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PAGAN REGENERATION
A STUDY OF MYSTERY INITIATIONS IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD
BY HAROLD R. WILLOUGHBY
[1929, copyright not renewed]
Title Page
Preface
Contents
Chapter I: Pagan Piety in the Graeco-Roman World
Chapter II: The Greater Mysteries At Eleusis
Chapter III: Dionysian Excesses
Chapter IV: Orphic Reform
Chapter V: The Regenerative Rites of the Great Mother
Chapter VI: Death and New Birth in Mithraism
Chapter VII: Isiac Initiation
Chapter VIII: The New Birth Experience in Hermeticism
Chapter IX: The Mysticism of Philo
Chapter X: The Social Significance of Mystery Initiation