Chapter 17 sets out the historical factors behind the differing conceptions in India and Greece of the interrelation of universe with inner self and the absence from Greece of karma.

Chapter 11 comparesthe interiorisation of the cosmic rite of passage in India (sacrifice) and Greece (mystic initiation), identifies the importance of the soul (psuche) in mystic initiation, which is interiorised in Herakleitos, in Parmenides and in Plato. This Greek interiorisation promoted ideas akin to the coalescence of mental with abstract monism promoted by the interiorisation of the cosmic rite of passage in India.

Chapter 13 describes the projection and interiorisation (introjection) of abstract value. The idea of the comprehensive inner self as constituting a person's identity is first indicated in the Homeric Achilles’ evaluation, in a crisis of reciprocity, of his psuche, which is also the first of many passages in which death is envisaged as an economic transaction, for instance in Herakleitos, who is also the first to focus on the nature of the living psuche, and who also exemplifies the Greek interiorisation of unifying abstract value.