Eleusis and Enlightenment

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Introduction

 The Age of the Mysteries

 1 Freemasonry and Enlightenment

 2 Summary of Chapters

1 The Word Mystery

 1 Christianity not Mysterious: John Toland

 2 The Trinitarian Controversy

 3 Toland not Deist

 4 ‘Unfolding Nature’s Mysteries, and discoursing on Religion’

2 The Religion of the Patriarchs

 1 William Stukeley: The Antiquarian Freemason

 2 On the Mysterys

 3 The Egyptian Society

 4 True Noachida: James Anderson

 5 Chance Rays of the Hebrews: Andrew Michael Ramsay

3 Law, Agriculture, and the Afterlife

 1 William Warburton and the Ancient Legislators

 2 Agriculture after the Deluge: Noël-Antoine Pluche

 3 The Origin and the End of Society: Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger

4 The Common Temple of the World

 1 The Venemous Cure: Voltaire and Warburton

 2 The Festival of Universal Liberty: Antoine Court de Gébelin

 3 Illuminating the Heathen World: Johann August Starck

 4 The Essence of Religion: Nicolas-Marie Leclerc de Sept-Chênes

5 Christianity Revealed

 1 St John the Egyptian: Christian Ernst Wünsch

 2 The Elysium of Reason: Charles-François Dupuis

Conclusion

 Divided Testaments

Bibliography

 Manuscripts

 Printed Primary Literature

 Secondary Literature

Index