Secret Doctrine, The (2 Volumes)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
VOLUME FIRST
COSMOGENESIS
PROEM

BOOK I – PART I
COSMIC EVOLUTION

SEVEN STANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN

STANZA I. THE NIGHT OF THE UNIVERSE
STANZA II. THE IDEA OF DIFFERENTIATION

STANZA III. THE AWAKENING OF KOSMOS
STANZA IV. THE SEPTENARY HIERARCHIES
STANZA V. FOHAT: THE CHILD OF THE SEPTANARY HIERARCHIES
STANZA VI. OUR WORLD, ITS GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

THEOSOPHICAL MISCONCEPTIONS
EXPLANATIONS CONCERNING THE GLOBES AND THE MONADS
STANZA VI. CONTINUED
STANZA VII. THE PARENTS OF MAN ON EARTH

SUMMING UP

BOOK I – PART II
THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLISM IN ITS APPROXIMATE ORDER
1. SYMBOLISM AND IDEOGRAPHS
2. THE MYSTERY LANGUAGE AND ITS KEYS
3. PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE AND DIVINE THOUGHT

4. CHAOS – THEOS – KOSMOS
5. THE HIDDEN DEITY, ITS SYMBOLS AND GLYPHS
6. THE MUNDANE EGG
7. THE DAYS AND NIGHTS OF BRAHMÂ
8. THE LOTUS AS A UNIVERSAL SYMBOL
9. DEUS LUNUS
10. TREE SERPENT AND CROCODILE Worship
11. DEMON EST DEUS INVERSUS
12. THE THEOGONY OF THE CREATIVE GODS
13. THE SEVEN CREATIONS

14. THE FOUR ELEMENTS
15. ON KWAN-SHI-YIN AND KWAN-YIN

BOOK I – PART III
SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED

1. REASONS FOR THESE ADDENDA
2. MODERN PHYSICISTS ARE PLAYING AT BLIND MAN’S BUFF
3. AN LUMEN SIT CORPUS NEC NON?
4. IS GRAVITATION A LAW?
5. THE THEORIES OF ROTATION IN SCIENCE
6. THE MASKS OF SCIENCE
7. AN ATTACK ON THE SCIENCTIFIC Theory of Force by A Man of Science

8. LIFE, FORCE, OR GRAVITY?
9. THE SOLAR THEORY
10. THE COMING FORCE
11. ON THE ELEMENTS AND ATOMS
12. ANCIENT THOUGHT IN MODERN DRESS
13. THE MODERN NEBULAR THEORY
14. FORCES – MODES OF MOTION OR INTELLIGENCES?
15. GODS, MONADS, AND ATOMS
16. CYCLIC EVOLUTION AND KARMA
17. THE ZODIAC AND ITS ANTIQUITY
18. SUMMARY OF THE MUTUAL POSITION

THE SECRET DOCTRINE, VOL II. ANTHROPOGENESIS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

VOLUME SECOND
PRELIMINARY NOTES

BOOK II – PART I
ANTHROPOGENESIS

STANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN

STANZA I. BEGINNINGS OF SENTIENT LIFE
TWO ANTEDILUVIAN ASTRONOMERS
STANZA II. NATURE UNAIDED FAILS
STANZA III. ATTEMPTS TO CREATE MAN
STANZA VI. CREATION OF THE FIRST RACE
STANZA V. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SECOND RACE
STANZA VI. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SWEAT-BORN
STANZA VII. FROM THE SEMI-DIVINE DOWN TO THE FIRST HUMAN RACES
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
A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE EARLY RACES
STANZA X. CONTINUED

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

ADDITIONAL FRAGMENTS FROM A COMMENTARY ON THE VERSES OF STANZA XII.

CONCLUSION

BOOK II – PART II
THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS
ESOTERIC TENETS CORROBORATED IN EVERY SCRIPTURE

16. ADAM-ADAMI
17. THE “HOLY OF HOLIES”: ITS DEGRADATION
18. ON THE MYTH OF THE “FALLEN ANGEL”, IN ITS VARIOUS ASPECTS
19. IS PLEROMA SATAN’S LAIR?
20. PROMETHEUS THE TITAN

21. ENOÏCHION-HENOCH
22. THE SYMBOLISM OF THE MYSTERY NAMES IAO, AND JEHOVA
23. THE UPANISHADS IN GNOSTIC LITERATURE
24. THE CROSS AND THE PYTHAGOREAN DECADE
25. THE MYSTERIES OF THE HEBDOMAD

BOOK II – PART III
ADDENDA
SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED

1. ARCHAIC, OR MODERN ANTHROPOLOGY?
2. THE ANCESTORS MANKIND IS OFFERED BY SCIENCE

3. THE FOSSIL RELICS OF MAN AND ANTHROPOID APE
4. DURATION OF THE GEOLOGICAL PERIODS, RACE CYCLES, AND THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN
5. ORGANIC EVOLUTION AND CREATIVE CENTRES
6. GIANTS, CIVILIZATIONS, AND SUBMERGED CONTINENTS TRACED IN HISTORY
7. SCIENTIFIC AND GEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF SEVERAL SUBMERGED CONTINENTS

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