The Golden Age

The Story of the Most Ancient Church. CONTENTS: The Successive Dispensations -- The Origin of Man -- The Preadamites -- The Church of the Golden Age -- Physiological Characteristics of Primeval Men -- Life in Paradise -- The Heaven of the Golden Age -- The Decline of the Golden Age -- The Age of the Patriarchs -- The Antedeluvians -- Noah and the Flood -- Legends of Creation -- Legends of the Golden Age -- Legends of the Fall and the Patriarchs -- Legends concerning Enoch -- Legends of the Flood. ILLUSTRATIONS AND DIAGRAMS: The Fall -- Noah in his Ark -- The Asherah, or Sacred Tree -- A Chart of the Ages -- The Involution and Evolution of the Word -- Swedenborg's Doctrine of Forms and Degrees -- The Assyrian Fish-god -- Chnemu modelling man -- The Fall -- Mexican representation of Eve, Cain and Abel, and the serpent.