Chapter I. — The Inner Life and the Tao-Teh-King. . 1- 16 Chapter IL— The Inner Life 17-33
Chapter ITT. — Mysticism 34- 58
Chapter IV. — Simplicity 59- 71
Chapter V.— The Sage 72-88
Chapter VI. — Laotzse 89-104
Chapter VII.— Longevity 105-123
Chapter VIII. — Nature Worship 124-135
Chapter IX.— Tao 136-151
Chapter X.— Teh 152-166
Chapter XL— Life, Love, Light and Will 167-180
Chapter XII.— A Shawnee Tale 182-195
Chapter XIII.— "Non-Action" 196-210
Chapter XIV.— Nature 211-219
Chapter XV. — An Appendix on Jean Jacques Rousseau's Ideas 220-225 in
BY THE SAME AUTHOR:
Lectures on Mysticism and Talks on Kindred Subjects . Chicago, 1896.
Lectures on Mysticism and Nature Worship . Chicago, 1897.
A Sufi Interpretation of Omar Khayyam and Fitzgerald. New York, 1902.
Jesus, a Poet, Prophet, Mystic and Man of Freedom. New York, 1912.
Articles on Mysticism, Sufism and Kindred Subjects in The International Encyclopedia, The Cyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (S. M. Jackson), Encyclopedia Americana (1904), etc., etc.
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Preface
These chapters were originally lectures to a small, but select company. They are now revised and published for a larger world. They claim not to be exhaustive, but only an attempt in direction of a mystic interpretation of the Tao-Teh-King, a manner of reading that famous book but little practiced and less understood. The only proper way of reading that book is in the light of mysticism. The book can certainly not be handled like a Confucian document.
I lay no claim to be a Sinologist. I have, however, in many places examined the texts and made translations differing somewhat from others. Elsewhere I have used all the known translations, with which I have usually agreed.
It is more than thirty years since I began in this country to call attention to the Tao-Teh-King. It was then an almost unknown book. Since then, several translations and paraphrases have been published in this country and articles of more or less value have appeared in magazines, but much remains to be done if this treasure is to become known where it ought to be known. I hope my undertaking may be a step in that direction. Without the generosity of the theosophists before whom the original lectures were delivered, the book could not have been published. I owe them my profound thanks.
C. H. A. BJERREGAARD.
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