HPB-SD(ed.1)

The Secret Doctrine

The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy

by

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

author of “ Isis Unveiled.”

सत्यात् नास्ति परो धर्मः । “ There is no Religion higher than Truth.”

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.
—
1888.

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Table of contents

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Introduction

... xvii

The Need of such a Book

... xix

The Antiquity of Documents and MSS.

... xxiii

What the Book is intended to do

... xxviii

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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