{"collection":"the","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/the/sd/index.htm","path":"the/sd/index.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/the/sd/index.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Theosophy\u00a0\n Esoteric\n \n \n The Secret Doctrine\n THE SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY.\n By H. P. Blavatsky\n \n Volume 1: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 \n Volume 2: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3\n (Link to Full \"Verbatim\" Table of Contents of Volume 1 and Volume 2) \n VOLUME FIRST: \nCOSMOGENESIS. \n PREFACE ... vii \n INTRODUCTION ... xvii. \n PROEM ... 1 \n SEVEN STANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN ... 27 \n STANZA I. -- THE NIGHT OF THE UNIVERSE... 35 \n STANZA II. -- THE IDEA OF DIFFERENTIATION ... 53 \n STANZA III. -- THE AWAKENING OF KOSMOS ... 62 \n STANZA IV. -- THE SEPTENARY HIERARCHIES ... 86 \n STANZA V. -- FOHAT: THE CHILD OF THE SEPTENARY HIERARCHIES ... 106 \n STANZA VI. -- OUR WORLD, ITS GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT ... 136 \n THEOSOPHICAL MISCONCEPTIONS ... 152 \n EXPLANATIONS CONCERNING THE GLOBES AND THE MONADS ... 170 \n STANZA VI. -- CONTINUED. ... 191 \n STANZA VII. -- THE PARENTS OF MAN ON EARTH ... 213 \n (continued in )Formation of Man: the Thinker ... 238 \n SUMMING UP ... 269 \n BOOK I. -- PART II. THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLISM IN ITS APPROXIMATE ORDER.\n I. SYMBOLISM AND IDEOGRAPHS ... 303 \n II. THE MYSTERY LANGUAGE AND ITS KEYS ... 310 \n III. PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE AND DIVINE THOUGHT ... 325 \n IV. CHAOS -- THEOS -- KOSMOS ... 342 \n V. THE HIDDEN DEITY, ITS SYMBOLS AND GLYPHS ... 349 \n VI. THE MUNDANE EGG ... 359 \n VII. THE DAYS AND NIGHTS OF BRAHMA ... 368 \n VIII. THE LOTUS AS A UNIVERSAL SYMBOL ... 379 \n IX. DEUS LUNUS ... 386 \n X. TREE AND SERPENT AND CROCODILE WORSHIP ... 403 \n XI. DEMON EST DEUS INVERSUS ... 411 \n XII. THE THEOGONY OF THE CREATIVE GODS ... 424 \n XIII. THE SEVEN CREATIONS ... 445 \n XIV. THE FOUR ELEMENTS. ... 460 \n XV. ON KWAN-SHI-YIN AND KWAN-YIN ... 470 \n BOOK I. -- PART III. SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED.\n I. REASONS FOR THESE ADDENDA ... 477 \n II. MODERN PHYSICISTS ARE PLAYING AT BLIND MAN'S BUFF ... 482 \n III. AN LUMEN SIT CORPUS NEC NON? ... 483 \n IV. IS GRAVITATION A LAW? ... 490 \n V. THE THEORIES OF ROTATION SCIENCE ... 500 \n VI. THE MASKS OF SCIENCE ... 506 \n VII. AN ATTACK ON THE SCIENTIFIC THEORY OF FORCE BY A MAN OF SCIENCE ... 523 \n VIII. LIFE, FORCE, OR GRAVITY? ... 529 \n IX. THE SOLAR THEORY ... 540 \n X. THE COMING FORCE ... 554 \n XI. ON THE ELEMENTS AND ATOMS ... 566 \n XII. ANCIENT THOUGHT IN MODERN DRESS ... 579 \n XIII. THE MODERN NEBULAR THEORY ... 588 \n XIV. FORCES -- MODES OF MOTION OR INTELLIGENCES? ... 601 \n XV. GODS, MONADS, AND ATOMS ... 610 \n XVI. CYCLIC EVOLUTION AND KARMA ... 634 \n XVII. THE ZODIAC AND ITS ANTIQUITY ... 647 \n XVIII. SUMMARY OF THE MUTUAL POSITION ... 668 \n VOLUME SECOND.\n PRELIMINARY NOTES. \n BOOK II. -- PART I.: ANTHROPOGENESIS.\n STANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN . . . 15 \n THE BEGINNINGS OF SENTIENT LIVE ... 22 \n TWO ANTEDILUVIAN ASTRONOMERS ... 47 \n STANZA II. -- NATURE UNAIDED FAILS ... 52 \n THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE BRAHMINS ... 66 \n STANZA III. -- ATTEMPTS TO CREATE MAN ... 75 \n STANZA IV. -- CREATION OF THE FIRST RACES ... 86 \n STANZA V. -- THE EVOLUTION OF THE SECOND RACE ... 109 \n STANZA VI. -- THE EVOLUTION OF THE SWEAT-BORN ... 131 \n STANZA VII. -- FROM THE SEMI-DIVINE DOWN TO THE FIRST HUMAN RACES ... 161 \n STANZA VIII. -- EVOLUTION OF THE ANIMAL MAMMALIANS -- THE FIRST ... 180 \n WHAT MAY BE THE OBJECTIONS TO THE FOREGOING ... 185 \n STANZA IX. -- THE FINAL EVOLUTION OF MAN ... 191 \n EDENS, SERPENTS AND DRAGONS ... 202 \n THE SONS OF GOD AND THE SACRED ISLAND ... 220 \n STANZA X. -- THE HISTORY OF THE FOURTH RACE ... 227 \n ARCHAIC TEACHINGS IN THE PURANAS AND GENESIS ... 251 \n A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE EARLY RACES ... 263 \n STANZA X. -- Continued ... 271 \n ARE GIANTS A FICTION? ... 277 \n THE RACES WITH THE \"THIRD EYE\" ... 289 \n THE PRIMEVAL MANUS OF HUMANITY ... 307 \n STANZA XI. -- THE CIVILIZATION AND DESTRUCTION OF THE FOURTH AND FIFTH RACES ... 316 \n CYCLOPEAN RUINS AND COLOSSAL STONES AS WITNESSES TO GIANTS ... 341 \n STANZA XII. -- THE FIFTH RACE AND ITS DIVINE INSTRUCTORS ... 351 \n The Origin of the Satanic Myth ... 378 \n Western Speculations founded on the Greek and Puranic Traditions ... 402 \n ADDITIONAL FRAGMENTS FROM A COMMENTARY ON THE VERSES OF STANZA XII. ... 423 \n CONCLUSION ... 437 \n BOOK II. -- PART II. THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS. \n ESOTERIC TENETS CORROBORATED IN EVERY SCRIPTURE ... 449 \n \u00a7 XVI. ADAM-ADAMI ... 452 \n XVII. THE \"HOLY OF HOLIES\": ITS DEGRADATION ... 459 \n XVIII. ON THE MYTH OF THE \"FALLEN ANGEL,\" IN ITS VARIOUS ASPECTS ... 475 \n The many meanings of the \"War in Heaven\" ... 492 \n XIX. IS PLEROMA SATAN'S LAIR? ... 506 \n XX. PROMETHEUS THE TITAN ... 519 \n XXI. ENOICHION-HENOCH ... 529 \n XXII. THE SYMBOLISM OF THE MYSTERY NAMES IAO AND JEHOVAH ... 536 \n XXIII. THE UPANISHADS IN GNOSTIC LITERATURE ... 563 \n XXIV. THE CROSS AND THE PYTHAGOREAN DECADE ... 573 \n XXV. THE MYSTERIES OF THE HEBDOMAD ... 590 \n The Septenary Element in the Vedas ... 605\n The Seven Souls of the Egyptologists ... 630 \n BOOK II. -- PART III. ADDENDA. SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED.\n I. ARCHAIC, OR MODERN ANTHROPOLOGY? ... 645 \n II. THE ANCESTORS MANKIND IS OFFERED BY SCIENCE ... 656 \n III. THE FOSSIL RELICS OF MAN AND THE ANTHROPOID APE ... 675 \n IV. DURATION OF THE GEOLOGICAL PERIODS, RACE CYCLES, AND THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN ... 690 \n (c) Esoteric Geological Chronology ... 709 \n V. ORGANIC EVOLUTION AND CREATIVE CENTRES ... 731 \n VI. GIANTS, CIVILIZATIONS, AND SUBMERGED CONTINENTS TRACED IN HISTORY ... 742 \n (a) Statements about the Sacred Islands ... 760 \n VII. SCIENTIFIC AND GEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF SEVERAL SUBMERGED CONTINENTS ... 778 \n \n HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY \n 1831-1891","title":"The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky","type":"page"}