{"collection":"the","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/the/sd/sd1-0-co.htm","path":"the/sd/sd1-0-co.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/the/sd/sd1-0-co.htm","text":"Author of \"ISIS UNVEILED.\"\n\"There is no Religion higher than Truth.\"\n London: \n THE THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, LIMITED.\n 7, Duke Street, Adelphi, W.C.\n WILLIAM Q. JUDGE,\n 117, Nassau Street, New York.\n THE MANAGER OF THE THEOSOPHIST, \n Adyar, Madras.\n ---\n 1888.\n \"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1888,\n by H. P. Blavatsky,\n in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.\"\n \n This Work\n I Dedicate to all True Theosophists,\n In every Country,\n And of every Race,\n For they called it forth, and for them it was recorded.\n \nTHE Author -- the writer, rather -- feels it necessary to apologise for the long delay which has occurred in the appearance of this work. It has been occasioned by ill-health and the magnitude of the undertaking. Even the two volumes now issued do not complete the scheme, and these do not treat exhaustively of the subjects dealt with in them. A large quantity of material has already been prepared, dealing with the history of occultism as contained in the lives of the great Adepts of the Aryan Race, and showing the bearing of occult philosophy upon the conduct of life, as it is and as it ought to be. Should the present volumes meet with a favourable reception, no effort will be spared to carry out the scheme of the work in its entirety. The third volume is entirely ready; the fourth almost so.\nThis scheme, it must be added, was not in contemplation when the preparation of the work was first announced. As originally announced, it was intended that the \"Secret Doctrine\" should be an amended and enlarged version of \"Isis Unveiled.\" It was, however, soon found that the explanations which could be added to those already put before the world in the last-named and other works dealing with esoteric science, were such as to require a different method of treatment: and consequently the present volumes do not contain, in all, twenty pages extracted from \"Isis Unveiled.\"\nThe author does not feel it necessary to ask the indulgence of her readers and critics for the many defects of literary style, and the imperfect English which may be found in these pages. She is a foreigner, and her knowledge of the language was acquired late in life. The English tongue is employed because it offers the most widely-diffused medium for conveying the truths which it had become her duty to place before the world.\nThese truths are in no sense put forward as a revelation; nor does the author claim the position of a revealer of mystic lore, now made public for the first time in the world's history. For what is contained in this work is to be found scattered throughout thousands of volumes embodying the scriptures of the great Asiatic and early European religions, hidden under glyph and symbol, and hitherto left unnoticed because of this veil. What is now attempted is to gather the oldest tenets together and to make of them one harmonious and unbroken whole. The sole advantage which the writer has over her predecessors, is that she need not resort to personal speculations and theories. For this work is a partial statement of what she herself has been taught by more advanced students, supplemented, in a few details only, by the results of her\nown study and observation. The publication of many of the facts herein stated has been rendered necessary by the wild and fanciful speculations in which many Theosophists and students of mysticism have indulged, during the last few years, in their endeavour to, as they imagined, work out a complete system of thought from the few facts previously communicated to them.\nIt is needless to explain that this book is not the Secret Doctrine in its entirety, but a select number of fragments of its fundamental tenets, special attention being paid to some facts which have been seized upon by various writers, and distorted out of all resemblance to the truth.\nBut it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings, however fragmentary and incomplete, contained in these volumes, belong neither to the Hindu, the Zoroastrian, the Chaldean, nor the Egyptian religion,.neither to Buddhism, Islam, Judaism nor Christianity exclusively. The Secret Doctrine is the essence of all these. Sprung from it in their origins, the various religious schemes are now made to merge back into their original element, out of which every mystery and dogma has grown, developed, and become materialised.\nIt is more than probable that the book will be regarded by a large section of the public as a romance of the wildest kind; for who has ever even heard of the book of Dzyan?\nThe writer, therefore, is fully prepared to take all the responsibility for what is contained in this work, and even to face the charge of having invented the whole of it. That it has many shortcomings she is fully aware; all that she claims for it is that, romantic as it may seem to many, its logical coherence and consistency entitle this new Genesis to rank, at any rate, on a level with the \"working hypotheses\" so freely accepted by modern science. Further, it claims consideration, not by reason of any appeal to dogmatic authority, but because it closely adheres to Nature, and follows the laws of uniformity and analogy.\nThe aim of this work may be thus stated: to show that Nature is not \"a fortuitous concurrence of atoms,\" and to assign to man his rightful place in the scheme of the Universe; to rescue from degradation the archaic truths which are the basis of all religions; and to uncover, to some extent, the fundamental unity from which they all spring; finally, to show that the occult side of Nature has never been approached by the Science of modern civilization.\nIf this is in any degree accomplished, the writer is content. It is written in the service of humanity, and by humanity and the future generations it must be judged. Its author recognises no inferior court of appeal. Abuse she is accustomed to; calumny she is daily acquainted with; at slander she smiles in silent contempt.\nDe minimis non curat lex.\nH.P.B.\nLondon, October, 1888.\n-------\nPAGE.\n The Need of such a Book ... xix.\nThe Antiquity of Documents and MSS. ... xxiii.\nWhat the Book is intended to do ... xxviii.\n The Oldest MSS. in the world and its Symbolism ... 2\nThe One Life, Active and Passive ... 4\nThe Secret Doctrine -- Pantheism -- Atheism ... 6\n\"Space\" in all Religions and in Occultism ... 9\nSeven Cosmic Elements -- Seven Races of Mankind ... 12\nThe Three Postulates of the Secret Doctrine ... 14\nDescription of the Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan ... 20\n The Seven Eternities ... 36\n\"Time\" ... 37\nThe Universal Mind and the Dhyan Chohans ... 38\nNidana and Maya: The Causes of Misery ... 39\nThe Great Breath ... 43\nBeing and Non-Being ... 45\nThe Eye of Dangma ... 47\nAlaya, the Universal Soul ... 49\n The Absolute knows Itself not ... 55\nThe Germ of Life was not yet ... 57\nThe Universe was still concealed in the Divine Thought ... 61\n The Great Vibration ... 63\nNature's Symbols ... 65\nThe Power of Numbers ... 67\nThe Logoi and the Dragon ... 73\nThe Astral Light ... 75\nPrimeval Radiations from Unity ... 79\nThe Web of Being ... 83\nConscious Electricity: Fohat ... 85\n The Sons of the Fire ... 86\nThe Vehicle of the Universe -- the Dhyan Chohans ... 89\nThe Army of the Voice ... 93\nSpeech and Mind ... 95\nThe Ogdoad and the Heptad ... 99\nThe Stellar \"Sons of Light\" ... 103\n The Fiery Whirlwind and the Primordial Seven ... 106\nThey Produce Fohat ... 108\nThe Correlation of the \"Gods\" ... 113\nEvolution of the \"Principles\" of Nature ... 119\nThe Mystery of the Fire ... 121\nThe Secret of the Elements ... 123\nThe Square of the Tabernacle ... 125\nThe Planetary Spirits and the Lipika ... 129\nThe Ring \"Pass Not\" ... 130\nThe Sidereal Book of Life ... 131\nThe Soul's Pilgrimage and its \"Rest\" ... 134\n The Logos ... 136\nMystery of the Female Logos ... 137\n The Seven Layu Centres ... 138\nThe \"Elementary Germs\" ... 139\nThe Evolution of the Elements ... 140\nThe Building of the Worlds ... 145\nA Neutral Centre ... 147\n\"Dead\" Planets -- The Moon ... 149\n The Planetary Divisions and the Human Principles ... 153\nThe Moon ... 155\nTransmigrations of the Ego ... 159\nThe Septenary Chain ... 161\nRelation of the other Planets to the Earth ... 163\n The Lunar Chain and the Earth Chain ... 172\nThe Earth, the Child of the Moon ... 173\nClassification of the Monads ... 175\nThe Monad Defined ... 177\nThe Lunar Monads -- the Pitris ... 179\nA Triple Evolution in Nature ... 181\n \"Creation\" in the Fourth Round ... 191\nThe \"Curse,\" \"Sin,\" and \"War\" ... 193\nThe Struggle for Life and the Birth of the Worlds ... 202\nThe Adepts and the Sacred Island ... 207\n Divisions of the Hierarchies ... 214\nCorrelations of Beings ... 223\nWhat incarnates in Animal Man ... 233\nFormation of Man: the Thinker ... 238\nOccult and Kabalistic Pneumatics ... 243\nAkasa and Ether ... 257\nThe Invisible \"Lives\" ... 259\nOccult Vital Chemistry and Bacteriology ... 261\n The Watcher and his Shadow ... 265\nEarth peopled by the Shadows of the Gods ... 267\n The pith and marrow of the Secret Doctrine ... 273\nHermes in Christian Garb ... 285\nSome Occult Aphorisms ... 289\nThe Seven Powers of Nature ... 293\n---------------------\n\u00a7\u00a7\n Emblem and Symbol differ ... 305\nMagic Potency of Sound ... 307\nMystery Language ... 309\n Egypt's many Religions ... 311\nThe Jews and their System ... 313\nMoses copied from Sargon ... 319\nIdentity of Ancient Symbols ... 323\n Divine Thought, or Cineritious Matter? ... 327\nEther and Intelligence ... 330\nThe Seven Prakritis ... 335\nThe Mystic Fire ... 339\nOne Tree of Knowledge ... 341\n The Union of Chaos and Spirit ... 343\nThe Birth of Mind ... 345\n The Gnostic Idea ... 351\nInternational Correlation of Gods ... 355\n\u00a7\u00a7 PAGE.\n Egg-born Logoi ... 363\nThe Winged Globe ... 365\n Human Gods and Divine Men ... 369\nThe Rebirth of Gods ... 371\nThe Puranic Prophecy ... 377\n Exoteric and Esoteric ... 381\nThe Purity of early Phallicism ... 383\nThe Egyptian Lotus ... 385\n A Glance at the Lunar Myth ... 387\nA Key-note to the Moon ... 389\nCopies and Originals... 393\nThe Moon Bi-sexual ... 397\n Degeneration of the Symbol ... 405\nThe Seven-headed Dragons ... 407\nDragon and Crocodile ... 409\n Death is Life ... 413\nThe Fall of the Angels ... 418\nTransformation of the Legend ... 421\n The Point within the Circle ... 426\nThe Logos or Verbum ... 429\nThe Factors of Creation ... 432\nIdentity of the Hierarchies in all Religions ... 438\nDifference between the Aryan and Semitic Systems ... 444\n The Gnostic and the Hindu Versions ... 449\nThe Seven Puranic \"Creations\" ... 450\n The \"Gods\" and the \"Elements\" ... 463\nThe Language of the Elements ... 464\nPagan and Christian Worship of the Elements ... 467\n Kwan-Shi-Yin and Phallicism ... 471\nThe Real Meaning ... 472\n Occultism versus Materialism ... 479\nThe Sabbath of the Mystic ... 481\n The Hypothetical Ether ... 485\nScientific Theories of its Constitution ... 489\n Intelligences or Blind Forces? ... 493\nThe Cause of Attraction ... 498\n Conflicting Hypotheses ... 502\nMore Hypotheses ... 505\n What are the \"Forces?\" ... 508\nThe View of the Occultists ... 510\nScientific and Occult Theories on Heat ... 515\nThe Atoms of Science ... 519\n Ether and Atoms ... 527\n \n Dr. Richardson on Nervous Ether ... 531\nThe Senses and their Action ... 535\nToo much \"Life\" may Kill ... 539\n The Primordial Element ... 542\nElements and Meta-Elements ... 546\nThe Tree of Life and Being ... 549\nProf. Crookes on the Elements ... 552\n Mr. Keeley, an Unconscious Occultist ... 557\nInter-Etheric Waves ... 561\nThe Secrets of Sound and Odour ... 565\n Metaphysical Chemistry ... 569\nWhat are the Seven Planets? ... 575\nThe Cyclic Fall of the Gods ... 577\n All-Potential Unity ... 583\nThe \"Seventh\" in Chemistry ... 585\n Forces are Emanations ... 591\nWhat is the Nebula? ... 595\n The Vital Principle ... 603\nOccult and Physical Science ... 605\n The Gods of the Ancients -- the Monads ... 613\nThe Monad and the Duad ... 617\nThe Genesis of the Elements ... 621\nHermes and Huxley ... 625\nThe Teaching of Leibnitz ... 627\nThe Monads according to Occultism ... 632\n Karmic Cycles and Universal Ethics ... 637\nDestiny and Karma ... 639\nKarma-Nemesis ... 643\n The Jewish Patriarchs and the Signs of the Zodiac ... 651\nZodiacal Cycles ... 656\nHindu Astronomy ... 661\n Science Confesses her Ignorance ... 669\nMaterialism is leading Europe towards a catastrophe ... 675\n[[Contents of Volume 2]]","title":"THE SECRET DOCTRINE:","type":"page"}