Front matter

NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1911

Copyright, 1911

By DODD, MEAD & COMPANY

Published, October, 1911

CONTENTS

BOOK THE FIRST

IN THE EXCHANGE

CHAPTER PAGE

Al-Fatihah v

To Man 3

I Probing the Trivial 5

II The City of Baal 14

III Via Dolorosa 25

IV On the Wharf of Enchantment 34

V The Cellar of the Soul 46

VI The Summer Afternoon of a Sham 58

VII In the Twilight of an Idea 70

VIII With the Huris 83

BOOK THE SECOND

IN THE TEMPLE

To Nature 97

I The Dowry of Democracy 99

II Subtranscendental 115

III The False Dawn 125

IV The Last Star 130

V Priesto-Parental 143

VI Flounces and Ruffles 154

VII The Howdaj of Falsehood 167

VIII The Kaaba of Solitude 181

IX Signs of the Hermit 192

X The Vineyard in the Kaaba 202

BOOK THE THIRD

IN KULMAKAN

To God 217

I The Disentanglement of the Me 219

II The Voice of the Dawn 231

III The Self Ecstatic 239

IV On the Open Highway 249

V Union and Progress 274

VI Revolutions Within and Without 287

VII A Dream of Empire 298

VIII Adumbrations 311

IX The Stoning and Flight 325

X The Desert 333

Al-Khatimah 341