09728cam a2200361I 4500 ocm01074373 OCoLC 20170509214846.0 741113s1971 xx b 000 0 eng d SRS eng SRS OCL OCLCQ FUG OCLCG OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCO OCLCQ TWS ZAAPA AU@ 000006110083 CHVBK 337268606 CHBIS 010245027 (OCoLC)1074373 BP561 .S4 1971 212.5 ZAAA Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna), 1831-1891. The secret doctrine; the synthesis of science, religion and philosophy by H.P. Blavatsky. 6th Adyar ed. Adyar, Theosophical Pub. House, 1971. 6 volumes : portrait ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Vol. 5 has no special title. Includes bibliographical references and index. V. 1, pt. 1. Cosmogenesis. Preface to the first edition, 1888 -- Preface to the third edition, 1893 -- Preface to the fourth (Adyar) edition, 1938 -- Preface to the fifth (Adyar) edition, 1961 -- H. P. Blavatsky : a sketch of her life -- How The Secret Doctrine was written -- Introduction -- Cosmogenesis. Proem -- Cosmic evolution. Seven stanzas from the Book of Dzyan -- Seven stanzas from the 1886 mss. -- Commentaries : Stanza 1 - The night of the universe -- Stanza 2 - The idea of differentiation -- Stanza 3 - The awakening of kosmos -- Stanza 4 - The septenary hierarchies -- Stanza 5 - Fohat, the child of the septenary hierarchies -- Stanza 6 - Our world, its growth and development -- A few early theosophical misconceptions -- Explanations concerning globes and monads -- Stanza 7 - The parents of man on earth -- Summing up -- V.2, parts 2 & 3. Cosmogenesis. Pt. 2. The evolution of symbolism. Section 1 - Symbolism and ideographs -- Section 2 - The mystery language and its keys -- Section 3 - Primordial substance and divine thought -- Section 4 - Chaos : Theos : Cosmos -- Section 5 - On the hidden deity, its symbols and glyphs -- Section 6 - The mundane egg -- Section 7 - The days and nights of Brahma -- Section 8 - The lotus as a universal symbol -- Section 9 - The moon ; deus lunus, Phoebe -- Section 10 - Tree, serpent, and crocodile worship -- Section 11 - Demon est deus inversus -- Section 12 - The theogony of the creative gods -- Section 13 - The seven creations -- Section 14 - The four elements -- Section 15 - On Kwan-shi-Yin and Kwan-Yin -- Part 3. Addenda. Section 1 - Reasons for these addenda -- Section 2 - Modern physicists are playing blind-man's buff [sic] -- Section 3 - Is gravitation a law? -- Section 4 - The theories of rotation in science -- Section 5 - The masks of science -- Section 6 - An attack on the scientific theory of force by a man of science -- Section 7 - Life, force, or gravity -- Section 8 - The solar theory -- Section 9 - The coming force -- Section 10 - On the elements and atoms -- Section 11 - Ancient thought in modern dress -- Section 12 - Scientific and esoteric evidence for, and objections to, the modern nebular theory -- Section 13 - Forces, modes of motion, or intelligences? -- Section 14 - Gods, monads, and atoms -- Section 15 - Cyclic evolution and karma -- Section 16 - The zodiac and its antiquity -- Summary of the position -- V. 3, part 1. Preliminary notes on The archaic Stanzas and Four Prehistoric Continents -- Part 1. Anthropogenesis. Twelve Stanzas from The Book of Dzyan -- Commentaries : Stanza 1 - Beginnings of sentient life -- Two antediluvian astronomers : Narada and Asuramaya -- Stanza 2 - Nature unaided fails -- Creations of divine beings in the exoteric accounts -- Stanza 2 - continued -- The chronology of the Brahmans -- Stanza 3 - Attemps to create man -- Stanza 4 - Creation of the first races -- Stanza 5 - The evolution of the second race -- The divine hermaphrodite -- Stanza 6 - The evolution of the sweat-born -- A few words about deluges and Noahs -- Could men exist 18,000,000 years ago? -- Stanza 7 - From the semi-divine down to the first human races -- Stanza 8 - Evolution of the animal mammalians : the first fall -- What may be the objections to the foregoing -- Stanza 9 - The final evolution of man -- Edens, serpents, and dragons -- The "Sons of God" and the "Sacred Island" -- Stanza 10 - The history of the fourth race -- Archaic teachings in the Puranas and Genesis, physical evolution --- A panoramic view of the early races -- Stanza 10 - continued -- Are giants a fiction? -- The races with the "Third Eye" -- The primeval manus of humanity -- Stanza 11 - The civilization and destruction of the third and fourth races -- Cyclopean ruins and colossal stones as witnesses to giants -- Stanza 12 - The fifth race and its divine instructors -- Serpents and dragons under different symbolisms -- The sidereal and cosmic glyphs -- Our divine instructors -- The origin of the satanic myth -- Noah was a Kabir, hence he must have been a demon -- The oldest Persian traditions about the polar and the submerged continents -- Western speculations, founded on the Greek and Puranic traditions -- The "curse" from the philosophic point of view -- Additional fragments from a commentary on the verses of Stanza 12 -- Conclusion -- V. 4, parts 2 & 3. Part 2. The archaic symbolism of the world religions. Section 1 - Esoteric tenets corroborated in every scripture -- Section 2 - Adam-Adami -- Section 3 - The "Holy of Holies," its degredation -- Section 4 - On the myth of the "Fallen Angels" in its various aspects -- Section 5 - Is Pleroma Satan's lair? -- Section 8 - The symbolism of the mystery names Iao and Jehovah, with their relation to the cross and circle -- Section 9 - The Upanishads in gnostic literature -- Section 10 - The cross and the Pythagorean decad -- Section 11 - The mysteries of the Hebdomad -- Science and the secret doctrine contrasted. Section 1 - Archaic or modern anthropology? -- Section 2 - The ancestors mankind is offered by science -- Section 3 - The fossil relics of man and the anthropoid ape -- Section 4 - Duration of the geological period, race cycles and the antiquity of man -- Section 5 - Organic evolution and creative centres -- Section 6 - Giants, civilizations, and submerged continents traced in history -- Section 7 - Scientific and geological proofs of the existence of several submerged continents -- Conclusion -- V. 5. Preface to the 1897 edition / by Annie Besant -- Introductory -- Section 1 - Preliminary survey -- Section 2 - Modern criticism and the ancients -- Section 3 - The origin of magic -- Section 4 - The secrecy of initiates -- Section 5 - Some reasons for secrecy -- Section 6 - The dangers of practical magic -- Section 7 - Old wine in new bottles -- Section 9 - The "Book of Enoch" - The origin and foundation of Christianity -- Section 9 - Hermetic and kabalistic doctrines -- Section 10 - Various occult systems of interpretations of alphabets and numerals -- Section 11 - The hexagon with the central point, or the seventh key -- Section 12 - The duty of the true occultist toward religion -- Section 13 - Post-Christian adepts and their doctrines -- Section 14 - Simon and his biographer Hippolytus -- Section 15 - St. Paul the real founder of present Christianity -- Section 16 - Peter, a Jewish Kabalist, not an initiate -- Section 17 - Apollonius of Tyana -- Section 18 - Facts underlying adept biographies -- Section 19 - St. Cyprian of Antioch -- Section 20 - The Eastern Gupta Vidya and the Kabbalah -- Section 21 -- Hebrew allegories -- Section 22 -- The ZOHAR on creation and elohim -- Section 23 -- What the occultist and Kabalists have to say -- Section 24 - Modern Kabalists in science and occult astronomy -- Section 25 - Eastern and Western occultism -- Section 26 - The idols and the teraphim -- Section 27 - Egyptian magic -- Section 18 - The origin of the mysteries -- Section 29 - The trial of the sun initiate -- Section 30 - The mystery "Sun of Initiation" -- Section 31 - The objects of the mysteries -- Section 32 - Traces of the mysteries -- Section 33 - The last of the mysteries in Europe -- Section 34 - The post Christian successors to the mysteries -- Section 35 - Sumbolism of sun and stars -- Section 36 - Paganb sidereal worship or astrology -- Section 37 - the souls of the stars, universal heliolatry -- Section 38 - Astrology and astrolatry -- Section 39 - Cycles and Avataras -- Section 40 - Secret cycles -- Section 41 - The doctrine of Avataras -- Section 42 - The seven principles -- Section 43 - The mystery of Buddha -- Section 44 - "Reincarnations" of Buddha -- Section 45 - An unpublished discourse of Buddha -- Section 46 - Nirvana-Moksha -- Section 47 - The secret books of Lam-Rin and Dzyan -- Section 48 - Amita Buddha, Kwan-Shai-Yin, and Kwan-Yin, what the "Book of Dzyan" and the Lamaseries of Tsong-Kha-Pa say -- Section 49 - Tsong-Kha-Pa; Lohans in China -- Section 50 - A few more misconceptions corrected -- Section 51 - The "Doctrine of the Eye" and the "Doctrine of the Heart," or the "Heart's Seal." -- Some papers on the bearing of Occult Philosophy on life. Paper 1 -- Paper 2 -- What magic is in reality -- Paper 3 - A word concerning the earlier papers -- Notes on Papers 1, 2 and 3 -- Notes on some oral teachings -- V. 6. Index and glossary. Paging in the five editions. Theosophy. Theosophy. fast (OCoLC)fst01149675 Online version: Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna), 1831-1891. Secret doctrine. 6th Adyar ed. Adyar, Theosophical Pub. House, 1971 (OCoLC)894727387 C0 ZAAPA 38695 38695 0 0 ddc 0 0 DAPA DAPA 2017-05-10 Index to Vol. I and II 212.5 BLA APA070642 2017-05-10 1 2017-05-10 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 DAPA DAPA 2021-05-03 Vol. II: Anthropogenesis 212.5 BLA APA015333 2021-05-03 2 2021-05-03 BK