cosmology
Gender
The Hermetic doctrine that a masculine-feminine generative principle operates on every plane of being, not only the biological — present at all times as a structural feature of creation itself. Distinct from divine_marriage (a specific reunification event or symbol) and aeons (paired divine beings arranged in syzygies, not a universal structural claim).
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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 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 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 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 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 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 .
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 3)
“It is already the outline of the two "Supremes" -- God and Satan.
But in the Stanzas no such idea exists.
Most of the Western Christian Kabalists -- pre-eminently Eliphas Levi -- in their desire to reconcile the Occult Sciences with Churc…”
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 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 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 15 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
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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 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 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 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.
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from whi…”
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 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 8)
“"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…”
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 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 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 24 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 379 LOTUS AND LILY.
§ 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 24 (part 3)
“This is corroborated by the writer of the said intensely learned and Kabalistic revelation himself, when he closes the above-quoted passages by adding: -- "If to these organs as symbols of creative cosmic agencies the idea of the origin of…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 25 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 386 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
[[This page continued from previous section ]] § IX THE MOON, DEUS LUNUS, PHOEBE.
T HIS archaic symbol is the most poetical of all symbols, as…”
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 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 5)
“Lunar magnetism generates life, preserves and destroys it, psychically as well as physically.
And if, astronomically, she is one of the seven planets of the ancient world, in theogony she is one of the regents thereof; with Christians now…”
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 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 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 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 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 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 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…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 8)
“If the student of Esoteric philosophy thinks deeply over the subject he is sure to find out all the suggestiveness of the term Ambhamsi, in its manifold relations to the Virgin in Heaven, to the Celestial Virgin of the Alchemists, and even…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 31 (part 2)
“And it is, therefore, with hardly a smile that we find another preposterous absurdity quoted about "Budh," as being a name "which signifies not only the sun as the source of generation but also the male organ ( Round Towers of Ireland; quot…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 38 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 523 SUGGESTIVE ALLEGORIES.
[[This page continued from previous section ]] VII.
AN ATTACK ON THE SCIENTIFIC THEORY OF FORCE BY A MAN OF SCIENCE.
T HE wise words of seve…”
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 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 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 51 (part 2)
“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.
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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 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 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 54 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
2 [[Vol.
2, Page]] 75 THE SECRET OF THE FALL OF THE ANGELS.
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 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 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 56 (part 5)
“Its nucleus grows, changes, and forms a double cone or spindle, thus, within the cell.
This spindle approaches the surface of the cell, and one half of it is extruded in the form of what are called the " polar cells.
" These polar cells n…”
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)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
2 [[Vol.
2, Page]] 131 THE SWAN AND THE EGG.
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 2)
“Therefore, supported on the one hand by that science which shows to us progressive development and an internal cause for every external modification, as a law in Nature; and, on the other hand, by an implicit faith in the wisdom -- we may s…”
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 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 60 (part 4)
“To return, however, once more to the history of the Third Race, the "Sweat-Born," the "Egg-bearing," and the "Androgyne." Almost sexless, in its early beginnings, it became bisexual or androgynous; very gradually of course.
The passage fro…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 61 (part 8)
“"From the possession of the double principle in one, that is the Androgyne condition, the separation of the dual principle was made, presenting two opposites, whose destiny it was, for ever after, to seek reunion into the original one condi…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 73 (part 7)
“Says the crucified Titan: -- "And, portent past belief, the speaking oaks By which full clearly, in no riddling phrase Wast hailed as the illustrious spouse of Zeus .
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 77 (part 3)
“Nebo, the oldest God of Wisdom of Babylonia and Mesopotamia, was identical with the Hindu Budha and Hermes-Mercury of the Greeks.
A slight change in the sexes of the parents is the only alteration.
As Budha was the Son of Soma (the Moon)…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 78 (part 1)
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THE "HOLY OF HOLIES." ITS DEGRADATION.
T HE Sanctum Sanctorum of the Ancients, i.e ., that recess on the Western side of the Temple whic…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 78 (part 2)
“In the Astro-Theosophic chart of the Western Rite, the Ark corresponds with the navel, and is placed at the sinister side, the side of the woman (the moon), one of whose symbols is the left pillar of Solomon's temple -- B OAZ.
The umbilicu…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 78 (part 5)
“Adam is spoken of in [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * It is on that step that one arrives on the plane of the level or floor and open entrance to the King's chamber, the Egyptian "Holy of Holies." ** The c…”
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 80 (part 4)
“The episode brings on a battle between the gods and the Asuras: King Soma, finds allies in Usanas (Venus), the leader of the Danavas; and the gods are led by Indra and Rudra, who side with Brihaspati.
The latter is helped by Sankara (Siva)…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 82 (part 4)
“'The prudent son of Iapetus,' says Hesiod, 'deceived Jupiter by stealing and concealing in the cavity of a narthex, the indefatigable fire of the resplendent glow' ( Theog.
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 82 (part 5)
“As Aditi is called Surarani (the matrix or "mother" of the sura gods), so Kunti, the mother of the Pandavas, is called in Mahabharata Pandavarani -- which term is already physiologized.
But Devaki, the antetype of the Roman Catholic Madonn…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 87 (part 1)
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THE MYSTERIES OF THE HEBDOMAD.
W E must not close this Part on the Symbolism of Archaic History, without an attempt to explain the perp…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 87 (part 2)
“Numbers 3 and 4 are respectively male and female, Spirit and Matter, and their union is the emblem of life eternal in spirit on its ascending arc, and in matter as the ever resurrecting element -- by procreation and reproduction.
The spiri…”
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 87 (part 6)
“The Tetraktis reflecting upon its own essence, the first unit, productrix of all things, and on its own beginning, saith thus: Once one, twice two, immediately ariseth a tetrad, having on its top the highest unit, and becomes a Pyramis, who…”
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…”
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The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter II (part 1)
“CHAPTER II THE SEVEN HERMETIC PRINCIPLES "The Principles of Truth are Seven; he who knows these, understandingly, possesses the Magic Key before whose touch all the Doors of the Temple fly open."--The Kybalion.
The Seven Hermetic Principle…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter II (part 4)
“The Hermetists have grasped this Principle, finding its universal application, and have also discovered certain means to overcome its effects in themselves by the use of the appropriate formulas and methods.
They apply the Mental Law of Ne…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter II (part 5)
“Every Male thing has the Female Element also; every Female contains also the Male Principle.
If you would understand the philosophy of Mental and Spiritual Creation, Generation, and Re-generation, you must understand and study this Hermeti…”
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 V (part 4)
“And at the end of the Grand Cycle of Aeons, when THE ALL shall draw back into itself all of its creations--you will go gladly for you will then be able to know the Whole Truth of being At One with THE ALL.
Such is the report of the Illumin…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter VIII (part 6)
“Only those whose minds have been carefully trained along the lines of the Hermetic Philosophy for years--yes, those who have brought with them from other incarnations the knowledge acquired previously--can comprehend just what is meant by t…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter XIII (part 1)
“CHAPTER XIII GENDER "Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes."--The Kybalion.
The great Seventh Hermetic Principle--the Principle of Gender--embodies the truth that ther…”
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