Part of the "Emergence of Reason from the Spirit of Mystery" series, this volume looks at Orphism and early Greek philosophy.

This volume - the first in a new series on The Emergence of Reason from the Spirit of Mystery - addresses the question of the logic of religious awareness, specifically the logic of mystery, the purpose being to try to explain what makes a religion a testament of truth. In this sense, mystery forms the living core of religion. Through studying ancient Greek rationality, it is hoped that a greater understanding of modern European rationality will be reached.

Rationality in its various expressions and innumerable applications sustains understanding and our sense of reality. It is traditionally differentiated according to its sources in the soul: in consciousness, in reason, in experience, and in elevation. Such a functional approach, however, leaves us searching for the common foundation harmonizing these rationalities. The perennial quest to resolve the aporias of rationality is finding in contemporary science’s focus on origins, on the generative roots of reality, tantalizing hints as to how this may be accomplished. This project is enhanced by the wave of recent phenomenology/ontopoiesis of life, which reveals the workings of the logos at the root of beingness and all rationality, whereby we gaze upon the prospect of a New Enlightenment. In the rays of this vision the revival of the intuitions of classical Islamic metaphysics, particularly intuition of the continuity of beingness in the gradations of life, receive fresh confirmation.