cosmology
Cosmogony
Narratives or doctrines of cosmic origin — how heaven, earth, and the primordial deities first came into being. The Kojiki's deities born alone on the Plain of High Heaven, Voluspo's Ginnungagap, Genesis's tohu wa-bohu, the Timaeus's Demiurge fashioning the Receptacle, the Hesiodic Theogony, the Kalevala's egg-cosmogony, Egyptian Nun-and-Atum. Distinct from emanation_hierarchy (structural-ontological cascade), letters_of_creation (mechanism of creation), and apocatastasis/frashokereti (end-state restoration); cosmogony is temporally-narrative beginning.
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 10)
“Helped by his knowledge of landscapes left behind him, he can get a general and pretty correct idea of the transmural view, if he will only climb to the loftiest summit of the altitudes in front of him.
Once there, he can gaze at it, at hi…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 11)
“Nor could the vast catalogue of the Archaic Sciences be attempted in the present volumes, before we have disposed of such tremendous problems as Cosmic and Planetary Evolution, and the gradual development of the mysterious Humanities and ra…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page 1]] PROEM ------- PAGES FROM A PRE-HISTORIC PERIOD.
A N Archaic Manuscript -- a collection of palm leaves made impermeable to water, fire, and air, by some specific unknow…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 2)
“The latter is either "awake" or "asleep." The Svabhavikas, or philosophers of the oldest school of Buddhism (which still exists in Nepaul), speculate only upon the active condition of this "Essence," which they call Svabhavat, and deem it f…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 3)
“The esoteric symbol of Kali Yuga is the five-pointed star reversed, thus -- the sign of human sorcery, with its two points (horns) turned heavenward, a position every [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * See t…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 4)
“The orthodox Brahmins, those who rise the most against the Pantheists and Adwaitees, calling them Atheists, are forced, if Manu has any authority in this matter, to accept the death of Brahma, the creator, at the expiration of every "Age" o…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 5)
“But this view does not prevent him from believing in its existence so long as it lasts, to wit, for one Mahamanvantara; nor from applying Akasa, the radiation of Mulaprakriti,* to practical purposes, connected as the World-Soul is with all…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 6)
“." For clearer understanding on the part of the general reader, it must be stated that Occult Science recognises Seven Cosmical Elements -- four entirely physical, and the fifth (Ether) semi-material, as it will become visible in the air to…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 7)
“Herbert Spencer has of late so far modified his Agnosticism, as to assert that the nature of the "First Cause,"* which the Occultist more logically derives from the "Causeless Cause," the "Eternal," and the "Unknowable," may be essentially…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 8)
“Moreover, the Secret Doctrine teaches: -- ( c ) The fundamental identity of all Souls with the Universal Over-Soul, the latter being itself an aspect of the Unknown Root; and the obligatory pilgrimage for every Soul -- a spark of the former…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 9)
“As may be judged, however, from the most important, as the best known of the Rosicrucians' symbols, there is one which has never been hitherto understood even by modern mystics.
It is that of the "Pelican" tearing open its breast to feed i…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 4 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page 25]] PART I .
COSMIC EVOLUTION.
--------------------- SEVEN STANZAS TRANSLATED WITH COMMENTARIES FROM THE SECRET BOOK OF DZYAN.
[[Vol.
1, Page 26]] Nor Aught nor Nought…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 4 (part 2)
“T HE ROOT REMAINS, THE LIGHT REMAINS, THE CURDS REMAIN, AND STILL O EAOHOO IS ONE.
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T HE ROOT OF LIFE WAS IN EVERY DROP OF THE OCEAN OF IMMORTALITY, AND THE OCEAN WAS RADIANT LIGHT, WHICH WAS FIRE, AND HEAT, AND MOTION.
D ARKNESS VANIS…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 4 (part 3)
“T HEY MAKE OF HIM THE MESSENGER OF THEIR WILL.
T HE D ZYU BECOMES F OHAT, THE SWIFT SON OF THE D IVINE SONS WHOSE SONS ARE THE L IPIKA, RUNS CIRCULAR ERRANDS.
F OHAT IS THE STEED AND THE THOUGHT IS THE RIDER.
H E PASSES LIKE LIGHTNING TH…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 4 (part 4)
“I T IS THEY WHO ARE THOU, ME, HIM, OH L ANOO.
T HEY, WHO WATCH OVER THEE, AND THY MOTHER EARTH.
[[Vol.
1, Page]] 34 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
2.
T HE ONE RAY MULTIPLIES THE SMALLER RAYS.
L IFE PRECEDES FORM, AND LIFE SURVIVES THE LAST ATOM…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 35 STANZA I.
COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN STANZAS AND THEIR TERMS, ACCORDING TO THEIR NUMERATION, IN STANZAS AND SLOKAS.
STANZA I.
1.
" T HE E TERNAL P ARENT (Space), WR…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 2)
“Even so of persons and things, which, dropping out of the to-be into the has-been, out of the future into the past -- present momentarily to our senses a cross-section, as it were, of their total selves, as they pass through time and space…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 3)
“D ARKNESS ALONE FILLED THE BOUNDLESS ALL ( a ), FOR FATHER, MOTHER AND SON WERE ONCE MORE ONE, AND THE SON HAD NOT AWAKENED YET FOR THE NEW WHEEL* AND HIS PILGRIMAGE THEREON ( b ).
( a ) "Darkness is Father-Mother: light their son," says a…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 4)
“1, Page]] 43 MOTIONS, THE "GREAT BREATH." sense, for it must give room to still further absolute perfection, according to a higher standard of excellence in the following period of activity -- just as a perfect flower must cease to be a per…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 5)
“The impalpable atoms of gold scattered through the substance of a ton of auriferous quartz may be imperceptible to the naked eye of the miner, yet he knows that they are not only present there but that they alone give his quartz any appreci…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 7)
“is explained in Vishnu Purana as: "that which is the unevolved cause, is emphatically called by the most eminent sages Pradhana, original base, which is subtile Prakriti, viz., that which is eternal, and which at once is (or comprehends) wh…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 6 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 53 THE STATE OF PARANIRVANA.
STANZA II.
C OMMENTARY.
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W HERE WERE THE BUILDERS, THE LUMINOUS SONS OF MANVANTARIC DAWN ( a )?
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IN THE UNKNOWN…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 6 (part 2)
“No Orientalist, so far, seems to have thoroughly comprehended the real sense of the verses in the Purana, that treat of "creation." Therein Brahma is the cause of the potencies that are to be generated subsequently for the work of "creation…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 6 (part 3)
“The Lotus thus typifies the life of man and also that of the Kosmos; for the Secret Doctrine teaches that the elements of both are the same, and that both are developing in the same direction.
The root of the Lotus sunk in the mud represen…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 6 (part 4)
“-- Continued .
5.
T HE S EVEN ( Sons ) WERE NOT YET BORN FROM THE W EB OF L IGHT.
D ARKNESS ALONE WAS F ATHER- M OTHER, S VABHAVAT, AND S VABHAVAT WAS IN DARKNESS ( a ).
( a ) The Secret Doctrine, in the Stanzas given here, occupies its…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 62 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
STANZA III.
COMMENTARY.
1.
T HE LAST VIBRATION OF THE SEVENTH ETERNITY THRILLS THROUGH INFINITUDE ( a ).
T HE MOTHER SWELLS, EXPANDING FROM W…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 2)
“2.[[3.]] " D ARKNESS" RADIATES LIGHT, AND LIGHT DROPS ONE SOLITARY RAY INTO THE WATERS, INTO THE MOTHER DEEP.
T HE RAY SHOOTS THROUGH THE VIRGIN-EGG; THE RAY CAUSES THE ETERNAL EGG TO THRILL, AND DROP THE NON-ETERNAL ( periodical ) GERM, W…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 3)
“unable either to measure the first abstraction yielded to you by the Deity, or to get hold of it, you still hope to subject to your measurements the mystery of the Secret Sciences which emanate from that Deity?
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And what would y…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 4)
“The "fire," "heat," and "motion" here spoken of, are, of course, not the fire, heat, and motion of physical science, but the underlying abstractions, the noumena, or the soul, of the essence of these material manifestations -- the "things i…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 5)
“because, firstly, he is that which the Greek philosophers called the Logos, the Verbum of the Thought Divine; and secondly, because in Esoteric philosophy this first manifestation, being the synthesis or the aggregate of Universal Wisdom, O…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 6)
“"In the beginning, before Mother became Father-Mother, the fiery Dragon moved in the infinitudes alone" ( Book of Sarparajni.
) The Aitareya Brahmana calls the Earth Sarparajni, "the Serpent Queen," and "the Mother of all that moves." Befo…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 7)
“( c ) The ancients represented it by a serpent, for "Fohat hisses as he glides hither and thither" (in zigzags).
The Kabala figures it with the Hebrew letter Teth , whose symbol is the serpent which played such a prominent part in the Myst…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 8)
“And the numbers of these three words, Hoa Atah Ani, are 12, 406, and 61, which are resumed in the key numbers of 3, 10, and 7, by the Qabalah of the Nine Chambers, which is a form of the exegetical rule of Temura." It is useless to attempt…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 9)
“He is Purusha (spirit), but he is also Prakriti (matter).
Therefore it is only after separating himself into two halves -- Brahma-vach (the female) and Brahma-Viraj (the male), that the Prajapati becomes the male Brahma.
------- STANZA II…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 10)
“T HEN THE SONS ( the Elements with their respective Powers , or Intelligences ) DISSOCIATE AND SCATTER, TO RETURN INTO THEIR MOTHER'S BOSOM AT THE END OF THE "GREAT DAY" AND REBECOME ONE WITH HER ( a ).
W HEN IT ( the Web ) IS COOLING, IT…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 1)
“`The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 86 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
STANZA IV.
COMMENTARY.
1.
L ISTEN, YE S ONS OF THE E ARTH, TO YOUR INSTRUCTORS -- THE S ONS OF THE F IRE ( a ).
L EARN THERE IS NEITHER FIRS…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 2)
“Latent, during Pralaya, and active, during Manvantara, the "Primordial" proceed from "Father-Mother" (Spirit-Hyle, or Ilus ); whereas the other manifested Quaternary and the Seven proceed from the Mother alone.
It is the latter who is the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 3)
“"Ten is the Mother of the Soul, for Life and Light are therein united," says Hermes.
"For number one is born of the Spirit and the number ten from matter (chaos, feminine); the unity has made the ten, the ten the unity" ( Book of the Keys…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 4)
“He designed and hewed therewith the throne of glory and the wheels, and the seraphim and the holy animals and the ministering angels, and of the three He founded his dwelling, as it is said, He makes his angels spirits and his servants fier…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 5)
“But inasmuch, O beautiful one, as you came personally to speak to me (in the way you did, i.e.
proudly), therefore, O, Sarasvati!
you shall never speak after (hard) exhalation." "The goddess Speech" (Sarasvati, a later form or aspect of V…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 6)
“The larger lumps coalesce and receive new spawn -- in fiery dots, triangles and cubes, which ripen, and at the appointed time some of the lumps detach themselves and assume spheroidal form, a process which they effect only when not interfer…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 7)
“Adam Kadmon or Tetragrammaton is the Logos in the Kabala; therefore this triad answers in the latter to the highest triangle of Kether, Chochmah and Binah, the last a female potency and at the same time the male Jehovah, as partaking of the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 8)
“Having evolved from Cosmic Space, and before the final formation of the primaries and the annulation of the planetary nebula, the Sun, we are taught, drew into the depths of its mass all the Cosmic vitality he could, threatening to engulf h…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 106 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
STANZA V.
1.
T HE P RIMORDIAL S EVEN, THE FIRST SEVEN B REATHS OF THE D RAGON OF W ISDOM, PRODUCE IN THEIR TURN FROM THEIR HOLY CIRCUMGYRATING…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 2)
“They are, so to speak, the eternal prototypes of the Buddhas who appear on this earth, each of whom has his particular divine prototype.
So, for instance, Amitabha is the Dhyani-Buddha of Gautama Sakyamuni, manifesting through him whenever…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 3)
“Fohat, then, is the personified electric vital power, the transcendental binding Unity of all Cosmic Energies, on the unseen as on the manifested planes, the action of which resembles -- on an immense scale -- that of a living Force created…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 4)
“This esotericism is the common property of all, and belongs neither to the Aryan 5th Race, nor to any of its numerous Sub-races.
It cannot be claimed by the Turanians, so-called, the Egyptians, Chinese, Chaldeans, nor any of the Seven divi…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 5)
“Our learned brother and correspondent judges apparently the Hindu religious systems by their Shastras and Puranas, probably the latter, and in their modern translation moreover, which is disfigured out of all recognition, by the Orientalist…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 10)
“From Meru, the abode of gods, to Eden, the distance is very small, and from the Hindu Serpents to the Ophite Cherubim, the third out of the seven of which was the Dragon, the separation is still smaller, for both watched the entrance to the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 11)
“They circumscribe the manifested world of matter within the R ING "Pass-Not." This world is the symbol (objective) of the O NE divided into the many, on the planes of Illusion, of Adi (the "First") or of Eka (the "One"); and this One is the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 10 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 136 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
STANZA VI.
1.
B Y THE POWER OF THE M OTHER OF M ERCY AND K NOWLEDGE ( a ), K WAN- Y IN,* THE " T RIPLE" OF K WAN- S HAI- Y IN, RESIDING IN K W…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 10 (part 2)
“The whole Kosmos in its objective form is Vaikhari-Vach , the light of the Logos is the Madhyama form, and the Logos itself the Pasyanti form, and Parabrahm the Para form or aspect of that Vach.
It is by the light of this explanation that…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 10 (part 3)
“Crookes, F.R.S ., to admit that Science is yet a thousand leagues from the knowledge of the compound nature of the simplest molecule.
From him we learn that such a thing as a really simple [[Footnote continued on next page]] [[Vol.
1, Pag…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 10 (part 4)
“Were a truly learned Occultist-alchemist to write the "Life and Adventures of an Atom" he would secure thereby the eternal scorn of the modern chemist, perchance also his subsequent [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 10 (part 5)
“The reader must bear in mind that, according to our teaching which regards this phenomenal Universe as a great Illusion , the nearer a body is to the U NKNOWN S UBSTANCE, the more it approaches reality , as being removed the farther [[Vol.…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 10 (part 6)
“In fact, to us the matter of the lower plane there vanishes from our perception into nothing -- or rather it passes on to the higher plane, and the state of matter corresponding to such a point of transition must certainly possess special a…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 10 (part 7)
“At any rate, Occultism teaches that the so-called "reverse rotation" is a fact.
* The Occultists, having most perfect faith in their own exact records, astronomical and mathematical, calculate the age of Humanity, and assert that the latte…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 11 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 152 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
[[This page continued from previous section ]] A FEW EARLY THEOSOPHICAL MISCONCEPTIONS CONCERNING PLANETS, ROUNDS, AND MAN.
Among the eleven St…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 11 (part 2)
“When a planetary chain is in its last Round, its Globe 1 or A, before finally dying out , sends all its energy and "principles" into a neutral centre of latent force, a "laya centre," and thereby informs a new nucleus of undifferentiated su…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 11 (part 3)
“From the foregoing table it will be seen that the third principle in the Buddhist classification is not separately mentioned in the Vedantic division, as it is merely the vehicle of Prana.
It will also be seen that the Fourth principle is…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 11 (part 4)
“" M AN," which came later, was an attempt to present the archaic doctrine from a more ideal standpoint, to translate some visions in and from the Astral Light, to render some teachings partly gathered from a Master's thoughts, but unfortuna…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 11 (part 6)
“.' You can never impress it too profoundly on the minds of those to whom you impart some of the esoteric teachings.
.
." Again, here are more extracts from another letter written by the same authority.
This time it is in answer to some o…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 12 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 170 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
[[This page continued from previous section ]] ADDITIONAL FACTS AND EXPLANATIONS CONCERNING THE GLOBES AND THE MONADS.
Two statements made in "…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 12 (part 3)
“To return to "Esoteric Buddhism." It is there stated with regard to the enormous period intervening between the mineral epoch on Globe A, and the man-epoch,* that: "The full development of the [[Footnote(s)]] -------------------------------…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 12 (part 4)
“Now the Monadic, or rather Cosmic, Essence (if such a term be permitted) in the mineral, vegetable, and animal, though the same throughout the series of cycles from the lowest elemental up to the Deva Kingdom, yet differs in the scale of pr…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 12 (part 6)
“" The Dhyanis ( Pitris ) are those who have evolved their BHUTA ( doubles ) from themselves , which RUPA ( form ) has become the vehicle of monads ( seventh and sixth principles ) that had completed their cycle of transmigration in the thre…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 12 (part 7)
“But though the apes descend from man, it is certainly not the fact that the human Monad, which has once reached the level of humanity, ever incarnates again in the form of an animal.
[[Vol.
1, Page]] 186 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
having reach…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 12 (part 8)
“He is sexless , and , like the animal and vegetable he develops monstrous bodies correspondential with his coarser surroundings.
" II.
Round.
He ( Man ) is still gigantic and ethereal but growing firmer and more condensed in body , a mor…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 13 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 191 THE PRELIMINARY CREATION OF MAN.
[[This page continued from previous section ]] STANZA VI.
-- Continued.
5.
A T THE FOURTH ( Round , or revolution of life and bei…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 13 (part 2)
“And the Dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world." The Kabalistic version of the same story is given in the Codex Nazareus, the scripture of the Nazarenes, the real mystic Christians…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 13 (part 4)
“Thus " S ATAN," once he ceases to be viewed in the superstitious, dogmatic, unphilosophical spirit of the Churches, grows into the grandiose image of one who made of terrestrial a divine MAN; who gave him, throughout the long cycle of Maha-…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 13 (part 5)
“This is what she described in one of her experiments; with a particle of a meteorite placed on her forehead, in an envelope, the lady, not being aware of what it contained, said: "What a difference between that which we recognise as matter…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 13 (part 6)
“Others moving in parabolic curves generally escape destruction, owing to their velocity.
Some very critical readers will perhaps imagine that this teaching, as to the cometary stage passed through by all heavenly bodies, is in contradictio…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 13 (part 7)
“Three further higher grades have to be conquered by the Arhan who would reach the apex of the ladder of Arhatship.
There are those who have reached it even in this fifth race of ours, but the faculties necessary for the attainment of these…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 13 (part 8)
“Although these matters were barely hinted at in " Isis Unveiled ," it will be well to remind the reader of what was said in Vol.
I., pp.
587 to 593, concerning a certain Sacred Island in Central Asia, and to refer him for further details…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 13 (part 9)
“." It was called into being, a ready and perfect vehicle for the incarnating denizens of higher spheres, who took forthwith their abodes in these forms born of Spiritual WILL and the natural divine power in man.
It was a child of pure Spir…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 213 THE CREATIVE POWERS.
STANZA VII.
1.
B EHOLD THE BEGINNING OF SENTIENT FORMLESS LIFE ( a ).
F IRST, THE DIVINE ( vehicle ) ( b ), THE ONE FROM THE MOTHER-SPIRIT (…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 2)
“The later Kabalists however, especially the Christian mystics, have played sad havoc with this magnificent symbol.* For the " ten limbs" of the Heavenly Man are the ten Sephiroth; but the first Heavenly Man is the unmanifested Spirit of the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 3)
“These, Tsanagi-Tsanami , descended into the Universe by the celestial Bridge (the milky way), and " Tsanagi , perceiving far below a chaotic mass of cloud and water, thrust his jewelled spear into the depths, and dry land appeared." Then th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 6)
“It comes to this: Mankind in its first prototypal, shadowy form, is the offspring of the Elohim of Life (or Pitris); in its qualitative and physical aspect it is the direct progeny of the "Ancestors," the lowest Dhyanis, or Spirits of the E…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 8)
“These "Father and Son" were interchangeable in their functions and worked harmoniously together in their effects upon terrestrial nature and humanity; hence they were regarded as ONE, though TWO in personified Entities.
They were both male…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 9)
“In order to form a clear conception of what is meant by the One becoming two, and then being transformed into the "three-fold," the student has to make himself thoroughly acquainted with what we call "Rounds." If he refers to "Esoteric Budd…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 238 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
STANZA VII.
-- Continued.
(5) T HE SPARK HANGS FROM THE FLAME BY THE FINEST THREAD OF F OHAT.
I T JOURNEYS THROUGH THE S EVEN W ORLDS OF M AY…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 2)
“of "Ha Idra Zuta Kadisha." "Becomes one body" means that all is reabsorbed once more into the one element, the spirits of men becoming Nirvanees and the elements of everything else becoming again what they were before -- protyle or undiffer…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 3)
“[But Nephesh , the "breath of [[first column continued on next page]] [[second column]] Say the Theosophists: -- E SOTERIC P NEUMATICS.
1.
Ditto, for it is Atma-Buddhi- Manas.
2.
Ditto.* 3.
Spiritual Soul.
4.
Mediator between Spirit…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 4)
“i., p.
302, is, first of all, shot down by the law of Evolution into the lowest form of matter -- the mineral.
After a sevenfold gyration encased in the stone (or that which will become mineral and stone in the Fourth Round), it creeps ou…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 5)
“A LL IS L IFE, and every atom of even mineral dust is a L IFE, though beyond our comprehension and perception, because it is outside the range of the [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * Read in Isis, vol.
ii…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 6)
“The Second Round brought forth and developed two Elements -- Fire and Earth -- and its humanity, adapted to this condition of Nature, if we can give the name Humanity to beings living under conditions unknown to men, was -- to use again a f…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 7)
“There is a curious work by Blanchard, on the Origin of Life, wherein he shows some strange contradictions and confusions in the theories of his colleagues, and which we recommend to the reader's attention.
* Eliphas Levi shows it very trul…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 8)
“No Hindu has ever mistaken Prakriti -- the Astral Light being only above the lowest plane of Prakriti, the material Kosmos -- for the "immortal Spirit." Prakriti is ever called Maya , illusion, and is doomed to disappear with the rest, the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 9)
“198, of the same Vishnu Purana it is written, "in this manner were the seven forms of nature (Prakriti) reckoned from Mahat to Earth" (?).
Between Mahat or Maha-Buddhi and "Water, etc.," the difference is very considerable.
** According t…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 10)
“" From the second Round , Earth - - hitherto a foetus in the matrix of Space -- began its real existence: it had developed individual sentient life , its second principle.
The second corresponds to the sixth ( principle ) ; the second is l…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 2)
“And there are still weightier reasons to believe that the priceless Bhashyas (Commentaries) on the esoteric doctrine of the Brahmins, by their greatest expounder, will remain for ages yet a dead letter to most of the Hindus, except the Smar…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 4)
“It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.
[[Vol…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 5)
“As Hermes says, "Knowledge differs much from sense; for sense is of things that surmount it, but Knowledge (gyi) is the end of sense" -- i.e., of the illusion of our physical brain and its intellect; thus emphasizing the contrast between th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 6)
“The 'Ideal Forms' are the archetypal or formative ideas of the Neo-Platonists; the eternal and subjective concepts of things subsisting in the divine mind prior to 'becoming'" (p.
134).
[[Vol.
1, Page]] 282 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
from whi…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 7)
“There were produced out of the Ideos, the elements of Fire, Water, Air and Earth, whose birth, however, did not take place in a material mode, or by simple separation," but by spiritual and dynamical, not even complex, combinations -- e.g.,…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 18 (part 2)
“Thus, in the seventeenth chapter mentioned by Maspero, one finds (1) Osiris saying he is Toum (the creative force in nature, giving form to all Beings, spirits and men), self-generated and self-existent, issued from Noun , the celestial riv…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 18 (part 6)
“Starting from this, it becomes easy to understand how nature herself could have taught primeval mankind, even without the help of its divine instructors, the first principles of a numerical and geometrical symbol language.* Hence one finds…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 18 (part 8)
“"There may have been not one, but twenty different races upon the earth before the time of Adam, just as there may be twenty different races of men on other worlds" (p.
55).
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Who, then, or what were those races, since the author s…”
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[[This page continued from previous section ]] § III.
PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE AND DIVINE THOUGHT.
"As it would seem irrational…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 2)
“Without doubt, this one-sided mode of dealing with the problem is due largely to the pernicious Western practice of subordinating consciousness, or regarding it as a "by-product" of molecular motion.
[[Vol.
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“Therefore, such being the case, all those who sought to give a name to the incognizable Principle have simply degraded it.
Even to speak of Cosmic Ideation -- save in its phenomenal aspect -- is like trying to bottle up primordial Chaos, o…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 4)
“We shall speak further on of the intelligent "principle," or rather of the invisible immaterial properties, in the visible and material elements, that "sprung from the primordial Chaos." For, "What is the primordial Chaos but AEther?" it is…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 5)
“Thus they translate verse 16: "He also, having made the subtile parts of those six (the Great Self and the five organs of sense) of unmeasured brightness, to enter into the elements of Self ( Atmamatrasu ) created all beings." When, accordi…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 7)
“) But now the Elements are degraded into and limited to atoms of which nothing is known, so far, and which are only "children of necessity" as Ether is too -- as we said in " I SIS." "The poor primordial elements have long been exiled, and…”
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“"Therefore, it was taught in the inner temples that this visible universe of spirit and matter is but the concrete image of the ideal abstraction; it was built on the model of the first DIVINE IDEA.
Thus our universe existed from Eternity…”
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§ IV.
CHAOS -- THEOS -- KOSMOS.
T HESE three are the containment of Space; or, as a learned Kabalist has defined it, "Space, the all containin…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 20 (part 2)
“This "First-Born," however, was only the aggregate of the Host of the "Builders," the first constructive Forces, who are called in ancient Cosmogonies the Ancients (born of the Deep, or Chaos) and the "First Point." He is the Tetragrammaton…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 20 (part 3)
“exoteric, of course, yet in its main idea as identical as possible with the Egyptian cosmogony, which shows in its opening sentences Athtor,* or Mother Night (which represents illimitable darkness), as the primeval element which covered the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 20 (part 4)
“The Holy is the seventh of all," etc.
(p.
415).
This, besides showing a strange identity with the cosmogony of the Puranas ( e.g ., Vishnu Purana 1st Book), corroborates with regard to number seven, all our teachings as briefly given in…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 21 (part 2)
“In his "Revelation," speaking of divine mysteries expressed by means of letters and numbers, Marcus narrates how the "Supreme Tetrad came down unto me (him) from the region which cannot be seen nor named, in a female form , because the worl…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 21 (part 3)
“Even AEsculapius, called the "Saviour of all," is identical, according to ancient classics, with Phta , the Egyptian Creative Intellect (or Divine Wisdom), and with Apollo, Baal, Adonis and Hercules ( see Dunlap ' s " Mystery of Adonis ," p…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 21 (part 4)
“Esoterically she contains but two,* Chochmah or Wisdom , "a masculine, active potency whose divine name is Jah ( )," and B INAH, a feminine passive potency, Intelligence, represented by the divine name Jehovah ( ); which two potencies form,…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 21 (part 5)
“(This is the Cosmical Aditi and Sephira.) 5.
Those waters at the beginning were ordained but -- 6.
A tree had not grown, a flower had not unfolded.
7.
When the gods had not sprung up, any one of them.
8.
A plant had not grown, and ord…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 22 (part 1)
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1, Page]] 359 THE EGG-BORN GOD.
§ VI.
THE MUNDANE EGG.
W HENCE this universal symbol?
The Egg was incorporated as a sacred sign in the cosmogony of every people on the Earth, a…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 22 (part 3)
“These four "animals" may be seen in many of the Roman Catholic New Testaments where the portraits of the evangelists are given.
They are the animals of Ezekiel's Mercabah.
As truly stated by Ragon, "the ancient Hierophants have combined s…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 22 (part 4)
“In conjunction with the hawk, the symbol of Osiris-Sun, the symbol is dual: it relates to both lives -- the mortal and the immortal.
In Kircher's OEdipus Egyptiacus (vol.
iii., p.
124) one can see, on the papyrus engraved in it, an egg f…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 22 (part 5)
“It is Phtah, however, "he who opens," the opener of life and Death,** who proceeds from the egg of the world to begin his dual work.
( Book of Numbers.
) According to the Greeks, the phantom form of the Chemis ( Chemi , ancient Egypt) whi…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 23 (part 1)
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[[This page continued from previous section ]] § VII.
THE DAYS AND NIGHTS OF BRAHMA.
T HIS is the name given to the Periods called M ANVANTARA…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 23 (part 2)
“No computation of either the Four Ages, or the Manvantaras, has ever been unriddled by our very learned Orientalists, who have therefore cut the Gordian Knot by proclaiming the whole "a figment of the Brahmanical brain." So be it, and may t…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 23 (part 4)
“In the Zohar we read as follows: -- "As Moses was keeping a vigil on Mount Sinai, in company with the deity, who was concealed from his sight by a cloud, he felt a great fear overcome him, and suddenly asked: 'Lord, where art thou .
.
.…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 24 (part 1)
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§ VIII.
THE LOTUS, AS A UNIVERSAL SYMBOL.
T HERE are no ancient symbols, without a deep and philosophical meaning attached to them; their importanc…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 24 (part 2)
“, His thought made visible; and before the Christian era, from the Trimurti of the Hindus down to the three kabalistic heads of the scriptures as explained by the Jews, the triune godhead of each nation was fully defined and substantiated i…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 25 (part 3)
“would be either the phallus or the phallus and yoni, .
.
.
or male and female.
Indeed, the words translated by the generalizing terms male and female, in the 27th verse of the 1st chapter of Genesis are .
.
.
sacr and n ' cabrah , or…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 25 (part 4)
“But the signification is, that it is androgyne or hermaphrodite, that is phallus and yoni combined, the number 10, the Hebrew letter Jod , the containment of Jehovah.
She, or rather she-he, gives the minutes of the same circle of 360 degre…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 25 (part 6)
“Maia, in its forced derivation, has come to mean with the Greeks, "mother," from the root ma (nurse), and even gave its name to the month of May, which was sacred to all those goddesses before it became consecrated to Mary.* Its primitive m…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 25 (part 7)
“The ancients taught the, so to speak, auto -generation of the Gods: the one divine essence, unmanifested , perpetually begetting a second-self, manifested , which second-self, androgynous in its nature, gives birth in an immaculate way to e…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 26 (part 2)
“Moreover, the modern symbologists and Orientalists -- from first to last -- [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * The Natural Genesis , by Gerald Massey, Vol.
1, p.
340.
[[Vol.
1, Page]] 406 THE SECRET DOCT…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 27 (part 4)
“Esoteric explanation may, however, bring some order into this confusion, in which Jehovah becomes Saturn, and Michael and his army, Satan and the rebellious angels, owing to the indiscreet endeavours of the too faithful zealots to see in ev…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 1)
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[[This page continued from previous section ]] § XII.
THE THEOGONY OF THE CREATIVE GODS.
T O thoroughly comprehend the idea underlying every a…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 2)
“Thus, in the Rig Veda, wherein Brahma is not even named, Cosmogony is preluded with the Hiranyagharha , "the Golden Egg," and Prajapati (Brahma later on), from whom emanate all the hierarchies of "Creators." The Monad, or point, is the orig…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 3)
“It exists in a latent condition in the bosom of Parabrahmam at the time of Pralaya.
.
.
." (During Manvantara) "it has a consciousness and an individuality of its own .
.
.
.
." (It is a centre of energy, but) .
.
.
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such cen…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 4)
“It is through this light that everything is created.
This ROOT of mental SELF is also the root of physical Self , for this light is the permutation, in our manifested world, of Mulaprakriti, called Aditi in the Vedas.
In its third aspect…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 5)
“The whole Kosmos in its objective form is Vaikhari Vach; the light of the Logos is the madhyama form; and the Logos itself the pasyanti form; while Parabrahmam is the para (beyond the noumenon of all Noumena ) aspect of that Vach." ( Notes…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 6)
“Isis is also mystic Nature and also Earth; and her cow's horns identify her with Vach.
The latter, after having been recognised in her highest form as para , becomes at the lower or material end of creation -- Vaikhari.
Hence she is mysti…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 7)
“As the " Rig Vidhana " together with the " Brahmanda Purana " and all such works, whether describing the magic efficacy of the Rig-Vedic Mantras or the future Kalpas, are declared by Dr.
Weber and others to be modern compilations "belongin…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 8)
“Moreover, the three metaphysical Sephiroth or " the periphrasis of Jehovah " are not Jehovah; it is the latter himself with the additional titles of Adonai, Elohim, Sabbaoth, and the numerous names lavished on him, who is the periphrasis of…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 9)
“For if the said Forces had nought to do with "Creation" so-called, why call them Elohim (Alhim) in plural; "divine workmen" and Energies ([[' Energeia ]]), incandescent celestial stones (lapides igniti coelorum), and especially, " supporter…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 10)
“, a fiery serpent, the Gnostic Agathodaemon probably.* As explained, the "sacred animals" and the Flames or "Sparks" within the "Holy Four" refer to the prototypes of all that is found in the Universe in the Divine Thought , in the R OOT, w…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 11)
“astronomically, with the one here intended." Now the secret reading of the first verse of Genesis being: "In Rash (B'rash) or head, developed gods, the Heavens and the Earth" -- it is easy to comprehend the esoteric meaning of the raven , o…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 1)
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[[This page continued from previous section ]] § XIII.
THE SEVEN CREATIONS.
" T HERE was neither day nor night, nor sky nor earth, nor dar…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 2)
“First from ONE emanated number TWO, or Air, the creative element; and then number THREE, Water , proceeded from the air; Ether or Fire complete the mystic four, the Arba-il.
(Ibid.) In the Eastern doctrine Fire is the first Element -- Ethe…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 3)
“For which his mother coolly puts him down by saying, "Do not lie, Ildabaoth, for the father of all, the first man ( Anthropos ) is above thee , and so is Anthropos , the Son of Anthropos " (Irenaeus, b.
I, ch.
xxx., 6).
This is a good pr…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 4)
“Wilson saw at a glance the suggestive connection between Mahat and the Phoenician Mot, or Mut , who was female with the Egyptians -- the Goddess Mout, the "Mother" -- "which, like Mahat," he says, "was the first product of the mixture (?) o…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 5)
“"These three were the Prakrita creation, the (discrete) developments of indiscrete nature preceded by the indiscrete principle." "Preceded by," ought to be replaced here with "beginning by," Buddhi; for the latter is neither a discrete nor…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 6)
“And this is metempsychosis ( See " Mineral Monad " in " Five Years of Theosophy ," p.
276).
This fifth stage of evolution, called exoterically "Creation," may be viewed in both the Primary and Secondary periods, one as the Spiritual and C…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 7)
“But, in the esoteric teaching, they are the progenitors of the true spiritual SELF in the physical man -- the higher Prajapati, while the Pitris, or lower Prajapati, are no more than the fathers of the model, or type of his physical form, m…”
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THE FOUR ELEMENTS.
M ETAPHYSICALLY and esoterically there is but One E LEMENT in nature, and at the root of it…”
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ON KWAN-SHI-YIN AND KWAN-YIN.
L IKE Avalokiteshwara, Kwan-shi-yin has passed through several transformations, b…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 32 (part 3)
“Bacon was one of the first to strike the key-note of materialism, not only by his inductive method (renovated from ill-digested Aristotle), but by the general tenor of his writings.
He inverts the order of mental Evolution when saying that…”
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1 [[Vol.
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V.
THE THEORIES OF ROTATION IN SCIENCE.
C ONSIDERING that "final cause is pronounced a chimera, and the first Great Cause is remanded to the S…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 36 (part 3)
“The extreme tenuity of a comet's mass is also proved by the phenomenon of the tail, which, as the comet approaches the sun, is thrown out sometimes to a length of 90 millions of miles in a few hours.
And what is remarkable, THIS TAIL IS TH…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 37 (part 7)
“It opens limitless horizons to substance informed by the divine breath of its soul in every possible state of tenuity, states still undreamt of by the most spiritually disposed chemists and physicists.
The above views were enunciated by an…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 37 (part 8)
“It teaches that before evolution began, Prakriti (Nature) was in a condition of laya or absolute homogeneity, as "matter exists in two conditions, the sukshma , or latent and undifferentiated, and the sthula or differentiated condition." Th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 38 (part 3)
“** "Unchangeable" only during Manvantaric periods, after which it merges once more into Mulaprakriti; "invisible" for ever, in its own essence, but seen in its reflected coruscations, called the Astral light by the modern Kabalists.
Yet, c…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 39 (part 4)
“Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space (or Akasa , AEther), Mind, Understanding and Egoism (or the perception of all the former on the illusive plane).
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This is a lower form of my nature.
Know (that there is) another (form of my) nature, and…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 40 (part 2)
“But the students of Esoteric philosophy understand too well the secret meaning of the stanza: "Brahma has essentially the aspect of prakriti, both evolved and unevolved .
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Spirit, O twice-born, (Initiate) is the leading aspect of B…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 40 (part 3)
“It is assimilating the very truths taught by the Occult Sciences [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- [[Footnote continued from previous page]] "to be best understood on the hypothesis of the homogeneity of the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 40 (part 5)
“The precipitation has evidently not been effected at random , those molecules of the base being decomposed which happened to come in contact with a corresponding molecule of ammonia, for we have taken care that the liquids should be uniform…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 40 (part 6)
“, twice as fast; and thirdly, a motion at right angles to these two (suppose downwards), which, in its simplest form, would be with unvarying velocity.
If we project this figure in space we find on examination that the points of the curves…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 42 (part 2)
“"All the Souls go into the gilgoolah ," into a cyclic or revolving process; i.e.
, they all proceed on the cyclic path of re-births.
Some Kabalists interpret this doctrine to mean only a kind of purgatory for the souls of the wicked.
But…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 42 (part 3)
“and, while it rests in Devachan, is referred to as "the Three Witnesses to Karma." Atma (our seventh principle) being identical with the universal Spirit, and man being one with it in his essence, what is then the Monad proper?
It is that…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 43 (part 1)
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XII.
ANCIENT THOUGHT IN MODERN DRESS.
M ODERN S CIENCE IS ANCIENT THOUGHT DISTORTED, and no more.
We have seen, however, WHAT INTUITIO…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 43 (part 2)
“Two proofs of it are to be found in the world of Science -- two great chemists, each among the greatest in his own country, and these are Mr.
Crookes and the late Professor Butlerof: one, a thorough believer in abnormal phenomena; the othe…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 43 (part 3)
“But see how closely Mr.
Crookes brushes by the "Unknowable," and what "potentialities" there are for the acceptance of Occult truths in his discoveries.
He continues, speaking of the evolution of atoms: -- ".
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.
.
Let us pause at the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 43 (part 4)
“energetic gas which chemists have only isolated within the last month or two, would float about free and uncombined." "Outside this space of free atomic matter would be another shell, in which the formed chemical elements would have cooled…”
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“The Secret Doctrine by H.
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1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 588 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
XIII.
SCIENTIFIC AND ESOTERIC EVIDENCE FOR, AND OBJECTIONS TO, THE MODERN NEBULAR THEORY.
O F late Esoteric Cosmogony has been frequently oppo…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 44 (part 2)
“Finally, the journal of this name published in 1811 the famous hypothesis on the transformation of the nebulae into stars, by the eminent astronomer, Sir W.
Herschell ( See " Philosophical Transactions ," of 1811, p.
269, et seq.
), afte…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 44 (part 3)
“These masses must have taken a spheroidal form with a motion of rotation in the same direction as their revolution, since the inner molecules (those nearer to the Sun) would have less actual velocity than the exterior ones.
They must then…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 44 (part 4)
“This is [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * " Five Years of Theosophy ," pp.
249-50 .
Art.
" Do the Adepts deny the Nebular Theory?
" [[Vol.
1, Page]] 595 WHAT ARE THE NEBULAE?
whither the nebular theor…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 44 (part 5)
“The idea of both was that, at the origin of things, all that matter which now enters into the composition of the planetary bodies was spread over all the space comprised in the solar system -- and even beyond.
It was a nebula of extremely…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 44 (part 6)
“." Such is the synopsis of the objections and difficulties to the acceptance of the nebular theory brought forward by the French savant , who concludes his interesting chapter by declaring that: -- "The first part of the Cosmogonical proble…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 45 (part 1)
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XIV.
FORCES -- MODES OF MOTION OR INTELLIGENCES?
T HIS is, then, the last word of physical science up to the present year, 1888.
Mechanical laws…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 46 (part 2)
“For Roman Catholics, Satan is at the foundation of Kosmos, Christ in its centre, and Antichrist at its apex.
For both, the Hierarchy of Being begins and ends within the narrow frames of their respective theologies: one self-created persona…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 46 (part 3)
“The Monad -- only the emanation and reflection of the Point (Logos) in the phenomenal World -- becomes, as the apex of the manifested equilateral triangle, the "Father." The left side or line is the Duad , the "Mother," regarded as the evil…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 46 (part 4)
“Thus the latter became the earliest of geometrical figures.
The author of "New Aspects of Life" and of the Kabalistic Mysteries -- objects to the objectivization, so to speak, of the Pythagorean conception and use of the equilateral triang…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 46 (part 6)
“This lecture will give you some idea of the way in which these Elements spring from Vishwanara ,* the most objective of these three principles, which seems to stand in the place of the protyle mentioned in that lecture.
Except in a few par…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 46 (part 8)
“Let the men of Science only throw a bridge half-way, and think seriously over the theories of Leibnitz.
We have shown our theories with regard to atomic evolution -- their last formation into compound chemical molecules being produced with…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 47 (part 1)
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[[This page continued from previous section ]] XVI.
CYCLIC EVOLUTION AND KARMA.
I T is the Spiritual evolution of the inner , immortal man tha…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 49 (part 3)
“This sentence, moreover, in Stanza VI ., "Fohat sets in motion the primordial World-germs, or the aggregation of Cosmic atoms and matter, some one way, some another, in the opposite direction" -- looks orthodox and Scientific enough.
For t…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 50 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
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2 [[Vol.
2, Page xv]] [[ Eh eme didache ouk estin eme, alla tou pemphantos me .]] "My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me." -- John vii.
16.
[[Vol.
2, Page xvi]] M ODERN science i…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 50 (part 2)
“This is very clear, but yet, see the interpretations of even our modern theologians, men supposed to be intellectual and learned!
In the " Theological and philosophical works of Hermes Trismegistus, Christian ( ?
) Neoplatonist, " a work…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 50 (part 3)
“As the Babylonian accounts are now only restored from hundreds of thousands of broken fragments (the mound of Kouyunjik alone having yielded to Layard's excavations over twenty thousand fragments of inscriptions), the proofs here cited are…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 50 (part 4)
“This may be regarded as poetised fiction now; but it was poetised truth then.
III.
The third Continent, we propose to call "Lemuria." The name is an invention, or an idea, of Mr.
P.
L.
Sclater, who asserted, between 1850 and 1860, on z…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 51 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
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2 [[Vol.
2, Page 13]] BOOK II.
-- PART I.
ANTHROPOGENESIS.
--------------------- STANZAS TRANSLATED WITH COMMENTARIES FROM THE SECRET BOOK OF DZYAN.
[[Vol.
2, Page 14]] In primeval tim…”
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“2, Page]] 17 THE SLOKAS OF "DZYAN." IV.
14.
T HE S EVEN H OSTS, THE " W ILL-BORN L ORDS," PROPELLED BY THE S PIRIT OF L IFE-GIVING, SEPARATE MEN FROM THEMSELVES, EACH ON HIS OWN ZONE.
15.
S EVEN TIMES SEVEN S HADOWS OF FUTURE MEN WERE B…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 51 (part 3)
“I T CREATED " S ONS OF W ILL AND Y OGA," BY K RIYASAKTI IT CREATED THEM, THE H OLY F ATHERS, A NCESTORS OF THE A RHATS.
.
------- VIII.
28.
F ROM THE DROPS OF SWEAT; FROM THE RESIDUE OF THE SUBSTANCE; MATTER FROM DEAD BODIES OF MEN AND…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 52 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
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2 [[Vol.
2, Page]] 22 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
STANZA I.* BEGINNINGS OF SENTIENT LIFE.
------- §§ (1) T HE L HA, or Spirit of the Earth.
(2) Invocation of the Earth to the Sun.
(3) What the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 52 (part 2)
“When the triangle is complete it becomes the Tetraktis, or the Triangle in the Square, and is the dual symbol of the four-lettered Tetragrammaton in the manifested Kosmos, and of its radical triple RAY in the unmanifested, or its noumenon.…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 52 (part 3)
“" ( d) In China the men of Fohi (or the "Heavenly Man") are called the twelve Tien-Hoang, the twelve hierarchies of Dhyanis or Angels, with human Faces, and Dragon bodies; the dragon standing for divine Wisdom or Spirit**; and they create m…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 52 (part 5)
“The diameter, when found isolated in a circle, stands for female nature, for the first ideal World, self-generated and self-impregnated by the universally diffused Spirit of Life -- referring thus to the primitive Root-Race also.
It become…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 52 (part 6)
“Venus has always been identified, since the establishment of Roman Catholic dogmatism, with Satan and Lucifer, or the great Dragon, contrary to all reason and logic.
As shown by the symbologists and astronomers, the association between the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 52 (part 8)
“"The universe," says every Philosophy and Cosmogony, "hath a Ruler (Rulers collectively) set over it, which is called the W ORD (Logos); the fabricating Spirit is its Queen: which two are the First Power after the O NE." These are the Spiri…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 52 (part 11)
“In Assyrian Ak meant Creator, the letter K pronounced Kh (Ah) gutturally.
According to Swedenborg's mysticism Adam was not a man but a church (?) of primitive light.
In the Vedas Ad -iti is the primitive light, the Akasa of the phenomenal…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 52 (part 12)
“The men of Budha (Mercury) are [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- [[Footnote continued from previous page]] bloodshed, was but a secondary idea flowing out of the primary one of shedding of blood in conception…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 52 (part 13)
“( a ) This refers to the growth of the Earth, whereas in the Stanza treating of the First Round it is said (given in the Commentary): -- " After the changeless (avikara) immutable nature (Essence, sadaikarupa) had awakened and changed (diff…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 53 (part 1)
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STANZA II.
NATURE UNAIDED FAILS.
------- § (5) After enormous periods the Earth creates monsters.
(6) The "Creators" are displeased.
(7) They…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 53 (part 2)
“In short, combinations of various animals and men, of fishes, reptiles and other monstrous animals assuming each other's shapes and countenances.
The feminine element they resided in, is personified by Thalatth -- the Sea, or "Water" -- wh…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 53 (part 3)
“de Quatrefages, there is proof that since the post-tertiary period and even before that time -- since many Races were already scattered during that age on the face of the Earth -- man has not altered one iota in his physical structure.
And…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 53 (part 4)
“As Parasara explains it, when Brahma wants to create the world anew and construct progeny through his will , in the fourfold condition (or the four orders of beings) termed gods (Dhyan Chohans), Demons** ( i.e.
, more material Devas), Prog…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 53 (part 5)
“Henceforth all the pagan scriptures were made to yield the same meaning, and all were shown to be demoniacal, and it was and is claimed that truth and fact belong to, and commence only with, Christianity.
Even the Orientalists and Mytholog…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 53 (part 6)
“In the original allegory it is matter -- hence the more material angels -- which was regarded as the conqueror of Spirit, or the Archangels who "fell" on this plane.
"They of the flaming sword (or animal passions) had put to flight the Spi…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 53 (part 8)
“As Asuramaya is said to have been the greatest astronomer, so he is whispered to have also been the most powerful "Sorcerer" of the " W HITE I SLAND, which had become B LACK with sin," i.e., of the islands of Atlantis.
The "White Island" i…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 54 (part 1)
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STANZA III.
ATTEMPTS TO CREATE MAN.
§§ (11) The Descent of the Demiurge.
(12) The lunar gods ordered to create.
(13) The hig…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 54 (part 2)
“So also Sarai ( SRI ), the wife of Abram, could have no child until her name was changed to Sarah, , giving to her the property of this lunar influence."* This may be regarded as a digression from the main subject; but it is a very necessar…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 54 (part 3)
“It is those who are unable to create the spiritual immortal man, who project the senseless model (the Astral ) of the physical Being; and, as will be seen, it was those who would not multiply, who sacrificed themselves to the good and salva…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 54 (part 4)
“Let us pause and ask ourselves seriously the question, regardless of the vagaries and sophisms of both the materialistic and the psychological modern sciences.
To some extent, it is admitted that even the esoteric teaching is allegorical.…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 54 (part 5)
“The first is from the Book of the Concealed Mystery: -- (429.) From a Light-Bearer (one of the seven sacred planets) of insupportable brightness proceeded a radiating Flame, dashing off, like a vast and mighty hammer, those sparks which wer…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 55 (part 1)
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STANZA IV.
CREATION OF THE FIRST RACES.
§§ (14) Creation of men.
(15) They are empty shadows.
(16) The Creators are perplexed how to create a…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 55 (part 5)
“"Man must not be like one of us," say the creative gods, entrusted with the fabrication of the lower animal but higher; (see Gen.
and Plato ' s Timaeus ) .
Their creating the semblance of men out of their own divine Essence means, esoteri…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 55 (part 6)
“"the causes had to produce effects on earth."** Again, in the ancient Quiche Manuscript, the Popol Vuh -- published by the late Abbe Brasseur de Bourbourg -- the first men are described as a race "whose sight was unlimited, and who knew all…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 55 (part 7)
“"Does it not shine on the head of the great Serpent of Vishnu, on the thousand headed Sesha-Ananta, in the depths of Patala, the Hindu Naraka or Hell"?
It does: but what is Ananta?
As Sesha, it is the almost endless Manvantaric cycle of t…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 55 (part 8)
“He who knows the doctrines of Esoteric Budhism, (or Wisdom), though so imperfectly sketched hitherto, will see clearly the allegory contained in the above.
Its more philosophical meaning will be better understood if the reader thinks caref…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 55 (part 9)
“5, the Sloka simply says: "Bhutas -- fiends, frightful from being monkey-coloured and carnivorous"; and the word in India now means ghosts, ethereal or astral phantoms, while in esoteric teaching it means elementary substances, something ma…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 55 (part 11)
“And if Bath-Kol, in Jewish mysticism, is an articulate praeternatural voice from heaven, revealing to the "chosen people" the sacred traditions and laws, it is only because Vach was called, before Judaism, the "Mother of the Vedas," who ent…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 56 (part 4)
“The first race of men were, then, simply the images, the astral doubles, of their Fathers, who were the pioneers, or the most progressed Entities from a preceding though lower sphere, the shell of which is now our Moon.
But even this shell…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 56 (part 8)
“If from Greek mythology we pass to the Mosaic allegories and symbolism, we shall find a still more striking corroboration of the same tenet under another form.
Unable to trace in Genesis the "Egg-born," we shall still find there unmistakab…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 56 (part 9)
“) Seth represents the later Third Race.
To screen the real mystery name of AIN-SOPH -- the Boundless and Endless No-Thing -- the Kabalists have brought forward the compound attribute- appellation of one of the personal creative Elohim, who…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 56 (part 10)
“26, after Adam, the first androgyne, after Adam Kadmon, the sexless (the first) Logos, Adam and Eve once separated, come finally Jehovah-Eve and Cain-Jehovah.
These represent distinct Root-Races, for millions of years elapsed between them.…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 56 (part 11)
“Rawlinson is so very confident in his works of an Aryan or Vedic influence on the early mythology of Babylon.
Nor is it to be much wondered at that the alleged ten tribes of Israel disappeared during the captivity period, without leaving a…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 57 (part 1)
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STANZA VI.
THE EVOLUTION OF THE "SWEAT-BORN." ------- §§ (22) The evolution of the three races continued.
(23) The second race creates the Th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 57 (part 3)
“It is easy to trace the legend in Berosus, who says that Thalatth (the Omoroca, or Lady of Urka) was the beginning of creation.
She was also Melita, the queen of the Moon.
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The two twin births of Genesis, that of Cain and Abel, an…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 57 (part 5)
“The ship or ark -- navis -- in short, being the symbol of the female generative principle, is typified in the heavens by the Moon, and on Earth by the Womb: both being the vessels and bearers of the seeds of life and being, which the sun, o…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 57 (part 7)
“The Kabiri, who are the Titans, are also called Manes and their mother Mania, according to Arnobius.
( Adversum Gentes, lib.
III., p.
124.) The Hindus can therefore claim with far more reason that the Manes mean their Manus, and that Man…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 57 (part 8)
“orbit," and as the Secret Doctrine attributes it to the same source, but with the addition of another factor, the shifting of the Earth's axis -- a proof of which may be found in the Book of Enoch,* if the veiled language of the Puranas is…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 57 (part 9)
“2, Page]] 147 AGREEMENT OF DATES.
on Globe A in the First Round; ( b ) as the " seed of life" on Globe D in the Fourth Round; and ( c ) as the "Seed of Man" at the beginning of every Root-Race -- in our Fifth Race especially.
The very com…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 57 (part 14)
“Agnostic speculative thinkers have to choose between the version given by the Secret Doctrine of the East, and the hopelessly materialistic Darwinian and Biblical accounts of the origin of man; between no soul and no spiritual evolution, an…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 57 (part 15)
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of liquid carbonic acid, instead of water.
With such an element, it becomes doubtful whether the Ganoids, or even the Primitive Trilobites themselves could live in the oceans of the primary age -- let al…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 58 (part 2)
“) Since, in the exoteric accounts, the Asuras are the first beings created from the "body of night," while the Pitris issue from that of Twilight ; the "gods" being placed by Parasara ( Vishnu Purana ) between the two, and shown to evolve f…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 58 (part 7)
“[[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * See " Vishnu Purana, " Book I., ch.
7, para.
1.
** See " Five Years of Theosophy, " p.
777.
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Of course such primeval modes o…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 60 (part 1)
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STANZA IX.
THE FINAL EVOLUTION OF MAN.
------- §§ (33) The creators repent.
(34) They atone for their neglect.
(35) Men become endowed…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 60 (part 5)
“** Language is certainly coeval with reason, and could never have been developed before men became one with the informing principles in them -- those who fructified and awoke to life the manasic element dormant in primitive man.
For, as Pr…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 62 (part 2)
“a dynasty of Spirit -Kings, not of Manes, or "ghosts," as some believe ( See " Pneumatologie "), but of actual living Devas (or demi-gods or Angels, again) who had assumed bodies to rule over them, and who, in their turn, instructed them in…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 63 (part 4)
“He is called respectively, Dattoi, Dattali, Dattotti, Dattotri, Dattobhri, Dambhobhi and Dambholi -- which seven variants have each a secret sense, and refer in the esoteric comments to various ethnological classifications, and also to phys…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 63 (part 7)
“This idea and representative notion is that of the all-powerful champion -- child-like in his 'Virgin innocence' -- so powerful that this god-filled innocence (the Seraphim 'Know most,' the Cherubim 'love most') can shatter the world (artic…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 63 (part 8)
“Hence man, although apparently its crown, would, by his advent have marked the close of creation; since creation, culminating in him, would at his death have entered on its decline" .
.
.
( p .
289).
This Kabalistic view is here quoted…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 63 (part 9)
“xiv.) Again: -- " The Heavenly rupa (Dhyan Chohan) creates ( man ) in his own form ; it is a spiritual ideation consequent on the first differentiation and awakening of the universal ( manifested ) Substance ; that form is the ideal shadow…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 63 (part 12)
“But, as the Stanza has it: " the inner man (the conscious Entity) was not.
" This "Conscious Entity" Occultism says, comes from, nay, in many cases is, the very entire essence and esse of the high Intelligences condemned, by the undeviatin…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 65 (part 1)
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[[This page continued from previous section ]] A P ANORAMIC V IEW OF THE E ARLY R ACES.
There is a period of a few millions of years to cov…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 65 (part 2)
“What we object to is the literal acceptation of Biblical chronology, as it is absurd, and in accord with neither geological data nor reason.
Moreover, if Noah was an Atlantean, then he was a Titan, a giant, as Faber shows; and if a giant,…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 65 (part 3)
“by a Jewish Kabalist, and called the "Genesis of Enoch." But even its disfigured remnants show how closely its text agrees with the Archaic Doctrine, as is shown in the creation of the Seven Creators and seven primitive men .
As to Enoch,…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 65 (part 4)
“Then comes Zeus -- Jupiter, who dethrones his father in his turn.** Jupiter the Titan, is Prometheus, in one sense,*** and varies from Zeus, the Great [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- [[Footnote continued fr…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 65 (part 5)
“What can modern science have to say to such an euhemerization of old fictions?
The verdict is not difficult to foresee.
Therefore an attempt must be made to answer by anticipation, and prove that fictions and empirical speculations are so…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 68 (part 1)
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T HE P RIMEVAL M ANUS OF H UMANITY.
Those who are aware that the "great Flood," which was connected with the sinking of an entire cont…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 68 (part 3)
“It is from IT that issues the great unseen Logos, who evolves all the other logoi, the primeval M ANU who gives being to the other Manus, who emanate the universe and all in it collectively, and who represent in their aggregate the manifest…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 69 (part 4)
“Therefore the Sloka says, "Happy are those who are born, even from the (latent) condition of gods, as men, in Bharata-varsha; as that is the way to .
.
.
final liberation." In Jambu-dwipa, Bharata is considered the best of its divisions,…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 69 (part 6)
“Yet, it is a mistake to call these "sacred islands" Atlantean -- as done by us; for, like everything else in the Hindu Sacred Books, they are made to refer to several things.
The heirloom left by Priyavrata, the Son of Swayambhuva Manu, to…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 69 (part 7)
“Funnily enough, Haeckel, in his fantastic "Pedigree of Man," considers "the Australians of to-day as the lineal descendants, almost unchanged (?
!), of that second branch of the primitive human race.
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that spread northwards, at first…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 69 (part 9)
“there may be hidden, deep in the fathomless, or rather unfathomed ocean beds, other and far older continents whose strata have never been geologically explored; and that they may some day upset entirely their present theories?
Why not admi…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 71 (part 9)
“But there is the synchronistic table of Abydos, which, thanks to the genius of Champollion, has now vindicated the good faith of the priests of Egypt (Manetho's above all), and that of Ptolemy.
In the Turin papyrus, the most remarkable of…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 71 (part 12)
“But if it is asserted that there are no grains and fruits unknown to earth, then we may remind the reader that wheat has never been found in the wild state: it is not a product of the earth.
All the other cereals have been traced to their…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 72 (part 4)
“13 (42), Zarathustra is told by Ahura Mazda to "invoke the Amesha Spenta who rule over the seven Karshvares **** of the Earth"; which Karshvares in their seven [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * No "god" who…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 72 (part 11)
“Oriental tradition is ever referring to an unknown glacial, gloomy sea, and to a dark region, within which, nevertheless, are situated the Fortunate Islands, wherein bubbles, from the beginning of life on earth, the fountain of life ( Herbe…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 72 (part 12)
“Every beneficent (astral and cosmic) action comes from the North; every lethal influence from the South Pole.
They are much connected with and influence " right " and " left " hand magic.
** The more one approaches the poles the less rota…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 79 (part 6)
“This sentence, qui circumambulat terram , however, is again referred to the D EVIL in theology, the mythical father of Evil being said to "fall like lightning." Unfortunately for this interpretation, the "Son of Man," or Christ, is expected…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 79 (part 7)
“The earliest Zoroastrians did not believe in Evil or Darkness being co-eternal with Good or Light, and they give the same interpretation.
Ahriman is the manifested shadow of A HURA-MAZDA (Asura-mazda), himself issued from Zeruana Akerne "b…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 84 (part 1)
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§ XXII.
THE SYMBOLISM OF THE MYSTERY-NAMES IAO AND JEHOVAH, WITH THEIR RELATION TO THE CROSS AND CIRCLE.
W HEN the Abbe Louis Constant -- know…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 84 (part 8)
“and being invariably fixed to the beginning of the lunar asterism Magha, the precession would be noted by stating the degree .
.
.
of any moveable lunar mansion cut by that line or circle as an index" ("Historical View of the Hindu Astro…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 85 (part 1)
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§ XXIII.
THE UPANISHADS IN GNOSTIC LITERATURE.
We are reminded in King's "Gnostics" that the Greek language has but one word for vowel and voic…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 87 (part 5)
“For: -- "The quaternary of the intellectual world (the world of Mahat ) is T'Agathon, Nous, Psyche, Hyle; while that of the sensible world (of matter), which is properly what Pythagoras meant by the word Kosmos -- is Fire, Air, Water, and E…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 1)
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[[Page continued from previous section ]] C.
T HE S EPTENARY E LEMENT IN THE V EDAS.
I T CORROBORATES THE O CCULT T EACHING CONCERNING THE S E…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 9)
“183); the Arabs anciently divided the year into six seasons, each composed of two months; in the Chinese astronomical work called Kioo-tche, it is said that two moons make a measure of time, and six measures a year; and to this day the abor…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 10)
“"If the fourth (paroxysm) be severe, and the fifth less so, the disease will end at the seventh paroxysm, and .
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change for the better .
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 90 (part 1)
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-- PART III.
ADDENDA.
SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED.
"The knowledge of this nether world -- Say, friend, what is it, false or true?
The fal…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 91 (part 1)
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§ II.
THE ANCESTORS MANKIND IS OFFERED BY SCIENCE.
--------------------- "The question of questions for mankind -- the problem which underlies…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 92 (part 3)
“Let the Evolutionists push back the process into the preceding Eocene, if they prefer to do so; let them even trace both Man and Dryopithecus to a common ancestor; the unpleasant consideration has, nevertheless, to be faced that in Eocene s…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 92 (part 5)
“Doubtless this line of argument, when wielded by Darwin and Haeckel against their European adversaries, proved of great weight.
Anthropologists, who ventured to dispute the derivation of man from an animal ancestry, were sorely puzzled how…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 93 (part 8)
“"The Head of a nation that has not been formed at the beginning in the likeness of the [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * This sentence contains a dual sense and a profound mystery in the occult sciences the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 94 (part 2)
“Leaving the classification of the geological periods to Western Science, esoteric philosophy divides only the life-periods on the globe.
In the present Manvantara the actual period is separated into seven Kalpas and seven great human races…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 94 (part 3)
“****** These Placentalia of the third sub-class are divided, it appears, into Villiplacentalia (placenta composed of many separate scattered tufts), the Zonoplacentalia (girdle-shaped placenta), and the discoplacentaIia (or discoid).
Haeck…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 94 (part 10)
“And yet what do we find: -- "It is significant," says Sir W.
Dawson, F.R.S.
, "that Professor Huxley in his lectures in New York, while resting his case as to the lower animals, mainly on the supposed genealogy of the horse, which has oft…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 95 (part 3)
“" The root to which these two families lead back IS UNKNOWN" (Schmidt).
No.
I.
represents the realm explored by Western Evolutionists, the area in which climatic influences, "natural selection," and all the other physical causes of organ…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 97 (part 3)
“2, Page]] 765 THE GOD-BEARING LAND.
to the philosopher -- especially the Initiate -- Hesiod's theogony is as historical as any history can be.
Plato accepts it as such, and gives out as much of its truths as his pledges permitted him.
Th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 97 (part 8)
“The Laplanders call their corpses to this day manee, ( Voyage de Renard en Laponie I., 184).
Mannus is the ancestor of the German race; the Hindu Manu, the thinking being, from man; the Egyptian Menes ; and Minos, the King of Crete, judge…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 98 (part 6)
“Both Malacca and Polynesia, which lie at the two extremities of the ocean, and which, since the memory of man never had, and never could have any intercourse with, or even a knowledge of each other, have yet a tradition common to all the is…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 98 (part 7)
“The Basques are, of course, of a much later date than this, but their affinities, as here shown, go far to prove the original extraction of their remote ancestors.
The "mysterious" affinity between their tongue and that of the Dravidian ra…”
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The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 5 (part 2)
“The anonymous Cloud of Unknowing belongs, I believe, to the early part of the fifteenth century, and it is to be classed among the most signal presentations of the conditions and mode of the Union which I have met with in Christian literatu…”
The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 67
“UNIVERSAL CONJURATION I, N., do conjure thee, O Spirit N., by the living God., by the true God., by the holy and all-ruling God, Who created from nothingness the heaven, the earth, the sea and all things that are therein., in virtue of the…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter V (part 2)
“Well, then, secondly, Man pro-creates or reproduces his kind by the process of begetting, which is self-multiplication accomplished by transferring a portion of his substance to his offspring.
But this will not do, because THE ALL cannot t…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter V (part 3)
“You speak of the Fatherhood of God, and the Motherhood of Nature--of God, the Divine Father, and Nature the Universal Mother--and have thus instinctively acknowledged the Principle of Gender in the Universe.
Is this not so?
But, the Herme…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter VII (part 2)
“Man, like Micawber, may exclaim: "The Spirit of my Creator is inherent within me-- and yet I am not HE!" How different this from the shocking half-truth so vociferously announced by certain of the half-wise, who fill the air with their rauc…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter VII (part 3)
“This Involuntary stage of Creation is sometimes called the "Outpouring" of the Divine Energy, just as the Evolutionary state is called the "Indrawing." The extreme pole of the Creative process is considered to be the furthest removed from T…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter XI (part 1)
“CHAPTER XI RHYTHM "Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right, is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensat…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter XIII (part 2)
“The Cathode, or Negative Pole, is the Mother Principle of Electrical Phenomena, and of the finest forms of matter as yet known to science.
So you see we are justified in refusing to use the term "Negative" in our consideration of the subje…”
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The Kalevala | Rune I-a
“OF WAINAMOINEN.
In primeval times, a maiden, Beauteous Daughter of the Ether, Passed for ages her existence In the great expanse of heaven, O'er the prairies yet enfolded.
Wearisome the maiden growing, Her existence sad and hopeless, Thus…”
The Kalevala | Rune I-b
“Surely would the winds destroy it, Far away the waves would wash it." Then the daughter of the Ether, Now the hapless water-mother, Raised her shoulders out of water, Raised her knees above the ocean, That the duck might build her dwelling,…”
The Kalevala | Rune I-c
“Wainamoinen, old and trusty, Lingering within his dungeon Thirty summers altogether, And of winters, also thirty, Peaceful on the waste of waters, On the broad-sea's yielding bosom, Well reflected, long considered, How unborn to live and fl…”
The Kalevala | Rune II-a
“'S SOWING.
Then arose old Wainamoinen, With his feet upon the island, On the island washed by ocean, Broad expanse devoid of verdure; There remained be many summers, There he lived as many winters, On the island vast and vacant, well consi…”
The Kalevala | Rune II-b
“Wainamoinen, old and trusty, Thought awhile, and well considered, How to kill the mighty oak-tree, First created for his pleasure, How to fell the tree majestic, How to lop its hundred branches.
Sad the lives of man and hero, Sad the homes…”
The Kalevala | Rune II-c
“Straightway to the oak-tree turning, Thither stalks the mighty giant, In his raiment long and roomy, Flapping in the winds of heaven; With his second step he totters On the land of darker color; With his third stop firmly planted, Reaches h…”
The Kalevala | Rune II-d
“Down from heaven came the eagle, Through the air be came a-flying, That he might this thing consider; And he spake the words that follow: "Wherefore, ancient Wainamoinen, Hast thou left the slender birch-tree, Left the birch-tree only stand…”
The Kalevala | Rune III-c
“Slowly perches swim in Autumn, Wry-backed, hunting deeper water, Spawn in shallows in the summer, Bounding on the shore of ocean.
Should this wisdom seem too little, I can tell thee other matters, Sing thee other wizard sayings: All the No…”
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The Soul of the Indian | Chapter I-b
“Sometimes an old man, standing upon the brink of eternity, might reveal to a chosen few the oracle of his long-past youth.
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
They forget…”
The Soul of the Indian | Chapter III-e
“The sacred beast, bird, or reptile, represented by its stuffed skin, or by a rude painting, was treated with reverence and carried into battle to insure the guardianship of the spirits.
The symbolic attribute of beaver, bear, or tortoise,…”
The Soul of the Indian | Chapter V-a
“THE UNWRITTEN SCRIPTURES A Living Book.
The Sioux Story of Creation.
The First Battle.
Another Version of the Flood.
Our Animal Ancestry.
A missionary once undertook to instruct a group of Indians in the truths of his holy religion.
H…”
The Soul of the Indian | Chapter V-b
“Foremost among the animal people was Unk-to-mee, the Spider, the original trouble-maker, who noted keenly the growth of the boy in wit and ingenuity, and presently advised the animals to make an end of him; “for,” said he, “if you do not, s…”
The Soul of the Indian | Chapter V-c
“Our people have always claimed that the stone arrows which are found so generally throughout the country are the ones that the first man used in his battle with the animals.
It is not recorded in our traditions, much less is it within the…”
The Soul of the Indian | Chapter V-d
“The young man and his Teacher made a birch-bark canoe, which floated upon the surface of the flood, while of the animals there were saved only a few, who had found a foothold upon the highest peaks.
The youth had now passed triumphantly th…”
The Soul of the Indian | Chapter V-e
“There are some curious traditions of young men and maidens who transgressed this law unknowingly, being seduced and deceived by a magnificent buck deer, perhaps, or a graceful doe, and whose fall was punished with death.
The animal totems…”
Myths of the Cherokee | Myth 1a
“HOW THE WORLD WAS MADE The earth is a great island floating in a sea of water, and suspended at each of the four cardinal points by a cord hanging down from the sky vault, which is of solid rock.
When the world grows old and worn out, the…”
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The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | Barbelo
“This is because [we do] not [understand unspeakable things, and we] do not understand what [cannot be measured], apart from him who originated [from] him, that is, [the] Father, because he [alone] is the one
who [explained] it to us, given…”
The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | The Only-Begotten
“He also peered into Barbelo with the pure light that surrounds the unseen Spirit, and his spark, and from him she conceived. He begot a light- spark by means of a light similar to blessedness, but (the latter) is not equal to his greatness.…”
The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | The Four Lights
“[IV, 11] Eternal Life also <with> his Will, and Mind with Precognition, attended and extolled the unseen Spirit and Barbelo, given that they had come into being on her account. The holy Spirit also completed the self- generated God, his Son…”
The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | Pigera-Adamas and Seth
“Further, from the Precognition of Perfect Mind, by means of the revelation of the will of the unseen Spirit and the will of the self-generated one, (issued forth) <the> Perfect Man, the first revelation, even the truth.
He is the one whom…”
The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | Yaltabaoth-a
“Further, being an aeon, Sophia of Reflection thought a thought [IV, 15] on her own, together with the conception of the unseen Spirit and Precognition. She willed to bring forth a likeness from out of herself, apart from the agreement of th…”
The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | Yaltabaoth-b
“The first <is> Athoth – he has the face of a sheep;
the second is Eloaiou – he has the face of a donkey;
the third is Astaphaios – he has the face of a [hyena];
the fourth is Yao – he has the face of a seven-headed [dragon];
the fifth is Sa…”
The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | The Authorities Create Adam-a
“Further, through the light they saw the shape of the image inside the water, [II, 15] and he said to the authorities attending him: ‘Come, let us create a man according to the image of God, and according to our likeness, so that his image w…”
The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | The Authorities Create Adam-c
“heat,
cold,
wetness,
and dryness.
However, the mother of all of them is matter,
but he who rules over heat, Phloxopha;
but he who rules [IV, 28] over cold, Oroorrothos;
but he who rules over dryness, Erimacho;
but he who rules over wetnes…”
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The Poetic Edda: Hovamol | Section 1n
“Knowest how one shall write, | knowest how one shall rede?
Knowest how one shall tint, | knowest how one makes trial?
Knowest how one shall ask, | knowest how one shall offer?
Knowest how one shall send, | knowest how one shall sacrifice…”
The Poetic Edda: Voluspo | Section 1b
“The roving Norsemen of the tenth century, very few of whom had as yet accepted Christianity, were nevertheless in close contact with Celtic races which had already been converted, and in many ways the Celtic influence was strongly felt.
It…”
The Poetic Edda: Voluspo | Section 1c
“stanza 47 and note), of the dark elves (Svartalfaheim), of the dead (Niflheim), and presumably of the dwarfs (perhaps Nithavellir, cf.
stanza 37 and note, but the ninth world is uncertain).
The tree: the world-ash Yggdrasil, [fp.
4] symb…”
The Poetic Edda: Voluspo | Section 1d
“Ithavoll ("Field of Deeds"?): mentioned only here and in stanza 60 as the meeting-place of the gods; it appears in no other connection.
8.
Tables : the exact nature of this game, and whether it more closely resembled chess or checkers, ha…”
The Poetic Edda: Voluspo | Section 1e
“Fili, Kili, | Fundin, Nali, Heptifili, | Hannar, Sviur, Frar, Hornbori, | Fræg and Loni, Aurvang, Jari, | Eikinskjaldi.
14.
The race of the dwarfs | in Dvalin's throng Down to Lofar | the list must I tell; The rocks they left, | and throu…”
The Poetic Edda: Voluspo | Section 1f
“Lothur : apparently an older name for Loki, the treacherous but ingenious son of Laufey, whose divinity Snorri regards as somewhat doubtful.
He was adopted by Othin, who subsequently had good reason to regret it.
Loki probably represents…”
The Poetic Edda: Voluspo | Section 1g
“Lines 5-6, one or both of them probably interpolated, seem to symbolize the refining of gold by fire.
Hor ("The High One"): Othin.
22.
Heith ("Shining One"?): a name often applied to wise women and prophetesses.
The application of this…”
The Poetic Edda: Voluspo | Section 1h
“Here the Volva turns from her memories of the past to a statement of some of Othin's own secrets in his eternal search for knowledge (stanzas 27-29).
Bugge puts this stanza after stanza 29.
The horn of Heimdall : the Gjallarhorn ("Shrieki…”
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The Mabinogion | Tale KILHWCH AND OLWEN-u
“Seek not therefore to do me harm.” Said Arthur, “Not to injure thee came I hither, but to seek for the prisoner that is with thee.” “I will give thee my prisoner, though I had not thought to give him up to any one; and therewith shalt thou…”
The Mabinogion | Tale BRANWEN THE DAUGHTER OF LLYR-j
“And there they remained fourscore years, unconscious of having ever spent a time more joyous and mirthful.
And they were not more weary than when first they came, neither did they, any of them, know the time they had been there.
And it wa…”
The Mabinogion | Tale TALIESIN-i
“The names of the three springs From the midst of the ocean; One generated brine Which is from the Corina, To replenish the flood Over seas disappearing; The second, without injury It will fall on us, When there is rain abroad, Through the w…”
The Mabinogion | Tale TALIESIN-j
“And the king caused them to fetch Elphin in haste from his dungeon, and placed him before Taliesin.
And it is said, that immediately he sang a verse, so that the chains opened from about his feet.
“I adore the Supreme, Lord of all animati…”
The Mabinogion | Tale TALIESIN-l
“And then said Taliesin, “Elphin, behold a payment and reward unto thee, for having taken me out of the weir, and for having reared me from that time until now.” And on this spot stands a pool of water, which is to this time called Pwllbair.…”
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Avesta (Gathas) | Ahunavaiti Gatha, Yasna XXVIII, Section 1b
“(And) do thou, O (Divine) Righteousness, bestow (upon me) that sacred blessing which is constituted by the attainments of the Good Mind (within my soul) 3 ; and do thou also, O Piety!
grant unto p.
22 [paragraph continues] Vî s tâspa and…”
Avesta (Gathas) | Ahunavaiti Gatha, Yasna XXX, Section 1a
“1.
And now I will proclaim, O ye who are drawing near and seeking 1 to be taught!
those animadversions 2 which appertain to Him who knows (all things) whatsoever; the praises which are for Ahura, and the sacrifices (which spring) from the…”
Avesta (Gathas) | Ahunavaiti Gatha, Yasna XXXI, Section 1a
“1.
These doctrines (therefore) we are earnestly declaring to You as we recite them forth from memory, words (till now) unheard 1 (with faith) by those who by means of the doctrinal vows 2 of the harmful Lie are delivering the settlements o…”
Avesta (Gathas) | Ushtavaiti Gatha, Yasna XLIV, Section 1a
“1.
This I ask Thee, O Ahura!
tell me aright; when praise is to be offered, how (shall I complete) the praise of the One like You 1 , O Mazda?
Let p.
112 the One like Thee declare it earnestly to the friend who is such as I, thus through…”
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Enuma Elish: The Epic of Creation | 1h
“She recited an incantation, she pronounced her spell, And the gods of the battle cried out for their weapons.
Then advanced Tiamat and Marduk, the counselor of the gods; To the fight they came on, to the battle they drew nigh.
The lord sp…”
Enuma Elish: The Epic of Creation | 1i
“He opened great gates on both sides, He made strong the bolt on the left and on the right.
In the midst thereof he fixed the zenith; The Moon-god he caused to shine forth, the night he entrusted to him.
He appointed him, a being of the ni…”
Enuma Elish: The Epic of Creation | 1j
“Tutu [Marduk] is "He who created them anew"; Should their wants be pure, then are they satisfied; Should he make an incantation, then are the gods appeased; Should they attack him in anger, he withstandeth their onslaught!
Let him therefor…”
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The Bhagavad Gita | Chapter III, Section 1a
“CHAPTER III.
Ar g una said: If, O Ganârdana!
devotion is deemed by you to be superior to action, then why, O Kesava!
do you prompt me to (this) fearful action?
You seem, indeed, to confuse my mind by equivocal words.
Therefore, declare…”
The Bhagavad Gita | Chapter XIV, Section 1a
“CHAPTER XIV.
The Deity said: Again I will declare (to you) the highest knowledge, the best of (all sorts of) knowledge, having learnt which, all sages have reached perfection beyond (the bonds of) this (body).
Those who, resorting to this…”
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Revelations of Divine Love | Chapter LVIII-a
“"All our life is in three: 'Nature, Mercy, Grace.' The high Might of the Trinity is our Father, and the deep Wisdom of the Trinity is our Mother, and the great Love of the Trinity is our Lord" God, the blessed Trinity, which is everlasting…”
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The Kojiki: The Beginning of Heaven and Earth | Section 1
“p. 15 RECORDS OF ANCIENT MATTERS [SECT. I.—THE BEGINNING OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.] The names of the Deities 1 that were born 2 in the Plain of High Heaven 3 when the Heaven and Earth began were the Deity Master-of-the-August-Centre-of-Heaven, 4…”