cosmology
Involution
The doctrine that the cosmos unfolds as a structured descent of spirit into matter — a directional process traced stage by stage from an unconditioned principle down through successive planes to full materialization — complemented by its own eventual return ('evolution'). Distinct from emanation_hierarchy (the static structure of the resulting levels of the cascade) and cosmogony (a single originating event rather than an ongoing staged process) in naming the directional cosmic PROCESS of descent itself, paired with its own complementary ascent.
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 11)
“Nor could the vast catalogue of the Archaic Sciences be attempted in the present volumes, before we have disposed of such tremendous problems as Cosmic and Planetary Evolution, and the gradual development of the mysterious Humanities and ra…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
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A N Archaic Manuscript -- a collection of palm leaves made impermeable to water, fire, and air, by some specific unknow…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 2)
“The latter is either "awake" or "asleep." The Svabhavikas, or philosophers of the oldest school of Buddhism (which still exists in Nepaul), speculate only upon the active condition of this "Essence," which they call Svabhavat, and deem it f…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 3)
“The esoteric symbol of Kali Yuga is the five-pointed star reversed, thus -- the sign of human sorcery, with its two points (horns) turned heavenward, a position every [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * See t…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 4)
“The orthodox Brahmins, those who rise the most against the Pantheists and Adwaitees, calling them Atheists, are forced, if Manu has any authority in this matter, to accept the death of Brahma, the creator, at the expiration of every "Age" o…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 5)
“But this view does not prevent him from believing in its existence so long as it lasts, to wit, for one Mahamanvantara; nor from applying Akasa, the radiation of Mulaprakriti,* to practical purposes, connected as the World-Soul is with all…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 6)
“." For clearer understanding on the part of the general reader, it must be stated that Occult Science recognises Seven Cosmical Elements -- four entirely physical, and the fifth (Ether) semi-material, as it will become visible in the air to…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 7)
“Herbert Spencer has of late so far modified his Agnosticism, as to assert that the nature of the "First Cause,"* which the Occultist more logically derives from the "Causeless Cause," the "Eternal," and the "Unknowable," may be essentially…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 8)
“Moreover, the Secret Doctrine teaches: -- ( c ) The fundamental identity of all Souls with the Universal Over-Soul, the latter being itself an aspect of the Unknown Root; and the obligatory pilgrimage for every Soul -- a spark of the former…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 9)
“As may be judged, however, from the most important, as the best known of the Rosicrucians' symbols, there is one which has never been hitherto understood even by modern mystics.
It is that of the "Pelican" tearing open its breast to feed i…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 4 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
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COSMIC EVOLUTION.
--------------------- SEVEN STANZAS TRANSLATED WITH COMMENTARIES FROM THE SECRET BOOK OF DZYAN.
[[Vol.
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 4 (part 2)
“T HE ROOT REMAINS, THE LIGHT REMAINS, THE CURDS REMAIN, AND STILL O EAOHOO IS ONE.
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T HE ROOT OF LIFE WAS IN EVERY DROP OF THE OCEAN OF IMMORTALITY, AND THE OCEAN WAS RADIANT LIGHT, WHICH WAS FIRE, AND HEAT, AND MOTION.
D ARKNESS VANIS…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 4 (part 3)
“T HEY MAKE OF HIM THE MESSENGER OF THEIR WILL.
T HE D ZYU BECOMES F OHAT, THE SWIFT SON OF THE D IVINE SONS WHOSE SONS ARE THE L IPIKA, RUNS CIRCULAR ERRANDS.
F OHAT IS THE STEED AND THE THOUGHT IS THE RIDER.
H E PASSES LIKE LIGHTNING TH…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 4 (part 4)
“I T IS THEY WHO ARE THOU, ME, HIM, OH L ANOO.
T HEY, WHO WATCH OVER THEE, AND THY MOTHER EARTH.
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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.
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1 [[Vol.
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COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN STANZAS AND THEIR TERMS, ACCORDING TO THEIR NUMERATION, IN STANZAS AND SLOKAS.
STANZA I.
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" T HE E TERNAL P ARENT (Space), WR…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 2)
“Even so of persons and things, which, dropping out of the to-be into the has-been, out of the future into the past -- present momentarily to our senses a cross-section, as it were, of their total selves, as they pass through time and space…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 3)
“D ARKNESS ALONE FILLED THE BOUNDLESS ALL ( a ), FOR FATHER, MOTHER AND SON WERE ONCE MORE ONE, AND THE SON HAD NOT AWAKENED YET FOR THE NEW WHEEL* AND HIS PILGRIMAGE THEREON ( b ).
( a ) "Darkness is Father-Mother: light their son," says a…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 4)
“1, Page]] 43 MOTIONS, THE "GREAT BREATH." sense, for it must give room to still further absolute perfection, according to a higher standard of excellence in the following period of activity -- just as a perfect flower must cease to be a per…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 5)
“The impalpable atoms of gold scattered through the substance of a ton of auriferous quartz may be imperceptible to the naked eye of the miner, yet he knows that they are not only present there but that they alone give his quartz any appreci…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 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.
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1 [[Vol.
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STANZA II.
C OMMENTARY.
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W HERE WERE THE BUILDERS, THE LUMINOUS SONS OF MANVANTARIC DAWN ( a )?
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IN THE UNKNOWN…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 6 (part 2)
“No Orientalist, so far, seems to have thoroughly comprehended the real sense of the verses in the Purana, that treat of "creation." Therein Brahma is the cause of the potencies that are to be generated subsequently for the work of "creation…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 6 (part 3)
“The Lotus thus typifies the life of man and also that of the Kosmos; for the Secret Doctrine teaches that the elements of both are the same, and that both are developing in the same direction.
The root of the Lotus sunk in the mud represen…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 6 (part 4)
“-- Continued .
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T HE S EVEN ( Sons ) WERE NOT YET BORN FROM THE W EB OF L IGHT.
D ARKNESS ALONE WAS F ATHER- M OTHER, S VABHAVAT, AND S VABHAVAT WAS IN DARKNESS ( a ).
( a ) The Secret Doctrine, in the Stanzas given here, occupies its…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
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STANZA III.
COMMENTARY.
1.
T HE LAST VIBRATION OF THE SEVENTH ETERNITY THRILLS THROUGH INFINITUDE ( a ).
T HE MOTHER SWELLS, EXPANDING FROM W…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 2)
“2.[[3.]] " D ARKNESS" RADIATES LIGHT, AND LIGHT DROPS ONE SOLITARY RAY INTO THE WATERS, INTO THE MOTHER DEEP.
T HE RAY SHOOTS THROUGH THE VIRGIN-EGG; THE RAY CAUSES THE ETERNAL EGG TO THRILL, AND DROP THE NON-ETERNAL ( periodical ) GERM, W…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 3)
“unable either to measure the first abstraction yielded to you by the Deity, or to get hold of it, you still hope to subject to your measurements the mystery of the Secret Sciences which emanate from that Deity?
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And what would y…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 4)
“The "fire," "heat," and "motion" here spoken of, are, of course, not the fire, heat, and motion of physical science, but the underlying abstractions, the noumena, or the soul, of the essence of these material manifestations -- the "things i…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 6)
“"In the beginning, before Mother became Father-Mother, the fiery Dragon moved in the infinitudes alone" ( Book of Sarparajni.
) The Aitareya Brahmana calls the Earth Sarparajni, "the Serpent Queen," and "the Mother of all that moves." Befo…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 7)
“( c ) The ancients represented it by a serpent, for "Fohat hisses as he glides hither and thither" (in zigzags).
The Kabala figures it with the Hebrew letter Teth , whose symbol is the serpent which played such a prominent part in the Myst…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 8)
“And the numbers of these three words, Hoa Atah Ani, are 12, 406, and 61, which are resumed in the key numbers of 3, 10, and 7, by the Qabalah of the Nine Chambers, which is a form of the exegetical rule of Temura." It is useless to attempt…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 9)
“He is Purusha (spirit), but he is also Prakriti (matter).
Therefore it is only after separating himself into two halves -- Brahma-vach (the female) and Brahma-Viraj (the male), that the Prajapati becomes the male Brahma.
------- STANZA II…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 10)
“T HEN THE SONS ( the Elements with their respective Powers , or Intelligences ) DISSOCIATE AND SCATTER, TO RETURN INTO THEIR MOTHER'S BOSOM AT THE END OF THE "GREAT DAY" AND REBECOME ONE WITH HER ( a ).
W HEN IT ( the Web ) IS COOLING, IT…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 1)
“`The Secret Doctrine by H.
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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 4)
“He designed and hewed therewith the throne of glory and the wheels, and the seraphim and the holy animals and the ministering angels, and of the three He founded his dwelling, as it is said, He makes his angels spirits and his servants fier…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 5)
“But inasmuch, O beautiful one, as you came personally to speak to me (in the way you did, i.e.
proudly), therefore, O, Sarasvati!
you shall never speak after (hard) exhalation." "The goddess Speech" (Sarasvati, a later form or aspect of V…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 6)
“The larger lumps coalesce and receive new spawn -- in fiery dots, triangles and cubes, which ripen, and at the appointed time some of the lumps detach themselves and assume spheroidal form, a process which they effect only when not interfer…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 7)
“Adam Kadmon or Tetragrammaton is the Logos in the Kabala; therefore this triad answers in the latter to the highest triangle of Kether, Chochmah and Binah, the last a female potency and at the same time the male Jehovah, as partaking of the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 8)
“Having evolved from Cosmic Space, and before the final formation of the primaries and the annulation of the planetary nebula, the Sun, we are taught, drew into the depths of its mass all the Cosmic vitality he could, threatening to engulf h…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
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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 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 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 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.
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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.
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 10 (part 4)
“Were a truly learned Occultist-alchemist to write the "Life and Adventures of an Atom" he would secure thereby the eternal scorn of the modern chemist, perchance also his subsequent [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 10 (part 5)
“The reader must bear in mind that, according to our teaching which regards this phenomenal Universe as a great Illusion , the nearer a body is to the U NKNOWN S UBSTANCE, the more it approaches reality , as being removed the farther [[Vol.…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 10 (part 6)
“In fact, to us the matter of the lower plane there vanishes from our perception into nothing -- or rather it passes on to the higher plane, and the state of matter corresponding to such a point of transition must certainly possess special a…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 11 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
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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 6)
“.' You can never impress it too profoundly on the minds of those to whom you impart some of the esoteric teachings.
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." 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.
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[[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 3)
“To return to "Esoteric Buddhism." It is there stated with regard to the enormous period intervening between the mineral epoch on Globe A, and the man-epoch,* that: "The full development of the [[Footnote(s)]] -------------------------------…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 12 (part 4)
“Now the Monadic, or rather Cosmic, Essence (if such a term be permitted) in the mineral, vegetable, and animal, though the same throughout the series of cycles from the lowest elemental up to the Deva Kingdom, yet differs in the scale of pr…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 12 (part 5)
“1, Page]] 181 A TRIPLE EVOLUTION IN NATURE.
endow the "senseless" shells, created and informed by the Pitris, with "mind" in the latter part of the Third Root-Race.
In the same way the "Monads" or Egos of the men of the seventh Round of o…”
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.
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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.
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1 [[Vol.
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[[This page continued from previous section ]] STANZA VI.
-- Continued.
5.
A T THE FOURTH ( Round , or revolution of life and bei…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 13 (part 2)
“And the Dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world." The Kabalistic version of the same story is given in the Codex Nazareus, the scripture of the Nazarenes, the real mystic Christians…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 13 (part 3)
“It is already the outline of the two "Supremes" -- God and Satan.
But in the Stanzas no such idea exists.
Most of the Western Christian Kabalists -- pre-eminently Eliphas Levi -- in their desire to reconcile the Occult Sciences with Churc…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 13 (part 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.
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STANZA VII.
1.
B EHOLD THE BEGINNING OF SENTIENT FORMLESS LIFE ( a ).
F IRST, THE DIVINE ( vehicle ) ( b ), THE ONE FROM THE MOTHER-SPIRIT (…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 2)
“The later Kabalists however, especially the Christian mystics, have played sad havoc with this magnificent symbol.* For the " ten limbs" of the Heavenly Man are the ten Sephiroth; but the first Heavenly Man is the unmanifested Spirit of the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 3)
“These, Tsanagi-Tsanami , descended into the Universe by the celestial Bridge (the milky way), and " Tsanagi , perceiving far below a chaotic mass of cloud and water, thrust his jewelled spear into the depths, and dry land appeared." Then th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 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 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.
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STANZA VII.
-- Continued.
(5) T HE SPARK HANGS FROM THE FLAME BY THE FINEST THREAD OF F OHAT.
I T JOURNEYS THROUGH THE S EVEN W ORLDS OF M AY…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 3)
“[But Nephesh , the "breath of [[first column continued on next page]] [[second column]] Say the Theosophists: -- E SOTERIC P NEUMATICS.
1.
Ditto, for it is Atma-Buddhi- Manas.
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Ditto.* 3.
Spiritual Soul.
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Mediator between Spirit…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 4)
“i., p.
302, is, first of all, shot down by the law of Evolution into the lowest form of matter -- the mineral.
After a sevenfold gyration encased in the stone (or that which will become mineral and stone in the Fourth Round), it creeps ou…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 5)
“A LL IS L IFE, and every atom of even mineral dust is a L IFE, though beyond our comprehension and perception, because it is outside the range of the [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * Read in Isis, vol.
ii…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 6)
“The Second Round brought forth and developed two Elements -- Fire and Earth -- and its humanity, adapted to this condition of Nature, if we can give the name Humanity to beings living under conditions unknown to men, was -- to use again a f…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 7)
“There is a curious work by Blanchard, on the Origin of Life, wherein he shows some strange contradictions and confusions in the theories of his colleagues, and which we recommend to the reader's attention.
* Eliphas Levi shows it very trul…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 8)
“No Hindu has ever mistaken Prakriti -- the Astral Light being only above the lowest plane of Prakriti, the material Kosmos -- for the "immortal Spirit." Prakriti is ever called Maya , illusion, and is doomed to disappear with the rest, the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 9)
“198, of the same Vishnu Purana it is written, "in this manner were the seven forms of nature (Prakriti) reckoned from Mahat to Earth" (?).
Between Mahat or Maha-Buddhi and "Water, etc.," the difference is very considerable.
** According t…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 10)
“" From the second Round , Earth - - hitherto a foetus in the matrix of Space -- began its real existence: it had developed individual sentient life , its second principle.
The second corresponds to the sixth ( principle ) ; the second is l…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 11)
“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…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 13)
“Thus proceed the cycles of the septenary evolution, in Septennial nature; the Spiritual or divine; the psychic or semi-divine; the intellectual, the passional, the instinctual, or cognitional; the semi-corporeal and the purely material or p…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 2)
“And there are still weightier reasons to believe that the priceless Bhashyas (Commentaries) on the esoteric doctrine of the Brahmins, by their greatest expounder, will remain for ages yet a dead letter to most of the Hindus, except the Smar…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 3)
“(5.) Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is CONSCIOUS: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.
We men must remember that because we do not perceive any signs -- which we c…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 5)
“As Hermes says, "Knowledge differs much from sense; for sense is of things that surmount it, but Knowledge (gyi) is the end of sense" -- i.e., of the illusion of our physical brain and its intellect; thus emphasizing the contrast between th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 6)
“The 'Ideal Forms' are the archetypal or formative ideas of the Neo-Platonists; the eternal and subjective concepts of things subsisting in the divine mind prior to 'becoming'" (p.
134).
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from whi…”
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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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“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…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 18 (part 2)
“Thus, in the seventeenth chapter mentioned by Maspero, one finds (1) Osiris saying he is Toum (the creative force in nature, giving form to all Beings, spirits and men), self-generated and self-existent, issued from Noun , the celestial riv…”
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PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE AND DIVINE THOUGHT.
"As it would seem irrational…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 2)
“Without doubt, this one-sided mode of dealing with the problem is due largely to the pernicious Western practice of subordinating consciousness, or regarding it as a "by-product" of molecular motion.
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“Therefore, such being the case, all those who sought to give a name to the incognizable Principle have simply degraded it.
Even to speak of Cosmic Ideation -- save in its phenomenal aspect -- is like trying to bottle up primordial Chaos, o…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 4)
“We shall speak further on of the intelligent "principle," or rather of the invisible immaterial properties, in the visible and material elements, that "sprung from the primordial Chaos." For, "What is the primordial Chaos but AEther?" it is…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 5)
“Thus they translate verse 16: "He also, having made the subtile parts of those six (the Great Self and the five organs of sense) of unmeasured brightness, to enter into the elements of Self ( Atmamatrasu ) created all beings." When, accordi…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 7)
“) But now the Elements are degraded into and limited to atoms of which nothing is known, so far, and which are only "children of necessity" as Ether is too -- as we said in " I SIS." "The poor primordial elements have long been exiled, and…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 8)
“"Therefore, it was taught in the inner temples that this visible universe of spirit and matter is but the concrete image of the ideal abstraction; it was built on the model of the first DIVINE IDEA.
Thus our universe existed from Eternity…”
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§ IV.
CHAOS -- THEOS -- KOSMOS.
T HESE three are the containment of Space; or, as a learned Kabalist has defined it, "Space, the all containin…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 20 (part 2)
“This "First-Born," however, was only the aggregate of the Host of the "Builders," the first constructive Forces, who are called in ancient Cosmogonies the Ancients (born of the Deep, or Chaos) and the "First Point." He is the Tetragrammaton…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 20 (part 3)
“exoteric, of course, yet in its main idea as identical as possible with the Egyptian cosmogony, which shows in its opening sentences Athtor,* or Mother Night (which represents illimitable darkness), as the primeval element which covered the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 20 (part 4)
“The Holy is the seventh of all," etc.
(p.
415).
This, besides showing a strange identity with the cosmogony of the Puranas ( e.g ., Vishnu Purana 1st Book), corroborates with regard to number seven, all our teachings as briefly given in…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 21 (part 2)
“In his "Revelation," speaking of divine mysteries expressed by means of letters and numbers, Marcus narrates how the "Supreme Tetrad came down unto me (him) from the region which cannot be seen nor named, in a female form , because the worl…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 21 (part 3)
“Even AEsculapius, called the "Saviour of all," is identical, according to ancient classics, with Phta , the Egyptian Creative Intellect (or Divine Wisdom), and with Apollo, Baal, Adonis and Hercules ( see Dunlap ' s " Mystery of Adonis ," p…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 21 (part 4)
“Esoterically she contains but two,* Chochmah or Wisdom , "a masculine, active potency whose divine name is Jah ( )," and B INAH, a feminine passive potency, Intelligence, represented by the divine name Jehovah ( ); which two potencies form,…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 22 (part 4)
“In conjunction with the hawk, the symbol of Osiris-Sun, the symbol is dual: it relates to both lives -- the mortal and the immortal.
In Kircher's OEdipus Egyptiacus (vol.
iii., p.
124) one can see, on the papyrus engraved in it, an egg f…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 22 (part 5)
“It is Phtah, however, "he who opens," the opener of life and Death,** who proceeds from the egg of the world to begin his dual work.
( Book of Numbers.
) According to the Greeks, the phantom form of the Chemis ( Chemi , ancient Egypt) whi…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 23 (part 3)
“"Awaking at the end of his night, the unborn .
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creates the Universe anew.
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.
" ( Vishnu Purana.
) This is "incidental" pralaya; what is the Elemental Dissolution?
"When by dearth and fire," says Parasara to Maitreya, "all th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 23 (part 4)
“In the Zohar we read as follows: -- "As Moses was keeping a vigil on Mount Sinai, in company with the deity, who was concealed from his sight by a cloud, he felt a great fear overcome him, and suddenly asked: 'Lord, where art thou .
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.…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 24 (part 1)
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§ VIII.
THE LOTUS, AS A UNIVERSAL SYMBOL.
T HERE are no ancient symbols, without a deep and philosophical meaning attached to them; their importanc…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 25 (part 3)
“would be either the phallus or the phallus and yoni, .
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.
or male and female.
Indeed, the words translated by the generalizing terms male and female, in the 27th verse of the 1st chapter of Genesis are .
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sacr and n ' cabrah , or…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 25 (part 7)
“The ancients taught the, so to speak, auto -generation of the Gods: the one divine essence, unmanifested , perpetually begetting a second-self, manifested , which second-self, androgynous in its nature, gives birth in an immaculate way to e…”
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[[This page continued from previous section ]] § X.
TREE, SERPENT, AND CROCODILE WORSHIP.
"Object of horror or of adoration, men have for the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 26 (part 2)
“Moreover, the modern symbologists and Orientalists -- from first to last -- [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * The Natural Genesis , by Gerald Massey, Vol.
1, p.
340.
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“Anger, my son, is the destruction of [[Vol.
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all that man obtains .
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and prevents the attainment of emancipation.
The sages shun wrath.
Be not thou, my child, subject to its influence.
Let not th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 27 (part 4)
“Esoteric explanation may, however, bring some order into this confusion, in which Jehovah becomes Saturn, and Michael and his army, Satan and the rebellious angels, owing to the indiscreet endeavours of the too faithful zealots to see in ev…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 27 (part 5)
“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…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 1)
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[[This page continued from previous section ]] § XII.
THE THEOGONY OF THE CREATIVE GODS.
T O thoroughly comprehend the idea underlying every a…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 2)
“Thus, in the Rig Veda, wherein Brahma is not even named, Cosmogony is preluded with the Hiranyagharha , "the Golden Egg," and Prajapati (Brahma later on), from whom emanate all the hierarchies of "Creators." The Monad, or point, is the orig…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 3)
“It exists in a latent condition in the bosom of Parabrahmam at the time of Pralaya.
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." (During Manvantara) "it has a consciousness and an individuality of its own .
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." (It is a centre of energy, but) .
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such cen…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 4)
“It is through this light that everything is created.
This ROOT of mental SELF is also the root of physical Self , for this light is the permutation, in our manifested world, of Mulaprakriti, called Aditi in the Vedas.
In its third aspect…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 5)
“The whole Kosmos in its objective form is Vaikhari Vach; the light of the Logos is the madhyama form; and the Logos itself the pasyanti form; while Parabrahmam is the para (beyond the noumenon of all Noumena ) aspect of that Vach." ( Notes…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 6)
“Isis is also mystic Nature and also Earth; and her cow's horns identify her with Vach.
The latter, after having been recognised in her highest form as para , becomes at the lower or material end of creation -- Vaikhari.
Hence she is mysti…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 7)
“As the " Rig Vidhana " together with the " Brahmanda Purana " and all such works, whether describing the magic efficacy of the Rig-Vedic Mantras or the future Kalpas, are declared by Dr.
Weber and others to be modern compilations "belongin…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 9)
“For if the said Forces had nought to do with "Creation" so-called, why call them Elohim (Alhim) in plural; "divine workmen" and Energies ([[' Energeia ]]), incandescent celestial stones (lapides igniti coelorum), and especially, " supporter…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 10)
“, a fiery serpent, the Gnostic Agathodaemon probably.* As explained, the "sacred animals" and the Flames or "Sparks" within the "Holy Four" refer to the prototypes of all that is found in the Universe in the Divine Thought , in the R OOT, w…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 11)
“astronomically, with the one here intended." Now the secret reading of the first verse of Genesis being: "In Rash (B'rash) or head, developed gods, the Heavens and the Earth" -- it is easy to comprehend the esoteric meaning of the raven , o…”
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[[This page continued from previous section ]] § XIII.
THE SEVEN CREATIONS.
" T HERE was neither day nor night, nor sky nor earth, nor dar…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 2)
“First from ONE emanated number TWO, or Air, the creative element; and then number THREE, Water , proceeded from the air; Ether or Fire complete the mystic four, the Arba-il.
(Ibid.) In the Eastern doctrine Fire is the first Element -- Ethe…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 3)
“For which his mother coolly puts him down by saying, "Do not lie, Ildabaoth, for the father of all, the first man ( Anthropos ) is above thee , and so is Anthropos , the Son of Anthropos " (Irenaeus, b.
I, ch.
xxx., 6).
This is a good pr…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 4)
“Wilson saw at a glance the suggestive connection between Mahat and the Phoenician Mot, or Mut , who was female with the Egyptians -- the Goddess Mout, the "Mother" -- "which, like Mahat," he says, "was the first product of the mixture (?) o…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 5)
“"These three were the Prakrita creation, the (discrete) developments of indiscrete nature preceded by the indiscrete principle." "Preceded by," ought to be replaced here with "beginning by," Buddhi; for the latter is neither a discrete nor…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 6)
“And this is metempsychosis ( See " Mineral Monad " in " Five Years of Theosophy ," p.
276).
This fifth stage of evolution, called exoterically "Creation," may be viewed in both the Primary and Secondary periods, one as the Spiritual and C…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 7)
“But, in the esoteric teaching, they are the progenitors of the true spiritual SELF in the physical man -- the higher Prajapati, while the Pitris, or lower Prajapati, are no more than the fathers of the model, or type of his physical form, m…”
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THE FOUR ELEMENTS.
M ETAPHYSICALLY and esoterically there is but One E LEMENT in nature, and at the root of it…”
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ON KWAN-SHI-YIN AND KWAN-YIN.
L IKE Avalokiteshwara, Kwan-shi-yin has passed through several transformations, b…”
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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…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 37 (part 7)
“It opens limitless horizons to substance informed by the divine breath of its soul in every possible state of tenuity, states still undreamt of by the most spiritually disposed chemists and physicists.
The above views were enunciated by an…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 37 (part 8)
“It teaches that before evolution began, Prakriti (Nature) was in a condition of laya or absolute homogeneity, as "matter exists in two conditions, the sukshma , or latent and undifferentiated, and the sthula or differentiated condition." Th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 39 (part 4)
“Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space (or Akasa , AEther), Mind, Understanding and Egoism (or the perception of all the former on the illusive plane).
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This is a lower form of my nature.
Know (that there is) another (form of my) nature, and…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 39 (part 6)
“It is itself subordinate to, and emanates from the ever-invisible, eternal and Absolute O NE L IFE in a descending and a re-ascending scale of hierarchic degrees -- a true septenary ladder, with S OUND (or the Logos) at the upper end and th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 40 (part 2)
“But the students of Esoteric philosophy understand too well the secret meaning of the stanza: "Brahma has essentially the aspect of prakriti, both evolved and unevolved .
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Spirit, O twice-born, (Initiate) is the leading aspect of B…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 40 (part 3)
“It is assimilating the very truths taught by the Occult Sciences [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- [[Footnote continued from previous page]] "to be best understood on the hypothesis of the homogeneity of the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 40 (part 5)
“The precipitation has evidently not been effected at random , those molecules of the base being decomposed which happened to come in contact with a corresponding molecule of ammonia, for we have taken care that the liquids should be uniform…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 42 (part 3)
“and, while it rests in Devachan, is referred to as "the Three Witnesses to Karma." Atma (our seventh principle) being identical with the universal Spirit, and man being one with it in his essence, what is then the Monad proper?
It is that…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 42 (part 4)
“The "Angel" of that Star, or the Dhyani-Buddha will be either the guiding or simply the presiding "Angel," so to say, in every new rebirth of the monad, which is part of his own essence , though his vehicle, man, may remain for ever ignoran…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 43 (part 2)
“Two proofs of it are to be found in the world of Science -- two great chemists, each among the greatest in his own country, and these are Mr.
Crookes and the late Professor Butlerof: one, a thorough believer in abnormal phenomena; the othe…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 44 (part 6)
“." Such is the synopsis of the objections and difficulties to the acceptance of the nebular theory brought forward by the French savant , who concludes his interesting chapter by declaring that: -- "The first part of the Cosmogonical proble…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 45 (part 1)
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XIV.
FORCES -- MODES OF MOTION OR INTELLIGENCES?
T HIS is, then, the last word of physical science up to the present year, 1888.
Mechanical laws…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 46 (part 5)
“As such she becomes the Duad of Pythagoras, the two straight lines of the symbol that can never meet, which therefore form no geometrical figure and are [[Vol.
1, Page]] 619 THE MONAD OF LEIBNITZ.
the symbol of matter.
Out of this Duad,…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 46 (part 7)
“Descartes' plenum of matter differentiated into particles; Leibnitz's Ethereal Fluid and Kant's "primitive fluid" dissolved into its elements; Kepler's Solar Vortex and Systemic Vortices; in short, from the Elemental Vortices inaugurated by…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 47 (part 1)
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[[This page continued from previous section ]] XVI.
CYCLIC EVOLUTION AND KARMA.
I T is the Spiritual evolution of the inner , immortal man tha…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 47 (part 4)
“But spiritual Forces having been usually confused with the purely physical, the former are denied by, and therefore, have to remain unknown to Science, because left unexamined.* "The history of the World begins with its general aim," says H…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 51 (part 3)
“I T CREATED " S ONS OF W ILL AND Y OGA," BY K RIYASAKTI IT CREATED THEM, THE H OLY F ATHERS, A NCESTORS OF THE A RHATS.
.
------- VIII.
28.
F ROM THE DROPS OF SWEAT; FROM THE RESIDUE OF THE SUBSTANCE; MATTER FROM DEAD BODIES OF MEN AND…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 52 (part 6)
“Venus has always been identified, since the establishment of Roman Catholic dogmatism, with Satan and Lucifer, or the great Dragon, contrary to all reason and logic.
As shown by the symbologists and astronomers, the association between the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 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 8)
“As Asuramaya is said to have been the greatest astronomer, so he is whispered to have also been the most powerful "Sorcerer" of the " W HITE I SLAND, which had become B LACK with sin," i.e., of the islands of Atlantis.
The "White Island" i…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 54 (part 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 55 (part 1)
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STANZA IV.
CREATION OF THE FIRST RACES.
§§ (14) Creation of men.
(15) They are empty shadows.
(16) The Creators are perplexed how to create a…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 55 (part 7)
“"Does it not shine on the head of the great Serpent of Vishnu, on the thousand headed Sesha-Ananta, in the depths of Patala, the Hindu Naraka or Hell"?
It does: but what is Ananta?
As Sesha, it is the almost endless Manvantaric cycle of t…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 55 (part 11)
“And if Bath-Kol, in Jewish mysticism, is an articulate praeternatural voice from heaven, revealing to the "chosen people" the sacred traditions and laws, it is only because Vach was called, before Judaism, the "Mother of the Vedas," who ent…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 57 (part 8)
“orbit," and as the Secret Doctrine attributes it to the same source, but with the addition of another factor, the shifting of the Earth's axis -- a proof of which may be found in the Book of Enoch,* if the veiled language of the Puranas is…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 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 4)
“True sexual union: - - (Cf.
later Third Root-Race.
) We now come to an important point with regard to the double evolution of the human race.
The Sons of Wisdom, or the spiritual Dhyanis, had become "intellectual" through their contact w…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 58 (part 5)
“" Such an admission must be regarded as fatal to the dogmatism of the physical Evolutionists, and as opening a wide margin to occult speculations.
The opponents of the Darwinian theory were, and still remain, polygenists.
Such "intellectu…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 58 (part 6)
“That Third and holy Race consisted of men who, at their zenith, were described [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * This is explained in the section which follows this series of Stanzas in the allegory from th…”
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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 59 (part 3)
“.
.
T HEY ( the animals ) BEGAN TO BREED.
T HE TWO-FOLD MAN ( then ) SEPARATED ALSO.
H E (man), SAID " L ET US AS THEY; LET US UNITE AND MAKE CREATURES." T HEY DID.
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A ND THOSE WHICH HAD NO SPARK ( the " narrow-bra…”
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“These cosmic children, like their pigmy inhabitants, are at first nuclei; then ovules; then gradually mature; and becoming [[Vol.
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mothers, in their turn, develop mineral, vegetable, animal, and h…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 63 (part 4)
“He is called respectively, Dattoi, Dattali, Dattotti, Dattotri, Dattobhri, Dambhobhi and Dambholi -- which seven variants have each a secret sense, and refer in the esoteric comments to various ethnological classifications, and also to phys…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 63 (part 7)
“This idea and representative notion is that of the all-powerful champion -- child-like in his 'Virgin innocence' -- so powerful that this god-filled innocence (the Seraphim 'Know most,' the Cherubim 'love most') can shatter the world (artic…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 63 (part 8)
“Hence man, although apparently its crown, would, by his advent have marked the close of creation; since creation, culminating in him, would at his death have entered on its decline" .
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.
( p .
289).
This Kabalistic view is here quoted…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 63 (part 9)
“xiv.) Again: -- " The Heavenly rupa (Dhyan Chohan) creates ( man ) in his own form ; it is a spiritual ideation consequent on the first differentiation and awakening of the universal ( manifested ) Substance ; that form is the ideal shadow…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 63 (part 10)
“, without phosphorus no thought), burning in the fierce flames of his terrestrial passions; the conflagration fired by his Thought, discerning as it now does good from evil, and yet a slave to the passions of its earthly Adam; feeling the v…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 64 (part 2)
“Having assumed the form of a tortoise, Prajapati created offspring.
That which he created he made akarot, hence the word kurma (tortoise).
Kasyapa means tortoise; hence men say: 'All creatures are descendants of Kasyapa,' etc., etc.
( Hi…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 64 (part 5)
“Bastian are very suggestive: (1) On account of the imperfect manner in which the several forms may be represented in the strata pertaining to the period; (2) on account of the extremely limited nature of the explorations which have been mad…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 67 (part 1)
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2, Page]] 289 THE "THIRD EYE." T HE R ACES WITH THE " T HIRD E YE." The subject is so unusual, the paths pursued so intricate, so full of dangerous pitfalls prepared by adverse the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 67 (part 3)
“McGregor Mathers, p.
104.
[[Vol.
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"Like a bird that is flying from its nest, and that is the Soul from which the Shekeenah (divine wisdom or grace) does not move away" (Zohar, iii., 278 a ; Myer's Qabba…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 69 (part 12)
“Talbot, who has made the most careful examination, found that this drapery belonged to a far later epoch.
The statue itself has therefore to be assigned to a far earlier period than Buddhism.
Whom does it represent in such case, it may be…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 70 (part 4)
“In "Johannes Magnus' Infolio" one sees the representation of the demi-god, the giant Starchaterus (Starkad, the pupil of Kroszharsgrani, the Magician) who holds under each arm a huge stone covered with Runic characters; and Starkad, accordi…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 73 (part 7)
“Says the crucified Titan: -- "And, portent past belief, the speaking oaks By which full clearly, in no riddling phrase Wast hailed as the illustrious spouse of Zeus .
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 75 (part 5)
“Yet the Fifth will not die, but survive for a while: overlapping the new Race for many hundred thousands of years to come, it will become transformed with it -- slower than its new successor -- still getting entirely altered in mentality, g…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 79 (part 7)
“The earliest Zoroastrians did not believe in Evil or Darkness being co-eternal with Good or Light, and they give the same interpretation.
Ahriman is the manifested shadow of A HURA-MAZDA (Asura-mazda), himself issued from Zeruana Akerne "b…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 3)
“Ahura (asura) may be derived from the root ah "to be," but in its primal signification it is what the Secret Teaching shows it to be.
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When geology shall have found out how many thousands of…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 10)
“"If the fourth (paroxysm) be severe, and the fifth less so, the disease will end at the seventh paroxysm, and .
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 11)
“The seven Rishis and the fourteen Manus of the seven Manvantaras -- issue from Brahma's head; they are his "mind-born sons," and it is with them that begins the division of mankind and its races from the Heavenly man, "the Logos" (the manif…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 90 (part 2)
“He assures us that it upsets any possibility of the present apes having been the progenitors of mankind.
But does it not also negative the bare possibility of the man and anthropoid having had a common -- though, so far, an absolutely theo…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 90 (part 4)
“The idealism of the present day, not only contrives to absorb, on the one hand, the basic negations of Atheism, but lands its votaries in a tangle of unreality, which culminates in a practical Nihilism.
Argument with such writers is almost…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 90 (part 5)
“Hence, the future plan, if not a DESIGN, must be there.
Moreover, that seed has to be traced, and its nature ascertained.
Have the Darwinists been successful in this?
Or will the Moneron be cast in our teeth?
But this atom of the Watery…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 92 (part 2)
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152.) While most of the men of Science, who are uncompromising in their belief in the descent of man from an "extinct anthropoid mammal," will not accept even the bare tenability of any other th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 92 (part 3)
“Let the Evolutionists push back the process into the preceding Eocene, if they prefer to do so; let them even trace both Man and Dryopithecus to a common ancestor; the unpleasant consideration has, nevertheless, to be faced that in Eocene s…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 92 (part 5)
“Doubtless this line of argument, when wielded by Darwin and Haeckel against their European adversaries, proved of great weight.
Anthropologists, who ventured to dispute the derivation of man from an animal ancestry, were sorely puzzled how…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 93 (part 4)
“Yet this Darwinian theory, correct as it is in minor particulars, agrees no more with Occultism than with Mr.
Wallace, who, in his "Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection," shows pretty conclusively that something more than "natu…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 94 (part 2)
“Leaving the classification of the geological periods to Western Science, esoteric philosophy divides only the life-periods on the globe.
In the present Manvantara the actual period is separated into seven Kalpas and seven great human races…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 94 (part 9)
“clix., 457, 1869); when also the number, variety, and luxuriance of the Greenland Miocene plants are found to have been such that, had land continued so far, some of them would in all probability have flourished at the Pole itself, the prob…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 95 (part 3)
“" The root to which these two families lead back IS UNKNOWN" (Schmidt).
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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 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 99 (part 1)
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“In all cases the physical, etheric and astral bodies are involved; the vortex therefore always reaches as far as the astral plane; a soul upon the astral plane may be drawn into this vortex if it is ripe for incarnation, and thus enter the…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 11. The Psychic Element In Mental Disturbance-d
“The older faiths knew this, but popular Christianity, which has no roots in tradition, has forgotten it.
Protestant Christianity threw away its occult aspect at the Reformation.
All the pagan pantheons have gross aspects of divinities as…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 34
“THE MOON. THE MOON. 18. צ 18th Hebrew letter (Tzaddi). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE EIGHTEENTH CARD OF THE TAROT. The hieroglyphic idea connected with the Tzaddi is the same as that of the Teth (9th card); but it chiefly signifies a term…”