Appeal to the
Conscience, 35.--Inadequacy of the Roman Religion, 35.--Skepticism,
37.--Imperial Power, 38.--The Purification of Souls, 39.--Hope of
Immortality, 42.--Conclusion, 43.

III. ASIA MINOR ... 46

Arrival of Cybele at Rome, 46.--Her Religion in Asia Minor, 47.--Religion
at Rome under the Republic, 51.--Adoption of the Goddess Ma-Bellona,
53.--Politics of Claudius, 55.--Spring Festival, 56.--Spread of the
Phrygian Religion in the Provinces, 57.--Causes of Its Success, 58.--Its
Official Recognition, 60.--ARRIVAL OF OTHER CULTS: Men, 61.--Judaism,
63.--Sabazius, 64.--Anahita, 65.--The Taurobolium, 66.--Philosophy,
70.--Christianity, 70.--Conclusion, 71.

IV. EGYPT ... 73

Foundation of Serapis Worship, 73.--The Egyptian Religion Hellenized,
75.--Diffusion in Greece, 79.--Adoption at Rome, 80.--Persecutions,
82.--Adoption Under Caligula, 84.--Its History, 85.--Its Transformation,
86.--Uncertainty in Egyptian Theology, 87.--Insufficiency of Its Ethics,
90.--Power of Its Ritual, 93.--Daily Liturgy, 95.--Festivals, 97.--Doctrine
of Immortality, 99.--The _Refrigerium_, 101.

{iv} V. SYRIA ... 103

The Syrian Goddess, 103.--Importation of New Gods by Syrian Slaves,
105.--Syrian Merchants, 107.--Syrian Soldiers, 112.--Heliogabalus and
Aurelian, 114.--Value of Semitic Paganism, 115.--Animal Worship,
116.--Baals, 118.--Human Sacrifice, 119.--Transformation of the Sacerdotal
Religion, 120.--Purity, 121.--Influence of Babylon, 122.--Eschatology,
125.--THEOLOGY: God is Supreme, 127.--God is Omnipotent, 129.--God is
Eternal and Universal, 130.--Semitic Syncretism, 131.--Solar Henotheism,
133.

VI. PERSIA ... 135

Persia and Europe, 135.--Influence of the Achemenides, 136.--Influence of
Mazdaism, 138.--Conquests of Rome, 139.--Influence of the Sassanides,
140.--Origin of the Mysteries of Mithra, 142.--Persians in Asia Minor,
144.--The Mazdaism of Anatolia, 146.--Its Diffusion in the Occident,
149.--Its Qualities, 150.--Dualism, 151.--The Ethics of Mithraism,
155.--The Future Life, 158.--Conclusion, 159.

VII. ASTROLOGY AND MAGIC ... 162

Prestige of Astrology, 162.--Its Introduction in the Occident,
163.--Astrology Under the Empire, 164.--Polemics Powerless Against
Astrology, 166.--Astrology a Scientific Religion, 169.--The Primitive Idea
of Sympathy, 171.--Divinity of the Stars, 172.--Transformation of the Idea
of God, 174.--New Gods, 175.--Big Years, 176.--Astrological Eschatology,
177.--Man's Relation to Heave