The background and the new past
The nature gods and human society: the sun-god
The sun-god and the dawn of moral ideas
The solar faith and the struggle with death
The pyramid texts and the Pharaoh's ascent to the sky
The solar faith and the celestial hereafter
The nature gods and human society: Osiris
Sunshine and verdure: the commingling of Re and Osiris and the triumph of Osiris
Conduct, responsibility, and the emergence of a moral order
The collapse of materialism and the earliest disillusionment
The earliest social prophets and the dawn of Messianism
The earliest crusade for social justice and the democratisation of moral responsibility
Popular appropriation of the old royal hereafter and the growth of magic
The judgment hereafter and magic
Universal dominion and earliest monotheism
The fall of Ikhnaton ; The age of personal piety ; Sacerdotalism and the end
The sources of our moral heritage.