HPB-SD(ed.1)

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

The Secret Doctrine

The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy

Introduction

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• The Need of such a Book
• The Antiquity of Documents and MSS.
• What the Book is intended to do

VOLUME FIRST. COSMOGENESIS

Proem

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• The Oldest MSS. in the world and its Symbolism
• The One Life, Active and Passive
• The Secret Doctrine — Pantheism — Atheism
• “ Space ” in all Religions and in Occultism
• Seven Cosmic Elements — Seven Races of Mankind
• The Three Postulates of the Secret Doctrine
• Description of the Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan