HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY – The Secret Doctrine
The Secret Doctrine VOL 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
INDEX
VOLUME I : COSMIC EVOLUTION
Preface (by H.P. Blavatsky – London, 1888)
INTRODUCTION
Volume 1: Cosmogenesis
Part 1: Cosmic Evolution
COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN STANZAS AND THEIR TERMS, ACCORDING TO THEIR NUMERATION, IN STANZAS AND SLOKAS.
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
The Formation of Man: the Thinker
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 Brahma
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 Buff
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
Xl. 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
BOOK II PART I. ANTHROPOGENESIS
Preliminary Notes
Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan
Stanza I. — Beginnings of Sentient Life
Two Antediluvian Astronomers
Stanza II. — Nature Unaided Fails
The Chronology of the Brahmins
Stanza III. — Attempts to Create Man
Stanza IV. — Creation of the First Races
Stanza V. — The Evolution of the Second Race
Stanza VI. — The Evolution of the Sweat-Born
Stanza VII. — From the Semi-Divine down to the First Human Races
Stanza VIII. — Evolution of the Animal Mammalians — The First Fall
What may be the Objections to the Foregoing
Stanza IX. — The Final Evolution of Man
Edens, Serpents and Dragons
The Sons of God and the Sacred Island
Stanza X. — The History of the Fourth Race
Archaic Teachings in the Puranas and Genesis
A Panoramic View of the Early Races
Stanza X. — Continued
Are Giants a Fiction?
The Races with the “Third Eye”
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 XII. — The Fifth Race and its Divine Instructors
The Origin of the Satanic Myth
Western Speculations founded on the Greek and Puranic Traditions
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
The many meanings of the “War in Heaven”
XIX. IS Pleroma Satan’s Lair?
XX. Prometheus the Titan
XXI. Enoichion-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 the Hebdomad
The Septenary Element in the Vedas
The Seven Souls of the Egyptologists
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
Western Evolutionism: the comparative Anatomy of Man and Ape
Darwinism and the Antiquity of Man: the Anthropoids and their Ancestry
IV. On the Duration of Geological Periods, Race Cycles, and the Antiquity of Man
Modern Scientific Speculations thereon
On Chains of Planets and their Plurality
Esoteric Geological Chronology
V. Organic Evolution — Creative Centres
The Origin and Evolution of the Mammalia
The European Palaeolithic Races
VI. Giants, Civilizations, and Submerged Continents traced in History
Some Statements About the Sacred Islands and Continents in the Classics, Explained Esoterically
VII. Scientific and Geological Proofs of the Existence of several Submerged Continents
