The study features the five most important and most efficacious themes of Western spirituality in their ancient historical origins and in their unfolding up to early modernity: Divine names, Microkosmos-Makrokosmos, theories of creation, the idea of spiritual spaces, and the concepts of eschatological history.

Preface.- A. Introduction.-Fantasy and the Historiography of Imagination.-Outlines of Perennial Philosophy.- B. Glory.-Divine Names.-Kosmos Anthropos.-Archetypes.-Spiritual Spaces.- C. Theology of Time.-The Return of Time.-Epochs and Eras.-Translatio Sapientiae.-Schelling¿s "World-Ages".- Bibliography.