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2 The One Life, Active and Passive ... 4 The Secret Doctrine -- Pantheism -- Atheism ... 6 "Space" in all Religions and in Occultism ... 9 Seven Cosmic Elements -- Seven Races of Mankind ... 12 The Three Postulates of the Secret Doctrine ... 14 Description of the Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan ... 20 ------- BOOK I. -- PART I. COSMIC EVOLUTION. SEVEN STANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN ... 27 ------- STANZA I. -- THE NIGHT OF THE UNIVERSE... 35 The Seven Eternities ... 36 "Time" ... 37 The Universal Mind and the Dhyan Chohans ... 38 Nidana and Maya: The Causes of Misery ... 39 The Great Breath ... 43 Being and Non-Being ... 45 The Eye of Dangma ... 47 Alaya, the Universal Soul ... 49 [[Vol. 1, Page]] x CONTENTS. STANZA II. -- THE IDEA OF DIFFERENTIATION ... 53 The Absolute knows Itself not ... 55 The Germ of Life was not yet ... 57 The Universe was still concealed in the Divine Thought ... 61 ------- STANZA III. -- THE AWAKENING OF KOSMOS ... 62 The Great Vibration ... 63 Nature's Symbols ... 65 The Power of Numbers ... 67 The Logoi and the Dragon ... 73 The Astral Light ... 75 Primeval Radiations from Unity ... 79 The Web of Being ... 83 Conscious Electricity: Fohat ... 85 ------- STANZA IV. -- THE SEPTENARY HIERARCHIES ... 86 The Sons of the Fire ... 86 The Vehicle of the Universe -- the Dhyan Chohans ... 89 The Army of the Voice ... 93 Speech and Mind ... 95 The Ogdoad and the Heptad ... 99 The Stellar "Sons of Light" ... 103 ------- STANZA V. -- FOHAT: THE CHILD OF THE SEPTENARY HIERARCHIES ... 106 The Fiery Whirlwind and the Primordial Seven ... 106 They Produce Fohat ... 108 The Correlation of the "Gods" ... 113 Evolution of the "Principles" of Nature ... 119 The Mystery of the Fire ... 121 The Secret of the Elements ... 123 The Square of the Tabernacle ... 125 The Planetary Spirits and the Lipika ... 129 The Ring "Pass Not" ... 130 The Sidereal Book of Life ... 131 The Soul's Pilgrimage and its "Rest" ... 134 ------- STANZA VI. -- OUR WORLD, ITS GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT ... 136 The Logos ... 136 Mystery of the Female Logos ... 137 [[Vol. 1, Page]] xi CONTENTS. The Seven Layu Centres ... 138 The "Elementary Germs" ... 139 The Evolution of the Elements ... 140 The Building of the Worlds ... 145 A Neutral Centre ... 147 "Dead" Planets -- The Moon ... 149 ------- THEOSOPHICAL MISCONCEPTIONS ... 152 The Planetary Divisions and the Human Principles ... 153 The Moon ... 155 Transmigrations of the Ego ... 159 The Septenary Chain ... 161 Relation of the other Planets to the Earth ... 163 ------- EXPLANATIONS CONCERNING THE GLOBES AND THE MONADS ... 170 The Lunar Chain and the Earth Chain ... 172 The Earth, the Child of the Moon ... 173 Classification of the Monads ... 175 The Monad Defined ... 177 The Lunar Monads -- the Pitris ... 179 A Triple Evolution in Nature ... 181 ------- STANZA VI. -- CONTINUED ... 191 "Creation" in the Fourth Round ... 191 The "Curse," "Sin," and "War" ... 193 The Struggle for Life and the Birth of the Worlds ... 202 The Adepts and the Sacred Island ... 207 ------- STANZA VII. -- THE PARENTS OF MAN ON EARTH ... 213 Divisions of the Hierarchies ... 214 Correlations of Beings ... 223 What incarnates in Animal Man ... 233 Formation of Man: the Thinker ... 238 Occult and Kabalistic Pneumatics ... 243 Akasa and Ether ... 257 The Invisible "Lives" ... 259 Occult Vital Chemistry and Bacteriology ... 261 [[Vol. 1, Page]] xii CONTENTS. The Watcher and his Shadow ... 265 Earth peopled by the Shadows of the Gods ... 267 ------- SUMMING UP ... 269 The pith and marrow of the Secret Doctrine ... 273 Hermes in Christian Garb ... 285 Some Occult Aphorisms ... 289 The Seven Powers of Nature ... 293 --------------------- BOOK I. -- PART II. THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLISM IN ITS APPROXIMATE ORDER. §§ I. SYMBOLISM AND IDEOGRAPHS ... 303 Emblem and Symbol differ ... 305 Magic Potency of Sound ... 307 Mystery Language ... 309 ------- II. THE MYSTERY LANGUAGE AND ITS KEYS ... 310 Egypt's many Religions ... 311 The Jews and their System ... 313 Moses copied from Sargon ... 319 Identity of Ancient Symbols ... 323 ------- III. PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE AND DIVINE THOUGHT ... 325 Divine Thought, or Cineritious Matter? ... 327 Ether and Intelligence ... 330 The Seven Prakritis ... 335 The Mystic Fire ... 339 One Tree of Knowledge ... 341 ------- IV. CHAOS -- THEOS -- KOSMOS ... 342 The Union of Chaos and Spirit ... 343 The Birth of Mind ... 345 ------- V. THE HIDDEN DEITY, ITS SYMBOLS AND GLYPHS ... 349 The Gnostic Idea ... 351 International Correlation of Gods ... 355 [[Vol. 1, Page]] xiii CONTENTS. §§ PAGE. VI. THE MUNDANE EGG ... 359 Egg-born Logoi ... 363 The Winged Globe ... 365 ------- VII. THE DAYS AND NIGHTS OF BRAHMA ... 368 Human Gods and Divine Men ... 369 The Rebirth of Gods ... 371 The Puranic Prophecy ... 377 ------- VIII. THE LOTUS AS A UNIVERSAL SYMBOL ... 379 Exoteric and Esoteric ... 381 The Purity of early Phallicism ... 383 The Egyptian Lotus ... 385 ------- IX. DEUS LUNUS ... 386 A Glance at the Lunar Myth ... 387 A Key-note to the Moon ... 389 Copies and Originals... 393 The Moon Bi-sexual ... 397 ------- X. TREE AND SERPENT AND CROCODILE WORSHIP ... 403 Degeneration of the Symbol ... 405 The Seven-headed Dragons ... 407 Dragon and Crocodile ... 409 ------- XI. DEMON EST DEUS INVERSUS ... 411 Death is Life ... 413 The Fall of the Angels ... 418 Transformation of the Legend ... 421 ------- XII. THE THEOGONY OF THE CREATIVE GODS ... 424 The Point within the Circle ... 426 The Logos or Verbum ... 429 The Factors of Creation ... 432 Identity of the Hierarchies in all Religions ... 438 Difference between the Aryan and Semitic Systems ... 444 [[Vol. 1, Page]] xiv CONTENTS. §§ PAGE. XIII. THE SEVEN CREATIONS ... 445 The Gnostic and the Hindu Versions ... 449 The Seven Puranic "Creations" ... 450 ------- XIV. THE FOUR ELEMENTS. ... 460 The "Gods" and the "Elements" ... 463 The Language of the Elements ...