HPB-SD(ed.1)
The Secret Doctrine
The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
London :
THE THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, LIMITED,
7, Duke Street, Adelphi, W.C.
WILLIAM Q. JUDGE,
117, Nassau Street, New York.
THE MANAGER OF THE THEOSOPHIST,
Adyar, Madras.
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1888.
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Table of contents
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.
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
STANZA I. The Night of the Universe ... 35
- The Seven Eternities ... 36
- “ Time ” ... 37
- The Universal Mind and the Dhyan Chohans ... 38
- Nidana and Maya : The Causes of Misery ... 39
- The Great Breath ... 43
- Being and Non-Being ... 45
- The Eye of Dangma ... 47
- Alaya, the Universal Soul ... 49
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STANZA II. The Idea of Differentiation ... 53
- The Absolute knows Itself not ... 55
- The Germ of Life was not yet ... 57
- The Universe was still concealed in the Divine Thought ... 61
STANZA III. The Awakening of Kosmos ... 62
- The Great Vibration ... 63
- Nature’s Symbols ... 65
- The Power of Numbers ... 67
- The Logoi and the Dragon ... 73
- The Astral Light ... 75
- Primeval Radiations from Unity ... 79
- The Web of Being ... 83
- Conscious Electricity : Fohat ... 85
STANZA IV. The Septenary Hierarchies ... 86
- The Sons of the Fire ... 86
- The Vehicle of the Universe — the Dhyan Chohans ... 89
- The Army of the Voice ... 93
- Speech and Mind ... 95
- The Ogdoad and the Heptad ... 99
- The Stellar “ Sons of Light ” ... 103
STANZA V. Fohat : The Child of the Septenary Hierarchies ... 106
- The Fiery Whirlwind and the Primordial Seven ... 106
- They Produce Fohat ... 108
- The Correlation of the “ Gods ” ... 113
- Evolution of the “ Principles ” of Nature ... 119
- The Mystery of the Fire ... 121
- The Secret of the Elements ... 123
- The Square of the Tabernacle ... 125
- The Planetary Spirits and the Lipika ... 129
- The Ring “ Pass Not ” ... 130
- The Sidereal Book of Life ... 131
- The Soul’s Pilgrimage and its “ Rest ” ... 134
STANZA VI. Our World, its Growth and Development ... 136
- The Logos ... 136
- Mystery of the Female Logos ... 137
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- The Seven Layu Centres ... 138
- The “ Elementary Germs ” ... 139
- The Evolution of the Elements ... 140
- Были ли древние не сведущи в физических науках? ... 141
- Сон матери вечной ... 143
- The Building of the Worlds ... 145
- ИA Neutral Centre ... 147
- “ Dead ” Planets — The Moon ... 149
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- The Planetary Divisions and the Human Principles ... 153
- The Moon ... 155
- Transmigrations of the Ego ... 159
- The Septenary Chain ... 161
- Relation of the other Planets to the Earth ... 163
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- The Lunar Chain and the Earth Chain ... 172
- The Earth, the Child of the Moon ... 173
- Classification of the Monads ... 175
- The Monad Defined ... 177
- The Monad Defined ... 179
- A Triple Evolution in Nature ... 181