soteriology
Esoteric Lineage
A historical or mythical chain of transmission for secret wisdom from master to disciple across time and cultures — the credential of the teaching, not merely its content. Distinct from oral_tradition (the spoken-not-written modality of transmission, which a lineage may or may not use) and hidden_sayings (the concealment-for-readiness of a teaching's meaning, independent of who transmitted it or in what unbroken chain).
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page xvii]] INTRODUCTORY.
------- "Gently to hear, kindly to judge." -- S HAKESPEARE.
S INCE the appearance of Theosophical literature in England, it has become customary to c…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 2)
“"When Buddhi absorbs our E GOtism (destroys it) with all its Vikaras, Avalokiteshvara becomes manifested to us, and Nirvana, or Mukti, is reached," "Mukti" being the same as Nirvana, i.e.
, freedom from the trammels of "Maya" or illusion.…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 3)
“I say "a few truths," advisedly, because that which must remain unsaid could not be contained in a hundred such volumes, nor could it be imparted to the present generation of Sadducees.
But, even the little that is now given is better than…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 4)
“*** According to the same tradition the now desolate regions of the waterless land of Tarim -- a true wilderness in the heart of Turkestan -- were in the days of old covered with flourishing and wealthy cities.
At present, hardly a few ver…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 6)
“When, however, he takes the opportunity of saying in the same breath that Odin "was worshipped as the supreme deity during a period long anterior to the age of the Veda and of Homer" ( Compar.
Theol., p.
318), he has not the slightest " h…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 7)
“Thus, though the Mother of Mercury (Budha, Thot-Hermes, etc.), was Maia, the mother of Buddha (Gautama), also Maya, and the mother of Jesus, likewise Maya (illusion, for Mary is Mare, the Sea, the great illusion symbolically) -- yet these t…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 8)
“This statement is rendered more credible by a consideration of the following facts: the tradition of the thousands of ancient parchments saved when the Alexandrian library was destroyed; the thousands of Sanskrit works which disappeared in…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 9)
“I believe in the ancients and therefore I love them."** (Quoted in "Science of Religions" by Max Muller.) The writer loves them too, and therefore believes in the ancients, and the modern heirs to their Wisdom.
And believing in both, she n…”
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 2 (part 12)
“Fragments have survived geological and political cataclysms to tell the story; and every survival shows evidence that the now Secret Wisdom was once the [[Vol.
1, Page]] xlv INTRODUCTORY.
one fountain head, the ever-flowing perennial sour…”
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 2)
“T HE ROOT REMAINS, THE LIGHT REMAINS, THE CURDS REMAIN, AND STILL O EAOHOO IS ONE.
6.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 6)
“It was also taught by his pupil Ecphantus, and by Heraclides, a pupil of Plato.
The immobility of the Sun and the orbital rotation of the earth were shown by Aristarchus of Samos as early as 281 B.C .
to be suppositions accordant with fac…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 9)
“(2.) M ONISM, or the Single Substance Doctrine, is the more subtle form of negative psychology, which one of its advocates, Professor Bain, ably terms "guarded [[Footnote continued on next page]] [[Vol.
1, Page]] 125 THE REAL MEANING OF TH…”
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 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 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 11 (part 7)
“yet if you should work out the problem by yourself , it will be my duty to tell you so ." But they never were so worked out, and the results were -- never-ceasing perplexity and mistakes.
Even the teaching about the Septenary constitution…”
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 2)
“Thus the Monads of Class 2 reach the incipient human stage only in the Second Round, and so on up to the middle of the Fourth Round.
But at this point -- and on this Fourth Round in which the human stage will be fully developed -- the "Doo…”
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 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 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 5)
“( a ) This sloka expresses the conception -- a purely Vedantic one, as already explained elsewhere -- of a life-thread, Sutratma , running through successive generations.
How, then, can this be explained?
By resorting to a simile, to a fa…”
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 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 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 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 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 16 (part 8)
“"Glory to the unchangeable, holy, eternal Supreme Vishnu, of one universal nature, the mighty over all; to him who is Hiranyagarbha, Hari, and Sankara (Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva), the creator, the preserver, and the destroyer of the world; t…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 13)
“) Some fifteen years ago, the writer was the first to repeat, after the Kabalists, the wise Commandments in the Esoteric Catechism.
"Close thy mouth, lest thou shouldst speak of this (the mystery), and thy heart, lest thou shouldst think a…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 17 (part 2)
“The name of the [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * As far as divine revelation is concerned, we agree.
Not so with regard to " human history.
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For there is "history" in most of the allegories and…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 17 (part 3)
“the races, human and animal, are as fully treated here as the writer is able to treat them.
The proofs brought forward in corroboration of the old teachings are scattered widely throughout the old scriptures of ancient civilizations.
The…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 17 (part 4)
“Such a use of ordinary language is now obsolete, but it has become a question with the writer whether at one time, far back in the past, it, or such, was not the language of the world and of universal use, possessed, however, as it became m…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 18 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 310 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
§ II.
THE MYSTERY LANGUAGE AND ITS KEYS.
R ECENT discoveries made by great mathematicians and Kabalists thus prove, beyond a shadow of doubt,…”
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 4)
“Hence, it is the Occultists and Kabalists who are the "true" heirs to the KNOWLEDGE, or the secret wisdom which is still found in the Bible; for they alone now understand its real meaning, whereas profane Jews and Christians cling to the hu…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 18 (part 5)
“Divested of their modern repulsive crudeness, such views of nature and man, on the authority of the celestial bodies and their mysteries, [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- [[Footnote continued from previous p…”
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 7)
“Baron Humboldt says that we are to look for the country of Aztalan, the original country of the Aztecs, as high up at least as the 42nd parallel north; whence, journeying, they at last arrived in the vale of Mexico.
In that vale the earthe…”
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…”
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 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 22 (part 2)
“And Porphyry, who quotes from the Pythagorean Moderatus , **** says that the numerals of Pythagoras were "hieroglyphical symbols, by means whereof he explained ideas concerning the nature of things," or the origin of the universe.
Now, if,…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 23 (part 5)
“"It was rendered entirely desolate during twelve hours, as is written." It is in the Thirteenth (twice six and the Synthesis) that everything shall be restored "and the six will continue." Thus the author of the Qabbalah remarks quite truly…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 24 (part 4)
“, 10.)* Besides which the Hebrew sacred name of God applied to this letter M is Meborach , the "Holy" or the "Blessed," and the name for the water of the Flood is M ' bul.
A reminder of the " three Maries" at the Crucifixion and their conn…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 25 (part 3)
“would be either the phallus or the phallus and yoni, .
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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 .
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sacr and n ' cabrah , or…”
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 9)
“The eye which Odin had to pledge to acquire that knowledge may be "the Sun, which enlightens and penetrates all things; his other eye being the moon, whose reflection gazes out of the deep, and which at last, when setting, sinks into the Oc…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 26 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 403 IDENTITY OF TYPOLOGY.
[[This page continued from previous section ]] § X.
TREE, SERPENT, AND CROCODILE WORSHIP.
"Object of horror or of adoration, men have for the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 26 (part 3)
“So has Sefekh Abu who builds the house on high, as Wisdom (Sophia) built hers with seven pillars.
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The primary Kronotypes were seven, and thus the beginning of time in heaven is based on the number and the name of seven, on account of…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 26 (part 4)
“The early Christians -- besides the Ophite Gnostics -- had their dual Logos: the Good and the Bad Serpent, the Agathodaemon and the Kakodaemon.
This is demonstrated by the writings of Marcus, Valentinus, and many others, and especially in…”
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 27 (part 6)
“"They have seized upon the three worlds, and appropriated the offerings which are our portion, taking care not to transgress the Precepts of the Veda.
Although we , as well as they , are parts of thee.* .
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engaged as they are in t…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 3)
“It exists in a latent condition in the bosom of Parabrahmam at the time of Pralaya.
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." (During Manvantara) "it has a consciousness and an individuality of its own .
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." (It is a centre of energy, but) .
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such cen…”
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 30 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 460 [[This page continued from previous section ]] § XIV.
THE FOUR ELEMENTS.
M ETAPHYSICALLY and esoterically there is but One E LEMENT in nature, and at the root of it…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 30 (part 2)
“Whether Egyptian or Pelasgian, Aryan or Semitic, the genius loci , the local god, embraced in its unity all nature; but not especially the four elements any more than one of their creations, such as trees, rivers, mounts or stars.
The geni…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 35 (part 2)
“Newton is credited with having given the death-blow to the Elemental Vortices of Descartes (the idea of Anaxagoras, resurrected, by-the-bye), though the last modern "vortical atoms" of Sir W.
Thomson do not, in truth, differ much from the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 37 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 506 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
[[This page continued from previous section ]] VI.
THE MASKS OF SCIENCE.
PHYSICS OR METAPHYSICS?
I F there is anything on earth like progress…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 37 (part 4)
“How can Science presume to know anything certain of it?
How can it maintain its position and its hypotheses against those of the Occultists, who see in gravity only sympathy and antipathy, or attraction and repulsion, caused by physical po…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 37 (part 5)
“The totality of the Seven Rays spread through the Solar system constitute, so to say, the physical Upadhi (basis) of the Ether of Science; in which Upadhi, light, heat, electricity, etc., etc., -- the forces of orthodox science -- correlate…”
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 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 39 (part 6)
“It is itself subordinate to, and emanates from the ever-invisible, eternal and Absolute O NE L IFE in a descending and a re-ascending scale of hierarchic degrees -- a true septenary ladder, with S OUND (or the Logos) at the upper end and th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 40 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 540 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
[[This page continued from previous section ]] ------- IX.
THE SOLAR THEORY.
A SHORT ANALYSIS OF THE COMPOUND AND SINGLE ELEMENTS OF SCIENCE A…”
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 41 (part 5)
“1, Page]] 563 A PREMATURE DISCOVERY.
If the question is asked why Mr.
Keely was not allowed to pass a certain limit, the answer is easy; because that which he has unconsciously discovered, is the terrible sidereal Force, known to, and nam…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 43 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 579 ANTIQUITY OUR GREAT MASTER.
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 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…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 45 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 601 HERMES AND KANT.
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 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 610 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
[[This page continued from previous section ]] § XV.
GODS, MONADS, AND ATOMS.
S OME years ago we remarked* that "the Esoteric Doctrine may wel…”
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 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 47 (part 6)
“1, Page]] 645 ANCIENT AND MODERN PROPHECIES.
and tribe, like their Eastern brethren of the Fifth Race, their Golden and their Iron ages, their period of comparative irresponsibility, or the Satya age of purity, while now, several of them h…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 48 (part 2)
“He traces the invention of it to the palmy days of the golden age of Iran, remarking that one of the said traditions maintains that the genii of the planets are represented under the same shapes and figures they had assumed, when they showe…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 48 (part 10)
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The determination of the moon's place by the Brahmins thus differs only by nine minutes from ours, and that of the apogee by twenty-two minutes, and it is very evident that they could…”
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 51 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
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…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 52 (part 14)
“But it may be remarked, that if there is in the Hindu Pantheon a deity which resembles Jehovah, in, tempting by "suggestion" of thoughts and "hardening" of the hearts of those whom he would make his tools and victims, it is Narada.
Only wi…”
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 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 61 (part 5)
“These "originals" -- called to this day in China "the Dragons of Wisdom" -- were the first disciples of the Dhyanis, who were their instructors; in short, the primitive adepts of the Third Race, and later, of the Fourth and Fifth Races.
Th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 62 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
2 [[Vol.
2, Page]] 220 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
T HE " S ONS OF G OD" AND THE " S ACRED I SLAND." The legend given in Isis in relation to a portion of the globe which science now concedes to h…”
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 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 11)
“29.) It is certain that, whether "chimera" or reality, the priests of the whole world had it from one and the same source: the universal tradition [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- [[Footnote continued from p…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 74 (part 6)
“To show how the continents, races, nations and cycles overlap each other, one has but to think of Lemuria, the last of whose lands perished about 700,000 years before the beginning of the Tertiary period (see p.
65 of the same work), and t…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 79 (part 4)
“Michael is the angel in the Vision, the Son of God, "who was like unto a Son of Man." It is the Hermes-Christos of the Gnostics, the Anubis-Syrius of the Egyptians, the Counsellor of Osiris in Amenti, the Michael leontoid [[ ophiomorphos ]]…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 83 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
2 [[Vol.
2, Page]] 529 WHO INVENTED WRITING?
§ XXI.
ENOICHION-HENOCH.
T HE history of the evolution of the Satanic myth would not be complete if we omitted to notice the character of the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 83 (part 2)
“This kind of easy death, or euthanasia, has an esoteric meaning.
It symbolises the death of any adept who has reached the power and degree, as also the purification, which enable him to die only in the physical body and still live and lead…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 84 (part 12)
“In this extraordinary sculpture and painting one sees the disc of the Sun beaming upon an ansated cross placed upon a cross of which those of the Calvary were perfect copies.
The ancient MSS .
mention these as the "hard couches of those w…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 85 (part 2)
“King: -- "Whatever the primary meaning (of the gem with the solar lion and vowels) it was probably imported in its present shape from I NDIA, that true fountain head of gnostic iconography" ( Gnostics, p.
218).
The mysteries of the seven…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 85 (part 5)
“Meanwhile, what could be easier than an attempt, at least, to verify Puranic chronology?
There are many Kapilas; but the Kapila who slew King Sagara's progeny -- 60,000 men strong -- was undeniably Kapila, the founder of the Sankhya philos…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 86 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
2 [[Vol.
2, Page]] 573 THE GNOSTICS AND PYTHAGORAS.
§ XXIV.
THE CROSS AND THE PYTHAGOREAN DECADE.
T HE early Gnostics claimed that their Science, the G NOSIS, rested on a square, the ang…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 4)
“" Occultism defines and limits the number of primordial races to seven, because of the "seven progenitors," or prajapatis, the evolvers of beings.
These are neither gods, nor supernatural Beings, but advanced Spirits from another and lower…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 89 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
2 [[Vol.
2, Page]] 630 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
[[Page continued from previouis section ]] F.
T HE S EVEN S OULS OF THE E GYPTOLOGISTS.
If one turns to those wells of information, " The Natu…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 89 (part 3)
“Says the Ritual, the "Book of the Dead" -- [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * Signatura rerum xiv.
ps.
10, 15 et seq.
** This is indeed news!
It makes us fear that the Lecturer had never read "Esoteric B…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 96 (part 3)
“It is well known that "the tongue of the AEgyptian Sea," or the Delta of lower Egypt, became firm land very gradually, and followed the highlands of Abyssinia; unlike the latter, which arose suddenly, comparatively speaking, it was very slo…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 96 (part 4)
“The "mystery" of the woman and of the beast, are the symbols of soul-killing Churchianity and of S UPERSTITION.
"The beast that was, and is not, and yet is." "And here is the Mind which hath wisdom.
The seven heads are seven mountains (se…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 96 (part 6)
“They are found in the Mediterranean basin; in Denmark (among the local tumuli from twenty-seven to thirty-five feet in height); in Shetland, and in Sweden, where they are called ganggriften (or tombs with corridors); in Germany, where they…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 96 (part 7)
“Granting that the Turanian races were typified by the dwarfs (Dwergar), and that a dark, round-headed, and dwarfish race was driven northward by the fair-faced Scandinavians, or AEsir, the gods being like unto men, there still exists neithe…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 96 (part 9)
“One of such "incongruities" and "coincidences" concerns the similarity of the Zoroastrian with the Indian tenet with regard to the seven Dwipas (islands, or continents, rather) as met with in the Puranas, namely: "The Dwipas form concentric…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 97 (part 4)
“In that future day it will be perceived that the esoteric key to the mysteries of the Christian as well as of the Grecian theogonies and Sciences, is the Secret Doctrine of the pre-historic nations, which, along with others, he has denied.…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 98 (part 9)
“Even "the ancient superstitious and credulous classics" have no word of reference to it in clear and unmistakable terms, and the symbols themselves fail to yield a hint at the existence of such a system.
Such would be the verdict of all.…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 99 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page iii]] THE SECRET DOCTRINE: THE SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY.
by H.
P.
BLAVATSKY, Author of "ISIS UNVEILED." "There is no Religion higher than Truth." V…”
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The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter I (part 1)
“CHAPTER I THE HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY "The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding"--The Kybalion.
From old Egypt have come the fundamental esoteric and occult teachings which have so strongly influenced the philosophies…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 4. Projection Of The Etheric Body-a
“BEFORE we can leave the subject of attack by incarnate human beings, we must consider the subject of etheric projection.
In this case not only is the mind at work, but also something which is pretty nearly physical; sufficiently physical,…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 4. Projection Of The Etheric Body-d
“I had had enough experience of practical occultism to know that the thing I had called into visible manifestation could be controlled by my will provided I did not panic; but that if I lost my nerve and it got the upper hand, I had a Franke…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 5. Vampirism-b
“Such cases are by no of means uncommon, and clear up rapidly when the victim is separated from the vampire.
Whenever there is a record of a close and dominating bond between two people with the devitalisation of one of them, it is a good p…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 7. The Pathology Of Non-Human Contacts-f
“I smashed my way through two entire tea-sets and all the mantelpiece ornaments.
The ornaments just fell off the mantelpiece one by one of their own accord.
I actually saw two of them do it.
I did not know at the time that the Element of…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 8. The Risks Incidental To Ceremonial Magic-a
“If the problem of psychic self-defence is to be adequately dealt with, we must have an understanding of a subject upon which very little has been written - the nature of the forces of intelligent and organised evil.
The great faiths of the…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 8. The Risks Incidental To Ceremonial Magic-e
“Enough must be hinted, however, to reveal what, under certain circumstances, may be experienced.
I do not think it in the least likely, however, that the Qlippotic demons will be encountered save through the use of ceremonial magic.
They…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 11. The Psychic Element In Mental Disturbance-b
“The surrounding country, too, is reduced to a morass, neither land nor water.
In other words, the temperament becomes tempestuous and unduly emotional, and the non-emotional factors of the mind, such as judgment and self-control, are demor…”
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