AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: To Preserve the CosmosI: Matter and Embodiment1 Embodiment in the Platonic Tradition2 Matter as Cosmic Instrument3 Matter as Obstacle to the Embodied Soul4 Theurgy as Demiurgy

II: The Nature of the Embodied Soul5 The Descent of the Soul6 Soul as Mediator7 The Constraints of Embodiment8 The Freedom of Immortal Bodies9 The Paradox of Embodiment10 Descending to Apotheosis11 Eros and the One of the Soul

III: Liturgy of the Cosmos12 Cult and Cosmos13 Ritual and the Human Hierarchy14 Ritual as Cosmogony15 Material Sunthemata16 Intermediate Sunthemata: Seeing and Hearing the Gods17 Intermediate Sunthemata: Naming the Gods18 Noetic Sunthemata: Mathematics and the Soul19 Noetic Sunthemata: The Theurgy of Numbers20 The Sunthema of the Sun

IV: Toward a Universal Platonism21 The Platonizing of Popular Religion

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