Two Hands of God

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"The Two Hands of God is a fascinating exploration and exposition of the myths of polarity, those crucial symbolic relationships such as light and darkness, good and evil, which illustrate the inner unity of opposites. It is a rich source of the themes that have made Alan W. Watts one of the most popular of contemporary philosophers. Those themes, centering on the idea that explicit opposition conceals implicit unity, are superbly illustrated here by a treasury of stories and myths from Chinese, Indian, Egyptian, Iranian, and Early Chirstian sources, and by twenty-three photographic plates to which detailed explications are supplied. The first section of the book deals with the inner unity of opposites as shown in Toaist, Buddhist, and Hindu myths and images. The second introduces the Middle Eastern myths of the conflict of good and evil. The third follows the disappearance of the inner unity to its extreme in the Christian mythology of Satan and hell. The concluding section, "Dismemberment Remembered," describes the restoration of opposites to their eternally implicit union in myths dealing with the creation of the world, the generation of offspring, and other themes."-Publisher.