Essays by Henry Corbin, Mircea Eliade, C. G. Jung, Max Knoll, G. van der Leeuw, Louis Massignon, Erich Neumann, Helmuth Plessner, Adolf Portmann, Henri-Charles Puech, Gilles Quispel, and Hellmut Wilhelm. With an introduction by Henry Corbin. Originally published in 1957. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to a

NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT vi LIST OF PLATES ix EDITOR'S FOREWORD xi THE TIME OF ERANOS by Henry Corbin xiii ERICH NEUMANN Art and Time [1951] 1 HENRI-CHARLES PuECH Gnosis and Time [1951] 38 GILLES QUISPEL Time and History to Patristic Christianity [1951] 85 LOUIS MASSIGNON Time in Islamic Thought [1951] 108 HENRY CORBIN Cyclical Time in Mazdaism and Ismailism [1951] 115 1. CYCLICAL TIME IN MAZDAISM: The Ages of the World in Zoroastrian Mazdaism 115 The Absolute Time of Zervanism 126 Dramaturgical Alterations 134 Time as a Personal Archetype 136 2. CYCLICAL TIME IN ISMAILISM: Absolute Time and Limited Time in the Ismaili Cosmology 144 The Periods and Cycles of Mythohistory 15 1 Resurrection as the Horizon of the Time of 'Combat for the Angel' 161 MIRCEA ELIADE Time and Eternity in Indian Thought [1951] 173 The Function of the Myths 173 Indian Myths of Time 175 The Doctrine of the Yugas 177 Cosmic Time and History 181 The 'Terror of Time' 184 Indian Symbolism of the Abolition of Time 186 The 'Broken Egg' 189 The Philosophy of Time in Buddhism 190 Images and Paradoxes 193 Techniques of Escape from Time 195 C. G. JUNG On Synchronicity [1951] 201 HELLMUT WILHELM The Concept of Time in the Book of Changes [1951] 212 HELMUTH PLESSNER On the Relation of Time to Death [1951] 233 MAX KNOLL Transformations of Science in Our Age [1951] 264 1. GROWING AWARENESS OF TYPICAL PAIRS OF ASPECTS IN PHYSICS, PSYCHOLOGY, AND OTHER SCIENCES: A. Nature of the Human Perceptive Faculty: Complementarity of the Perceptive Function and of the 'Observable' World 267 B. Perceptive Functions Necessary for Physicists 270 C. Pairs of Aspects in Physical Knowledge 273 D. Pairs of Aspects in the Description of Macroscopic Events 275 E. Complementary Pairs of Aspects in the Description of a Single Atom 275 F. Analogous Pairs of Aspects in Physics and Psychology 276 G. Further Pairs of Aspects in Various Sciences and in Ancient and Modern Philosophy 280 2. ASTROBIOLOGICAL, ASTROPSYCHOLOGIGAL, AND PHYSICAL TIME 285 A. Physical Effects of Solar Radiations 287 B. Some Astrobiological Phenomena 294 C. Reports and Hypotheses on the Induction of Typical Behavior Patterns by Meteorological Factors 298 D. Traces of Astrobiological Time in Ancient Civilizations 302 ADOLF PORTMANN Time in the Life of the Organism [1951] 308 G. VAN DER LEEUW Primordial Time and Final Time [1949] 324 Time 325 Myth 328 Primordial Time 335 Eschatology 337 Creation 343 History 346 Final Time 348 Sacrament 349 Conclusion 350 APPENDICES Biographical Notes 353 Contents of the Eranos-Jahrbucher 358 List of Abbreviations 369 INDEX 37I