The Ancient Roots of the "Other" Egypt --
Foreign Wonderland on the Nile: The Greek Writers --
Power and Influence of the Stars --
Alchemy: The Art of Transformation --
Gnosis: Creation as Flaw --
Hermetism: Thoth as Hermes Trismegistus --
Egypt of the Magical Arts --
The Spread of Egyptian Cults: Isis and Osiris --
The Renaissance of Hermetism and Hieroglyphs --
Travels to Egypt: Wonder upon Wonder --
Triumphs of Erudition: Kircher, Spencer, and Cudworth --
"Reformation of the Whole Wide World": The Rosicrucians --
The Ideal of a Fraternity: The Freemasons --
Goethe and Romanticism: "Thinking Hieroglyphically" --
Theosophy and Anthroposophy --
Pyramids, Sphinx, Mummies: A Curse on the Pharaohs --
Egypt a la Mode: Modern Egyptosophy and Afrocentrism --
Outlook: Egypt as Hope and Alternative.
