HPB-SD(ed.3) v.2

iii

THE

Secret Doctrine:

THE SYNTHESIS

OF

SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY.

BY

H. P. BLAVATSKY,

AUTHOR OF “ISIS UNVEILED.”

THIRD AND REVISED EDITION.

SATYÂT NÂSTI PARO DHARMAH.

“There is no Religion higher than Truth.”

Volume II.

ANTHROPOGENESIS.

LONDON:
The Theosophical Publishing Society, 7, Duke Street, Adelphi, W.C.
NEW YORK:
The Path Office, 144, Madison Avenue.
MADRAS:
The Theosophist Office, Adyar.
1893.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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Preliminary Notes	... 1
The Lemnos-Born Kabiri	... 3
The Secrets of Kouyunjik	... 5
Lemuria and Atlantis	... 7
Geological Periods	... 9
The Tropics at the Pole	... 11

PART I.
ANTHROPOGENESIS.

STANZA I.

Twelve Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan

... 15

Commentaries

... 25

Beginnings of Sentient Life

... 25

Cosmic Ultimates

... 27

Dragon and Serpent

... 29

Mercury and the Sun

... 31

The Celestial Governors of Humanity

... 33

Shukra and the Earth

... 35

The One and the Many

... 37

The “Seven” Mystery

... 39

The Three Kinds of Light

... 41

The Numbers of Creation

... 43

Evolution not Creation

... 45

Adam Kadmon

... 47

The First War in Heaven

... 49

Nârada and Asuramaya

... 51

The Mirror of Futurity

... 53

STANZA II.

Nature Unaided Fails

... 55

What the Earth-Whirl Produced

... 55

The Monsters of Chaos

... 57

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Unaided Physical Nature Fails

... 59

Creation of Divine Beings in the Exoteric Accounts

... 61

The Bodies of Brahmâ

... 61

The Four Classes of Creators

... 63

What the Gnostics say

... 65

Who are the Flames?

... 67

Divine Will becomes Erôs

... 69

The Chronology of the Brâhmans

... 69

The Race that Never Dies

... 71

Yugas and Kalpas

... 73

Variations of Exact Science

... 75

Cosmogony an Intelligent Plan

... 77

STANZA III.

Attempts to Create Man

... 78

The Lords of the Moon

... 79

The Various Classes of Creators

... 81

The Living Spiritual Fire

... 83

Man a God in Animal Form

... 85

“Fires,” “Sparks,” and “Flames”

... 87

The Son of Yah

... 89

STANZA IV.

Creation of the First Races

... 90

Man not Created Perfect

... 91

On the Identity and Differences of the Incarnating Powers

... 92

Pitris of the Gods and Demons

... 93

Progenitors of Men

... 95

The Refusal to Create

... 97

What Prometheus Symbolized

... 99

Records of Ancient Races

... 101

The Svastika

... 103

A Prophecy of the Seventh Race

... 105

Primitive Man a Failure

... 107

Perplexity of the Assyriologists

... 109

What Hydrogen really is

... 111

The Evolution of the Senses

... 113

STANZA V.

The Evolution of the Second Race

... 115

The Tabula Smaragdina

... 115

The “Shells” of Sheba Hachaloth

... 117

The Secret Work of Chiram

... 119

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The Fire Deity

... 121

Modes of Reproduction

... 123

Darwin on Androgynous Forms

... 125

Naudin’s Primordial Blastema

... 127

The Allegory of Castor and Pollux

... 129

The Divine Hermaphrodite

... 131

The Riddle of the Sphinx

... 131

Jah-Hovah Androgynous

... 133

The Esoteric Cain

... 135

The Jewish God-Name

... 137

STANZA VI.

The Evolution of the Sweat-Born

... 139

The Swan and the Egg

... 139

Bi-Sexual Reproduction

... 141

The Bi-Sexual Third Race

... 143

The Shadow Image of Elohim

... 145

A few Words about “Deluges” and “Noahs”

... 147

The Ark of Manu

... 147

The “Deluge” a Universal Tradition

... 149

The Arkite Symbols

... 151

The Jewish Noah and the Chaldæan Nuah

... 153

The “White Island”

... 155

How old is Humanity?

... 157

Could Men exist 18,000,000 Years Ago?

... 157

Adam-Galatea

... 159

What is Evolution?

... 161

An “Organism without Organs”

... 163

Science is Silent

... 165

“Spontaneous Generation”

... 167

Oceans of Carbonic Acid?

... 169

STANZA VII.

From the Semi-Divine down to the First Human Races

... 170

The “Black Fire” of the “Zohar”

... 171

The “Adversaries” of the Gods

... 173

Primal Modes of Reproduction

... 175

Monads and Rounds

... 177

How the First Mammals were Produced

... 179

The Gods are Deified Men

... 181

Chhâyâ-Birth

... 183

The Story of Kandu and Pramlochâ explained

... 185

“Sweat-Born” and Androgynes

... 187

The Birthdays of the Dhyânîs

... 189

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STANZA VIII.

Evolution of the Animal Mammalians: the First Fall

... 190

Men, the Progenitors of Animals

... 191

Archaic Zoology

... 193

The Sin of the Mindless Men

... 195

What may be the Objections to the Foregoing

... 195

The Darwinists Mistaken

... 197

The Real Primæval Man

... 199

STANZA IX.

The Final Creation of Man

... 201

The Cause of Degeneration

... 201

The Boneless Race

... 203

Hybridization

... 205

The Separation of Sexes

... 207

Primeval Language

... 209

The Transformation of the Earth

... 211

Edens, Serpents and Dragons

... 212

The Garden of Eden, a College

... 213

Flying Camels

... 215

Kircher’s Dragon

... 217

Has Satan any Reality?

... 219

Two Schools of Magic

... 221

The Seventh Son of the Seventh Son

... 223

Buddha’s Great Mountain

... 225

Scientific Belief in “Dragons”

... 227

Flying Dragons

... 229

The “Sons of God” and the “Sacred Island”

... 230

The Continent of the Gods

... 231

The Testimony of Jacolliot

... 233

The Colossi of Bamian

... 235

STANZA X.

The History of the Fourth Race

... 237

The Moon-Coloured Race

... 237

The Mysteries among the Mayas

... 239

Satanic Myths

... 241

Holy Satan

... 243

Caput Angelorum

... 247

Theological Snuffers

... 249

“Principles” explained

... 251

Man, the Pale Shadow of God

... 253

Satan, a Centripetal Force

... 255

The Sacrifice of the Fiery Angels

... 257

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The “Conscious Entity”

... 259

Answers to Objections

... 261

Archaic Teachings in the “Purânas” and “Genesis.” Physical Evolution

... 262

Mr. Gladstone kills “Genesis”

... 263

A Lesson in Natural History

... 265

The Contradictions of Science

... 267

The “Absolute Rule” of Science not Borne Out by Facts

... 269

The Inherent Law of Progressive Development

... 271

Nature is Uniform

... 273

Millions of Years Hence

... 275

A Panoramic View of the Early Races

... 275

Bailly and Faber

... 277

The Natural “Fall”

... 279

The Symbolism of Cronus

... 281

The Races in Greek Mythology

... 283

The Golden Age

... 285

No Devils outside Humanity

... 287

The Giants

... 289

Are Giants a Fiction?

... 289

The Testimony of Antiquity

... 291

Fourth Race Giants

... 293

The Sacred Four

... 295

The Children of Brahmâ

... 297

Human and Animal Cross-Breeding

... 299

The Dumb Man who Walks on All Fours

... 301

The Races with the “Third Eye”

... 302

Man, the Storehouse of all the Seeds of Life

... 303

Mazdean Symbolism

... 305

“Three-Eyed” Mortals

... 307

Occult Physiology

... 309

The Seat of the Soul

... 311

The Evolution of the Eye

... 313

The Odd Eye is now a Gland

... 315

The Number of Monads is Limited

... 317

The Law of Retribution

... 319

The Primeval Manus of Humanity

... 321

The Seven and Fourteen Manus

... 321

The “Blinds” of Exotericism

... 323

The Four Earlier Races

... 325

The Esoteric Meaning of “Fish”

... 327

The Inner Man in the “Zohar”

... 329

STANZA XI.

The Civilization and Destruction of the Fourth and Fifth Races

... 330

Presentments of Truths

... 331

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Degeneration of Mankind

... 333

The Hindû Symbolization

... 335

The Magi in the Days of Krishna

... 337

The Atlantic Ocean-Flow

... 339

On Foot across the Oceans

... 341

Changes of Climate

... 343

Cycles within Cycles

... 345

The Old Continents

... 347

The Secret Annals

... 349

Standing Witnesses to Submerged Continents

... 351

The Bamian Statues

... 353

The Handiwork of Initiates

... 355

Cyclopean Ruins and Colossal Stones as Witnesses to Giants

... 356

Animated Stones

... 357

The “Rocking Stones” in Europe

... 359

Living, Speaking, and Moving Stones

... 361

Universal Witnesses

... 363

It takes a God to become a Man

... 365

STANZA XII.

The Fifth Race and its Divine Instructors

... 366

The “Great Dragon” and the “Serpents”

... 367

The Poles have been Thrice Inverted

... 369

Serpents and Dragons under Different Symbolisms

... 370

The Naasenian Gnostics

... 371

The Sidereal and Cosmic Glyphs

... 371

The Two Mystic Poles

... 373

God and Nature Anthropomorphized

... 375

Who were Enoch and the Others?

... 377

The Poles, the “Heavenly Measure”

... 379

The Dragon Human yet Divine

... 381

Our Divine Instructors

... 381

Hermes in Astronomy and Elsewhere

... 383

What the Priests told Herodotus

... 385

What are “Spirits”?

... 387

Plato’s Idea of Evil

... 389

Wheat brought down by the Gods

... 391

The Mystery of Azazel

... 393

Drunken Indra

... 395

The Origin of the Satanic Myth

... 395

The Secret of the Dragon

... 397

Agni, the Fire-God

... 399

Merodach-Michael

... 401

The Sun-Gods, Creative Powers

... 403

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Who first Created Woman

... 405

Jehovah-Ophiomorphos

... 407

Noah was a Kabir, hence he must have been a Demon

... 408

The Flood Legends

... 409

The Oldest Persian Traditions about the Polar, and the Submerged Continents

... 411

The Legends of Iran

... 411

Esoteric Chronology

... 413

The Persian Phœnix

... 415

The Arctic Continent

... 417

The Unreachable Land

... 419

Western Speculations, founded on the Greek and Paurânic Traditions

... 420

Orientalists in the Wrong Box

... 421

Future Continents, Symbolized

... 423

The Puzzles of Antiquity

... 425

What Marcellus says

... 427

The “Curse” from a Philosophical Point of View

... 428

The Ancient and the Modern Man

... 429

The Travesty of Prometheus

... 431

Christ connected with Epaphos

... 433

The Mistake of Arrian explained

... 435

Was Æschylus Initiated?

... 437

The Gift of Prometheus

... 439

Additional Fragments from a Commentary on the Verses of Stanza XII

... 441

The “Buddhas of Confession”

... 441

The Oldest Records about Atlantis

... 443

The Doom of Atlantis

... 445

The “Eastern Æthiopians”

... 447

The Egyptian Zodiacs

... 449

Theories of a Self-Made Adept

... 451

The Genealogical Tree of our Race

... 453

The Egyptian Labyrinth

... 455

CONCLUSION.

History “Written in the Stars”

... 457

Wholesale Denial

... 459

Historical “Liars”

... 461

The Coming New Race

... 463

The Future Mankind

... 465

PART II.
The Archaic Symbolism of the World-Religions.

SECTION I.

Esoteric Tenets Corroborated in every Scripture

... 469

The Vedas written by Initiates

... 471

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SECTION II.

Adam-Adami

... 473

Nabathean Agriculture

... 475

Nebo, the God of Wisdom

... 477

The Kabalistic Four Adams

... 479

SECTION III.

The “Holy of Holies.” Its Degradation

... 481

What was the Circle Dance?

... 483

Christian Symbolism

... 485

The God Iao

... 487

The Etymology of “Sacrament”

... 489

I Am That I Am

... 491

Who the Jews really are

... 493

Jehovah a Substitute

... 495

Who was Abraxas?

... 497

SECTION IV.

On the Myth of the “Fallen Angels” in its Various Aspects

... 498

The Evil Spirit: Who, and What?

... 498

The “Monkey of God”

... 499

The Genesis of the Devil

... 501

The Angel of the Face

... 503

Fraudulent Translation of the “Bible”

... 505

The Vedas, once Universal

... 507

The Gods of Light proceed from the Gods of Darkness

... 507

The Sons of Eternity

... 509

The Shadows of the Shadows

... 511

Who the Âdityas are

... 513

The “Zohar” on the “Fallen Ones”

... 515

The Many Meanings of the “War in Heaven”

... 516

Reminders of the Fate of the Atlanteans

... 517

Various Names for Initiates

... 519

The Symbol of the “Tree”

... 521

The Târaka War

... 523

The War of the Titans

... 525

Sarpas—Serpents—Nâgas

... 527

The Origin of Exoteric Religions

... 529

The Sacredness of the Serpent

... 531

SECTION V.

Is Plerôma Satan’s Lair?

... 532

Living Devils

... 533

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Jehovah, a Personating Spirit

... 535

Âkâsha, the Mysterium Magnum

... 537

The Soul and Heart of the Great Mother

... 539

The Logos and Satan are One

... 541

The Seventh Mystery of Creation

... 543

The Number 888

... 545

SECTION VI.

Prometheus, the Titan. His Origin in Ancient India

... 546

The Ash Yggdrasil

... 547

The Poetry of Modern Orientalists

... 549

The Boon given by Prometheus

... 551

Greek Ideas Misunderstood

... 553

The Six Brothers of Krishna

... 555

SECTION VII.

Enoïchion-Henoch

... 557

The Adept Dies but to Live

... 559

What Enoch is, Esoterically

... 561

The Secret Power of the Satans

... 563

SECTION VIII.

The Symbolism of the Mystery-Names Iao and Jehovah, with their Relation to the Cross and Circle

... 565

The Jews alone the Heirloom of Jehovah

... 567

A Grotesque Verse explained

... 569

The Antiquity of the Cross

... 571

A Personal is a Finite God

... 573

A Plagiarism by Pascal

... 575

Cross and Circle

... 575

Variations of the Cross-Symbolism

... 577

The Heavenly “Porpoise”

... 579

The Rishis and the Pleiades

... 581

Deus enim et Circulus est

... 583

The Fall of the Cross into Matter

... 584

The Supreme Good of Plato

... 585

The Riddle of the Cross

... 587

The Sleep of Siloam

... 589

The Meaning of the Crucifixion

... 591

The Real Paternoster

... 593

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SECTION IX.

The Upanishads in Gnostic Literature

... 594

The Seven Thunders

... 595

Pistis Sophia

... 597

Truth between Two Contrasts

... 599

The Wisdom of the Divine Self

... 601

The Antiquity of the Kapilas

... 603

SECTION X.

The Cross and the Pythagorean Decad

... 605

The Three Sciences

... 607

The Mystic Meaning of Makara

... 609

Poseidon’s Five Ministers

... 611

The Puzzles of Symbolism

... 613

The “Golden Candlestick”

... 615

The Root of Wisdom

... 617

The Hosts of the Blessed Ones

... 619

The “Worm that Never Dies”

... 621

Man, the Reviler of God

... 623

SECTION XI.

The Mysteries of the Hebdomad

... 624

Saptaparna

... 625

The “Hieroglyphical Senary”

... 625

Spiritual and Physical Correspondences

... 627

The Theogonic Key

... 629

Noah in a New Dress

... 631

The Tetraktys in Relation to the Heptagon

... 632

The Roots of Things

... 633

The “Voice of Nature”

... 635

The Septenary demonstrated

... 637

Proofs from a Gnostic Gospel

... 639

The Septenary Element in the Vedas

... 640

The Vedic Teachings

... 641

The Zoroastrian Septenary

... 643

The “Breaths” of the “One Breath”

... 645

The Septenary in the Exoteric Works

... 646

The Septenate in the Purânas

... 647

Who are the Maruts?

... 649

The Doom of Continual Re-birth

... 651

Persian Symbology

... 653

Seven in Astronomy, Science and Magic

... 654

The Cycle of the Naros

... 655

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Various Cyclic Calculations

... 657

The Septenate in Physiology

... 659

The Hairy Symbol

... 661

The Number Seven in Chemistry

... 663

The Seven Priests of the Zuñis

... 665

The Seven Souls of the Egyptologists

... 666

The Septenary in Egypt

... 667

The “Principles” in Egyptian “Metaphysics”

... 669

The “Watermen” of the “Bundahish”

... 671

The Trans- and Cis-Himâlayan Esoteric Doctrine

... 673

An Allegory from the “Anugîtâ”

... 675

Endless is the Search for Truth

... 677

PART III.
Addenda.

Science and the Secret Doctrine contrasted

... 681

SECTION I.

Archaic, or Modern Anthropology?

... 681

“Physiological” versus “Natural” Selection

... 683

The Occult and the Modern Doctrines

... 685

“The Testimonium Paupertatis of Natural Science”

... 687

“Almighty Evolution”

... 689

Physical and Spiritual Evolution reconciled

... 691

SECTION II.

The Ancestors Mankind is offered by Science

... 693

An Unverified Charge against the Ancients

... 695

Various Modes of Reproduction

... 697

Ready-made Materials of Speech

... 699

Scientific Trespassers

... 701

Mr. Huxley applies an “Extinguisher”

... 703

An absolutely theoretical Pithecoid Man

... 705

The Sozura, a Creature entirely unknown to Science

... 707

Plastidular Souls, and Conscious Nerve-Cells

... 708

A cautious Move towards “Magic”

... 709

The meaning of Soul with Hæckel

... 711

SECTION III.

The Fossil Relics of Man and the Anthropoid Ape

... 713

Geological Facts bearing on the Question of their Relationship

... 713

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Insurmountable Difficulties

... 715

“Blurred Copies” of their Bestial Sires

... 717

Western Evolutionism

... 718

Hanumân, the Monkey-God

... 719

The Gorilla’s Address to the Evolutionists

... 721

The Darwinists and their Opponents

... 723

Darwinism and the Antiquity of Man: the Anthropoids and their Ancestry

... 724

Huxley’s Bold Speculations

... 725

The Pedigree of the Apes

... 727

SECTION IV.

Duration of the Geological Periods, Race Cycles, and the Antiquity of Man

... 729

Babylonian Dates

... 731

Contradictory Hypotheses

... 733

Modern Scientific Speculations about the Ages of the Globe, Animal Evolution and Man

... 733

Materialists at Loggerheads

... 735

Planetary Life-Impulses

... 737

On Chains of Planets and their Plurality

... 739

Of Other Worlds besides Our Own

... 739

States of Consciousness

... 741

Worlds mentioned in the “Bible”

... 743

The Kings of Edom

... 745

What Flammarion tells us

... 747

Science and Occultism may yet agree

... 749

Supplementary Remarks on Esoteric Geological Chronology

... 749

Seceders from Darwinism

... 751

The Two Sciences contrasted

... 753

The Sufficiency of the “Animalists”

... 755

One Salvation for Science

... 757

Between Two Voids

... 759

A Palæolithic Landseer

... 761

The Risings and Falls of Civilization

... 763

Strange Confessions of Science

... 765

A once Tropical Pole

... 767

Palæolithic Man, a Calligraphist

... 769

Herbert Spencer on Special Creations

... 771

SECTION V.

Organic Evolution and Creative Centres

... 772

The “Ground-Plan” and “Designers”

... 773

The “Meganthropus”

... 775

The Origin and Evolution of the Mammalia

... 775

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Schmidt’s Diagram

... 777

Factors in the Origin of Species

... 779

The European Palæolithic Races: Whence and How Distributed

... 779

Africa in Europe

... 781

A Tardy Admission

... 783

SECTION VI.

Giants, Civilizations, and Submerged Continents traced in History

... 784

A Mysterious Nation

... 785

The Associates of the Apes and the Angels

... 787

The Occult Interpretation of the “Bible”

... 789

The Symbols of Soul-Killing Churchianity

... 791

The Age of Egypt

... 793

The Tombs of the Giants

... 795

Races of Giants

... 797

Who were the Druids?

... 799

The Mazdean View of the Seven Earths

... 801

The Druidical Belief in Rebirth

... 803

Some Statements about the Sacred Islands and Continents in the Classics, explained Esoterically

... 804

The Men “whose Sleep was never Disturbed by Dreams”

... 805

The Heirloom of Atlantis

... 807

“The Greater Gods of Olympos”

... 809

The Power of Names

... 811

The Sons of Cœlus and Terra

... 813

The Children of Niobe

... 815

The “Island of the Divine Kings”

... 817

Who were the Nephilim?

... 819

Mythology built on History

... 821

SECTION VII.

Scientific and Geological Proofs of the Existence of several Submerged Continents

... 822

Geology Corroborates Occultism

... 823

Tradition as True as History

... 825

Atlantis, Necessary to Ethnology

... 827

Astræa falls on her Head

... 829

Ingenious Explanations

... 831

Hæckel for once is Right

... 833

Final and Irrefutable Evidence

... 835

Enough has now been said

... 837

Hear both sides

... 839

The Prologue to Esoteric Truth

... 841

PART I.ANTHROPOGENESIS.

PART II.The Archaic Symbolism of the World-Religions.

PART III.Addenda.

See also

PART I.
ANTHROPOGENESIS.

PART II.
The Archaic Symbolism of the World-Religions.

PART III.
Addenda.