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434 -------- CONCLUSION ... 437 ------- BOOK II. -- PART II. THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS. ESOTERIC TENETS CORROBORATED IN EVERY SCRIPTURE ... 449 ------- § XVI. ADAM-ADAMI ... 452 The Cabalistic Four Adams ... 457 ------- XVII. THE "HOLY OF HOLIES": ITS DEGRADATION ... 459 Christian Symbolism ... 463 The "Four-faced" Brahma ... 465 The Old and the New Jehovah ... 469 ------- XVIII. ON THE MYTH OF THE "FALLEN ANGEL," IN ITS VARIOUS ASPECTS ... 475 The Evil Spirit: Who and What? ... 475 The Gods of Light proceed from the Gods of Darkness ... 483 The many meanings of the "War in Heaven" ... 492 ------- XIX. IS PLEROMA SATAN'S LAIR? ... 506 Jehovah's Personating Spirit ... 509 The Mysterium Magnum ... 512 The Logos and Satan are One ... 515 [[Vol. 2, Page]] xii CONTENTS. XX. PROMETHEUS THE TITAN ... 519 His Origin in Ancient India ... 519 The Boon he Gives ... 523 ------- XXI. ENOICHION-HENOCH ... 529 ------- XXII. THE SYMBOLISM OF THE MYSTERY NAMES IAO AND JEHOVAH ... 536 Cross and Circle ... 545 The Fall of the Cross into Matter ... 553 ------- XXIII. THE UPANISHADS IN GNOSTIC LITERATURE ... 563 When Time be no longer ... 565 The Divine Self's Wisdom ... 566 ------- XXIV. THE CROSS AND THE PYTHAGOREAN DECADE ... 573 Poseidon's Five Ministers ... 577 The Mystery of the Number Six ... 583 The Cross and Christian After-thought ... 587 ------- XXV. THE MYSTERIES OF THE HEBDOMAD ... 590 Saptaparna ... 590 The Tetraktis in relation to the Heptagon ... 598 The Septenary Element in the Vedas ... 605 The Septenary in the Exoteric Works ... 611 Seven in Astronomy, Science and Magic ... 618 The Seven Souls of the Egyptologists ... 630 --------------------- BOOK II. -- PART III. ADDENDA. SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED. §§ I. ARCHAIC, OR MODERN ANTHROPOLOGY? ... 645 The Occult and the Modern Doctrines ... 649 Science is Silent on every Problem ... 653 [[Vol. 2, Page]] xiii CONTENTS. II. THE ANCESTORS MANKIND IS OFFERED BY SCIENCE ... 656 Various Modes of Reproduction ... 659 A Pithecoid Man Wanted ... 669 Plastidular Souls and Conscious Nerve-Cells ... 670 The atoms of our "Father-Bathybius" ... 674 ------- III. THE FOSSIL RELICS OF MAN AND THE ANTHROPOID APE ... 675 Insurmountable difficulties for the Darwinians ... 677 The Argument of "Rudimentary Organs" ... 683 "Epitomized History" in the Foetus ... 684 The Evidence of Skulls ... 687 ------- ------- IV. DURATION OF THE GEOLOGICAL PERIODS, RACE CYCLES , AND THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN ... 690 Sayce's Sketch of Chronology ... 691 (a) Speculations on the Age of the Globe ... 694 The Adept-Astronomer ... 698 (b) On Chains of Planets and their Plurality ... 699 States of Consciousness ... 701 Worlds mentioned in the Bible ... 703 (c) Esoteric Geological Chronology ... 709 Parallelism of Life ... 711 The Two Sciences contrasted ... 713 The Paleolithic Landseer ... 721 Astral Man -- the Solution ... 728 The Kabalists and Science ... 730 ------- V. ORGANIC EVOLUTION AND CREATIVE CENTRES ... 731 Dhyan Chohans and these Centres ... 732 ( a ) Origin and Evolution of the Mammalia ... 734 ( b ) The European Paleolithic Races -- whence and how distributed ... 738 [[Vol. 2, Page]] xiv CONTENTS. VI. GIANTS, CIVILIZATIONS, AND SUBMERGED CONTINENTS TRACED IN HISTORY ... 742 A Mysterious Nation ... 743 The Seven Sabbaths ... 747 "Revelation" and the "Secret Doctrine" ... 748 Druidic Stones ... 752 Races of Giants ... 755 Mazdean "Seven Earths" ... 759 (a) Statements about the Sacred Islands ... 760 The Heirloom of Atlantis ... 763 The God-bearing Land ... 765 The Power of Names ... 767 The Sons of Coelus and Terra ... 769 Southern and Northern Atlantis ... 770 Niobe and her Children ... 771 The Cycles of Time ... 773 The Titans in Prison ... 776 ------- VII. SCIENTIFIC AND GEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF SEVERAL SUBMERGED CONTINENTS ... 778 Corroborations of Occultism by Geology ... 779 Evidence of the Flora ... 781 Atlantis necessary to Ethnology ... 783 Astraea falls on her Head ... 785 Communication between South-Sea Islands ... 788 Evidence of Language ... 790 Ragon explains Masonic Symbols ... 795 The End a fitting prelude to Truth ... 798 ------- [[ Contents , Volume 1]]