• 1: Introduction to interpreting the mysteries: old ways, new ways
• 2: Old ways: the reconstruction of Mithraic doctrine from iconography
• 3: The problem of referents: interpretation with reference to what?
• 4: Doctrine redefined
• Transition: from old ways to new ways
• 5: The Mithraic mysteries as symbol system. 1. Introduction and comparisons
• 6: Cognition and representation
• 7: The Mithraic mysteries as symbol system. 2. The mithraeum
• 8: Star-talk: the symbols of the Mithraic mysteries as language signs
• 9: The Mithraic mysteries as symbol system. 3. The tauroctony
• 10: Excursus