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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 I.
COSMOGENESIS.
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
VOLUME FIRST.
COSMOGENESIS.
COSMOGENESIS.
Proem ... 31
- The Oldest MSS. in the World and its Symbolism ... 31
- The One Life ... 32
- The Secret Doctrine—Pantheism—Atheism ... 35
- “Space” in all Religions and in Occultism ... 37
- Seven Cosmic Elements—Seven Races of Mankind ... 40
- The Three Propositions of the Secret Doctrine ... 42
- Description of the Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan ... 48
BOOK I.—PART I.
COSMIC EVOLUTION.
COSMIC EVOLUTION.
Seven Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan ... 55
Stanza I.—The Night of the Universe ... 67
- Time and Universal Mind ... 69
- The Causes of Being ... 71
- The Seven Sublime Lords ... 73
- The Causes of Existence ... 75
- The One Form of Existence ... 77
- Âlaya, the Universal Soul ... 79
- Can the Finite conceive the Infinite? ... 81
Stanza II.—The Idea of Differentiation ... 83
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Stanza III.—The Universe, a Flitting Shadow ... 91
- The Universe, a Flitting Shadow ... 93
- Nature’s Symbols ... 95
- The Churning of the Ocean ... 97
- Darkness and Light ... 99
- Androgynous Deities ... 101
- The Serpent Symbol ... 103
- The Magical Agent ... 105
- I Am That I Am ... 107
- Primeval Differentiations ... 109
- The Web of Being ... 111
- Conscious Electricity ... 113
Stanza IV.—The Septenary Hierarchies ... 113
- The Seven Mystic Senses ... 115
- The Vehicle of the Universe ... 117
- The Immaculate Conceptions. ... 119
- The Potency of Speech and Sound ... 121
- The Seven Senses ... 123
- The Boundless Circle ... 125
- Fire, the Great Symbol of Deity ... 127
- The Stellar Sons of Light ... 129
- The Divine Recorders ... 131
Stanza V.—Fohat: The Child of the Septenary Hierarchies ... 131
- The Celestial Buddhas ... 133
- The Theogony of the Creators ... 135
- The Protean Spirit-Substance ... 137
- The Correlation of the Gods ... 139
- The Seven Worlds ... 141
- The Antiquity of Physical Sciences ... 143
- The One Flame ... 145
- The Winged Wheels ... 147
- Monism and Materialism ... 149
- The Four Celestial Beings ... 151
- The Lipika ... 153
- The Ring “Pass Not” ... 155
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Stanza VI.—Our World, its Growth and Development ... 160
- The Mystery of the Female Logos ... 161
- From No-Number to Number Seven ... 163
- Were the Ancients Ignorant of the Physical Sciences? ... 165
- The Sleep of the Eternal Mother ... 167
- The Cosmic Plane, an Illusion ... 169
- Primordial Substance, a Reality ... 171
- Laplace’s Mistake ... 173
- A Digression ... 175
A few Early Misconceptions concerning Planets, Rounds, and Man ... 176
- Descending and Reascending States ... 177
- Exchange of Life-Principles ... 179
- Opinions Differ and yet Agree ... 181
- The Transmigrations of the Ego ... 183
- A Readjustment of Facts ... 185
- Like Questions, like Answers ... 187
- An Authoritative Letter ... 189
- The Number 777 ... 191
- The Monadic Evolutions ... 193
Additional Facts and Explanations concerning the Globes and the Monads ... 193
- Transfer of Life-Elements ... 195
- The Monadic Host ... 197
- The Elemental Kingdoms ... 199
- Monads and Atoms ... 201
- The Lunar Ancestors ... 203
- The Fourth Globe ... 205
- Man or Ape; which was First? ... 207
- An Erroneous Opinion ... 209
- A Master’s Letter ... 211
- The Preliminary Creation of Man ... 213
- The First Cause of Sin ... 215
- The Codex Nazaræus repeats the Allegory ... 217
- Ilda-Baoth-Jehovah ... 219
- The Seven Planes ... 221
- The War in Heaven ... 223
- The Birth of the Worlds ... 225
- The Seven Grades of Initiation ... 227
- The Lost Canon of Proportion ... 229
- The Origin of Devotion ... 231
- The Creative Powers ... 233
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Stanza VII.—The Parents of Man on Earth ... 233
- One Parent Flame, Countless Flames ... 235
- Teachings Contrasted ... 237
- The Hierarchies of Spirits ... 239
- Nature-Spirits, or Elementals ... 241
- The Mystery of Being ... 243
- The Ancestry of Man ... 245
- The “Seven Souls” in Egyptology ... 247
- The Moon God ... 249
- Jehovah a Female Sephira ... 251
- The Origin of Man ... 253
- Dii Sunt Demones Inversi ... 255
- The Immortal Root ... 257
- Chaldæan Metaphysics ... 259
- The True and the False Kabbalah ... 261
- Occult and Kabbalistic Doctrines ... 263
- Occultists and Kabbalists Differ ... 265
- Spirit Alone is Helpless on Earth ... 267
- The “Devourers” ... 269
- The Four Dimensions of Space ... 271
- Oceans of Carbonic Acid ... 273
- The Great Magic Agent ... 275
- Âkâsha is not Ether ... 277
- Atoms are Invisible Lives ... 279
- Occult Chemistry ... 281
- The Fiery Lives ... 283
- Man, the Shadow of his Prototype ... 285
- Earth Peopled from Heaven ... 287
- The “Second Advent” ... 289
Summing Up ... 290
- The Upanishads ... 291
- A Recapitulation ... 293
- The Guiding Intelligence of the Universe ... 295
- The Unity of All in Nature ... 297
- The Three Universes ... 299
- Matter is the Shadow of Spirit ... 301
- The Yliaster of Paracelsus ... 303
- Hermes Christianized ... 305
- The Eternal alone is Real ... 307
- A Few Occult Aphorisms ... 309
Extracts from an Eastern Private Commentary hitherto Secret ... 309
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BOOK I.—PART II.
THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLISM.
THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLISM.
I. Symbolism and Ideographs ... 321
II. The Mystery Language and its Keys ... 329
- Egypt’s many Religions ... 331
- The Great Pyramid Measures ... 333
- The Quadrature of the Circle ... 335
- Truth must Prevail at Last ... 337
- Moses and the Ark of Bulrushes copied from Sargon ... 339
- Occult Numbers ... 341
- Identity of the Ancient Symbols ... 343
- The “Satanic” Races ... 345
III. Primordial Substance and Divine Thought ... 347
- Divine Thought ... 349
- The Universal Illusion ... 351
- Pater Omnipotens Æther ... 353
- The Cosmogenesis of Manu ... 355
- The Seven Prakritis ... 357
- The Gods of “Genesis” ... 359
- The Mystic Fire ... 361
- Æther ... 363
IV. Chaos: Theos: Kosmos ... 365
V. On the Hidden Deity, its Symbols and Glyphs ... 373
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- Symbols of the Creative Powers ... 379
- International Correlation of Gods ... 381
- Ancient Symbology ... 383
VI. The Mundane Egg ... 384
- Egg and Ark ... 385
- Lunar and Solar Deities ... 387
- Fiery Serpents ... 389
- The Winged Globe ... 391
- Two Aspects of “God” ... 393
VII. The Days and Nights of Brahmâ ... 395
- Three Kinds of Pralaya ... 397
- The Reabsorption of All ... 399
- A Kabalistic Key ... 401
- The Coming of Night ... 403
- The Return of Moru ... 405
VIII. The Lotus, as a Universal Symbol ... 406
- The Ideal becoming Material ... 407
- Hebrew Anthropomorphism ... 409
- Brahman and Semite ... 411
- The Letter M ... 413
IX. The Moon; Deus Lunus, Phœbe ... 415
- The Christian Lunar God ... 417
- The Physiological Key to the Moon Symbol ... 419
- The “Double Womb” ... 421
- An Allegory from the Zohar ... 423
- Hecate-Luna the Counterpart of Jehovah ... 425
- The Moon Bi-Sexual ... 427
- The Dignity of Saïs ... 429
- Ante-historical Catholicism ... 431
- Identity of Typology ... 433
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X. Tree, Serpent, and Crocodile Worship ... 434
- The Serpent, the Symbol of Initiation ... 435
- The Ashvattha Tree ... 437
- “Sevening” ... 439
- The Dual Logos ... 441
XI. Demon est Deus Inversus ... 443
- No Life without Death ... 445
- Theological Etymologies ... 447
- The Angels Slandered ... 449
- The War of the Gods ... 451
- Wilson’s Criticism Criticized ... 453
- The Deception of the Gods ... 455
XII. The Theogony of the Creative Gods ... 457
- Jehovah not the Supreme Deity ... 459
- The Primeval Theogony of the Vedântins ... 461
- Synonyms of the Logos ... 463
- “Female” Logoi ... 465
- The Pythagorean Idea ... 467
- Antiquity of the Pyramids ... 469
- Cosmic Gods ... 471
- Incredible, but True ... 473
- The Same Idea in Confucianism ... 475
- The Mystery of Blackness ... 477
- God is our Higher Self ... 479
XIII. The Seven Creations ... 480
- The Seven Creations of the Puranas ... 481
- The Ogdoad ... 483
- The Primary and Secondary Creations ... 485
- Many Versions of the One Truth ... 487
- The Seven Creations ... 489
- Who the Kumâras are ... 493
- The “Virgin Ascetics” ... 495
- Importance of the Number Seven ... 497
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XIV. The Four Elements ... 497
- On the Elements ... 499
- The Cosmic Gods ... 501
- St. Paul Believed in Cosmic Gods ... 503
- Jehovah, a God of the Elements ... 505
- Astarte and the Virgin Mary ... 507
- Physical Forces, the Vehicles of the Elements ... 509
XV. On Kwan-Shi-Yin and Kwan-Yin ... 510
BOOK I.—PART III.
ADDENDA.
SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED.
ADDENDA.
SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED.
On Occult and Modern Science ... 517
I. Reasons for these Addenda ... 517
II. Modern Physicists are playing at Blind Man’s Buff ... 523
- “Is Light a Body or Not?” ... 525
- A Selection of Contradictory Hypotheses ... 527
- Actio in Distans ... 529
- Cauchy’s Views ... 531
III. Is Gravitation a Law? ... 532
- Gravity or what? ... 533
- Jehovah, one of the Elohim ... 535
- Newton then and Newton now ... 537
- Perpetual Motion ... 539
- Kepler’s Ideas ... 541
- The Cause of Rotation ... 543
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IV. The Theories of Rotation in Science ... 544
- Contradictory Hypotheses ... 545
- Scientific Aberrations ... 547
- The Paradoxes of Science ... 549
- Forces are Realities ... 551
V. The Masks of Science ... 552
- Academical Misnomers ... 553
- The Fixing of Light ... 555
- What is Force? ... 557
- They Agree to Disagree ... 559
- The Mystic Rays ... 561
- The Causes and the Effects ... 563
- What is an Atom? ... 565
- Chemical Gods ... 567
- The Vishishthâdvaita System ... 569
VI. An Attack on the Scientific Theory of Force by a Man of Science ... 571
VII. Life, Force, or Gravity ... 577
- Sun-force and Earth-force ... 579
- Pantheism or Monotheism ... 581
- The Seven Physical Senses ... 583
- The Tree of Life ... 585
- What is Nervous Ether? ... 587
- The Life Principle ... 589
VIII. The Solar Theory ... 590
- The Heart of the Solar System ... 591
- The Quintessence of Kosmos ... 593
- The Original Base ... 595
- Elements and Non-Elements ... 597
- What is the Directive Force? ... 599
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IX. The Coming Force ... 605
- An Unconscious Occultist ... 607
- Occult Mysteries and Society ... 609
- Limits to Discoveries ... 611
- Keely’s Ether ... 613
- A Premature Discovery ... 615
- What is the New Force? ... 617
X. On the Elements and Atoms ... 619
- The Whirling of the Soul ... 621
- The Eternal Pilgrim ... 623
- Buddhas of the Three Worlds ... 625
- The Crest-jewel of Wisdom ... 627
- Uranus and Neptune ... 629
- Cyclic Fall of the Gods ... 631
XI. Ancient Thought in Modern Dress ... 633
- Chemistry and Occult Science ... 635
- The Trinity in Unity ... 637
- Genesis of the Elements ... 639
- Puranas versus Royal Society ... 641
XII. Scientific and Esoteric Evidence for, and Objections to, the Modern Nebular Theory ... 643
- Modern Science and Occultism ... 645
- Forces are Emanations ... 647
- Unanswerable Queries ... 649
- What are the Nebulæ? ... 651
- Cometary Matter ... 653
- What is Primitive Matter? ... 655
- The Future Synthesis ... 657
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XIII. Forces—Modes of Motion or Intelligences? ... 658
- Kant and Occultism ... 659
- Mind in Nature ... 661
- Occult and Physical Sciences ... 663
- Plurality of Worlds ... 665
- The Geology of Enoch ... 667
XIV. Gods, Monads, and Atoms ... 669
- Who are the Blind? ... 671
- The Mathematical Point ... 673
- Space, Force, and Matter ... 675
- Phantoms of the Mind ... 677
- Atomic Souls ... 679
- The Chemistry of the Future ... 681
- Âryan and Western Science ... 683
- Hermes or Huxley? ... 685
- Leibnitz and Occultism ... 687
- Spinoza and Leibnitz ... 689
- The Nature of the Monad ... 691
- Spirit and Matter One ... 693
XV. Cyclic Evolution and Karma ... 695
- Is Man a God or a Beast? ... 697
- The Swing of Karma ... 699
- The Network of Destiny ... 701
- Cyclic Wheels within Wheels ... 703
- Karma-Nemesis ... 705
- Ancient and Modern Prophecies ... 707
- Astrology a Science ... 709
XVI. The Zodiac and its Antiquity ... 710
- The Zodiac in the Bible ... 711
- Antiquity of Zodiac ... 713
- The Zodiac and the Patriarchs ... 715
- The Sign of Jonas ... 717
- Chaldæo-Judæan Gods ... 719
- The Dragon and the Bull ... 721
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- Bailly’s Conclusions ... 723
- The Beginning of Kali Yuga ... 725
- Hindû Astronomical Methods ... 727
- The Âryan Hindûs Vindicated ... 729
XVII. Summary of the Position ... 731
- The Exact Science of—Negation ... 733
- Forces are Gods ... 735
- The Aliases of Fohat ... 737
- Legend and History ... 739
See also
- First edition
- Main page for this book with general description and links.
- SD page info to find the article containing a volume and page reference.