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The Secret Doctrine
The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
by
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
सत्यात् नास्ति परो धर्मः ।
“ There is no Religion higher than Truth.”
21-th century edition
(based on first edition, 1888)


Table of contents

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Preface
... vii

Introduction
... xvii

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

VOLUME FIRST.
COSMOGENESIS.

Proem
... 1

The Oldest MSS. in the world and its Symbolism
... 2
The One Life, Active and Passive
... 4
The Secret Doctrine — Pantheism — Atheism
... 6
“ Space ” in all Religions and in Occultism
... 9
Seven Cosmic Elements — Seven Races of Mankind
... 12
The Three Postulates of the Secret Doctrine
... 14
Description of the Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan
... 20

BOOK I.—PART I.
COSMIC EVOLUTION.

Seven stanzas from the Book of Dzyan
... 27

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Stanza I. The night of the universe
... 35

Slokas: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Sloka 1
... 35
The seven eternities
... 36
Sloka 2
... 36
Time and Universal Mind
... 37
Sloka 3
... 37
The Universal Mind and the dhyan chohans
... 38
Sloka 4
... 38
The causes of being
... 39
Nidana and maya: the causes of misery
... 39
Sloka 5
... 40
What is darkness in philosophy?
... 41
Sloka 6
... 42
Motions, the “Great Breath”
... 43
Sloka 7
... 44
Being and non-being
... 45
Sloka 8
... 46
The eye of Dangma
... 47
Sloka 9
... 47
Alaya, the universal soul
... 49
Can the finite conceive the infinite?
... 51


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Stanza II. The idea of differentiation
... 53

Slokas: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Sloka 1
... 53
The state of paranirvana
... 53
Sloka 2
... 54
The Absolute knows itself not
... 55
Sloka 3
... 57
The germ of life was not yet
... 57
Sloka 4
... 58
Astral light is not the Anima Mundi
... 59
Sloka 5
... 60
Divine thought, divine thinkers
... 61
Sloka 6
... 61
The universe was still concealed in the divine thought
... 61
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Stanza III. The awakening of kosmos
... 62

Slokas: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Sloka 1
... 62
The universe, a flitting shadow
... 63
Sloka 2
... 63
The great vibration
... 63
Sloka 3
... 64
Nature’s symbols
... 65
Sloka 4
... 66
The power of numbers
... 67
Sloka 5
... 68
The blossom of the root of life.
... 69
Sloka 6
... 69
Sloka 7
... 71
Light emerges from darkness
... 71
The logoi and the dragon
... 73
Noumenal and phenomenal light
... 75
The astral light
... 75
Sloka 8
... 77
Deity in space and time
... 77
Primeval radiations from unity
... 79
Sloka 9
... 81
Primeval differentiations
... 81
Sloka 10
... 83
The web of being
... 83
Sloka 11
... 83
Sloka 12
... 85
Conscious electricity: Fohat
... 85
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Stanza IV. The septenary hierarchies
... 86

Slokas: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Sloka 1
... 86
The sons of the fire
... 86
The seven mystic senses
... 87
Sloka 2
... 88
Sloka 3
... 88
The vehicle of the universe — the dhyan chohans
... 89
The immaculate conceptions
... 91
Sloka 4
... 88
The potency of speech and sound
... 93
The army of the Voice
... 93
Speech and Mind
... 95
Nature, the Perpetual Motion
... 97
Sloka 5
... 98
The Ogdoad and the Heptad
... 99
Fire, the great symbol of deity
... 101
The stellar “Sons of Light”
... 103
Sloka 6
... 103
The divine recorders
... 105
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Stanza V. Fohat : The child of the septenary hierarchies
... 106

Slokas: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Sloka 1
... 106
The fiery whirlwind and the primordial seven
... 107
No man — no god.
Sloka 2
... 107
They produce Fohat
... 108
Theogony of the creators
... 109
The protean spirit-substance
... 111
The correlation of the “gods”
... 113
Manifested symbols
... 115
Sloka 3
... 116
The antiquity of physical sciences
... 117
Sloka 4
... 118
Evolution of the “principles” of nature
... 119
The mystery of the fire
... 121
Sloka 5
... 122
The secret of the elements
... 123
The square of the tabernacle (the real meaning of the tabernacle)
... 125
The dragons of secret wisdom
... 127
Sloka 5
... 129
The planetary spirits and the lipika
... 129
The ring “Pass Not”
... 130
The sidereal book of life
... 131
The god of man and the god of the ant
... 133
The soul’s pilgrimage and its “rest”
... 134
The soul’s pilgrimage
... 135
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Stanza VI. Our world, its growth and development
... 136

Slokas: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Sloka 1
... 136
The logos
... 136
Mystery of the female logos
... 137


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Sloka 2
... 138
The seven layu centres
... 138
From no-number to number seven
... 139
The “elementary germs”
... 139
Sloka 3
... 140
The evolution of the elements
... 140
Were the ancients ignorant of the physical sciences?
... 141
The sleep of the Eternal Mother
... 143
Sloka 4
... 144
The cosmic plane, an illusion
... 145
The building of the worlds
... 145
Primordial substance, a reality
... 147
A neutral centre
... 147
The moon is not dead, but only sleepeth
... 149
“Dead” planets — the Moon
... 149
Nature can never cease
... 151
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A few early theosophical misconceptions concerning planets, rounds, and man
... 152
Descending and re-ascending states
... 153
Diagram I. The planetary divisions and the human principles
... 153
Exchange of life-principles
... 155
The Moon
... 155
Opinions differ and yet agree
... 157
Septenary division in different Indian systems
... 157
Transmigrations of the ego
... 159
A re-adjustment of facts
... 161
The septenary chain
... 161
Like questions, like answers
... 163
Relation of the other planets to the Earth
... 163
An authoritative letter
... 165
Priceless advice, neglected
... 167
The seven branches of the tree of knowledge
... 169
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Additional facts and explanations concerning the globes and the monads
... 170
The mystery of the moon, unveiled
... 171
Diagram II. The Lunar chain and the Earth chain
... 172
The Earth, the child of the Moon
... 173
The classification of the monads
... 175
As above, so below, is the law
... 177
The Lunar Monads – the Pitris
... 179
A triple evolution in nature
... 181
Man, the oldest son of the earth
... 183
The man, or the ape; which the first?
... 185
An erroneous opinion
... 187
A Master’s letter
... 189
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Stanza VI. – Continued
... 191

Sloka 5
... 191
The preliminary creation of man
... 191
“Creation” in the Fourth Round
... 191
Sloka 6
... 192
The first cause of sin
... 193
The “curse,” “sin,” and “war”
... 193
The codex repeats the allegory
... 195
Ilda-Baoth-Jehovah
... 197
Sloka 6 – Continued
... 199
[The comparative diagram of seven planes]
... 200
No shadow, no light
... 201
The struggle for life and the birth of the worlds
... 202
The birth of the worlds
... 203
Seeing sound, hearing colours
... 205
Sloka 7
... 205
the tree from which the adepts grow
... 207
The adepts and the Sacred Island
... 207
The sacred island
... 209
The sons of wisdom
... 211
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Stanza VII. The parents of man on Earth
... 213

Slokas: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Sloka 1
... 213
Divisions of the hierarchies
... 214
One parent flame, countless flames
... 215
Teachings contrasted
... 217
The hierarchies of spirits
... 219
Correlation of beings
... 221
Sloka 2
... 222
The mystery of being
... 223
Spirit falling into matter
... 225
The Egyptian system
... 227
Many streams, but one source
... 229
Sloka 3
... 231
The differentiation of the “One”
... 231
What incarnates in animal man
... 233
Dii sunt demones inversi
... 235
Sloka 4
... 237
The immortal root
... 237
Sloka 5
... 238
Formation of man: the thinker
... 238
Chaldean metaphysics
... 239
The true and the false Kabala
... 241
[Diagram of human principles]
... 242
Occult and Kabalistic pneumatics (doctrines)
... 243
Occultists and Kabalists differ
... 245
Spirit alone is helpless on earth
... 247
Matter, life and substance
... 249
The four dimensions of space
... 251
The great Archæus
... 253
But why slander the Indian hierophants?
... 255
Akâsa in not ether
... 257
Atoms are invisible lives
... 259
Occult vital chemistry and bacteriology
... 261
Paracelsus died too early
... 263


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Sloka 6
... 264
Man, the shadow of his prototype
... 265
The Watcher and his shadow
... 265
Sloka 7
... 265
Earth, peopled from heaven (by the shadows of the gods)
... 267
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Summing up
... 269

The first chapter of creation
... 269
Occultism in the Upanishads
... 271
The pith and marrow of the Secret Doctrine
... 273
The nature of the celestial men
... 275
Many bodies but one soul
... 277
Hermes, or Aristotle?
... 279
Matter is the shadow of spirit
... 281
Paracelsus anticipated Tyndall
... 283
Hermes in Christian garb (christianized)
... 285
Alone the eternal is rest
... 287
Some Occult aphorisms
... 289
Occult aphorisms
... 291
The seven powers of nature
... 293
Universal illusion
... 295
Nothing new under the sun
... 297
Men welcome error, and crucify the truth
... 299

BOOK I.—PART II.
THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLISM IN ITS APPROXIMATE ORDER.

I. Symbolism and ideographs
... 303

Emblem and symbol differ
... 305
Magic potency of sound
... 307
Mystery language
... 309
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II. The mystery language and its keys
... 310

Egypt’s many religions
... 311
The Jews and their system
... 313
Piazzi Smyth and Petrie disagree
... 315
Truth must prevail at last
... 317
Moses copied from Sargon
... 319
The cross, a phallic symbol
... 321
Identity of the ancient symbols
... 323
The impartiality of scientific denials
... 325
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III. Primordial substance and divine thought
... 325

Divine thought, or cineritious matter?
... 327
The universal illusion
... 329
Ether and intelligence
... 330
Ether, as its noumenon
... 331
What Manu says of this
... 333
The seven prakritis
... 335
Darkness, is light
... 337
The mystic fire
... 339
One tree of knowledge
... 341
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IV. Chaos—Theos—Kosmos
... 342

The union of chaos and spirit
... 343
The birth of mind
... 345
The mystic elements
... 347
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V. The hidden deity, its symbols and glyphs
... 349

The many are one
... 349
The Gnostic idea
... 351
The Egyptian version
... 353
International correlation of gods
... 355
Ornithological symbols
... 357


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VI. The mundane egg
... 359

Whence our figures?
... 361
Egg-born logoi
... 363
The winged globe
... 365
The Scandinavian logos
... 367
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VII. The days and nights of Brahmâ
... 368

Human gods and divine men
... 369
The rebirth of gods
... 371
The dissolution of the egg
... 373
Archaic symbolism
... 375
The Purânic prophecy
... 377
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VIII. The lotus as a universal symbol
... 379

Lotus and lily
... 379
The exoteric and the esoteric
... 381
The purity of early Phallicism
... 383
The Egyptian lotus
... 385
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IX. The Moon, Deus Lunus, Phœbe
... 386

A glance at the lunar myth
... 387
A key-note to the Moon
... 389
The time periods
... 391
Copies and originals
... 393
Solar-lunar worship in the church
... 395
The Moon, bisexual
... 397
The dignity of Saïs
... 399
Ante-historical Catholicism
... 401
Identity of typology
... 403
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X. Tree and serpent and crocodile worship
... 403

Degeneration of the symbol
... 405
The seven-headed dragons
... 407
Dragon and crocodile
... 409
The mystery of the seven thunders
... 411
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XI. Demon est Deus inversus
... 411

Death is life
... 413
Theological etymologies
... 415
The angels slandered
... 417
The fall of the angels
... 418
The war of the gods
... 419
The deception of the gods
... 421
Transformation of the legend
... 421
The deception, an allegory
... 423
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XII. The theogony of the creative gods
... 424

Myth is oral tradition
... 425
The point within the circle
... 426
The creative logoï, androgynous
... 427
The one is known by the many
... 429
The Logos or Verbum
... 429
The female logoï
... 431
The factors of Creation
... 432
The Pythagorean idea
... 433
Antiquity of the pyramids
... 435
Cosmic gods
... 437
Identity of the hierarchies in all religions
... 438
Incredible, but true
... 439
The same idea in Confucianism
... 441
The mystery of blackness
... 443
Difference between the Aryan and Semitic systems
... 444
God is our higher self
... 445


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XIII. The seven creations
... 445

The order of the evolution
... 447
The six stellar gods
... 449
The Gnostic and the Hindu versions
... 449
The seven Puranic “Creations”
... 450
Many versions of the one truth
... 451
The seven creations
... 453
Creations continued
... 455
Who the kumâras are
... 457
The patron-guide of Israel
... 459
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XIV. The four elements
... 460

On the elements
... 461
The cosmic gods
... 463
The “gods” and the “elements”
... 463
The language of the elements
... 464
A confession of science
... 465
The fighting gods
... 467
Pagan and Christian worship of the elements
... 467
Prayer is often sorcery
... 469
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XV. On Kwan-Shi-Yin and Kwan-Yin
... 470

Diseased imagination
... 471
Kwan-Shi-Yin and Phallicism
... 471
The real meaning
... 472
Snobs, or dragons?
... 473
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BOOK I.—PART III.
SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED.

I. Reasons for these addenda
... 477

Mutual position defined
... 477
Dual nature of the sun
... 479
Occultism versus Materialism
... 479
The sons of light
... 481
The sabbath of the Mystic
... 481
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II. Modern physicists are playing at blind man’s buff
... 482

No agreement among scientist
... 483
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III. An lumen sit corpus nec non ?
... 483

The metaphysics of physical science
... 485
The hypothetical ether
... 485
Scientific imagination
... 487
The physical “phantom”
... 489
Scientific theories of its constitution
... 489
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IV. Is gravitation a law ?
... 490

Gravity or what?
... 491
The triple sidereal force
... 493
Intelligences or blind forces?
... 493
Newton then and Newton now
... 495
New bottles for old wine
... 497
The cause of attraction
... 498
Chronic negation
... 499


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V. The theories of rotation in science
... 500

Contradictory hypotheses
... 501
Conflicting hypotheses
... 502
Scientific aberrations
... 503
The paradoxes of science
... 505
More hypotheses
... 505
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VI. The masks of science
... 506

Academical misnomers
... 507
What are the “forces?”
... 508
The fixing of light
... 509
The view of the Occultists
... 510
What is force?
... 511
They agree to disagree
... 513
The mystic rays
... 515
Scientific and occult theories on heat
... 515
The causes and the effects
... 517
The vicious circle
... 519
The atoms of science
... 519
Chemical gods
... 521
Suggestive allegories
... 523
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VII. An attack on the scientific theory of force by a man of science
... 523

Dr. Richardson’s heresy
... 525
We disagree
... 527
Ether and atoms
... 527
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VIII. Life, force, or gravity?
... 529

Mysterious sun fluid
... 529
Sun-force and Earth-force
... 531
Dr. Richardson on nervous ether
... 531
Pantheism or monotheism
... 533
The seven physical senses
... 535
The senses and their action
... 535
What is nervous ether?
... 537
The life-principle
... 539
Too much “life” may kill
... 539
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IX. The solar theory
... 540

The heart of the solar system
... 541
The primordial element
... 542
The quintessence of kosmos
... 543
The original base
... 545
Elements and meta-elements
... 546
Occult chemistry
... 547
Monads and atoms
... 549
The tree of life and being
... 549
The caduceus of life
... 551
Prof. Crookes on the elements
... 552
True signs of the times
... 553
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X. The coming force
... 554

Divine, infernal, or terrestrial force?
... 555
Mr. Keeley, an unconscious Occultist
... 557
The first-born of ether
... 559
Inter-etheric waves
... 561
A premature discovery
... 563
The secrets of sound and odour
... 565
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XI. On the elements and atoms
... 566

Metaphysical chemistry
... 567
Pantheism versus materialism
... 569
The diamond heart
... 571
The crest-jewel of wisdom
... 573
What are the seven planets?
... 575
The cyclic fall of the gods
... 577


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XII. Ancient thought in modern dress
... 579

Antiquity our great master
... 579
A chase after the primal matter
... 581
All-potential unity
... 583
The “seventh” in Chemistry
... 585
Puranas versus Royal Society
... 587
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XIII. The modern nebular theory
... 588

“So far shalt thou go...”
... 589
Forces are emanations
... 591
Unanswerable queries
... 593
What is the nebula?
... 595
The meta-elements of physical science
... 597
The nebular theory a romance
... 599
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XIV. Forces—Modes of motion or intelligences?
... 601

Hermes and Kant
... 601
The vital principle
... 603
Occult and physical science
... 605
Plurality of worlds
... 607
The geology of Enoch
... 609
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XV. Gods, monads, and atoms
... 610

Which of the two is blind?
... 611
The mathematical point
... 613
The gods of the ancients — the monads
... 613
Space, force and matter
... 615
Phantoms of the mind
... 617
The monad and the duad
... 617
The monad of Leibnitz
... 619
The chemistry of the future
... 621
The genesis of the elements
... 621
The genesis of atoms
... 623
Hermes or Huxley?
... 625
Leibnitz and Occultism
... 627
The teaching of Leibnitz
... 627
Spinoza and Leibnitz
... 629
Maya and mahamaya
... 631
The monads according to Occultism
... 632
The wheels of life
... 633
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XVI. Cyclic evolution and karma
... 634

The roots and causes
... 635
The swing of karma
... 637
Karmic cycles and universal ethics
... 637
The network of destiny
... 639
Destiny and karma
... 639
Cyclic wheels within wheels
... 641
Karma-Nemesis
... 643
Ancient and modern prophecies
... 645
Astrology a science
... 647
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XVII. The Zodiac and its antiquity
... 647

The Zodiac in the Bible
... 649
The Jewish patriarchs and the signs of the Zodiac
... 651
The sign of Jonas
... 653
Chaldeo-Judean gods
... 655
Zodiacal cycles
... 656
The dragon and the bull
... 657
Bailly’s conclusions
... 659
The beginning of kali-yug
... 661
Hindu astronomy
... 661
The eye of Taurus
... 663
Hindu astronomical methods
... 665
The Aryan Hindus vindicated
... 667
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XVIII. Summary of the mutual position
... 668

The exact sciences of — negation
... 669
Science confesses her ignorance
... 669
No void possible
... 671
The aliases of Fohat
... 673
The gods of Egypt
... 675
Materialism is leading Europe towards a catastrophe
... 675
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N.B. — The Index and Glossary will be found at the close of Volume II.

VOLUME SECOND.

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Preliminary notes
... 1

On the archaic stanzas, and the four prehistoric continents
... 1
The lemnos-born kabiri
... 3
The secrets of Kouyunjik
... 5
The imperishable sacred land
... 6
Hyperboreas and Lemuria
... 7
Atlantis
... 8
Pre-tertiary giants
... 9
The tropics at the pole
... 11
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BOOK II.— PART II.
ANTHROPOGENESIS.

Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan
... 15

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Stanza I.—Beginnings of sentient life
... 22

Slokas: 1, 2, 3, 4

Sloka 1. The Lha, or Spirit of the Earth
... 22
The action of the Great Breath
... 23
Man, the Third Logos
... 25
Man’s dual and triple nature
... 27
Sloka 2. Invocation of the Earth to the Sun
... 27
The celestial governors of humanity
... 29
The horses of Sukra’s car
... 31
Parent stars and sister planets
... 33
The “seven” mystery
... 35
Three kinds of light
... 37
The numbers of Creation
... 39
The emanations of Ain-Soph
... 41
Adam-Adami
... 43
Sloka 3. What the Sun answers
... 44
The first war in heaven
... 45
Sloka 4. Transformation of the Earth
... 46
Narada and Asuramaya
... 47
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Two antediluvian astronomers
... 47

The mirror of futurity
... 49
What the earth-whirl produced
... 51
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Stanza II.—Nature unaided fails
... 52

Slokas: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Sloka 5. After enormous periods the Earth creates monsters
... 52
The monsters of Chaos
... 53
Sloka 6. The “Creators” are displeased
... 55
Unaided physical nature fails
... 55
Sloka 7. They dry the Earth
... 57
The “Double Dragon”
... 57
Creation of divine beings in the exoteric accounts
... 58
The bodies of Brahma
... 59
What the Gnostics say
... 61
Sloka 8. The forms are destroyed by them
... 63
Who are the “Flames”?
... 63
Sloka 9. The first great tides
... 64
Sloka 10. The beginning of incrustation
... 65
Divine will becomes Eros
... 65


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The chronology of the brahmins
... 66

The Race that never dies
... 67
The various pralayas
... 69
Scientific self-complacence
... 71
Cosmogony, an intelligent plan
... 73
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Stanza III.—Attempts to create man
... 75

Slokas: 11, 12, 13

Sloka 11. The Descent of the Demiurge
... 75
The secret of the fall of the angels
... 75
Sloka 12. The lunar gods ordered to create
... 75
Sloka 13. The higher gods refuse
... 77
The various classes of creators
... 77
The living spiritual fire
... 79
Man, a god in animal form
... 81
“Fires,” “sparks,” and “flames”
... 83
The son of Yah
... 85
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Stanza IV.—Creation of the first races
... 86

Slokas: 14, 15, 16, 17

Sloka 14. Creation of men
... 86
Man not created perfect
... 87
On the identity and differences of the incarnating powers
... 88
Pitris of the gods and demons
... 89
Sloka 15. They are empty shadows
... 90
Seven classes of pitris
... 91
A grand apocalyptic metaphor
... 93
What Prometheus symbolized
... 95
The trees of life
... 97
The hammer of Thor
... 99
The divine babe, Agni
... 101
Sloka 16. The Creators are perplexed how to create a Thinking man
... 102
The divine rebels
... 103
Sloka 17. What is needed for the formation of a perfect Man
... 105
Man’s father, the Sun
... 105
Bath-Kol, daughter of the Voice
... 107
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Stanza V. The evolution of the Second Race
... 109

Slokas: 18, 19, 20, 21

Sloka 18. The Sons of Yoga
... 109
The tabula smaragdina
... 109
The shells of Sheba Hachaloth
... 111
The secret work of Chiram
... 113
Sons of Yoga
... 115
Sloka 19. The sexless Second Race
... 116
The outgrowth of races
... 117
The blastema of science
... 119
Sloka 20. The sons of the Sons of Twilight
... 120
Sloka 21. The “shadow,” or the astral man, retires within, and man develops a physical body
... 121
Leda, Castor, and Pollux
... 121
The allegory of Castor and Pollux
... 123
The Divine Hermaphrodite
... 124
Jah-Hovah androgynous
... 125
Seth our progenitor
... 127
The Jewish God-name
... 129
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Stanza VI. The evolution of the “sweat-born”
... 131

Slokas: 22, 23

Sloka 22. The evolution of the three races continued
... 131
The swan and the egg
... 131
Bi-sexual reproduction
... 133
The virgin Third Race
... 135
Egyptian belief
... 137
Sloka 23. The second race create the third and perishes
... 138
A few words about deluges and Noah’s
... 138
What the flood means
... 139
Various deluges
... 141
The Arkite symbols
... 143
The Jewish Noah and the Chaldean Nuah
... 145
Agreement of dates
... 147
Could men exist 18,000,000 years ago?
... 148
How old is humanity?
... 149
Spontaneous generation
... 151
Aristotle denied heliocentricism
... 153
The Solar system in the Purânas
... 155
The sleight-of-hand of science
... 157
Oceans of carbonic acid?
... 159
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Stanza VII. From the semi-divine down to the first human races
... 161

Slokas: 24, 25, 26, 27

Sloka 24. The higher creators reject in their pride the forms evolved by the “Sons of Yoga”
... 161
A suggestive stanza
... 161
Creators and sub-creators
... 163
To the moneron the creator
... 165
Monads and Rounds
... 167
Monogenism or Polygenism
... 169
Sloka 25. They will not incarnate in the early “Egg-born”
... 171
A suggestive explanation
... 171
Sloka 26. They select the later androgynes
... 172
Sloka 27. The first man endowed with mind
... 172
The sons of kriyasakti
... 173


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A Saint — Hypnotised
... 175
Sweat-born and androgynes
... 177
The birth-days of the dhyanis
... 179
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Stanza VIII. Evolution of the animal mammalians—the first fall
... 180

Slokas: 28, 29, 30, 31, 32

Sloka 28. How the first mammals were produced
... 180
Men, the progenitors of animals
... 181
Archaic astrology
... 183
Sloka 29. A quasi-Darwinian evolution
... 183
Archaic zoology
... 183
Sloka 30. The animals get solid bodies
... 183
Sloka 31. Their separation into sexes
... 184
Sloka 32. The first sin of the mindless men
... 184
The sin of the mindless men
... 185


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What may be the objections to the foregoing
... 185

The darwinists mistaken
... 187
Naturalists inventing links
... 189
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Stanza IX. The final evolution of man
... 191

Slokas: 33, 34, 35, 36, 37

Sloka 33. The creators repent
... 191
Sloka 34. They atone for their neglect
... 191
Sloka 35. Men become endowed with minds
... 191
The cause of degeneration
... 191
The boneless race
... 193
The hairy men of China
... 195
The separation of sexes
... 197
Sloka 36. The fourth race develops perfect speech
... 198
Primeval language
... 199
Sloka 37. Every androgynous unit is separated and becomes bisexual
... 201
The transformation of the Earth
... 201
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Edens, serpents and dragons
... 202

The garden of Eden a college
... 203
Flying camels
... 205
Kircher’s dragon
... 207
Cobras as symbols
... 209
Two schools of magic
... 211
The seventh son of the seventh son
... 213
Buddha’s great mountain
... 215
“Mythical” monsters a reality
... 217
The flying dragons
... 219
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The “Sons of God” and the “Sacred Island”
... 220

The continent of the gods
... 221
The magicians of Atlantis
... 223
Cock and bull hypotheses
... 225
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Stanza X. The history of the Fourth Race
... 227

Slokas: 38, 39, 40, 41, 42

Sloka 38. The birth of the fourth, Atlantean Race
... 227
Sloka 39. The sub-races of the fourth humanity begin to divide and interblend; they form the first mixed races of various colours
... 227
The moon-coloured race
... 227
The mysteries among the Mayas
... 229
Satanic myths
... 231
Holy Satan
... 233
The shadow of God
... 235
Mahasura and Satan
... 237
Theological snuffers
... 239
“Principles” explained
... 241
Man, the pale shadow of God
... 243
Satan, a centripetal force
... 245
The curse of Vasishta
... 247
Scientific anthropology in the Purânas
... 249
Answers to objections
... 251
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Archaic teachings in the Purânas and Genesis. Physical evolution
... 251

Mr. Gladstone kills Genesis
... 253
From worm to man
... 255
The contradictions of science
... 257
Identity of human and animal embryos
... 259
Nature is uniform
... 261
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A panoramic view of the early races
... 263

Millions of years hence
... 263
Bailly and Faber
... 265
The natural “fall”
... 267
The symbolism of Kronos
... 269
The races in Greek mythology
... 271


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Stanza X.—Continued
... 271

Sloka 40. The superiority of the Atlantean over other races
... 271
Sloka 41. They fall into sin and beget children and monsters
... 271
Sloka 42. The first germs of Anthropomorphism and sexual religion. They lose their “third eye”
... 227
The Golden Age
... 273
The Devil’s outside humanity
... 275
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Are giants a fiction ?
... 277

The giants
... 277
Christendom is idolatrous
... 279
The seven virgin-youths
... 281
The serpent of eternity
... 283
The Tibetan Lilith
... 285
The races of men not all human
... 287
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The races with the “third eye”
... 289

Th “third eye”
... 289
Mazdean symbolism
... 291
Angels called birds
... 293
Occult physiology
... 295
The cyclops, no myth
... 297
The evolution of the eye
... 299
Evolution of root races in the fourth round
... 300
The odd eye is now a gland
... 301
The third eye is now a gland
... 301
The number of monads is limited
... 303
The law of retribution
... 305
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The primeval manus of humanity
... 307

The seven and fourteen manus
... 307
The blinds of exotericism
... 309
The four earlier Races
... 311
The esoteric meaning of “fish”
... 313
The inner man in the Zohar
... 315
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Stanza XI.—The civilization and destruction of the Fourth and Fifth Races
... 316

Slokas: 43, 44, 45, 46

Sloka 43.  The Lemuro-Atlanteans build cities and spread civilization. The incipient stage of anthropomorphism
... 316
Presentments of truths
... 317
Degeneration of mankind
... 319
The Hindu symbolization
... 321
The magis in the days of Krishna
... 323
Atlantis now ocean floor
... 325
On foot across the oceans
... 327
Changes of climate
... 329
Sloka 44. Their statues, witnesses to the size of the Lemuro-Atlanteans
... 331
Pre-historic statues
... 331
The old continents
... 333
How to read symbols
... 335
The mystery of easter island
... 337
The antediluvian Buddhas
... 339
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Cyclopean ruins and colossal stones as witnesses to giants
... 341

The materialism of the Bible
... 341
The “rocking-stones” in Europe
... 343
Living, speaking, and moving stones
... 345
Universal witnesses
... 347
It takes a god to become a man
... 349
Sloka 45. Lemuria destroyed by fire, Atlantis by water. The Flood
... 349
Sloka 46. The destruction of the fourth race and of the last antediluvian monster-animals
... 349
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Stanza XII.—The Fifth Race and its divine instructors
... 351

Slokas: 47, 48, 49

Sloka 47. The remnants of the first two races disappear for ever. Groups of the various Atlantean races saved from the Deluge along with the Forefathers of the Fifth
... 351
Sloka 48. The origins of our present Race, the Fifth. The first divine Dynasties
... 351
Sloka 49. The earliest glimmerings in History, now pinned to the allegorical chronology of the Bible, and “universal” History slavishly following it. — The nature of the first instructors and civilizers of mankind
... 351
The “Great Dragons” and serpents
... 351
The astronomical Dragon
... 353
Serpents and dragons under different Symbolisms
... 354
The Naasenian Gnostics
... 355
The sidereal and cosmic glyphs
... 356
The two mystic poles
... 357
God and nature anthropomorphized
... 359
Who were Enoch and the others?
... 361
The poles, the “heavenly measure”
... 363
Our divine instructors
... 365
The various Noahs
... 365
Hermes in astronomy and elsewhere
... 367
What the priests told Herodotus
... 369
A universal corroboration
... 371
Wheat brought down by the gods
... 373
“Sons of god” perfect and imperfect
... 375
The fallacies of the two churches
... 377
The origin of the satanic myth
... 378
The secret of the Dragon
... 379
The theft of Rahu
... 381
The gods, the facets of one gem
... 383
The builders of the material world
... 385
Who first created woman?
... 387
Jehovah Ophiomorphos
... 389
Noah was a kabir, hence he must have been a demon
... 390
The flood legends
... 391


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The oldest Persian traditions about the polar, and the submerged continents
... 393
The legends of Iran
... 393
Esoteric chronology
... 395
The Persian Phœnix
... 397
The arctic continent
... 399
The unreachable land
... 401
Western speculations founded on the Greek and Purânic traditions
... 402
Orientalists in the wrong box
... 403
Future continents, symbolized
... 405
The puzzles of antiquity
... 407
The “curse” from a Philosophical point of view
... 409
The ancient and the modern man
... 411
The travesty of Prometheus
... 413
Christ connected with Epaphos
... 415
The mistake of Arrian explained
... 417
Was Æschylus initiated?
... 419
One of the functions of Zeus
... 421
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Additional fragments from a commentary on the verses of stanza XII
... 423

The oldest records about Atlantis
... 425
The doom of Atlantis
... 427
Shadowy mementos of the past
... 429
Mistakes of the egyptologists
... 431
Theories of a self-made adept
... 433
The races, sub-races, and family races
... 434
Illustration of the Races
... 435
–––––––

Conclusion
... 437

Modern science mistrusted
... 439
A wholesale denial
... 441
Paradoxes of science
... 443
The coming new Race
... 445
–––––––

BOOK II.—PART II.
THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS.

Esoteric tenets corroborated in every scripture
... 449

The Vedas written by initiates
... 451
–––––––

§ XVI. Adam-Adami
... 452

“Nabathean Agriculture”
... 453
Many views of many minds
... 455
The Cabalistic four Adams
... 457
–––––––

XVII. The “Holy of Holies” : its degradation
... 459

The “God” sub rosâ
... 459
What was the circle-dance
... 461
Christian symbolism
... 463
The “four-faced” Brahmâ
... 465
The etymology of “sacrament”
... 467
The old and the new Jehovah
... 469
The craft of the rabbins
... 471
The Elohistic and Jehovistic texts
... 473
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XVIII. On the myth of the “fallen angel,” in its various aspects
... 475

A. The Evil Spirit : who and what?
... 475
The genesis of the Devil
... 477
God and Devil, both Metatrons
... 479
Fraudulent translation of the Bible
... 481
Vedas, once universal
... 483
B. The gods of light proceed from the gods of darkness
... 483
The sons of eternity
... 485
The shadows of the shadows
... 487
The one passive deity
... 489
The Zohar on the fallen ones
... 491
C. The many meanings of the “war in heaven”
... 492
The real meaning of the Cherub
... 493
Various names for initiates
... 495
Traces of pre-historic strifes
... 497
Allegories on the “war in heaven”
... 499
Sarpas — serpents — nagas
... 501
The myth of Bel and Merodach
... 503
The sacredness of the serpent
... 505
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XIX. Is Pleroma Satan’s lair ?
... 506

The living devils
... 507
Jehovah’s personating spirit
... 509
Akâsa, the “Mysterium Magnum”
... 511
The Mysterium Magnum
... 512
Mind, the quickening spirit
... 513
The logos and Satan are one
... 515
Baresma, the divine twig
... 517


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XX. Prometheus the titan. His origin in ancient India
... 519

The poetry of modern orientalists
... 521
The boon he gives
... 523
Greek ideas misunderstood
... 525
The six brothers of Krishna
... 527
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XXI. Enoïchion-Henoch
... 529

Who invented writing?
... 529
The adept dies but to live
... 531
What Enoch is, esoterically
... 533
St. Augustine and Enoch
... 535
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XXII. The symbolism of the mystery names Iao, and Jehovah
... 536

The Jews alone the heirloom of Jehovah
... 537
A grotesque verse explained
... 539
The antiquity of the cross
... 541
A personal, is a finite god
... 543
A plagiarism by Pascal
... 545
A. Cross and circle
... 545
Variations of the symbolism
... 547
“Guha,” the mysterious
... 549
The Rishis and the Pleiades
... 551
B. The fall of the cross into matter
... 553
The degradation of the symbol
... 553
The law of retribution
... 555
The primitive cross
... 557
Its early significance
... 559
The meaning of the crucifixion
... 561
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XXIII. The Upanishads in Gnostic literature
... 563

The seven thunders
... 563
When time be no longer
... 565
Truth between two contrasts
... 567
The divine Self’s wisdom
... 569
The antiquity of the Kapilas
... 571
–––––––

XXIV. The cross and the Pythagorean Decade
... 573

The Gnostics and Pythagoras
... 573
The three sciences
... 575
Poseidon’s five ministers
... 577
The puzzles of symbolism
... 579
The master mason's grip
... 581
The mystery of the number six
... 583
Seeming contradictions
... 585
The cross and Christian after-thought
... 587
Man, the reviler of god
... 589
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XXV. The mysteries of the Hebdomad
... 590

A. Saptaparna
... 590
The meaning of the double triangle
... 591
Spiritual and physical correspondences [Diagram of human principles and principles of physical nature]
... 593
Noah, an aspect of the creator
... 595
[Diagram of human and cosmic aspects or principles]
... 596
Noah in a new dress
... 597
B. The Tetraktis in relation to the Heptagon
... 598
The roots of things
... 599
The music of the spheres
... 601
The septenary demonstrated
... 603
C. The septenary element in the Vedas
... 605
The Vedic teachings
... 605
The seven earths and the seven races
... 607
The Zoroastrian septenary
... 609
D. The septenary in the exoteric works
... 611
The septenate in the Puranas
... 611
Who are the maruts?
... 613
The doom of continual rebirth
... 615
Persian symbology
... 617
E. Seven in astronomy, science and magic
... 618
The cycle of the Naros
... 619
Various cyclic calculations
... 621
The septenate in physiology
... 623
The hairy symbol
... 625
The number seven in chemistry [periodic table]
... 627
The seven priests of the Zuñis
... 629
F. The seven souls of the egyptologists
... 630
The sidereal seven
... 631
[Table of esoteric Indian and Egyptain names for human principles]
... 632
The “principles” in the Egyptian metaphysics [Diagram of Kabala and Heiroglyphics]
... 633
Man, the parent of all the mammals
... 635
An allegory in the Anugîtâ
... 637
The allegory explained
... 639
Hypnotism is — Satanism
... 641
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BOOK II.—PART III.
ADDENDA.
SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED.

I. Archaic, or modern anthropology?
... 645

The new masters of Protestantism
... 645
The fallacies of modern scientists
... 647
The occult and the modern doctrines
... 649
An exchange of mutual compliments
... 651
Science is silent on every problem
... 653
The one unpardonable sin
... 655


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II. The ancestors mankind is offered by science
... 656

An unverified charge against the ancients
... 657
Various modes of reproduction
... 659
Where are the “missing links”?
... 661
Proofs of our “noble descent”
... 663
Mr. Huxley applies an “extinguisher”
... 665
A walker or a climber
... 667
A pithecoid man wanted
... 669
Plastidular souls and conscious nerve-cells
... 670
Hæckel creates souls
... 671
The meaning of soul with Hæckel
... 673
The atoms of our “father-bathybius”
... 674
–––––––

III. The fossil relics of man and the anthropoid ape
... 675

A. Geological facts bearing on the question of their relationship
... 675
Dryopithecus, the missing link
... 675
Insurmountable difficulties for the Darwinians
... 677
Materialism is puzzled
... 679
B. Western Evolutionism: the comparative anatomy of man and the anthropoid in no way a confirmation of Darwinism
... 680
Huxley calls the darwinists to order
... 681
The darwinists and their opponents
... 683
The argument of “rudimentary organs”
... 683
“Epitomized history” in the Fœtus
... 684
Reversion from the wrong end
... 685
C. Darwinism and the antiquity of man: the anthropoids and their ancestry
... 685
Grant Allen’s illusions
... 687
The evidence of skulls
... 687
[Diagram of mammals in Fourth Round]
... 688
The incubus of ethnology
... 689
–––––––

IV. Duration of the geological periods, race cycles, and the antiquity of man
... 690

Professor Sayce sketches out chronology
... 691
No agreement between scientists
... 693
A. Modern scientific speculations about the ages of the globe, animal evolution, and man
... 694
Materialists at logger-heads
... 695
Mivart’s billions of years
... 697
The adept-astronomer
... 699
B. On chains of planets and their plurality
... 699
States of consciousness
... 701
Worlds mentioned in the Bible
... 703
Who are the kings of Edom?
... 705
What Flammarion tells us
... 707
C. Supplementary remarks on esoteric geological chronology
... 709
Seceders from Darwinism
... 711
Parallelism of life
... 711
[Comparative table for scientific hypotheses and esoteric theory for geological periods]
... 711
The two sciences contrasted
... 713
The sufficiency of the “animalists”
... 715
One salvation for science
... 717
Between two voids
... 719
The palæolithic landseer
... 721
Entrapped by the reindeer
... 723
Strange confessions of science
... 725
No “missing link” anywhere
... 727
Astral man—the solution
... 728
Palæolithic man, a caligraph!
... 729
The kabalists and science
... 730
–––––––

V. Organic evolution and creative centres
... 731

Still greater difficulties
... 731
Dhyan chohans and these centres
... 732
The “to be or not to be” of science
... 733
A. Origin and evolution of the mammalia: science and the esoteric phylogeny
... 734
Conjectures are not facts
... 735
Ungulate mammals [diagram]
... 735
The unity of type
... 737
B. The European palæolithic races. — Whence and how distributed
... 738
Africa in Europe
... 739
A tardy admission
... 741


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VI. Giants, civilizations, and submerged continents traced in history
... 742

A mysterious nation
... 743
Remarkable “coincidences”
... 745
The seven sabbaths
... 747
“Revelation” and the “Secret Doctrine”
... 748
The ape later than man
... 749
Darwinians reject the truth
... 751
Druidic stones
... 752
Still more astounding contradictions
... 753
Races of giants
... 755
Paganism and Christianity agree
... 757
The Mazdean view of the “seven earths”
... 759
A. Some statements about the sacred islands and continents in the classics, explained esoterically
... 760
Who, or what will be denied next?
... 761
The heirloom of Atlantis
... 763
The god-bearing land
... 765
The power of names
... 767
The sons of Cœlus and Terra
... 769
Southern and Northern Atlantis
... 770
Niobe and her children
... 771
The cycles of time
... 773
Who were the nephilim?
... 775
The titans in prison
... 776
Mythology built on history
... 777
–––––––

VII. Scientific and geological proofs of the existence of several submerged continents
... 778

Corroborations of Occultism by geology
... 779
Tradition as true as history
... 781
Evidence of the flora
... 781
Atlantis necessary to ethnology
... 783
Astræa falls on her head
... 785
Ingenious explanations
... 787
Communication between South-Sea Islands
... 788
Hæckel for once is right
... 789
Evidence of language
... 790
Final and irrefutable evidence
... 791
Recent suggestive discoveries
... 793
Old masonic symbolism
... 795
Ragon explains Masonic symbols
... 795
The prologue to esoteric truth (the end a fitting prelude to truth)
... 797
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INDEX.

See also

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