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Index

Please note: the terms are indexed where they are first cited in the work; subsequent citations (in most cases) are not listed.  Spelling in some case is idiosyncratic to Spengler and German of 1918; this is especially true of Chinese names.

A

ab initio, 299

above-ground, 301

absolute limits, 332

Acanthus-shoot, 316

acid (break up), 300

Aeschylus , 313, 320,321

affections, 303

Agamemnon, 321

agora, 317, 328

Ahriman (Persians), 312

Ajax, 318

Alchemy, 306

Alcibiades, 316

Alexander, 336

Alexandria (naval architects) 334

Alfarabi, 306

Alkindi, 306

Allah (Mohammedans), 312

Altair, 331

Ananke, 313

Anaxagoras (optical theories), 311

Anaximander, 327

animus, 304

antecedents, 318

Antigone, 318

Apollonian physics 304, soul image 305, drama 318, mimes 322, choral lyric 324, souls 325, sculptor 329, fresco 329, Africa 333, homeland 334

apperceptions, 303

Arabian Culture, 306, dualism of 307

Aramaic East, 305

Aristotle, 318, 321, 323

Associations, 303

association-threads, 301

âtmân, 304

Attic, 317, 328

Avesta, 306, 307

avowed, 308

 

B

Baader, 307

Bach, 323

Baghdad (orthodox wisdom), 307

Baghdad, school of, 306

Baldr, 319

Baroque physics 305

barrows, 333

Basra, school of, 306

beast dances, 320

Beelzebub (Jews), 312

Beethoven, 323

below-ground, 301

Belvedere Apollo, 324

Betelgeuse, 331

beyond good and evil, 315

biga-team, 305

Brain-paths, 301, region graphically,302

breadth, 301

Broeotians, 327

Brunelleschi (Pazzi chapel, Florence), 313

Bruno, 327, 331

burgher, 328

 

C

California gold rush, 336

capacity, 314

Capella, 331

carpe diem, 315

Carthaginians (Africa), 333

cast, 313

Castilian dignity, 323

cathedrals, 308

causa sui, 307

causal necessity, 303

Cervantes, 319

Chorus, 324

Christendom (Early-Arabian ethos), 311

Christmas  (12 long nights), 325

cinema-drama, 322

civis Romanus, 335

Classical, see Apollonian

cognate, 301

cognizing ego, 336

Columbus , 310, 334

Comeille, 323

compass 333

Conscious,301

Consensus of the Orthodox, 309

Consensus, 306

Constantinian style, 329

Copernicus, 310, 330, 331

corporeal-static, 331

counterpoint (birth), 333

course, 301

Crusades, 308

culture-man, 302

 

D

Dante, 319

Della Porta, 314

Demeter320

Democritus  (optical theories), 306, 311, 331

Descartes, 307

Destiny, 302

detraquee, 328

Diogenes, 313

Dionysus (festivals), 320

dithyrambic, 320

divine, 300

Don Juan, 322

Don Quixote, 318, 324

Dryads, 336

dynamics, 314

 

E

Early Fathers, Early 306

Eblis (Mohammedans ), 312

ego and tu 303

ego habeo factum, 302, 309

Egyptians, 333

Eleatic difficulty, 305

Electra, 318

electro-dynamics, 301

Eleusinian Mysteries, 324

Elizabethan stage, 326

ellipsoid, 331

Empedocles, 327

Empire the Sun will never set, 336

Enlightenment, 304

Epicureans 315

episodic, 319

epochal, 319

esoteric, 326

Euclid, 327

Euclidean geometry surface, 318

excelsior, 309

exercitus  335

 

F

Faust, 322

Faustian305, 308, 329, 333, soul myth 337

feci, 302

feeling-complexes, 301

Fichte, 315

fides exercitus, exercituum, 335

first & second subjects (sonata), 305

Florence, 328

form, 314, 317

Franks, 336

Freethinker, 316

fugue, 316

functions, 301

 

G

Galileo 306, 307

Gauss, 327

German Romanticism 307

Germany, 337

global system, 335

Gluck, 323

Gnostics (texts), 306

Goethe 300, 316, 318, 319, 324

gold-ground pictures (early Florentine & Rhenish), 329

Golo, 322

Gorres, 307

Gothic 304, 308, 323

graphology, 316

Greek 318, 322, 333

Gregory VII, 336

gunpowder (birth), 333

 

H

Hamlet, 324

Handel, 323

Hansa, 333

Hapsburgs, Spanish, 336

Hedda Gabler, 318

Heimarmene, 320

Heimweh, 334

Helios, 325

Hellas (fresco), 323

Heraclitus 315, 327

Hercules (constellation), 331

Hipparchus, 330

Hohenstaufen, empire 308, 310, 322, 336

Hölderlin, 335

Homer 305, 312, 313, 315

 

I

idiom, 309

image, 332

imaginary soul-body, 303

immanent, 313, 326

imperatoris, 317

Imperial Army, 335

Imperium Romanum (religiosity), 306

impress, 305

indeformable, 320

Indian (soul-image), 305

ineffable, 300

infinite relations, 316

Innocent III, 336

intellectus, 312

intensity, 301, 314

ipso facto, 307, 314

isotopes, 327

 

J

Jacobins (Goddess Reason), 308

Jan van Eyck, 309

Jesuits, 314

Jewish philosophers (Medieval), 307

Joachim of Floris, 315

jurisprudence, 328

 

K

Ka, 303

Kabbala, 307

Kalaam 307

Kant 299, 307, 308, 310, 327, 335

Kepler, 330

Kismet, 307

knightly epic, 323

Kohlhass, 322

 

L

Latium, 334

Le Misanthrope, 318

Lear's madness, 321

Legatus, 335

legion, 335

Leibniz, 327

Leonardo, 329

light powers, 331

light-indices, 331

Logos, 303

Loki, 319

Loyola 314, 320

Luther, 320

 

M

Macrocosm, 302, 334

Magian  308

mainspring, 301

Manicheans, 306

man-knowledge, 300

Marees, 309

material, 314

Meander, 316

meditated, 300

Meister Eckhardt, 335

Mesopotamia 337

Michelangelo,  327

milieu, 318

monologue (drama), 324

Moorish Spain, Sicily & the East, 307

more geometrico method, 307

motives, 303

Murtad 311

Mysteries, 320

Mystic, 307

 

N

naenia

Nature-knowledge, 300, 307

Nechludov, 309

Neo-Platonists, 306

Nephesh, 304, 312

Nero, 333

Nibelungenlied, 328

Nietzsche 308, 315, 335

noblesse oblige, 323

non-Homeric early religion, 320

North Pole, 335

Northern dead (warriors), 333, 332

Numen, 300

numina, 300

 

O

Oedipus Rex, 321

oil-painting, 333

Oken, 307

Oracle, 320

Oratorios, 323

Oreads, 336

Origen, 306

Orlando Lasso, 323

Ormuzd (Persians), 312

Othello, 318

Otto the Great, 336

 

P

Paestum, 317

Palestrina, 323

Pan, 325

pantheism, 312

parallelism, 301

Pascal, 316

Passions, 323

patria, 334

Paul  306

percipient, 311

Pericles, 316

peripeteia, 320

Persians, 306

persona regis, 317

perspective (lateral limits overrunning frame), 330

Petrinism, 309

phallic, 320

Philoctetes, 318, 324

Philosopher's Stone, 306, 307

Phrynichus, 321

physiognomic, 300

planetary character, 334

plastic-static, 314

Plato (his celebrated cave), 311

pleonasm, 312

Plotinus, 306

plurality, 317

Plutarch 306, 316

Pneuma (higher),312, 329

pneumatics, 306

poems (contemporary), 324

point-patriae, 335

Polycletus, 321

Polygnotus, 330

portraits (Constantinian age), 306

Posidonius, 306

posthumous, 329

Pre-Socratic philosophy, 305

prime-phenomenon, 315

primus inter pares, 312

principle teachers (of the Stoa), 305

profanum vulgus, 328

Prometheus, 321

propinquity, 330

Propylrea, 327

Protagoras, 311, 327

Provence, 328

pseudomorphosis, 309

psyche, 312

psychics, 306

Punic War, 333

Pythagoras, 330

 

Q

quand mime, 320

 

R

Raskolnikov, 309

rationalism 308

Ravenna 329

Realm, 335

revelation-religions, 307

Riemann, 318

Roman army, 335 citizenship, 335, civic deities, 335, Empire 315, 336, and Africa 336

Roman Empire, 305

Romance (drama), 323

Ruach, 303

ruach, 312

Russian (prime symbol), 309

 

S

sailing, 332

sarcophagi (Early Christian-Late-Roman) 329

Savonarola, 328

Saxon Emperors, 335

Schelling, 307

Schirazi, 307

Scholasticism, 304, 307

Schoolmen, 305

Schopenhauer 308

Schutz, 323

scientific psychology, 299

sea-peoples, 334

Seneca, 317

Shakespeare, 324,Othello, 318; 319

solar systems, 331

soliloquy, (in drama), 324

somatic, 310, 314, 321

Son of Man, 309

sonata, 305

Sophists, 304

Sophocles ,318, 321

soul science, 303

South Pole, 335

space-energy (capacity and intensity), 311

Spanish conquest, 336, grandezza, 323, theatre, 323

Spinoza, 307

Spirit, 303

Sprit and Soul (Magian), 306

St. John, Gospel of, 306

starlight, 332

static, 313

steamship (Apollonian), 334

stellar system, 331

Stendhal, 319

stereometric, 305

Stoa, 305

Stoics (and struggle), 315

Substance (soul structure), 306

sun, 332

symbol, 329, 332

 

T

Talmud, 306, 307

Tasso, 324, 325

tectonic, 313

telescope, 330

Thespis (in full sunlight), 324

Thespis, 321

things-in-themselves, 311

thought –functions, 301

Thracian festival (nocturnal epiphany of Dionysus), 324

three unities, 323

threnos, 321

Tirso da Molina, 323

Tolstoi, 309

Trachinire (drama), 324

tragedy, 337

tragic chorus (germ), 321

Twelfth Night, 325

two soul-substances, 329

 

U

unconscious, 301

Urbs Roma, 334

 

V

Vasco da Gama, 334

vault of heaven, 330

vector, 314, 315

Vega, 331

Venetian music, 326

Vignola (the Gesu), 313

Viking, 330

volitionless, 314

Voluntas superior intellectu, 308

voluntas, 311, 312

vous, 305

voύς, 306

 

W

Wagner, 327

Walther von der Vogelweide, 324

Werther, 324

Will-functions, 301

Wolfram von Eschenbach, 319, 324

World-as-Nature, 300

world-cavern, 306

XYZ

Yahwe (Jews), 312

 

Greek

άπρόσωπος, 317

άσώματοος, 317

άταραξία, 305

άταραξία, 313

άταραξία, 317

άταραξία, 323

δραμα, 318

δράμα, 320

δράματα, 320

δρώμενα, 320

δωδεκαήμερον, 325

έπιθυμήτικον, 305

έπιθυμία, 309

ζώον  πολικον, 317

ζώον πολιτκόν, 336

ήθοζ, 320

ήθος,

ήθος, 318

ήθος, 321

θεωρία, 313

Θυμοειδές, 305

θυμός, 309

κάθαρσις, 322

καλοκάγαθία, 317

λογιστικόν, 305

μΰθος, 318

μύθος, 321

ναύαρχον  σώμα  βασίλειον, 320

νούs, 309

νούς, 313

περιπέτεια, 321

περιπέτεια, 321

πνεύμα, 306

προσώπον, 316

προσώπον, 317

σώμα  πνεματικόν, 306

σώμα ψυχικόν, 306

σώμα, 319

σώμα, 320

σώμα, 322

σώματα πόλεως, 317

σωϕροσύνη, 305

σωΦροσύνη, 313

σωφροσύνη, 317

τήν έαυτού  ψυχήν, 309

τραγώδία, 321

ψυχή, 306

Decline of the West, Chapter IX: Soul-Image  & Life-Feeling. (I) On The Form Of The Soul 
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