The Secret Doctrine
The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
by H.P. Blavatsky
Complete and unabridged, here is the unparalleled landmark of occult philosophy and lost history that reshaped the Western spiritual mindset and continues to fascinate readers today.
There is perhaps no greater enigma in modern Western literature than The Secret Doctrine. The controversial Russian noblewoman Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky told the world that the book restored humanity's lost history and destiny. Its insights, she said, had been gleaned from long-secret books of wisdom and her tutelage under mahatmas, or great souls: adepts from the East who exposed the seeker to their esoteric teaching.
To read The Secret Doctrine is to enter a mysterious world of ancient cosmology and spiritual-scientific insights, which tell of humanity's unthinkably ancient past and its burgeoning evolution into a new, more refined existence.
For the first time, Blavatsky's encyclopaedia arcana is available in a reset and redesigned single-volume edition, complete and unabridged. Its truths and challenges are available to the intrepid reader, who may find yet-unknown insights within its pages.
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Table of Contents (abridged)
INTRODUCTION
VOLUME FIRST.
COSMOGENESIS.
Proem
The Oldest MSS. in the world and its Symbolism
The One Life, Active and Passive
The Secret Doctrine—Pantheism—Atheism
“Space” in all Religions and in Occultism
Seven Cosmic Elements – Seven Races of Mankind
The Three Postulates of the Secret Doctrine
Description of the Stanzas from the Book of Dyzan
BOOK I.—PART I.
COSMIC EVOLUTION.
Seven Stanzas from the Book of Dyzan
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Stanza I.—The Night of the Universe
Stanza II.—The Idea of Differentiation
Stanza III.—The Awakening of Kosmos
Stanza IV.—The Septenary Hierarchies
Stanza V.—Fohat: The Child of the Septenary Hierarchies
Stanza VI.—Our World, its Growth and Development
Theosophical Misconceptions
Explanations Concerning the Globes and the Monads
Stanza VI.—Continued
Stanza VII.—The Parents of Man on Earth
Summing Up
BOOK I.—PART II.
THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLISM
IN ITS APPROXIMATE ORDER.
I. Symbolism and Ideographs
II. The Mystery Language and its Keys
III. Primordial Substance and Divine Thought
IV. Chaos—Theos—Kosmos
V. The Hidden Deity, its Symbols and Glyphs
VI. The Mundane Egg
VII. The Days and Nights of Brahmâ
VIII. The Lotus as a Universal Symbol
IX. Deus Lunus
X. Tree and Serpent and Crocodile Worship
XI. Demon est Deus Inversus
XII. The Theogony of the Creative Gods
XIII. The Seven Creations
XIV. The Four Elements
XV. On Kwan-Shi-Yin and Kwan-Yin
BOOK I.—PART III.
SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED.
I. Reasons for these Addenda
II. Modern Physicists are Playing at Blind Man’s Bluff
III. An Lumen Sit Corpus nec non?
IV. Is Gravitation a Law?
V. The Theories of Rotation in Science
VI. The Masks of Science
VII. An Attack on the Scientific Theory of Force by a Man of Science
VIII. Life, Force, or Gravity?
IX. The Solar Theory
X. The Coming Force
XI. On the Elements and Atoms
XII. Ancient Thought in Modern Dress
XIII. The Modern Nebular Theory
XIV. Forces—Modes of Motion or Intelligences?
XV. Gods, Monads, and Atoms
XVI. Cyclic Evolution and Karma
XVII. The Zodiac and its Antiquity
XVIII. Summary of the Mutual Position
VOLUME SECOND.
PRELIMINARY NOTES.
On the Archaic Stanzas, and the Four Prehistoric Continents
The Imperishable Sacred Land
The Hyperborean
Lemuria
Atlantis
The Tropics at the Pole
BOOK II.—PART I.
ANTHROPOGENESIS.
Stanzas from the Book of Dyzan
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Stanza I.—Beginnings of Sentient Life
Two Antediluvian Astronomers
Stanza II.—Nature Unaided Fails
The Chronology of the Brahmins
The Primeval Manus of Humanity
Stanza XI.—The Civilization and Destruction of the Fourth and Fifth Races
Cyclopean Ruins and Colossal Stones as Witnesses to Giants
Stanza VII.—The Fifth Race and its Divine Instructors
Additional Fragments from a Commentary on the Verses of Stanza XII
Conclusion
BOOK II.—PART II.
THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS.
Esoteric Tenets Corroborated in every Scripture
XVI. Adam-Adami
XVII. The “Holy of Holies”: Its Degradation
XVIII. On the Myth of the “Fallen Angel”, in its various aspects
XIX. Is Pleroma Satan’s Lair?
XX. Prometheus the Titan
XXI. Enoïchion-Henoch
XXII. The Symbolism of the Mystery Names Iao, and Jehovah
XXIII. The Upanishads in Gnostic Literature
XXIV. The Cross and the Pythagorean Decade
XXV. The Mysteries of Hebdomad
BOOK II.—PART III.
ADDENDA.
SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED.
I. Archaic, or Modern Anthropology?
II. The Ancestors Mankind is offered by Science
III. The Fossil Relics of Man and the Anthropoid Ape
IV. Duration of the Geological Periods, Race Cycles and the Antiquity of Man
V. Organic Evolution and Creative Centres
VI. Giants, Civilizations, and Submerged Continents traced in History
VII. Scientific and Geological Proofs of the Existence of Several Submerged Continents
INDEX
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Paperback Edition
1296 pages. Printed card cover.
ISBN: 9780143110156
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Press, reviews, endorsements
“In its pages eternal mysteries are etched in ancient and modern terms, and to those who have eyes to see, the ageless wisdom is revealed.”
Manly P. Hall, philosopher, writer, lecturer and mystic. Founder of the Philosophical Research Society.
“One of the most remarkable books in the world.”
Max Heindel, occultist and founder of The Rosicrucian Fellowship.
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About the Author
The late Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831 – 1891), often known as Madame Blavatsky, was a Russian and American mystic and writer who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. She gained an international following as the primary founder of Theosophy as a belief system.
Blavatsky was a controversial figure during her lifetime, championed by supporters as an enlightened sage and derided by critics as a charlatan. Her Theosophical doctrines influenced the spread of Hindu and Buddhist ideas in the West, as well as the development of Western esoteric currents like Ariosophy, Anthroposophy, and the New Age Movement.
