CONTENTS: Preface, 1. The Early Sources of Saivism, 2.The Beginnings of Kashmir Saivism, 3. The Conceptual Tantric Background, 4. The Tantric Formulation, 5. The Divinization of the Body, 6. The Nature of the Absolute, 7. The Nature of the Doctrine of Vibration, 8. The Nature of Knowledge, 9. The Emission of Categories, 10. The Soteriology of Bondage and Liberation, 11. The Nature of Grace, 12. Forms of Initiation, 13. Spirituality as a Form of Philosophy, 14. Spirituality of Interiority as a Means of Freedom, Appendix: Kula Lineage, Bibliography, Index.