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| Foreword | p. xiii |
| Conflicting Ideas of Time | p. 1 |
| Cyclic Time and Progress | |
| The Need for a Theory of Time | |
| An Excuse for Pessimism? | |
| Modern and Ancient Sources | |
| Prehistorical to Posthistorical | p. 12 |
| History and Absolute Change | |
| Self-Neutralizing Change | |
| Recurrence and Actual Change | |
| Civilization and the Natural Order | |
| Abstract and Concrete Time | |
| Freedom and Cosmic Conditioning | |
| The Principle of Plenitude | p. 25 |
| The Cause of Cosmic Descent | |
| Plenitude Understood in Antiquity | |
| The Real and the Possible | |
| The Finite and the Infinite | |
| The Reality of Created Being | |
| From Form to Matter | p. 37 |
| The Function of Duality | |
| Form and Matter in Process | |
| Three Levels of Change | |
| Evils from Cosmic Necessity | |
| Cyclic Law Reflected in Number | |
| A Manichaean Idea of Evil | |
| The Rhythms of Time | p. 51 |
| Time's Union of Opposites | |
| No Eternal Recurrence | |
| The Law of Cyclic Analogy | |
| Time, Creation, and Causal Transmission | |
| Causality Theory and Theology | |
| Cosmic Descent in Western Tradition | p. 64 |
| The Four Mythical Ages | |
| A Platonic View of Universal Time | |
| The End Time in Biblical History | |
| The Hermetic Apocalypse | |
| Disorder a Condition for New Order | |
| 'The Great World Decays in the Little' | p. 80 |
| The Historical Position of the Theory | |
| The Microcosm and the Macrocosm | |
| The Traditional Arguments | |
| Cosmic Pessimism and the Modern Reaction | |
| The Kali-Yuga | p. 93 |
| The Four Ages in Indian Tradition | |
| Characteristics of Successive Ages | |
| The Beginning of the Dark Age | |
| Interpretations of the Cyclic Changes | |
| The Counterfeiting of Spirituality | |
| Rising Entropy and Evolution | p. 105 |
| The Cosmic Process According to Science | |
| Only Physical Disorder is Probable | |
| The Entropy Law and Biology | |
| The Relation to Evolution | |
| The Fundamental Problem of Evolution | |
| The Submergence of Distinctions | p. 117 |
| Visible Signs of Entropy | |
| Personal Effects of Depleted Identity | |
| Erosion of Social Barriers | |
| Entropy in Nationalities and Cultures | |
| Harmony from Differences | |
| Political and Economic Indistinction | |
| Conflation of Knower and Known | |
| The Spiritual Dimension of Distinctions | |
| 'The Eternity of the World' | p. 138 |
| The Age of the World in Tradition | |
| Cosmic Time in Judaism | |
| Christian Adaptations of Tradition | |
| Transition to Theoretical Arguments | |
| The Arguments of Proclus | p. 152 |
| Christian and Pagan Ideas of Time | |
| The Eighteen Arguments | |
| Religious Orthodoxy and Timeless Creation | |
| Transition to a New Cosmology | |
| The Arguments of Philoponus | p. 168 |
| Ancient Beliefs About Creation | |
| The Infinity Arguments | |
| Corrections to the Idea of Infinity | |
| The Mature Creation Paradox | |
| The Question of Coherence | |
| An Ontology of Time | p. 182 |
| A Dependent Mode of Being | |
| The Three Levels of Being | |
| Time, Soul, and Cosmic Process | |
| Time, Creation, and the Forms | |
| Unification under One Concept | |
| Temporal Curvature and Contraction | p. 197 |
| A Modern Analysis of Time | |
| A and B Series and Cyclic Order | |
| Cyclic Form and Cosmic Change | |
| Contraction and Temporal Infinity | |
| If Time Ceased to Pass | |
| The Structure of Cycles | p. 210 |
| Numerical Clues from Antiquity | |
| A Universal Number | |
| The Period for the Kali-Yuga | |
| Further Numerical Relationships | |
| Cyclic Periods in History | p. 221 |
| Connection of Theory and Fact | |
| Mythical History and the Bible | |
| The Platonic Year or Great Year | |
| The Length of the Kali-Yuga | |
| The Mayan Chronology | |
| To Find Intermediate Dates | |
| An Alternative Time-Scale | |
| The Time of the End | p. 238 |
| Imitation, Counterfeit, and Confusion | |
| The Role of Evolutionist Beliefs | |
| The Real Opposite of Order | |
| Understanding the Great Beast | |
| The Inversion of Religion | |
| Liberation Through Knowledge | p. 253 |
| Slaves of Plenitude | |
| Changes that Require Darkness | |
| Moral Right and Wrong | |
| Adjustable Quantities? | |
| Destruction and Transformation | |
| Index | p. 265 |
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