Next Section : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 460 [[This page continued from previous section]] XIV. THE FOUR ELEMENTS. METAPHYSICALLY and esoterically there is but One ELEMENT in nature, and at the root of it is the Deity; and the so-called "seven "elements, of which five have...
Volume 1. Part 62 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 180 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. STANZA VIII. EVOLUTION OF THE ANIMAL MAMMALIANS. -- THE FIRST FALL. (28) How the first mammals were produced. (29) A quasi-Darwinian Evolution. (30) The animals get solid bodies. (31) Their separati...
Volume 1. Part 75 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 656 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. II. THE ANCESTORS MANKIND IS OFFERED BY SCIENCE. "The question of questions for mankind -- the problem which underlies all others, and is more deeply interesting than any other -- is the ascertainment...
Volume 1. Part 28 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 601 HERMES AND KANT. XIV. FORCES -- MODES OF MOTION OR INTELLIGENCES? THIS is, then, the last word of physical science up to the present year, 1888. Mechanical laws will never be able to prove the homogeneity of primeval matter...
Volume 1. Part 21 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page 25]] PART I. COSMIC EVOLUTION. SEVEN STANZAS TRANSLATED WITH COMMENTARIES FROM THE SECRET BOOK OF DZYAN. [[Vol. 1, Page 26]] Nor Aught nor Nought existed; yon bright sky Was not, nor heaven's broad roof outstretched above. Wh...
Volume 1. Part 9 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 269 THE FIRST CHAPTER OF CREATION. SUMMING UP. "The History of Creation and of this world from its beginning up to the present time is composed of "seven chapters. "The seventh chapter is not yet written." (T. Subba Row...
Volume 1. Part 25 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 647 ASTROLOGY A SCIENCE. [[This page continued from previous section]] XVII. "THE ZODIAC AND ITS ANTIQUITY." "ALL men are apt to have a high conceit of their own understanding, and to be tenacious of the opinions they profess," said...
Volume 1. Part 36 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 506 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section]] VI. THE MASKS OF SCIENCE. PHYSICS OR METAPHYSICS? IF there is anything on earth like progress, Science will some day have to give up, "nolens volens", such...
Stanza Ii.Nature Unaided Fails. 52 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 492 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section]] C. THE MANY MEANINGS OF THE "WAR IN HEAVEN." The Secret Doctrine points out, as a self-evident fact, that Mankind, collectively and individually, is, with all...
Volume 1. Part 32 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 554 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section]] X. THE COMING FORCE. ITS POSSIBILITIES AND IMPOSSIBILITIES. Shall we say that Force is "moving matter," or "matter in motion," and a manifestation of energy;...
Volume 1. Part 4 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 386 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section]] IX THE MOON, DEUS LUNUS, PHOEBE. THIS archaic symbol is the most poetical of all symbols, as also the most philosophical. The ancient Greeks brought it...
Volume 1. Part 81 : Back to Esoteric Sacred Texts Back to Sacred Texts Main Index The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page Iii]] THE SECRET DOCTRINE: THE SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY. BY H. P. BLAVATSKY, AUTHOR OF "ISIS UNVEILED." "There is no Religion higher than Truth." VOL...
Volume 1. Part 66 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 86 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. STANZA IV. CREATION OF THE FIRST RACES. (14) Creation of men. (15) They are empty shadows. (16) The Creators are perplexed how to create a THINKING man. (17) What is needed for the formation of a perfect M...
Volume 1. Part 71 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 731 STILL GREATER DIFFICULTIES. V. ORGANIC EVOLUTION AND CREATIVE CENTRES. IT is argued that the Universal Evolution, otherwise, the gradual development of species in all the kingdoms of nature, works by uniform laws. This is...
Volume 1. Part 78 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 529 WHO INVENTED WRITING? XXI. ENOICHION-HENOCH. THE history of the evolution of the Satanic myth would not be complete if we omitted to notice the character of the mysterious and Cosmopolitan Enoch, variously called Enos, Hanoch...
Volume 1. Part 70 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 742 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. VI. GIANTS, CIVILIZATIONS, AND SUBMERGED CONTINENTS TRACED IN HISTORY. WHEN statements such as are comprised in the above heading are brought forward, the writer is, of course, expected to furnish...
Introduction. Xvii : fThe Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 445 GOD IS OUR HIGHER SELF. [[This page continued from previous section]] XIII. THE SEVEN CREATIONS. "THERE was neither day nor night, nor sky nor earth, nor darkness nor light, nor any other thing save only ONE, unapprehensible by...
Ss Xxiii : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 563 THE SEVEN THUNDERS. XXIII. THE UPANISHADS IN GNOSTIC LITERATURE. We are reminded in King's "Gnostics" that the Greek language has but one word for "vowel "and voice; and this has led the uninitiated to many erroneous...
Volume 1. Part 33 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 540 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section]] IX. THE SOLAR THEORY. A SHORT ANALYSIS OF THE COMPOUND AND SINGLE ELEMENTS OF SCIENCE AS AGAINST THE OCCULT TEACHINGS. HOW FAR SCIENTIFIC IS THIS THEORY...
Volume 1. Part 8 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page 301]] BOOK I., PART II. THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLISM IN ITS APPROXIMATE ORDER. EXPLANATORY SECTIONS. [[Vol. 1, Page 302]] CONTENTS. PAGE. - - - - - I. -- SYMBOLISM AND IDEOGRAPHS ... 303 II. -- MYSTERY LANGUAGE... 310 III. -- PRIMORDIAL...
Volume 1. Part 37 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 500 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. V. THE THEORIES OF ROTATION IN SCIENCE. CONSIDERING that "final cause is pronounced a chimera, and the first Great Cause is remanded to the Sphere of the Unknown," as a reverend gentleman justly complains...
Volume 1. Part 29 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 588 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. XIII. SCIENTIFIC AND ESOTERIC EVIDENCE FOR, AND OBJECTIONS TO, THE MODERN NEBULAR THEORY. OF late Esoteric Cosmogony has been frequently opposed by the phantom of this theory and its ensuing hypotheses. "C...
Volume 1. Part 74 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 675 DRYOPITHECUS, THE MISSING LINK. III. THE FOSSIL RELICS OF MAN AND THE ANTHROPOID APE. A. GEOLOGICAL FACTS BEARING ON THE QUESTION OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP. THE data derived from scientific research as to "primeval man" and the ape...
Volume 1. Part 60 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 202 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. EDENS, SERPENTS, AND DRAGONS. Whence the idea, and the true meaning of the term "Eden"? Christians will maintain that the Garden of Eden is the holy Paradise, the place "desecrated by the sin "of Adam...
Volume 1. Part 23 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page Xvii]] INTRODUCTORY. "Gently to hear, kindly to judge." -- SHAKESPEARE. SINCE the appearance of Theosophical literature in England, it has become customary to call its teachings "Esoteric Buddhism." And, having become a habit...
Volume 1. Part 2 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 411 THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS. [[This page continued from previous section]] XI. DEMON EST DEUS INVERSUS. THIS symbolical sentence, in its many-sided forms, is certainly most dangerous and iconoclastic in the face of all...
Volume 1. Part 6 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 368 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section]] VII. THE DAYS AND NIGHTS OF BRAHMA. THIS is the name given to the Periods called MANVANTARA ("Manuantara", or between the Manus) and PRALAYA (Dissolution); one...
Volume 1. Part 39 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 483 NO AGREEMENT AMONG SCIENTISTS. [[This page continued from previous section]] III. "AN LUMEN SIT CORPUS, NEC NON?" MOST decidedly Light is not a body, we are told. Physical Sciences say Light is a Force, a vibrati...
Volume 1. Part 27 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 610 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section]] XV. GODS, MONADS, AND ATOMS. SOME years ago we remarked* that "the Esoteric Doctrine may well be called the 'thread-doctrine,' since, like "Sutratman"...
Volume 1. Part 64 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 131 THE SWAN AND THE EGG. STANZA VI. THE EVOLUTION OF THE "SWEAT-BORN." (22) The evolution of the three races continued. (23) The second race creates the Third and perishes. 22. THEN THE SECOND EVOLVED THE SWEAT-BORN, THE THIRD...
Volume 1. Part 72 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 709 SCIENCE AND OCCULTISM MAY YET AGREE. [[This page continued from previous section]] C. SUPPLEMENTARY REMARKS ON ESOTERIC GEOLOGICAL CHRONOLOGY. It seems, however, possible to calculate the "approximate "durati...
Volume 1. Part 31 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 566 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section]] XI. ON THE ELEMENTS AND ATOMS. FROM THE STAND-POINT OF SCIENCE AND THAT OF OCCULTISM. WHEN the Occultist speaks of "Elements," and of human Beings who lived...
Volume 1. Part 35 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 523 SUGGESTIVE ALLEGORIES. [[This page continued from previous section]] VII. AN ATTACK ON THE SCIENTIFIC THEORY OF FORCE BY A MAN OF SCIENCE. THE wise words of several (English) men of Science have now to be quoted in our favour...
Volume 1. Part 68 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 52 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. STANZA II. NATURE UNAIDED FAILS. (5) After enormous periods the Earth creates monsters. (6) The "Creators" are displeased. (7) They dry the Earth. (8) The forms are destroyed by them. (9) The first great tides...
Volume 1. Part 76 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page 643]] BOOK II. -- PART III. ADDENDA. SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED. "The knowledge of this nether world -- Say, friend, what is it, false or true? The false, what mortal cares to know? The true, what mortal ever knew?"...
Volume 1. Part 40 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 482 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. II. MODERN PHYSICISTS ARE PLAYING AT BLIND MAN'S BUFF. AND now Occultism puts to Science the question: "Is light a body, or is it not?" Whatever the answer of the latter, the former is prepared to show th...
Untitled : [[Vol. 1, Page 25]] PART I. COSMIC EVOLUTION. SEVEN STANZAS TRANSLATED WITH COMMENTARIES FROM THE SECRET BOOK OF DZYAN. [[Vol. 1, Page 26]] Nor Aught nor Nought existed; yon bright sky Was not, nor heaven's broad roof outstretched above. What covered all? what sheltered? what concealed? Was it...
Volume 1. Part 44 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 452 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. XVI. ADAM-ADAMI. NAMES such as Adam-Adami, used by Mr. Chwolsohn in his "Nabathean Agriculture"* and derided by M. Renan, may prove little to the profane. To the Occultist, however, once that the term is...
Volume 1. Part 19 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 53 THE STATE OF PARANIRVANA. STANZA II. COMMENTARY. 1..... WHERE WERE THE BUILDERS, THE LUMINOUS SONS OF MANVANTARIC DAWN ("a")?.... IN THE UNKNOWN DARKNESS IN THEIR AH-HI ("Chohanic, Dhyani-Buddhic") PARANISHPANNA, THE PRODUCERS...
C : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 605 THE VEDIC TEACHINGS. [[Page continued from previous section]] C. THE SEPTENARY ELEMENT IN THE VEDAS. IT CORROBORATES THE OCCULT TEACHING CONCERNING THE SEVEN GLOBES AND THE SEVEN RACES. We have to go to the very source...
Volume 1. Part 11 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 213 THE CREATIVE POWERS. STANZA VII. 1. BEHOLD THE BEGINNING OF SENTIENT FORMLESS LIFE ("a"). FIRST, THE DIVINE ("vehicle") ("b"), THE ONE FROM THE MOTHER-SPIRIT ("Atman")"; "THEN THE SPIRITUAL -- ("Atma-Buddhi"," Spirit-soul")*...
Volume 1. Part 52 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 316 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. STANZA XI. THE CIVILIZATION AND DESTRUCTION OF THE FOURTH AND FIFTH RACES. (43) The Lemuro-Atlanteans build cities and spread civilization. The incipient stage of anthropomorphism. (44) Their statues...
Next Chapter : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 470 [[This page continued from previous section]] XV. ON KWAN-SHI-YIN AND KWAN-YIN. LIKE Avalokiteshwara, Kwan-shi-yin has passed through several transformations, but it is an error to say of him that he is a modern inventi...
Ss Xxiv : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 573 THE GNOSTICS AND PYTHAGORAS. XXIV. THE CROSS AND THE PYTHAGOREAN DECADE. THE early Gnostics claimed that their Science, the GNOSIS, rested on a square, the angles of which represented respectively "Sige" (Silence), Bythos...
Volume 1. Part 48 : he Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 402 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section]] WESTERN SPECULATIONS, FOUNDED ON THE GREEK AND PURANIC TRADITIONS. Thus it becomes natural to find that, on even such meagre data as have reached the profane...
Volume 1. Part 56 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 263 MILLIONS OF YEARS HENCE. [[This page continued from previous section]] A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE EARLY RACES. There is a period of a few millions of years to cover between the first "mindless" race and the highly intelligent...
Volume 1. Part 15 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 136 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. STANZA VI. 1. BY THE POWER OF THE MOTHER OF MERCY AND KNOWLEDGE ("a"), KWAN-YIN,* THE "TRIPLE" OF KWAN-SHAI-YIN, RESIDING IN KWAN-YIN-TIEN ("b"), FOHAT, THE BREATH OF THEIR PROGENY, THE SON OF THE SONS...
Volume 1. Part 42 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 475 NATURE, A STONE-COLD MOTHER. XVIII. ON THE MYTH OF THE "FALLEN ANGEL," IN ITS VARIOUS ASPECTS. A. THE EVIL SPIRIT: WHO, AND WHAT? OUR present quarrel is exclusively with theology. The Church enforces belief in a personal god...
Volume 1. Part 46 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 437 MORE IN THE FORTHCOMING VOLUMES. CONCLUSION. Space forbids us to say anything more, and this part of the "Secret Doctrine" has to be closed. The forty-nine Stanzas and the few fragments from the Commentaries just given are all...
Preliminary Notes : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page Xv]] [["Eh eme didache ouk estin eme, alla tou pemphantos me".]] "My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me." -- John vii. 16. [[Vol. 2, Page Xvi]] MODERN science insists upon the doctrine of evolution; so do human reas...
Volume 1. Part 58 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 227 THE MOON-COLOURED RACE. STANZA X. THE HISTORY OF THE FOURTH RACE. (38) The Birth of the Fourth, Atlantean Race. (39) The sub-races of the Fourth Humanity begin to divide and interblend; they form the first mixed races of various...
Volume 1. Part 13 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 170 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section]] ADDITIONAL FACTS AND EXPLANATIONS CONCERNING THE GLOBES AND THE MONADS. Two statements made in "Esoteric Buddhism" must be noticed and the author's opinions...
Volume 1. Part 50 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 351 THE "GREAT DRAGONS" AND SERPENTS. STANZA XII. THE FIFTH RACE AND ITS DIVINE INSTRUCTORS. (47) The remnants of the first two races disappear for ever. Groups of the various Atlantean races saved from the Deluge along with...
Volume 1. Part 54 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 289 THE "THIRD EYE." THE RACES WITH THE "THIRD EYE." The subject is so unusual, the paths pursued so intricate, so full of dangerous pitfalls prepared by adverse theories and criticism, that good reasons have to be given for every...
The Beginnings Of Sentient Live. 22 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 22 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. STANZA I.* BEGINNINGS OF SENTIENT LIFE. (1) THE LHA, or Spirit of the Earth. (2) Invocation of the Earth to the Sun. (3) What the Sun answers. (4) Transformation of the Earth. 1. THE LHA ("a") WHICH TURNS...
Volume 1. Part 17 : "`The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 86 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. STANZA IV. COMMENTARY. 1. LISTEN, YE SONS OF THE EARTH, TO YOUR INSTRUCTORS -- THE SONS OF THE FIRE ("a"). LEARN THERE IS NEITHER FIRST NOR LAST; FOR ALL IS ONE NUMBER, ISSUED FROM NO NUMBER ("b"). ("a")...
Volume 1 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 342 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. IV. CHAOS -- THEOS -- KOSMOS. THESE three are the containment of Space; or, as a learned Kabalist has defined it, "Space, the all containing uncontained, is the primary embodiment of simply Unity...
Volume 1. Part 59 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 220 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. THE "SONS OF GOD" AND THE "SACRED ISLAND." The "legend "given in "Isis "in relation to a portion of the globe which science now concedes to have been the cradle of humanity -- though it is but one...
Volume 1. Part 47 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 423 THE "BUDDHAS OF CONFESSION." ADDITIONAL FRAGMENTS FROM A COMMENTARY ON THE VERSES OF STANZA XII. THE MS. from which these additional explanations are taken belongs to the group called "Tongshaktchi Sangye Songa," or the Records...
Volume 1. Part 43 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 459 THE "GOD" SUB ROSA. VII. THE "HOLY OF HOLIES." ITS DEGRADATION. THE" Sanctum Sanctorum "of the Ancients, i.e., that recess on the Western side of the Temple which was enclosed on three sides by blank walls and had its only...
Ii. The Mystery Language And Its Keys. 310 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 325 THE IMPARTIALITY OF SCIENTIFIC DENIALS. [[This page continued from previous section]] III. PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE AND DIVINE THOUGHT. "As it would seem irrational to affirm that we already know all existing causes, permission must...
Volume 1. Part 16 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 106 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. STANZA V. 1. THE PRIMORDIAL SEVEN, THE FIRST SEVEN BREATHS OF THE DRAGON OF WISDOM, PRODUCE IN THEIR TURN FROM THEIR HOLY CIRCUMGYRATING BREATHS THE FIERY WHIRLWIND ("a"). COMMENTARY. ("a") This is, perhaps...
Volume 1. Part 55 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 277 THE GIANTS. ARE GIANTS A FICTION? Here, again, we come into collision with Science. The latter denies, so far, that man has ever been much larger than the average of the tall and powerful men one meets with occasionally now. Dr...
Volume 1. Part 51 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 341 THE MATERIALISM OF THE BIBLE. [[This page continued from previous section]] CYCLOPEAN RUINS AND COLOSSAL STONES AS WITNESSES TO GIANTS. In his enormous works "-- Memoires addressees a l"'Academie des Sciences -- de Mirville...
The Secret Doctreine : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 359 THE EGG-BORN GOD. VI. THE MUNDANE EGG. WHENCE this universal symbol? The Egg was incorporated as a sacred sign in the cosmogony of every people on the Earth, and was revered both on account of its form and its inner mystery...
Volume 1. Part 12 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 191 THE PRELIMINARY CREATION OF MAN. [[This page continued from previous section]] STANZA VI. -- "Continued." 5. AT THE FOURTH ("Round", or revolution of life and being around "the seven smaller wheels") ("a"), THE SONS ARE TOLD...
Volume 1. Part 18 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 62 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. STANZA III. COMMENTARY. 1. THE LAST VIBRATION OF THE SEVENTH ETERNITY THRILLS THROUGH INFINITUDE ("a"). THE MOTHER SWELLS, EXPANDING FROM WITHIN WITHOUT LIKE THE BUD OF THE LOTUS ("b"). ("a") The seemingly...
Volume 1. Part 45 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page 447]] BOOK II., PART II. THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS. "The narratives of the Doctrine are its cloak. The simple look only at the garment -- that is, upon the narrative of the Doctrine; more they know not...
Volume 1. Part 41 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page 475]] BOOK I. -- PART III. ADDENDA. SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED. "The knowledge of this nether world -- Say, friend, what is it, false or true? The false, what mortal cares to know? The true, what mortal ever knew?"...
I. Reasons For These Addenda. 477 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 668 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section]] XVIII. SUMMARY OF THE MUTUAL POSITION. THE reader has had the whole case presented to him from both sides, and it remains with him to decide whether its summary...
F : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 630 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[Page continued from previouis section]] F. THE SEVEN SOULS OF THE EGYPTOLOGISTS. If one turns to those wells of information, "The Natural Genesis" and the" Lectures "of Mr. Gerald Massey, the proofs...
Volume 1. Part 14 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 152 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section]] A FEW EARLY THEOSOPHICAL MISCONCEPTIONS CONCERNING PLANETS, ROUNDS, AND MAN. Among the eleven Stanzas omitted* there is one which gives a full descripti...
Volume 1. Part 57 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 251 ANSWERS TO OBJECTIONS. [[This page continued from previous section]] ARCHAIC TEACHINGS IN THE PURANAS AND GENESIS. PHYSICAL EVOLUTION. The writer cannot give "too much "proof that the system of Cosmogony and Anthropogony...
Volume 1. Part 49 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 378 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section]] THE ORIGIN OF THE SATANIC MYTH. Let us then fathom this creation of the Patristic fancy still deeper, and find its prototype with the Pagans. The orig...
Volume 1. Part 53 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 307 THE SEVEN AND FOURTEEN MANUS. THE PRIMEVAL MANUS OF HUMANITY. Those who are aware that the "great Flood," which was connected with the sinking of an entire continent -- save what became a few islands -- could not have happened so...
Volume 1. Part 10 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 238 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. STANZA VII. -- "Continued." (5) THE SPARK HANGS FROM THE FLAME BY THE FINEST THREAD OF FOHAT. IT JOURNEYS THROUGH THE SEVEN WORLDS OF MAYA ("a"). IT STOPS IN THE FIRST ("Kingdom"), AND IS A METAL...
Volume 1. Part 65 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 109 THE TABULA SMARAGDINA. STANZA V. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SECOND RACE. (18) The Sons of Yoga. (19) The Sexless Second Race. (20) The Sons of the Sons of Twilight. (21) The "Shadow," or the Astral Man, retires within, and man develops...
Volume 1. Part 82 : Back to Esoteric Sacred Texts Back to Sacred Texts Main Index The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page Iii]] THE SECRET DOCTRINE: THE SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY. BY H. P. BLAVATSKY, Author of "ISIS UNVEILED." "There is no Religion higher than Truth." Vol...
Volume 1. Part 26 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 634 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section]] XVI. CYCLIC EVOLUTION AND KARMA. IT is the Spiritual evolution of the "inner", immortal man that forms the fundamental tenet in the Occult Sciences. To realize...
Volume 1. Part 7 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 349 THE MANY ARE ONE. [[This page continued from previous section]] V. ON THE HIDDEN DEITY, ITS SYMBOLS AND GLYPHS. THE Logos or Creative deity, the "Word made Flesh," of every religion, has to be traced to its ultimate source...
Volume 1. Part 38 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 490 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. IV. IS GRAVITATION A LAW? THE corpuscular theory has been unceremoniously put aside; but gravitation -- the principle that all bodies attract each other with a force proportional directly to their masses...
Volume 1. Part 3 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 403 IDENTITY OF TYPOLOGY. [[This page continued from previous section]] X. TREE, SERPENT, AND CROCODILE WORSHIP. "Object of horror or of adoration, men have for the serpent an implacable hatred, or prostrate themselves before its...
Volume 1. Part 22 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page 1]] PROEM PAGES FROM A PRE-HISTORIC PERIOD. AN Archaic Manuscript -- a collection of palm leaves made impermeable to water, fire, and air, by some specific unknown process -- is before the writer's eye. On the first page is...
Volume 1. Part 61 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 191 THE CAUSE OF DEGENERATION. STANZA IX. THE FINAL EVOLUTION OF MAN. (33) The creators repent. (34) They atone for their neglect. (35) Men become endowed with minds. (36) The fourth race develops perfect speech. (37) Every...
Xix. Is Pleroma Satan's Lair. 506 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 778 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. VII. SCIENTIFIC AND GEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF SEVERAL SUBMERGED CONTINENTS. IT may not be amiss -- for the benefit of those who resolve the tradition of a lost Miocene Atlantis ...
Volume 1. Part 77 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 536 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. XXII. THE SYMBOLISM OF THE MYSTERY-NAMES IAO AND JEHOVAH, WITH THEIR RELATION TO THE CROSS AND CIRCLE. WHEN the Abbe Louis Constant -- known as Eliphas Levi -- said in his" Histoire de la Magie "th...
Volume 1. Part 69 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 760 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section]] A. SOME STATEMENTS ABOUT THE SACRED ISLANDS AND CONTINENTS IN THE CLASSICS, EXPLAINED ESOTERICALLY. All that which precedes was known to Plato, and to many...
Volume 1. Part 34 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 529 MYSTERIOUS SUN FLUID. VIII. LIFE, FORCE, OR GRAVITY. THE" imponderable "fluids have had their day; "mechanical Forces" are less talked about; Science has put on a new face for this last quarter of a century; but gravitation h...
Volume 1. Part 30 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 579 ANTIQUITY OUR GREAT MASTER. XII. ANCIENT THOUGHT IN MODERN DRESS. MODERN SCIENCE IS ANCIENT THOUGHT DISTORTED, and no more. We have seen, however, WHAT INTUITIONAL SCIENTISTS THINK, and are busy about; and now the reader may be...
Volume 1. Part 73 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 690 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. IV. DURATION OF THE GEOLOGICAL PERIODS, RACE CYCLES, AND THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN. MILLIONS of years have dropped into Lethe, leaving no more recollection in the memory of the profane than the few millenniums...
Volume 1. Part 79 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 519 THE "FATHER OF MORTALS." XX. PROMETHEUS, THE TITAN. HIS ORIGIN IN ANCIENT INDIA. IN our modern day there does not exist the slightest doubt in the minds of the best European symbologists that the name Prometheus possessed...
Volume 1. Part 80 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 506 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. XIX. IS PLEROMA SATAN'S LAIR? THE subject is not yet exhausted, and has to be examined from still other aspects. Whether Milton's grandiose description of the three Days' Battle of the Angels of Light...
Volume 1. Part 67 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 75 THE SECRET OF THE FALL OF THE ANGELS. STANZA III. ATTEMPTS TO CREATE MAN. (11) The Descent of the Demiurge. (12) The lunar gods ordered to create. (13) The higher gods refuse. 11. THE LORD OF THE LORDS CAME. FROM HER BODY HE...
Volume 1. Part 5 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 379 LOTUS AND LILY. VIII. THE LOTUS, AS A UNIVERSAL SYMBOL. THERE are no ancient symbols, without a deep and philosophical meaning attached to them; their importance and significance increasing with their antiquity. Such is the LOTUS...
Volume 1. Part 24 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 310 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. II. THE MYSTERY LANGUAGE AND ITS KEYS. RECENT discoveries made by great mathematicians and Kabalists thus prove, beyond a shadow of doubt, that every theology, from the earliest and oldest down to the latest...
Volume 1. Part 20 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 35 STANZA I. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN STANZAS AND THEIR TERMS, ACCORDING TO THEIR NUMERATION, IN STANZAS AND SLOKAS. STANZA I. 1. "THE ETERNAL PARENT (Space), WRAPPED IN HER EVER INVISIBLE ROBES, HAD SLUMBERED ONCE AGAIN FOR SEVEN...
590 : "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 590 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. XXV. THE MYSTERIES OF THE HEBDOMAD. WE must not close this Part on the Symbolism of Archaic History, without an attempt to explain the perpetual recurrence of this truly mystic number in every scripture...
Volume 1. Part 1 : The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 424 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section]] XII. THE THEOGONY OF THE CREATIVE GODS. TO thoroughly comprehend the idea underlying every ancient cosmology necessitates the study, in a comparative analysis...
Volume 1. Part 63 : fThe Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 161 A SUGGESTIVE STANZA. STANZA VII. FROM THE SEMI-DIVINE DOWN TO THE FIRST HUMAN RACES. (24) The higher creators reject in their pride the forms evolved by the "Sons of Yoga." (25) They will not incarnate in the early "Egg-born."...
