Book one: Before life came -- The stuff of the universe -- The within of things -- The earth in its early stages -- Book two: Life -- The advent of life -- The expansion of life -- Demeter -- Book three: thought -- The birth of thought -- The deployment of the noosphere -- The modern earth -- Book four: Survival -- The collective issue -- Beyond the collective: the hyper-personal -- The ultimate earth -- The Christian phenomenon -- The essence of the phenomenon of man.