The Two Hands of God: The Myths of Polarity

By Alan Watts

Ranging across Hindu, Chinese, Gnostic, Zoroastrian and Christian sources, Watts assembles the world's myths of duality: light and dark, God and devil, self and other. His argument is that apparent opposites are not warring enemies but the two hands of a single reality, each defining the other. Generously illustrated with primary texts, it is among his richest and most scholarly works.