In The Transcendence of the Cave, John Niemeyer Findlay concludes the project which has carried him over two series of Gifford Lectures: to argue that all descriptions of the human condition which fail to take into account the mystical and transcendental are necessarily incomplete and misleading. In this second series of lectures, Findlay completes his examination of phenomena which can be said to be of this world, and turns to a descriptive examination of the transcendent.