This volume explores the whole inner story of modern culture since the Dark Ages, treating modern man's unique position as the creator of his own mythology.

This ed. originally published: Viking Penguin, 1968.

pt. I. The ancient vine : Experience and authority ; The world transformed ; The word behind words -- pt. II. The waste land : The love-death ; Phoenix fire ; The balance -- pt. III. The way and the life : The crucified ; The paraclete -- pt. IV. New wine : The death of "God" ; The earthly paradise.