temples and monuments
• Chemical weathering and insolation
• Chephren : non-builder of the Sphinx
• The riddle of the face
• A question of style
• Suggestions and one answer
• Summary
• Atlantis : a brief recapitulation
• The orthodox view
• Egyptian chronological accounts
• The implications

Appendix I: The Gauri / Lehner survey

Appendix II: Sphinx update

Afterword: Ringing out the old

• La Querelle des Egyptologues
• Prophets on Hold
• Fortress Egypt
• Laing Siege to Switzerland or : Prophets with Firepower

Selected bibliography

• Works by R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz and the Symbolists
• Gurdjieff and His Followers
• Esotericism and Anti-Materialism
• Egypt and Egyptology
• General and Popular Works
• Specialized Books
• Pattern , Proportion , Number
• Atlantis and Lost Civilization
• Astrology
• Progress , Darwinian Evolution and Other Fantasies

Index

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