Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-544).

God as a creative spirit -- The spirit of man in the highest place -- The real and its representation -- Eve from Adam -- In God's image -- The image of God in the eternal garden -- Pride versus the sacred moral order -- The incompleteness of Adam and the arrival of Eve -- The eternal sins of Eve and Adam -- The eternal serpent -- Naked suffering as the fruit of sin -- Loss of Paradise and the flaming sword -- The identity of sacrifice and work -- The hostile brothers of good and evil -- The sacred patterning of the political -- The good shepherd as archetypal leader -- The sacrifice pleasing to God -- Creatively possessed by the spirit of resentment -- Humility and faith versus pride, despair, and vengeful anger -- Fratricide, then worse -- Giants in the land -- Sin and the return of chaos -- Salvation by the wise and the reestablishment of the world -- The faithless son doomed to enslavement -- Lucifer and the engineers -- Pride and the fall, reprise: Descent into hell itself -- Inability to understand one another -- God-or else -- Go forth -- The devil at the crossroads -- Life as a sacrificial secession -- Sex and parasitism -- Sacrifice and transformation of identity: Abram, Sarai, and Jacob -- With the angels into the abyss -- The pinnacle of sacrifice -- The Jews as unwelcome sojourners and slaves -- The fiery tree as revelation of being and becoming -- Return to the tyrannical kingdom -- Back to the land of doubling down -- The inevitable interregnum of chaos and the guiding spirit -- The subsidiary state as alternative to tyranny and slavery -- The Commandments as explicit revelation of custom -- Materialism and orgiastic celebration -- Desperate reestablishment of the covenant -- Jonah repents of his virtue.