Moses Hess. The Holy History of Mankind and Other Writings.

Contents

Introduction

Chronology of the life of Moses Hess

Bibliographical note

The Holy History of Mankind

PART ONE

THE PAST AS THE FOUNDATION OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN

1 – The First Main Period of the Holy History – or the History of Revelation of God, the Father

First Period: India. From Adam to the Deluge

Second Period: Assyria. From Noah to Abraham

Third Period: Egypt. From Abraham to Moses

Fourth Period: Palestine – Phoenicia. From Moses to David

Fifth Period: Babylonia – Persia. From David to the Exile

Sixth Period: Greece. From Ezra to Matathias Maccabaeus

Seventh Period: Rome. From Matathias Maccabaeus to Jesus Christ

2 – The Second Main Period of the Holy History – or the History of Revelation of God, the Son

First Period: Rome. From Christ to the Migration of the Peoples

Second Period: France. From Leo the Great to St Gregory

Third Period: England. From St Gregory to Charles Martell

Fourth Period: Saxons, Slavs, and Scandinavians. From Charles Martell to Gregory the Seventh

Fifth Period: Prussia. From Gregory the Seventh to the Exile [of the Papacy]

Sixth Period: South America. From John Wycliffe to Martin Luther

Seventh Period: North America. From Martin Luther to Benedict Spinoza

3 – The Third Main Period of the Holy History – or the History of Revelation of God, the Holy Spirit

First Period: North America. From Benedict Spinoza to the French Revolution

Second Period: Europe. The Revolution

An Interlude (instead of an Introduction) to a correct judgment of these pages

PART TWO

THE FUTURE, AS THE CONSEQUENCE OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED

First Chapter: The Natural Striving of Our Age or the Foundation of the Holy Kingdom

Second Chapter: Our Present Plight as the Mediator of the Foundation of the Kingdom

Third Chapter: The New Jerusalem and the End of Days

SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM

A COMMUNIST CREDO: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

CONSEQUENCES OF A REVOLUTION OF THE PROLETARIAT

Appendix: Christ and Spinoza (from Rome and Jerusalem)