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The Secret Doctrine
The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
By Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
SATYÂT NÂSTI PARO DHARMAH.
“There is no Religion higher than Truth.”
Volume I.
Cosmogenesis
Preface To The First Edition.
Preface To The Third And Revised Edition.
Introductory.
Proem: Pages From A Pre-Historic Record.
Part I. Cosmic Evolution.
Seven Stanzas From The “Book Of Dzyan”
Stanza I.
Stanza II.
Stanza III.
Stanza IV.
Stanza V.
Stanza VI.
Stanza VII.
Commentaries On The Seven Stanzas And Their Terms, According To Their Numeration, In Stanzas And Shlokas.
Stanza I.
Stanza II.
Stanza III.
Stanza IV.
Stanza V.
Stanza VI.
A Digression.
A Few Early Misconceptions Concerning Planets, Rounds, And Man.
The Septenary Division In Different Indian Systems.
Additional Facts And Explanations Concerning The Globes And The Monads.
Stanza VI.—Continued.
Stanza VII.
Part II. The Evolution Of Symbolism.
Section I. Symbolism and Ideographs.
Section II. The Mystery Language and Its Keys.
Section III. Primordial Substance and Divine Thought.
Section IV. Chaos: Theos: Kosmos.
Section V. On the Hidden Deity, Its Symbols and Glyphs.
Section VI. The Mundane Egg.
Section VII. The Days and Nights of Brahmâ.
Section VIII. The Lotus, as a Universal Symbol.
Section IX. The Moon; Deus Lunus, Phœbe.
Section X. Tree, Serpent, and Crocodile Worship.
Section XI. Demon est Deus Inversus.
Section XII. The Theogony of the Creative Gods.
Section XIII. The Seven Creations.
Section XIV. The Four Elements.
Section XV. On Kwan-Shi-Yin and Kwan-Yin.
Part III. Addenda. On Occult And Modern Science.
Section I. Reasons for These Addenda.
Section II. Modern Physicists are Playing at Blind Man's Buff.
“An Lumen Sit Corpus, Nec Non?”
Section III. Is Gravitation a Law?
Section IV. The Theories of Rotation in Science.
Current Hypotheses explaining the Origin of Rotation.
Hypotheses of the Origin of Planets and Comets.
Section V. The Masks of Science. Physics Or Metaphysics?
Section VI. An Attack on the Scientific Theory of Force by a Man of Science.
Section VII. Life, Force, or Gravity.
Section VIII. The Solar Theory.
Section IX. The Coming Force. Its Possibilities And Impossibilities.
Section X. On the Elements and Atoms.
Section XI. Ancient Thought in Modern Dress.
Section XII. Scientific and Esoteric Evidence for, and Objections to, the Modern Nebular Theory.
Section XIII. Forces—Modes of Motion or Intelligences?
Section XIV. Gods, Monads and Atoms.
Section XV. Cyclic Evolution and Karma.
The Secret Doctrine The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy By
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Author of “Isis Unveiled.”
Third and Revised Edition.
SATYÂT NÂSTI PARO DHARMAH.
Volume II.
Anthropogenesis
Preliminary Notes on The Archaic Stanzas, and the Four Pre-Historic Continents.
I. The Imperishable Sacred Land.
II. The Hyperborean.
III. Lemuria.
IV. Atlantis.
V. Europe.
Part I. Anthropogenesis.
Text.
Stanza I.
Stanza II.
Stanza III.
Stanza IV.
Stanza V.
Stanza VI.
Stanza VII.
Stanza VIII.
Stanza IX.
Stanza X.
Stanza XI.
Stanza XII.
Commentaries On the Twelve Stanzas and Their Terms, According To Their Numeration, In Stanzas And Shlokas.
Stanza I. Beginnings of Sentient Life.
Two Antediluvian Astronomers.
Stanza II. Nature Unaided Fails.
Creation of Divine Beings in the Exoteric Accounts.
Stanza II.—Continued.
The Chronology of the Brâhmans.
Stanza III. Attempts To Create Man.
Stanza IV. Creation Of The First Races.
On The Identity And Differences Of The Incarnating Powers.
Stanza IV.—Continued.
Stanza V. The Evolution of the Second Race.
The Divine Hermaphrodite.
Stanza VI. The Evolution Of The “Sweat-Born.”
A Few Words About “Deluges” And “Noahs.”
Stanza VII. From The Semi-Divine Down To The First Human Races.
I. Fission.
II. Budding.
III. Spores.
IV. Intermediate Hermaphroditism.
V. True Sexual Union.
Stanza VIII. Evolution Of The Animal Mammalians: The First Fall.
What May Be The Objections To The Foregoing.
Stanza IX. The Final Evolution Of Man.
Edens, Serpents, And Dragons.
The “Sons Of God” And The “Sacred Island.”
Stanza X. The History Of The Fourth Race.
Archaic Teachings In The “Purânas” And “Genesis.” Physical Evolution.
A Panoramic View Of The Early Races.
Are Giants A Fiction?
The Races With The “Third Eye.”
The Primeval Manus Of Humanity.
Stanza XI. The Civilization And Destruction Of The Fourth And Fifth Races.
Cyclopean Ruins And Colossal Stones As Witnesses To Giants.
Stanza XII. The Fifth Race And Its Divine Instructors.
Serpents And Dragons Under Different Symbolisms.
The Sidereal And Cosmic Glyphs.
Our Divine Instructors.
The Origin Of The Satanic Myth.
Noah Was A Kabir, Hence He Must Have Been A Demon.
The Oldest Persian Traditions About The Polar, And The Submerged Continents.
Western Speculations, Founded On The Greek And Paurânic Traditions.
The “Curse” From A Philosophical Point Of View.
Additional Fragments From A Commentary On The Verses Of Stanza XII.
Conclusion.
Part II. The Archaic Symbolism Of The World-Religions.
Section I. Esoteric Tenets Corroborated in Every Scripture.
Section II. Adam=Adami.
Section III. The “Holy of Holies.” Its Degradation.
Section IV. On the Myth of the “Fallen Angels” in its Various Aspects.
A. The Evil Spirit: Who, And What?
B. The Gods Of Light Proceed From The Gods Of Darkness.
C. The Many Meanings Of The “War In Heaven.”
Section V. Is Plerôma Satan's Lair?
Section VI. Prometheus, the Titan.
His Origin In Ancient India.
Section VII. Enoïchion-Henoch.
Part III. Addenda. Science And The Secret Doctrine Contrasted.
Section I. Archaic, or Modern Anthropology?
Section II. The Ancestors Mankind is Offered by Science.
Plastidular Souls, And Conscious Nerve-Cells.
Section III. The Fossil Relics of Man and the Anthropoid Ape.
A. Geological Facts Bearing On The Question Of Their Relationship.
B. Western Evolutionism: The Comparative Anatomy Of Man And The Anthropoid In No Way A Confirmation Of Darwinism.
C. Darwinism And The Antiquity Of Man: The Anthropoids And Their Ancestry.
Section IV. Duration of the Geological Periods, Race Cycles, and the Antiquity of Man.
A. Modern Scientific Speculations About The Ages Of The Globe, Animal Evolution, And Man.
B. On Chains Of Planets And Their Plurality.
C. Supplementary Remarks On Esoteric Geological Chronology.
Section V. Organic Evolution and Creative Centres.
A. The Origin And Evolution Of The Mammalia: Science And Esoteric Phylogeny.
B. The European Palæolithic Races: Whence, And How Distributed.
Section VI. Giants, Civilizations, and Submerged Continents Traced in History.
A. Some Statements About The Sacred Islands And Continents In The Classics, Explained Esoterically.
Section VII. Scientific and Geological Proofs of the Existence of Several Submerged Continents.
Footnotes
The Secret Doctrine
The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
By
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Volume III.
Preface.
Introductory.
Section I. Preliminary Survey.
Section II. Modern Criticism and the Ancients.
Section III. The Origin of Magic.
Section IV. The Secresy of Initiates.
Section V. Some Reasons for Secresy.
Section VI. The Dangers of Practical Magic.
Section VII. Old Wine in New Bottles.
Section VIII. The Book of Enoch the Origin and the Foundation of Christianity.
Section IX. Hermetic and Kabalistic Doctrines.
Section X. Various Occult Systems of Interpretations of Alphabets and Numerals.
Section XI. The Hexagon with the Central Point, or the Seventh Key.
Section XII. The Duty of the True Occultist toward Religions.
Section XIII. Post-Christian Adepts and their Doctrines.
Section XIV. Simon and his Biographer Hippolytus.
Section XV. St. Paul the real Founder of present Christianity.
Section XVI. Peter a Jewish Kabalist, not an Initiate.
Section XVII. Apollonius of Tyana.
Section XVIII. Facts underlying Adept Biographies.
Section XIX. St. Cyprian of Antioch.
Section XX. The Eastern Gupta Vidya & the Kabalah.
Section XXI. Hebrew Allegories.
Section XXII. The “Zohar” on Creation and the Elohim.
Section XXIII. What the Occultists and Kabalists have to say.
Section XXIV. Modern Kabalists in Science and Occult Astronomy.
Section XXV. Eastern and Western Occultism.
Section XXVI. The Idols and the Teraphim.
Section XXVII. Egyptian Magic.
Section XXVIII. The Origin of the Mysteries.
Section XXIX. The Trial of the Sun Initiate.
Section XXX. The Mystery “Sun of Initiation.”
Section XXXI. The Objects of the Mysteries.
Section XXXII. Traces of the Mysteries.
Section XXXIII. The Last of the Mysteries in Europe.
Section XXXIV. The Post-Christian Successors to the Mysteries.
Section XXXV. Symbolism of Sun and Stars.
Section XXXVI. Pagan Sidereal Worship, or Astrology.
Section XXXVII. The Souls of the Stars—Universal Heliolatry.
Section XXXVIII. Astrology and Astrolatry.
Section XXXIX. Cycles and Avataras.
Section XL. Secret Cycles.
Section XLI. The Doctrine of Avataras.
Section XLII. The Seven Principles.
Section XLIII. The Mystery of Buddha.
Section XLIV. “Reincarnations” of Buddha.
Section XLV. An Unpublished Discourse of Buddha.
Section XLVI. Nirvana-Moksha.
Section XLVII. The Secret Books of “Lam-Rin” and Dzyan.
Section XLVIII. Amita Buddha Kwan-Shai-yin, and Kwan-yin.—What the “Book of Dzyan” and the Lamaseries of Tsong-Kha-pa say.
Section XLIX. Tsong-Kha-pa.—Lohans in China.
Section L. A few more Misconceptions Corrected.
Section LI. The “Doctrine of the Eye” & the “Doctrine of the Heart,” or the “Heart's Seal.”
Some Papers On The Bearing Of Occult Philosophy On Life.
Paper I. A Warning.
The Planets, The Days of the Week and Their Corresponding Colours and Metals.
Paper II. An Explanation.
What Magic Is, In Reality.
Colours, Sounds and Forms.
The Roots Of Colour And Sound.
The Unity Of Deity.
Paper III. A Word Concerning the Earlier Papers.
Concerning Secrecy.
Is The Practice Of Concentration Beneficent?
About “Principles” And “Aspects.”
The Tâttvic Correlations and Meaning.
On Exoteric “Blinds” and “the Death of the Soul.”
The Philosophical Rationale of the Tenet.
Appendix. Notes on Papers I., II. and III.
Notes On Some Oral Teachings.
The Three Vital Airs.
The Auric Egg.
The Dweller.
Intellect.
Karma.
The Turîya State.
Mahat.
How To Advance.
Fear And Hatred.
The Triangle.
Psychic Vision.
Triangle And Quaternary.
Nidânas.
Manas.
The Spinal Cord.
Prâna.
Antahkarana.
Miscellaneous.
Nâdis.
Sevens.
Sounds.
Prâna.
The Second Spinal Cord.
Initiates.
Kosmic Consciousness.
General Notes.
Objective Consciousness.
Astral Consciousness.
Kâma-Prânic Consciousness.
Kâma-Mânasic Consciousness.
Mânasic Consciousness.
Buddhic Consciousness.
Miscellaneous.
The Human Principles.
Notes.
Suns And Planets.
The Moon.
The Solar System.
Precious Stones.
Time.
Death.
Atoms.
Terms.
Lokas.
Explanation of the States of Consciousness Corresponding to the Vedântic Classification of Lokas.
Further Explanations of the Same Classifications.
The Lokas.
Forms In The Astral Light.
States Of Consciousness.
Mother-Love.
Consciousness.
Consciousness, Its Seven Scales.
The Ego.
Bhûrloka.
Pineal Gland.
The Heart.
Astral And Ego.
Individuality.
Lower Manas.
Kâma.
Self-Hood.
Kâma Rûpa.
Heart.
The Fires.
Perception.
Consciousness.
Will And Desire.
Conversion.
Origines.
Dreams.
Nidânas.
Skandhas.
Subtle Bodies.
Fire.
Hints On The Future.
The Egos.
Monadic Evolution.
Astral Body.
Footnotes
Section XVI. The Zodiac and its Antiquity.
Section XVII. Summary of the Position.
Footnotes
Section VIII. The Symbolism of the Mystery-Names Iao and Jehovah, with their Relation to the Cross and Circle.
A. Cross And Circle.
B. The Fall Of The Cross Into Matter.
Section IX. The Upanishads in Gnostic Literature.
Section X. The Cross and the Pythagorean Decad.
Section XI. The Mysteries of the Hebdomad.
A. Saptaparna.
B. The Tetraktys In Relation To The Heptagon.
C. The Septenary Element In The Vedas.
D. The Septenary In The Exoteric Works.
E. Seven In Astronomy, Science, And Magic.
F. The Seven Souls Of The Egyptologists.
1. Behold the beginning of sentient formless Life (a).
Summing Up.
Extracts From An Eastern Private Commentary, Hitherto Secret.432
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