Hidden Sayings

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 4 (part 1)

“PREFACE THE art which is called Goëtic, being that of incantation, of sorcery, fascination and of the illusions and impostures connected therewith, has come somewhat arbitrarily to signify the last issue in diabolism of the more catholic an…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 4 (part 3)

“The second respect in which the interests of the occult student have been considered is, however, of much more importance, though he may not be as ready to admit the suggestion, having regard to all that it implies. Robert Turner, the Engl…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 5 (part 1)

“Click to view THE TEMPTATION OF EVIL From Cædmon. INTRODUCTION THE mystic tradition in Christian Times is preserved, apart from all questions and traces of Instituted Mysteries, in the literature of Christian Mystical Theology; it is a lar…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 5 (part 4)

“Blessed and Holy are those who receive the experience of God in the dilucid contemplation, but sanctity and benediction and all in all is that state wherein contemplation is ineffably unified, by a super-eminent leap over of love, with that…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 5 (part 5)

“The technicalities of the occult sciences may seem hard to the beginner, and they are actually hard like the wilderness, because they are barren wastes, but they are in words of one syllable if compared with the little catechisms of eternal…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 5 (part 6)

“It is the calculus of probabilities on the basis of experience in respect of empirical things. Putting it aside, on the fringe of the whole circle there are further a few score of follies which one would not term the grades of preparation…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 6 (part 2)

“Here Magic itself rises up and responds that there is a Black and a White Art, an Art of Hermes and an Art of Canidia, a Science of the Height and a Science of the Abyss, of Metatron and Belial. In this manner a fourth point of view emerge…”

The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 6 (part 4)

“It is doubtful whether the presence of these elements can be accounted for on the principle that mankind in all ages works unconsciously for the accomplishment of similar intentions in an analogous way; a bizarre intention, of course, tends…”

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 5)

“Turning now to the oldest Aryan literature, the Rig-Veda, the student will find, following strictly in this the data furnished by the said Orientalists themselves, that, although the Rig-Veda contains only "about 10,580 verses, or 1,028 hym…”

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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 6)

“(See Weber, Max Muller, etc.) We labour under the impression that Colebrooke, "the highest authority" in such matters, had long ago settled the question by showing, that "the Hindus were in this instance the teachers, not the learners." [[V…”

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 5 (part 8)

“The mystery in the hierarchy of the Anupadaka is great, its apex being the universal Spirit-Soul, and the lower rung the Manushi-Buddha; and even every Soul-endowed man is an Anupadaka in a latent state. Hence, when speaking of the Univers…”

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. 1. . . . . W HERE WERE THE BUILDERS, THE LUMINOUS SONS OF MANVANTARIC DAWN ( a )? . . . . 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? . . . . 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 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 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 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 8 (part 9)

“Upon the walls of our most private apartments, where we think the eye of intrusion is altogether shut out, and our retirement can never be profaned, there exist the vestiges of all our acts, silhouettes of whatever we have done."** Drs. Je…”

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 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 8)

“There are two esoteric schools -- or rather one school, divided into two parts -- one for the inner Lanoos, the other for the outer or semi-lay chelas beyond the Himalayas; the first teaching a septenary, the other a six-fold division of hu…”

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 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 9 (part 12)

“In this "Infinity" of the full Initiate there is neither height, breadth nor thickness, but all is fathomless profundity, reaching down from the physical to the "para-para-metaphysical." In using the word "down," essential depth -- "nowhere…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 13)

“She is before a dead wall, on the face of which she traces, as she imagines, great physiological and psychic discoveries, but every one of which will be shown later on to be no better than the cobwebs spun by her scientific fancies and illu…”

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 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 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 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 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 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 4)

“I am merged in Sekten." This last sentence gives the corroboration of, and repeats the doctrine of, esoteric Buddhism, for it alludes directly to the fifth principle (Manas), or the most spiritual part of its essence rather, which merges in…”

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 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 14 (part 10)

“** The so-called "Spirits" that may occasionally possess themselves of the bodies of mediums are not the Monads or Higher Principles of disembodied personalities. Such a "Spirit" can only be either an Elementary, or -- a Nirmanakaya. [[Vo…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 11)

“But there is still as little cause to regard them as devils, and this is precisely what the Roman Catholics maintain against all reason and logic. ( b ) The concluding sentence of this sloka shows how archaic is the belief and the doctrine…”

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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“And though it is not yet fully determined whether poisons can be generated by the animal system of living beings without the participation and interference of microbes, it is ascertained that the animal does produce venomous substances in i…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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.,…”

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“"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…”

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“It cannot be called so by men in their WAKING STATE; therefore they have named it in their ignorance ' God-Spirit. ' (xix.) " It exists everywhere and forms the first U PADHI ( foundation ) on which our World ( solar system ) is built. Ou…”

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“"In dimension it is infinite; it is not made up of parts; and colour, taste, smell, and tangibility do not appertain to it. So far forth it corresponds exactly to time, space, Isvara, ("The Lord," but rather creative potency and soul -- an…”

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“) 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…”

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“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page 301]] BOOK I., PART II. THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLISM IN ITS APPROXIMATE ORDER. --------------------- EXPLANATORY SECTIONS. [[Vol. 1, Page 302]] CONTENTS. §§ PAGE. - - -…”

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“The name of the [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * As far as divine revelation is concerned, we agree. Not so with regard to " human history. " . . . For there is "history" in most of the allegories and…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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,…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“"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). . . . Who, then, or what were those races, since the author s…”

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“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 325 THE IMPARTIALITY OF SCIENTIFIC DENIALS. [[This page continued from previous section ]] § III. PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE AND DIVINE THOUGHT. "As it would seem irrational…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“) 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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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“(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…”

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“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,…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 368 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[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…”

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“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 . . .…”

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“"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…”

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“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…”

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“, 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…”

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“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…”

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“, 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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“Semele, the wife of Jupiter and mother of Bacchus, the Sun , is, according to Nonnus, also "carried," or made to ascend to heaven after her death, where she presides between Mars and Venus, under the name of the Queen of the World , or the…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“So has Sefekh Abu who builds the house on high, as Wisdom (Sophia) built hers with seven pillars. . . 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…”

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“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…”

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“Everywhere the speculations of the Kabalists treat of Evil as a FORCE, which is antagonistic, but at the same time essential, to Good, as giving it vitality and existence, which it could never have otherwise. There would be no life possibl…”

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“Anger, my son, is the destruction of [[Vol. 1, Page]] 416 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. all that man obtains . . . and prevents the attainment of emancipation. The sages shun wrath. Be not thou, my child, subject to its influence. Let not th…”

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“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…”

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“We bow to thee, in the nature of Brahma uncreated, undecaying ( avyaya ), who art in our bodies and in all other bodies , and in all living creatures , and beside whom nothing exists. We glorify that Vasudeva, the lord of all, who is witho…”

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“"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.* . . . . engaged as they are in t…”

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“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 424 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section ]] § XII. THE THEOGONY OF THE CREATIVE GODS. T O thoroughly comprehend the idea underlying every a…”

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“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…”

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“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) . . . . . such cen…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“, 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…”

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“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…”

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“fThe Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 445 GOD IS OUR HIGHER SELF. [[This page continued from previous section ]] § XIII. THE SEVEN CREATIONS. " T HERE was neither day nor night, nor sky nor earth, nor dar…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“"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…”

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“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…”

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“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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“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…”

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“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…”

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“Paganism preached a dual and simultaneous evolution: "creation" -- " spiritualem ac mundanum ," as the Roman Church has it -- ages before the advent of that Roman Church. Exoteric phraseology has changed little with respect to divine hiera…”

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“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 470 [[This page continued from previous section ]] § XV. ON KWAN-SHI-YIN AND KWAN-YIN. L IKE Avalokiteshwara, Kwan-shi-yin has passed through several transformations, b…”

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“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…”

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“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page 475]] BOOK I. -- PART III. ADDENDA. SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED. "The knowledge of this nether world -- Say, friend, what is it, false or true? The fals…”

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“Notwithstanding the efforts made to the contrary, an unprejudiced mind will discover [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * Their intellection, of course, being of quite a different nature to any we can conceive…”

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“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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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 529 MYSTERIOUS SUN FLUID. VIII. LIFE, FORCE, OR GRAVITY. T HE imponderable fluids have had their day; "mechanical Forces" are less talked about; Science has put on a n…”

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“Hunt writes: -- "But regarding Life -- Vital Force -- as a power far more exalted than either light, heat, or electricity, and indeed capable of exerting a controlling power over them all " (this is absolutely occult). . . . . "we are…”

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“Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space (or Akasa , AEther), Mind, Understanding and Egoism (or the perception of all the former on the illusive plane). . . This is a lower form of my nature. Know (that there is) another (form of my) nature, and…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“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…”

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“Air ships are riding at anchor, as it were, waiting for the force which is to make aerial navigation something more than a dream. As easily as men communicate with their offices from their homes by means of the telephone, so will the inhab…”

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“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…”

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“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 566 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section ]] XI. ON THE ELEMENTS AND ATOMS. FROM THE STAND-POINT OF SCIENCE AND THAT OF OCCULTISM. W HEN th…”

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“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…”

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“16); "The righteous will shine in the kingdom of their Father" (not our Father) (Matt. xiii. 43) "Know ye not ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? (I Cor. iii. 16); "I ascend to my Father," etc., etc. [[…”

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“should have selected a god against whose commandments Jesus was the first one to rise in rebellion. The Planetary origin of the Monad (Soul) and of its faculties was taught by the Gnostics. On its way to the Earth, as on its way back from…”

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“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…”

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“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 47 (part 7)

“It is now amply proved that even horoscopes and judiciary astrology are not quite based on a fiction, and that stars and constellations, consequently, have an occult and mysterious influence on, and connection with, individuals. And if wit…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 48 (part 3)

“Leaving the proof of exactitude in the alleged correspondence to the said mystics, it is as follows: Man, or the Aquarius , is in the sphere of Reuben, who is declared as "unstable as water" (the Vulgate has it, to be " rushing like water,"…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 48 (part 6)

“Thus the latter, pushing off the Dragon, or spiritual , Divine Wisdom, with the Tau , or Cross -- which is esoterically "the foundation and framework of all construction" -- would have an entirely phallic , physiological meaning, had it not…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 50 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 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 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. 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 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 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 9)

“113 to 355, have to be specialised.* But this last ratio is but a modified form of light or 20612 to 6561, as a '[[ pi ]]' value, being only a variation of the same (that is 20612 to 6561 is 31415 to one, or Alhim or God) -- and in such a m…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 52 (part 10)

“and its fourth commentary to find that the 3, 4 -- (7), and the thrice seven, or 1065, the number of Jehovah, is the number of the 21 Prajapati mentioned in the Mahabharata, or the three Sephrim (words in cipher or figures). And this compa…”

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 52 (part 15)

“And "primitive man acted in the same manner independently of time or locality in every age," observes a French writer. [[Vol. 2, Page]] 51 WHAT THE EARTH-WHIRL PRODUCED. tioned was compiled by two very learned Brahmins* in 1884 and 1885.…”

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 11)

“They are never erring, perpetually recurring numbers, unveiling, to him who studies the secrets of Nature, a truly divine System, an intelligent plan in Cosmogony, which results in natural cosmic divisions of times, seasons, invisible influ…”

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 55 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 86 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. 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 2)

“T HE Progenitors of Man, called in India "Fathers," Pitara or Pitris, are the creators of our bodies and lower principles. They are ourselves, as the first personalities, and we are they. Primeval man would be "the bone of their bone and…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 55 (part 4)

“This is very plainly shown in various texts of the Rig Veda -- the highest authority for a Hindu of any sect whatever. Therein Asura means "spiritual divine," and the word is used as a synonym for Supreme Spirit, while in the sense of a "G…”

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 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 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 4)

“To this, one answer can be given -- a direct proof that the Egyptians believed in the Secret Doctrine is, that it was taught to them at Initiation. Let the objectors open the " Eclogae Physicae et Ethicae " of Stobaeus, the Greek compiler…”

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 12)

“The theory taught in the Secret Doctrine, and now expounded, is the only one, which can -- without falling into the absurdity of a "miraculous" man created out of the dust of the Earth, or the still greater fallacy of man evolving from a pi…”

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 3)

“As described in the Commentary, the very earliest of that race were: -- " The ' Sons of Passive Yoga.* They issued from the second Manushyas [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- [[Footnote continued from previou…”

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. [[Vol. 2, Page]] 174 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. Of course such primeval modes o…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 59 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 180 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. STANZA VIII. EVOLUTION OF THE ANIMAL MAMMALIANS. -- THE FIRST FALL. ------- §§ (28) How the first mammals were produced. (29) A quasi-Darwin…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 60 (part 2)

“Even such belief is more logical and reasonable than the descent of man from the Quadrumana without any reservation; as the former hides an esoteric truth under a fabulous version, while the latter conceals no deeper fact than a desire to f…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 61 (part 2)

“" But this is not the Genetic Eden; nor is it the Kabalistical Garden of Eden. For the former -- Eden Illa-ah -- means in one sense Wisdom, a state like that of Nirvana, a paradise of Bliss; while in another sense it refers to Intellectual…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 61 (part 4)

“We answer: firstly, because the knowledge of such animals is a proof of the enormous antiquity of the human race; and secondly, to show the difference between the zoological real meaning of the words "dragon," " Naga, " and "Serpent," and t…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 61 (part 6)

“"* Now in the original, the words "their secret" really are "their S OD."** And Sod was the name for the great mysteries of Baal, Adonis and Bacchus, who were all sun-gods and had serpents for symbols. The Kabalists explain the allegory of…”

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 62 (part 3)

“2, Page]] 224 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. immense stretch of land which extended towards the West on the side of Asia. And all, brought together, were found to speak the same language, to have the same usages, the same customs, the same religiou…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 63 (part 3)

“This in the human, terrestrial form of the Initiates, and also because the logos is Christos, that principle of our inner nature which develops in us into the Spiritual Ego -- the Higher-Self -- being formed of the indissoluble union of Bud…”

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 66 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 277 THE GIANTS. A RE G IANTS A F ICTION? Here, again, we come into collision with Science. The latter denies, so far, that man has ever been much larger than the avera…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 66 (part 2)

“tated everywhere the use of titanic powers, and which tradition associates in all countries with the ideas about giants, volcanoes and magic." ( Page 48.) In the same work above cited of the Abbe Pegues, the author wonders why in Bible and…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 66 (part 3)

“But they are as rare as their language is unintelligible. So far, one or two European archaeologists only have been able to procure such priceless works. [[Vol. 2, Page]] 281 THE SEVEN VIRGIN-YOUTHS. " according to our ancient documents…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 68 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 307 THE SEVEN AND FOURTEEN MANUS. 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 2)

“A Vaivasvata is the seventh Manu, because this our Round, although the Fourth, is in the preseptenary Manvantara, and the Round itself is in its seventh stage of materiality or physicality. The close of its middle racial point occurred dur…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 69 (part 3)

“It is evident that, taken in their dead letter, the Puranas read as an absurd tissue of fairy tales and no better. But if one reads chapters I. , II . and III . from Book II. (Vol. II.) of Vishnu Purana and accepts verbatim its geogra…”

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 69 (part 10)

“Every text relates to, and has to be rendered from, one of the following standpoints -- 1. The Realistic plane of thought; 2. The Idealistic; 3. The purely Divine or Spiritual. The other planes too far transcend the average consciousnes…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 70 (part 3)

“all this allies them to Cyclopean monuments, of which it can be said with good reason, repeating after de La Vega that 'the demons seem to have worked on them more than men.' "* For once we agree with our friends and foes, the Roman Catholi…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 71 (part 2)

“Gerald Massey -- an Initiate truly in the mysteries of the British Museum, still only a Self -initiate -- from declaring and insisting that the Atlantean submersion and Deluge were only the anthropomorphized fancies of ignorant people; and…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 71 (part 14)

“Whenever anathematizing the Gnostic Solar Chnouphis -- the Agathodaemon -- Christos, or the theosophical Serpent of Eternity, or even the Serpent of Genesis -- they [[Vol. 2, Page]] 378 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. are moved by the same Spirit of…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 72 (part 5)

“403.) This is only another version of the Hindu "War in Heaven," between Soma, the moon, and the gods -- Indra being the atmospheric Vul; which shows it plainly to be both a Cosmogonical and an astronomical allegory, woven into and drawn fr…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 72 (part 9)

“These kings answer to the ten antediluvian generations of kings as given by Berosus. Distorted as those legends are now found, one can hardly fail to identify them with the Chaldean, Egyptian, Greek, and even Hebrew traditions. The latter…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 73 (part 3)

“"The King I'T," explains Wilford, "is a subordinate incarnation of M'rira" ( Mrida, a form of Rudra, probably?) who "re-established peace and prosperity throughout all Sankha-dwipa, through Barbaradesa, Hissast'han and Awasthan or Arabia .…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 75 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 437 MORE IN THE FORTHCOMING VOLUMES. CONCLUSION. Space forbids us to say anything more, and this part of the "Secret Doctrine" has to be closed. The forty-nine Stanzas…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 75 (part 4)

“think it, "less hard to believe that these wonderful stories of gods and demi-gods, of giants and dwarfs, of dragons and monsters of all descriptions, are transformations, than to believe them to be inventions." It is only such "transformat…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 76 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page 447]] BOOK II., PART II. THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS. --------- "The narratives of the Doctrine are its cloak. The simple look only at the garment -- th…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 76 (part 2)

“The Veda is the real Theogony of the Aryan races, while that of Hesiod is a distorted caricature of the original image." This is a sweeping assertion, and perhaps rather unjust in its general application. But why not try to account for it?…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 77 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 452 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. § XVI. ADAM-ADAMI. N AMES such as Adam-Adami, used by Mr. Chwolsohn in his "Nabathean Agriculture"* and derided by M. Renan, may prove littl…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 77 (part 2)

“"Therefore," he adds, "the work must be an A POCRYPHA to be ranged with its contemporaries -- the fourth book of Esdras, that of Enoch, the Sibylline Oracles, and the Book of Hermes -- every one of these dating no further back than two or t…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 78 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 459 THE "GOD" SUB ROSA. § VII. 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 78 (part 6)

“The Lingham and Yoni of the modern average Hindu is, on the face of it, of course, no better than the Rabbinical "Holy of Holies," -- but it is no worse; and this is a point gained on the Christian traducers of the Asiatic religious philoso…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 78 (part 7)

“They did hate Baal or Bacchus worship publicly, but left its worst features to be followed secretly; and it is with the Talmudic Jews that the grand symbols of nature were the most profaned. With them, as now shown by the discovery of the…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 80 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 492 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section ]] C. T HE M ANY M EANINGS OF THE " W AR IN H EAVEN." The Secret Doctrine points out, as a self-evi…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 80 (part 2)

“Bear in mind, that almost every ancient King and priest was an initiate; that from toward the close of the Fourth Race there had been a feud between the Initiates of the Right and those of the Left Path; finally, that the garden of Eden is…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 80 (part 3)

“principles), which move about in the body, and swallow up one another,* blazes the Vaishvana fire** sevenfold, of which 'I' am the goal," says the Brahmana.*** But the chief "Soul" is Manas or mind; hence, Soma, the moon, is shown as making…”

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 80 (part 6)

“Thus, space, in its abstract sense, was called "the realm of divine knowledge," and by the Chaldees or Initiates Ab Soo, the habitat (or Father, i.e. , the source) of knowledge, because it is in space that dwell the intelligent Powers whic…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 80 (part 7)

“As in the Chaldean Cosmogony of Berosus and the Stanzas just given, some treatises on the Kabala speak of creatures with two faces, some with four, and some with one face: for "the highest Adam did not come down in all the countries, or pro…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 81 (part 4)

“It is mankind which has become the "Serpent of Genesis," and thus causes daily and hourly the Fall and sin of the "Celestial Virgin" -- which thus becomes the Mother of gods and devils at one and the same time; for she is the ever-loving, b…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 81 (part 6)

“In the Zend Avesta, Angra Mainyu (Ahriman), surrounding himself with fire (the "Flames" -- vide supra ) seeks to conquer the Heavens,* when Ahura Mazda, descending from the solid Heaven he inhabits, to the help of the Heavens that revolve (…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 81 (part 7)

“When the Chaldeans broke into the sanctuary and beheld this most astounding emblem, they naturally enough exclaimed, 'Is this your God, of whom you boast that He is such a lover of purity?' " (p. 441.) King thinks that this tradition "savo…”

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 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 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 536 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. § 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 7)

“Brahma calls him Rudra, and gives him, besides, seven other names, which names are his seven forms of manifestation, also the seven powers of nature which destroy but to recreate or regenerate. Hence the cruciform noose ( pasa ) in his han…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 84 (part 13)

“The three nails with the three wounds are in number 6, which denotes the 6 faces of the cube unfolded (which make the cross or man-form, or 7, counting three horizontal and four vertical bars) on which the man is placed; and this in turn po…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 85 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 563 THE SEVEN THUNDERS. § 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 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 3)

“By "intelligence," the Occultist says, Narada means neither "discussion" nor "argumentation," as Aruna Misra believes, but "intelligence" truly, or the adaptation of the fire of Wisdom to Exoteric Ritualism for the profane. This is the chi…”

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 86 (part 3)

“"I am the fish and seat of the great Horus of Kem-our," says the mummy-form God with the crocodile's head ( ch. lxxxviii., 2 , " Book of the Dead ") . With the Peratae Gnostics it is Chozzar (Neptune), who converts into a sphere the dodec…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 86 (part 4)

“But this is a mystery which the writer dares not dwell upon at length, not being sure of being understood. Thus the mystical side of the interpretation must be left to the intuition of the student. Let us note one more thing in relation t…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 86 (part 6)

“of the river Jordan, which had the same mythical use with the Hebrews that the Nile had with the Egyptians,* it was the source of descent, and held the waters of life" (Unpub. MS .) It was, to put it plainly, the symbol of the personified…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 86 (part 7)

“We do more: we concede that in one sense much in these so-called "fables" refers to astronomical allegories about constellations, asterisms, stars, and planets. Yet, while the Gandharva of the Rig-Veda may there be made to personify the fi…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 86 (part 8)

“It is the emblem of the activity of Fohat, of the continual revolution of the "wheels," and of the Four Elements, the "Sacred Four," in their mystical, and not alone in their cosmical meaning; further, its four arms, bent at right angles, a…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 87 (part 4)

“The author explains, "Note that in Hebrew, Jared , the father of Enoch, is construed to be ' the mount of descent, ' and it is said to be the same with Ararat on which the cubical structure of Noah, or foundation measure rested. Jared, in…”

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 2)

“2, Page]] 607 THE SEVEN EARTHS AND THE SEVEN RACES. to the seven primeval groups of mankind, as Visvakarman represents divine humanity collectively.* The same doctrine is found reflected in the other old religions. It may, and must have c…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 5)

“The Vayu Purana shows, and Harivansa corroborates, that the Maruts -- the oldest as the most incomprehensible of all the secondary or lower gods in the Rig Veda -- "are born in every manvantara (Round) seven times seven (or 49); that in eac…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 89 (part 4)

“Nor can one accept the said "sevenfold classification" as having "a closer connection with the Brahminical Logos than with the Buddhist Logos," since both are identical, whether the one "Logos" is called Eswara or Avalokiteswara, Brahma or…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 91 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 656 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. § II. THE ANCESTORS MANKIND IS OFFERED BY SCIENCE. --------------------- "The question of questions for mankind -- the problem which underlies…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 92 (part 7)

“*** It thus stands to reason that science would never dream of a pre -tertiary man, and that de Quatrefages' secondary man makes every Academician and " F.R.S ." faint with horror because, TO PRESERVE THE APE-THEORY, SCIENCE MUST MAKE MAN P…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 93 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 690 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. § IV. DURATION OF THE GEOLOGICAL PERIODS, RACE CYCLES, AND THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN. M ILLIONS of years have dropped into Lethe, leaving no more r…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 93 (part 2)

“390, and lastly in the year 640, A.D ., by the general of Kaliph Omar. What is this in comparison with the works and records destroyed in the primitive Atlantean Libraries, wherein records are said to have been traced on the tanned skins o…”

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 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 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 8)

“Like the Hindus, the Greeks and Romans (we speak of the Initiates), the Chaldees and the Egyptians, the Druids believed in the doctrine of a succession of worlds, as also in that of seven "creations" (of new continents) and transformations…”

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 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 760 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section ]] A . S OME S TATEMENTS A BOUT THE S ACRED I SLANDS AND C ONTINENTS IN THE C LASSICS, E XPLAINED E…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 97 (part 2)

“[[Vol. 2, Page]]763 THE HEIRLOOM OF ATLANTIS. Inscriptions, p. 176). For Atlas is Atlantis which supports the new continents and their horizons on its "shoulders." Decharme, in his Mythologie de la Grece Antique, expresses a doubt as to…”

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 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 97 (part 5)

“Ulysses belongs to the cycle of the heroes of the Fourth Race, and, though a "sage" in the sight of the latter, must have been a profligate in the opinion of the pastoral Cyclopes.**** His adventure with the latter -- a savage gigantic race…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 97 (part 6)

“431-53), and has the gift of appearing to his Seers without being visible to other persons present -- (Iliad, xvii., 322-36) -- a gift, however, shared by every high Adept. The King of the Hyperboreans, was, therefore, the son of Boreas, t…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 97 (part 7)

“He is born on the seventh of the month, and the swans of Myorica swim seven times around Delos singing that event; he is given seven chords to his Lyre -- the seven rays of the sun and the seven forces of nature. But this only in the astro…”

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 4)

“( Continental, not cosmic, catastrophes.) We learn from Plutarch that this was the theme of one of the hymns of Orpheus, so celebrated in the fabulous ages of Greece. It was brought by him from the banks of the Nile; and we even find in hi…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 98 (part 5)

“John Fiske's singularly dogmatic opinion** that every myth "is an explanation by the uncivilized mind, of some natural phenomenon; not an allegory, not an esoteric symbol, for the ingenuity is wasted (! !) which strives to detect in myths…”

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 98 (part 10)

“There lies the heart of nature, that shrine whence issued the early races of primeval Humanity, and which is the cradle of physical man. Thus far have proceeded the rough outlines of the beliefs and tenets of the archaic, earliest Races co…”

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…”

The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | Prologue

“[II, 1; IV 1] The teaching [of the] savior, and [the revelation] of the mysteries, [and the] sayings concealed in silence, [even these sayings that] he taught John, [his] disciple. It, [however], came to pass [one day], when John, [the bro…”

The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | The Savior Comforts John

“He asked me: “John, John, why do you marvel, and why [do you] fear? Is this appearance unknown to all of you? I mean, do not [be] of a weak heart. I am the one who [is] always [with all of you]. I [am the Father], I am the Mother, I am the…”

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 | The Mother Repents

“I, however, said: “Lord, what (is) ‘she moved back and forth’?” And he grinned, and said: “Think not that it agrees with what Moses said, ‘above the waters,’ no! Instead, when she had witnessed the evil that had occurred, and the theft he…”

The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | The Archons Conspire Against Adam

“When they gazed down, they realized that his intellect surpassed (their own), and they convened in counsel together with the group of archons and all angels. They took fire and earth [II, 21] and water, and combined them with each other to…”

The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | The Destiny of Souls-a

“I also asked the savior: “Lord, will then all the souls be conducted safely into the pure light?” He answered and said to me: “Great things have arisen in your mind, because it is difficult to explain them to others, with the exception of…”

The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | The Vile Spirit

“I, however, asked: “Lord, where did the vile spirit originate?” He then said to me: “The Mother- Father, who is abundant in mercy, the holy Spirit in every mode, the one who is merciful and [II, 28] who shows compassion for all of you – th…”

The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | Conclusion

“In your hearing I have finished everything for your sake, but I have said everything to you so that you may write them down and distribute them in secret to your companion spirits, because this is the mystery of the unmoving race.” The sav…”

Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter I

“Hermes, the God who presides over language, was formerly very properly considered as common to all priests; and the power who presides over the true science concerning the Gods 18 is one and the same in the whole of things. Hence our ancest…”

Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter II

“We shall, therefore, deliver to you the peculiar dogmas of the Assyrians; and also clearly develop to you our own opinions; collecting some things from the infinite writings of the ancients, but others from those particulars which were comp…”

Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter V-a

“In the next place, let us direct our attention to the solution of your inquiries. There is, therefore, the good itself which is beyond essence, and there is that good which subsists according to essence; I mean the essence which is most an…”

Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VI

“What, therefore, shall we say concerning the media? I think, indeed, that from what has been before said, they will be manifest to every one; for these give completion to the indivisible connexion of the extremes. Nevertheless, it is necess…”

Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter IX-a

“I consider you, therefore, as asking, for it is your inquiry, “ Why, since the Gods dwell in the heavens alone, there are invocations by theurgists of terrestrial and subterranean Gods? ” For 45 what you assert in the beginning is not true…”

Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter IX-b

“For in things which are of a kindred nature, according to essence and power, or which are, in a certain respect, of the same species, or homogeneous, a certain comprehension, or conservation, may be discovered. But in such things as are en…”

Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter XI-a

““ How therefore ,” you ask, “ are many things performed to them in sacred operations, as if they were passive? ” I reply, that this is asserted through an ignorance of sacerdotal mysticism. For of the things which are perpetually effected…”

Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter XV-a

“After this, you pass on to another division into contraries, viz. the division of Gods with reference to dæmons. For you say, “ that the Gods are pure intellects ;” but you propose this opinion as an hypothesis, or you narrate it as a dog…”

The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1a

“CHAPTER V. 1. (It is written) Isa. i. 4: "Woe unto the sinful nation, unto the people heavy with iniquity, unto the seed of evildoers, &c." (Here the author of the "Siphra Dtzenioutha" reasoneth concerning the small word HVI, "woe," whi…”

The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1b

“If the reader turn to the introduction, to the Table showing the Sephiroth arranged in three pillars, he will see that Malkuth is, as it were, the antithesis of Kether; and hence it is said that "Malkuth is Kether after another manner." And…”

The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1c

“And to it also pertain the following names, namely, the name) IH, Yah (whensoever it is written in full with A in this manner:) IVD HA, Yod Ha (and containeth the number of the numeral powers of the letters of the Tetragrammaton, namely, 26…”

The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1d

“5; "And thou shalt place upon me thine hand:" KPKH, Khephakha . (Where this word KPKH, if it be written according to the usual p. 100 custom KPK, Khephakh , yieldeth the number 120. But now by adding the paragogic H of the female, there…”

The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1e

“31: "And He was wise above every man." Because these are not classed with man. 21. (But when it is said) "And the Tetragrammaton gave him wisdom," then is understood the supernal He . (Because he gave unto him the influx of the wisdom of…”

The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1f

“[The letters of the Hebrew alphabet are divided into three classes, the three mothers as they are called, AMSh; the seven duplex letters, BGDKPRTh, so called because they are sometimes tenues and sometimes aspirates, according to whether th…”

The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1g

“The four wheels are their correlatives under the second Sephira, on their four sides--namely, the four elements of the air, fire, water, and earth, which are the abodes of the spirits of the elements, the sylphs, salamanders, undines, and g…”

The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1h

“35: "Ye shall not do iniquity in judgment, in dimension, in weight, and in measure." (Where these four are mystically intimated.) 37. (There is one) rigorous judgment (of severity),another that is not rigorous (that is, of the kingdom). T…”

Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 10, Section 1a

“CHAPTER X Concerning ” Omnipotent ,” ” Ancient of Days “; and also concerning ” Eternity “ and ” Time .” 1. Now ‘tis time that our Discourse should celebrate God (Whose Names are many) as “Omnipotent” and “Ancient of Days.” The former titl…”

Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 1, Section 1c

“59 59 ὡς οὐκ ὄντος ἴχνους τῶν ἐπὶ τὴν κρυφίαν αὐτῆς ἀπειρίαν διεληλυθότων. Two interpretations of this passage are possible: (1) Those who have penetrated the hidden Depths cannot describe the Vision (cf. Dante, Par. xxxiii. 55–66) ; (2…”

Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 1, Section 1d

“And we press upwards to those beams which in the Holy Scripture shine upon us; wherefrom we gain the light which leads us unto 55 the Divine praises 64 64 πρὸς τοὺς θεαρχικοὺς ὕμνους. Either (1) “leads us to declare the Divine praises”; or…”

Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 1, Section 1e

“These mysteries we learn from the Divine Scriptures, and thou wilt find that in well-nigh all the utterances of the Sacred Writers the Divine Names refer in a Symbolical Revelation 72 72 ἐκφαντορικῶς καὶ ὑμνητικῶς. to Its beneficent Emanat…”

Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 1, Section 1f

“And in all the other Divine enlightenments which the occult Tradition of our inspired teachers hath, by mystic Interpretation, accordant with the Scriptures, bestowed upon us, we also have been initiated: apprehending these things in the pr…”

Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 1, Section 1h

“that which makes an individual thing to be one thing); (2) Mental or Spiritual intercourse; (3) Physical intercourse; (4) Sense perception. Here it = either (1) or (2), probably (1). limit, infinity, everything that exists. And yet since…”

Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 1, Section 1j

“143 143 God is above Time. For the Nameless Goodness is not only the cause of cohesion or life or perfection in such wise as to derive Its Name from this or that providential activity alone; nay, rather does It contain all things beforehan…”

Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names | Chapter 1, Section 1k

“) with our hearts predisposed unto the vision of God, and let us bring holy ears to the exposition of God’s holy Names, implanting holy Truths in holy instruments according to the Divine command, and withholding these things from the mocker…”

The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 4 (part 6)

“remote period. To quote the words of Chabas, the chapter was regarded as being "very ancient, very mysterious, and very difficult to understand" already fourteen centuries before our era. Antiquity of Chapter LXIV. The rubric on the coffi…”

The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 4 (part 12)

“They found in this basin, after they had broken the covering of it, the decayed remains of a man, but no treasures, excepting some golden tablets inscribed with characters of a language which nobody could understand. Each man's share of th…”

The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 4 (part 13)

“There was about three feet of rubbish on the top of the same; and from the circumstance of the bones and part of the coffin being all found together, it appeared as if the coffin had been brought to that spot and there unpacked.--H. Raven.…”

The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 4 (part 24)

“A Hymn of praise to Ra when he setteth in the land of life. Vignette: The deceased adoring Ra. Chapter XV B . 2. A Hymn of praise to Ra-Harmachis when he setteth in the western horizon of heaven. Vignette: The deceased adoring Ra. Cha…”

The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 6 (part 19)

“The whole passage reads:-- "(496) The heavens drop water, the stars throb, (497) the archers go round about, the (498) bones of Akeru tremble, and those who are in bondage to them take to flight when they see (499) Unas rise up as a soul, i…”

The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 8 (part 2)

“Verily it shall be cast forth by my healing words of power, and I will drive it away from before the sight of thy sunbeams." The holy god opened his mouth and said, "I was passing along my path, and I was going through the two regions of my…”

The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 8 (part 4)

“No man knoweth how to know Him--His name remaineth hidden; His name is a mystery unto His children. His names are innumerable, they are manifold and none knoweth their number--God is truth and He liveth by truth and He feedeth thereon. He…”

The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 8 (part 8)

“His name is gracious, and the love of him is sweet; and at the dawn all people make supplication unto him through his mighty power and terrible strength, and every god lieth in fear of him. He is the young bull that destroyeth the wicked,…”

Orphic Hymns | Hymn I. THE GODDESS PROTHYRÆA

“I. TO THE GODDESS PROTHYRÆA * . The FUMIGATION from STORAX. O venerable goddess, hear my pray'r, For labour pains are thy peculiar care; in thee, when stretch'd upon the bed of grief, The sex as in a mirror view relief. Guard of the race, e…”

Orphic Hymns | Hymn V. PROTOGONUS, Or the FIRST-BORN

“V. TO PROTOGONUS, Or the FIRST-BORN. The FUMIGATION from MYRRH. O Mighty first-begotten, hear my pray'r, 1 Two-fold, egg-born, and wand'ring thro' the air, p. 119 Bull-roarer, glorying in thy golden wings, 3 From whom the race of Gods and m…”

Orphic Hymns | Hymn VII. THE SUN

“VII. TO THE SUN. The FUMIGATION from FRANKINCENSE and MANNA. HEAR golden Titan, whose eternal eye With broad survey, illumines all the sky. Self-born, unwearied in diffusing light, And to all eyes the mirrour of delight: Lord of the seasons…”

Orphic Hymns | Hymn X

“X. TO PAN * The FUMIGATION from VARIOUS ODORS I Call strong Pan, the substance of the whole, Etherial, marine, earthly, general soul, Immortal fire; for all the world is thine, And all are parts of thee, O pow'r divine. p. 131 Come, blessed…”

Orphic Hymns | Hymn XIV. JUPITER

“XIV. TO JUPITER. The FUMIGATION from STORAX. O Jove much-honor'd, Jove supremely great, To thee our holy rites we consecrate, p. 140 Our pray'rs and expiations, king divine, For all things round thy head exalted shine. The earth is thine, a…”

Orphic Hymns | Hymn XVII. PLUTO

“XVII. TO PLUTO. PLUTO, magnanimous, whose realms profound Are fix'd beneath the firm and solid ground, In the Tartarian plains remote from fight, And wrapt forever in the depths of night; Terrestrial Jove, thy sacred ear incline, 5 5 And, p…”

Orphic Hymns | Hymn XXIII. THE NEREIDS

“XXIII. TO THE NEREIDS. The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS. DAUGHTERS of Nereus, resident in caves Merg'd deep in Ocean, sporting thro' the waves; Fanatic fifty nymphs, who thro' the main Delight to follow in the Triton's train, Rejoicing close b…”

Orphic Hymns | Hymn XXIV. PROTEUS

“XXIV. TO PROTEUS * . The FUMIGATION from STORAX. PROTEUS I call, whom Fate decrees, to keep The keys which lock the chambers of the deep; First-born, by whose illustrious pow'r alone All Nature's principles are clearly shewn: Matter to chan…”

Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter II — What Magic Is, What Are the Parts Thereof, and How the Professors Thereof Must Be Qualified | Chapter II, Section 1b

“It instructs us also concerning Faith, Miracles, the virtues of Words and Figures , the secret operations and mysteries of Seals; and, as Apuleius saith, it teacheth us rightly to understand and to be skilled in the Ceremonial Laws, the equ…”

The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | INTRODUCTION-f

“He was then advised to doff the Dominican habit, which he still wore; this he was quite willing to do, only he had no money to buy other clothing, and was forced to have some made of the cloth of his monkish robes, and his new friends prese…”

The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | First Dialogue-c

“Hence he cries: "O mountain of Parnassus, where I abide! Muses, with whom I converse! Fountain of Helicon, where I am nourished. Mountain, that affordest me a quiet dwelling-place! Muses, that inspire me with pro found doctrines. Fount…”

The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | First Dialogue-d

“Some are called in vain to put in a ready appearance, and are chiefly those which proceed from the lower instincts, and which obey the reason either not at all, or very little; and forcing himself to prevent their actions and condemn those…”

The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | Fifth Dialogue-a

“. I. Cic . Now show me how I may be able for myself to consider the conditions of these enthusiasts, through that which appears in the order of the warfare here described. Tans . Behold how they carry the ensign of their affections or…”

The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | Fifth Dialogue-b

“There is a sun whose rays extend to the back of the earth, and there is a legend which says: "Idem semper ubique totum." Cic . I perceive that the interpretation of it will be difficult. Tans . The more excellent the meaning the less obv…”

The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | Fifth Dialogue-c

“It means that enthusiast, signified by the naked child as simple, pure, and exposed to all the accidents of Nature and of fortune, who at the same time by the force of thought, constructs castles in the air, and amongst other things a tower…”

The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | Fifth Dialogue-h

“That legend contains all the meaning of the thing in so far as it can be explained, for it means that he turns and is turned, that is to say movement present and accomplished. Cic. Excellent! And therefore those circles which so ill expl…”

Plato: Phaedo | Section 1d

“Socrates replied: And have you, Cebes and Simmias, who are acquainted with Philolaus, never heard him speak of this? I never understood him, Socrates. My words, too, are only an echo; but I am very willing to say what I have heard: and in…”

Plato: Phaedo | Section 1i

“They are temperate because they are intemperate-which may seem to be a contradiction, but is nevertheless the sort of thing which happens with this foolish temperance. For there are pleasures which they must have, and are afraid of losing;…”

Plato: Phaedo | Section 1w

“And now I must begin again and find another argument which will assure me that when the man is dead the soul dies not with him. Tell me, I beg, how did Socrates proceed? Did he appear to share the unpleasant feeling which you mention? or…”

Plato: Phaedo | Section 1ab

“For any man, who is not devoid of natural feeling, has reason to fear, if he has no knowledge or proof of the soul's immortality. That is what I suppose you to say, Cebes, which I designedly repeat, in order that nothing may escape us, and…”

Plato: Phaedo | Section 1ae

“I dare say that the simile is not perfect-for I am very far from admitting that he who contemplates existence through the medium of ideas, sees them only "through a glass darkly," any more than he who sees them in their working and effects.…”

Plato: Phaedo | Section 1al

“But we who live in these hollows are deceived into the notion that we are dwelling above on the surface of the earth; which is just as if a creature who was at the bottom of the sea were to fancy that he was on the surface of the water, and…”

Plato: Phaedrus | Section 1b

“But when the lover of discourse begged that he would repeat the tale, he gave himself airs and said, "No I cannot," as if he were indisposed; although, if the hearer had refused, he would sooner or later have been compelled by him to listen…”

Plato: Phaedrus | Section 1g

“Who, for example, could speak on this thesis of yours without praising the discretion of the non-lover and blaming the indiscretion of the lover? These are the commonplaces of the subject which must come in (for what else is there to be sa…”

Tao Te Ching | Chapter 1

“The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name. (Conceived of as) having no name, it is the Originator of heaven and earth; (conceived of as) having a n…”

Tao Te Ching | Chapter 6

“The valley spirit dies not, aye the same; The female mystery thus do we name. Its gate, from which at first they issued forth, Is called the root from which grew heaven and earth. Long and unbroken does its power remain, Used gently, and wi…”

Tao Te Ching | Chapter 15

“The skilful masters (of the Tao) in old times, with a subtle and exquisite penetration, comprehended its mysteries, and were deep (also) so as to elude men's knowledge. As they were thus beyond men's knowledge, I will make an effort to desc…”

Tao Te Ching | Chapter 27

“The skilful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or footsteps; the skilful speaker says nothing that can be found fault with or blamed; the skilful reckoner uses no tallies; the skilful closer needs no bolts or bars, while to open what…”

Tao Te Ching | Chapter 35

“To him who holds in his hands the Great Image (of the invisible Tao), the whole world repairs. Men resort to him, and receive no hurt, but (find) rest, peace, and the feeling of ease. Music and dainties will make the passing guest stop (for…”

Tao Te Ching | Chapter 36

“When one is about to take an inspiration, he is sure to make a (previous) expiration; when he is going to weaken another, he will first strengthen him; when he is going to overthrow another, he will first have raised him up; when he is goin…”

Tao Te Ching | Chapter 41

“Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice. Scholars of the middle class, when they have heard about it, seem now to keep it and now to lose it. Scholars of the lowest class, when they have…”

Tao Te Ching | Chapter 43

“The softest thing in the world dashes against and overcomes the hardest; that which has no (substantial) existence enters where there is no crevice. I know hereby what advantage belongs to doing nothing (with a purpose). There are few in th…”

Corpus Hermeticum 1: Poimandres | Section 1b

“But when He raised His head, I see in Mind the Light, [but] now in Powers no man could number, and Cosmos grown beyond all bounds, and that the Fire was compassed round about by a most mighty Power, and [now] subdued had come unto a stand.…”

Corpus Hermeticum 1: Poimandres | Section 1d

“Thou seem'st, He said, O thou, not to have given heed to what thou heardest. Did I not bid thee think? Yea do I think, and I remember, and therefore give Thee thanks. If thou didst think [thereon], [said He], tell me: Why do they merit d…”

Corpus Hermeticum 5: The Discourse of Hermes to Asclepius | Section 1a

“Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest 1. I will recount to thee this sermon (logos) too, O Tat, that thou may'st cease to be without the mysteries of the God beyond all name. And mark thou well how that which to the many seems unmanifest…”

Corpus Hermeticum 8: The Eight Sphere | Section 1b

“Now the third life - Man, after the image of the Cosmos made, [and] having mind, after the Father's will, beyond all earthly lives - not only doth have feeling with the second God <i.e., the Cosmos>, but also hath conception of the first; f…”

Corpus Hermeticum 9: The Decalogue | Section 1c

“This is God's sense-and-thought, ever to move all things. And never time shall be when e'en a whit of things that are shall cease; and when I say "a whit of things that are", I mean a whit of God. For thigs that are, God hath; nor aught […”

Corpus Hermeticum 10: The Sermon on the Mount | Section 1c

“For that the soul who hath no knowledge of the things that are, or knowledge of their nature, or of Good, is blinded by the body's passions and tossed about. This wretched soul, not knowing what she is, becomes the slave of bodies of stran…”

Corpus Hermeticum 11: The Hymn | Section 1a

“Mind Unto Hermes <This complex text is written as a revelation from the divine Mind - the "Man-Shepherd" of CH I - to Hermes, concerning the nature of God and the universe. Difficult enough in its own right, it has been made rather more so…”

Corpus Hermeticum 11: The Hymn | Section 1c

“It must, then, be that such a one as this must be some one who's wholly One. 9. For as the many motions of them [all] are different, and as their bodies are not like, yet has one speed been ordered for them all, it is impossible that ther…”

The Bhagavad Gita | Chapter IV, Section 1a

“CHAPTER IV. The Deity said: This everlasting (system of) devotion I declared to the sun, the sun declared it to Manu , and Manu communicated it to Ikshvâku. Coming thus by steps, it became known to royal sages. But, O terror of (your) fo…”

The Bhagavad Gita | Chapter IX, Section 1a

“CHAPTER IX. Now I will speak to you, who are not given to carping, of that most mysterious knowledge, accompanied by experience, by knowing which you will be released from evil. It is the chief among the sciences, the chief among the myst…”

The Bhagavad Gita | Chapter X, Section 1a

“CHAPTER X. Yet again, O you of mighty arms! listen to my excellent words, which, out of a wish for your welfare, I speak to you who are delighted (with them). Not the multitudes of gods, nor the great sages know my source; for I am in ev…”

The Bhagavad Gita | Chapter XV, Section 1

“CHAPTER XV. The Deity said: They say the inexhaustible A s vattha has (its) roots above, (its) branches below; the Kh andas are its leaves. He who knows it knows the Vedas. Upwards and downwards extend its branches, which are enlarged by th…”

The Bhagavad Gita | Chapter XVIII, Section 1c

“Agriculture, tending cattle, trade, (this) is the natural duty of Vai s yas, And the natural duty of S ûdras, too, consists in service. (Every) man intent on his own respective duties obtains perfection . Listen, now, how one intent on on…”

The Bhagavad Gita | Chapter XVIII, Section 1d

“This you should never declare to one who performs no penance , who is not a devotee , nor to one who does not wait on (some preceptor) , nor yet to one who calumniates me. He who, with the highest devotion to me, will proclaim this supreme…”

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book I | Sutra 31

“Grieving, despondency, bodily restlessness, the drawing in and sending forth of the life-breath also contribute to drive the psychic nature to and fro. The first two moods are easily understood. We can well see bow a sodden psychic conditio…”

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book II | Sutra 37

“Where cessation from theft is perfected, all treasures present themselves to him who possesses it. Here is a sentence which may warn us that, beside the outer and apparent meaning, there is in many of these sentences a second and finer sign…”

The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | PROLOGUE-a

“HEARKEN to the reed-flute, how it complains, Lamenting its banishment from its home: "Ever since they tore me from my osier bed, My plaintive notes have moved men and women to tears. I burst my breast, striving to give vent to sighs, And t…”

The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | STORY I-a

“The Prince and the Handmaid. A prince, while engaged on a hunting excursion, espied a fair maiden, and by promises of gold induced her to accompany him. After a time she fell sick, and the prince had her tended by divers physicians. As,…”

The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | STORY III-a

“The Jewish King, his Vazir, and the Christians. A certain Jewish king used to persecute the Christians, desiring to exterminate their faith. His Vazir persuaded him to try a stratagem, namely, to mutilate the Vazir himself, and expel him…”

The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | STORY VI-a

“Omar and the Ambassador. The hare, having delivered his companions from the tyranny of the lion, in the manner just described, proceeds to improve the occasion by exhorting them to engage in a greater and more arduous warfare, viz., the st…”

The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | STORY XV-a

“Counsels of Reserve given by the Prophet to his Freedman Zaid. At dawn the Prophet said to Zaid, "How is it with thee this morning, O pure disciple?" He replied, "Thy faithful slave am I." Again he said, "If the garden of faith has bloomed…”

The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | STORY XV-b

“When you are cured of your sickness, O invalid, Then leave out the vinegar and eat pure honey. When the heart is garnished and swept clear of lust, Therein 'The God of Mercy sitteth on His throne.' 5 Then God rules the heart immediately, W…”

The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | STORY XVI-a

“'Ali's Forbearance. 'Ali, the "Lion of God," was once engaged in conflict with a Magian chief, and in the midst of the struggle the Magian spat in his face. 'Ali, instead of taking vengeance on him, at once dropped his sword, to the Magia…”

The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | STORY XVI-b

“That conqueror of hearts cut off a thousand heads, That the heads of his people might rest in peace." God's rebuke to Adam for scorning Iblis. To whomsoever God's order comes, He must smite with his sword even his own child. Fear then, an…”

The Mabinogion | Tale TALIESIN-a

“In times past there lived in Penllyn a man of gentle lineage, named Tegid Voel, and his dwelling was in the midst of the lake Tegid, and his wife was called Caridwen. And there was born to him of his wife a son named Morvran ab Tegid, and…”

The Mabinogion | Tale TALIESIN-f

“The first of the three is, that it is certain, by your grace’s leave, that wheresoever my wife is at this present hour, whether sitting, or standing, or lying down, this ring would never remain upon her thumb, whereas you can plainly see th…”

The Mabinogion | Tale TALIESIN-g

“And so, when the bards and the heralds came to cry largess, and to proclaim the power of the king and his strength, at the moment that they passed by the corner wherein he was crouching, Taliesin pouted out his lips after them, and played “…”

The Mabinogion | Tale TALIESIN-h

“I have been with my Lord in the manger of the ass: I strengthened Moses through the water of Jordan; I have been in the firmament with Mary Magdalene; I have obtained the muse from the cauldron of Caridwen; I have been bard of the harp to L…”

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.…”

The Poetic Edda: Hovamol | Section 1j

“On his ring swore Othin | the oath, methinks; Who now his troth shall trust? Suttung's betrayal | he sought with drink, And Gunnloth to grief he left. * * * 111. It is time to chant | from the chanter's stool; By the wells of Urth I was,…”

The Poetic Edda: Hovamol | Section 1m

“I ween that I hung | on the windy tree, Hung there for nights full nine; With the spear I was wounded, | and offered I was To Othin, myself to myself, On the tree that none | may ever know What root beneath it runs. [138. In the manuscrip…”

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: Hovamol | Section 1o

“A sixth I know, | if harm one seeks With a sapling's roots to send me; The hero himself | who wreaks his hate Shall taste the ill ere I. 153. A seventh I know, | if I see in flames The hall o'er my comrades' heads; It burns not so wide |…”

The Poetic Edda: Hovamol | Section 1p

“An eighteenth I know, | that ne'er will I tell To maiden or wife of man,-- The best is what none | but one's self doth know, So comes the end of the songs,-- Save only to her | in whose arms I lie, Or who else my sister is. [163. Some edi…”

The Dhammapada | Chapter XXVI, Section 1d

“Him I call indeed a Brâhma n a who has left what gives pleasure and what gives pain, who is cold, and free from all germs (of renewed life), the hero who has conquered all the worlds. 419. Him I call indeed a Brâhma n a who knows the dest…”

Vajrakkhedika (Diamond Cutter) | Section 1m

“At that time the venerable Subhûti thus spoke to the Bhagavat: 'How should a person, after having entered on the path of the Bodhisattvas, behave, how should he advance, and how should he restrain his thoughts?' Bhagavat said: 'He who has e…”

Vajrakkhedika (Diamond Cutter) | Section 1o

“Bhagavat said: 'What do you think, O Subhûti, has the Tathâgata the bodily eye?' Subhûti said: 'So it is, O Bhagavat, the Tathâgata has the bodily eye.' Bhagavat said: 'What do you think, O Subhûti, has the Tathâgata the heavenly eye?' Subh…”

Prajña-pâramitâ-hridaya (Heart Sutra) | Section 1

“THE SMALLER PRA GÑ Â-PÂRAMITÂ- H RI DAYA-SÛTRA. ADORATION TO THE OMNISCIENT! The venerable Bodhisattva Avalokite s vara, performing his study in the deep Pra gñ âpâramitâ (perfection of wisdom), thought thus: 'There are the five Skandhas, a…”

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-c

“The order was a secret one, and in some respects not unlike the Free Masons, being a union or affiliation of a number of lodges, each with its distinctive songs and medicines. Leadership was in order of seniority in degrees, which could on…”

Myths of the Cherokee | Myth 65d

“At last he pointed it in the direction of the hunting camp on the other side of the mountain, and this time when he drew back the staff he sniffed it several times as if it smelled very good, and then started along the ridge straight for th…”

The Kalevala | Rune L-f

“In thy years, for greater follies, Greater sins and misdemeanors, Thou wert not unjustly punished. In thy former years of trouble, When thou gavest thine own brother, For thy selfish life a ransom, Thus to save thee from destruction, Then…”

Enuma Elish: The Epic of Creation | 1k

“May he hold the Beginning and the Future, may they pay homage unto him, Saying, "He who forced his way through the midst of Tiamat without resting, Let his name be Nibiru, 'the Seizer of the Midst'! For the stars of heaven he upheld the pa…”