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THE SECRET DOCTRINE
BY H. P. BLAVATSKY
VOLUME 2
THEOSOPHCAL UNIVERSITY PRESS ASCII EDITION
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THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
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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."
VOL. II. -- ANTHROPOGENESIS.
London:
THE THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, LIMITED.
7 Duke Street, Adelphi, W. C.
WILLIAM Q. JUDGE,
117 Nassau Street, New York.
THE MANAGER OF THE THEOSOPHIST,
Adyar, Madras
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1888.
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"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1888, by H. P. Blavatsky,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C."
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This Work
I Dedicate to all True Theosophists,
In every Country,
And of every Race,
For they called it forth, and for them it was recorded.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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VOLUME SECOND.
PRELIMINARY NOTES. PAGE.
On the Archaic Stanzas, and the Four Prehistoric Continents ... 1
The Imperishable Sacred Land ... 6
The Hyperborean ... 7
Lemuria ... 7
Atlantis ... 8
The Tropics at the Pole ... 11
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BOOK II. -- PART I.
ANTHROPOGENESIS.
STANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN... 15
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STANZA I. -- BEGINNINGS OF SENTIENT LIFE ... 22
Man, the Third Logos ... 25
The Celestial Governors of Humanity ... 29
Parent Stars and Sister Planets ... 33
Three Kinds of Light ... 35
The Numbers of Creation ... 39
The First War in Heaven ... 45
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TWO ANTEDILUVIAN ASTRONOMERS ... 47
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STANZA II. -- NATURE UNAIDED FAILS ... 52
The Monsters of Chaos ... 53
The "Double Dragon" ... 57
Who are the Flames? ... 63
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THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE BRAHMINS ... 66
The Race that never dies ... 67
Cosmogony, an intelligent plan ... 73
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STANZA III. -- ATTEMPTS TO CREATE MAN ... 75
The various classes of Creators ... 77
Man, a god in animal form ... 81
"Fires," "Sparks," and "Flames" ... 83
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STANZA IV. -- CREATION OF THE FIRST RACES ... 86
Pitris of the Gods and Demons ... 89
What Prometheus symbolized ... 95
The Hammer of Thor ... 99
The Divine Rebels ... 103
Man's Father, the Sun ... 105
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STANZA V. -- THE EVOLUTION OF THE SECOND RACE ... 109
The Secret Work of Chiram ... 113
The outgrowth of Races ... 117
Leda, Castor, and Pollux ... 121
Jah-Hovah Androgynous ... 125
The Jewish God-name ... 127
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STANZA VI.-THE EVOLUTION OF THE SWEAT-BORN ... 131
Bi-sexual reproduction ... 133
The Virgin Third Race ... 135
A Few Words about Deluges and Noah's ... 138
Various Deluges ... 141
The Arkite Symbols ... 143
Could Men Exist 18,000,000 Years ago? ... 148
Spontaneous Generation ... 151
The Solar System in the Puranas ... 155
Oceans of Carbonic Acid? ... 159
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STANZA VII. -- FROM THE SEMI-DIVINE DOWN TO THE FIRST HUMAN RACES ... 161
Monads and Rounds ... 167
A Suggestive Explanation ... 171
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A Saint -- Hypnotised ... 175
Sweat-born and Androgynes ... 177
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STANZA VIII. -- EVOLUTION OF THE ANIMAL MAMMALIANS -- THE FIRST FALL ... 180
Archaic Zoology ... 182
The Sin of the Mindless Men ... 183
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WHAT MAY BE THE OBJECTIONS TO THE FOREGOING ... 185
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STANZA IX. -- THE FINAL EVOLUTION OF MAN ... 191
The Hairy Men of China ... 195
The Separation of Sexes ... 197
Primeval Language ... 199
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EDENS, SERPENTS AND DRAGONS ... 202
The Garden of Eden a College ... 203
Flying Camels ... 205
Two Schools of Magic ... 211
The Flying Dragons ... 219
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THE SONS OF GOD AND THE SACRED ISLAND0 ... 220
The Magicians of Atlantis ... 223
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STANZA X. -- THE HISTORY OF THE FOURTH RACE ... 227
The Mysteries among the Mayas ... 229
Satanic Myths ... 233
Mahasura and Satan ... 237
Man, the pale shadow of God ... 243
The curse of Vasishta ... 247
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ARCHAIC TEACHINGS IN THE PURANAS AND GENESIS ... 251
From worm to man ... 255
Identity of Human and Animal embryos ... 259
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A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE EARLY RACES ... 263
The Natural "Fall" ... 267
The Symbolism of Kronos ... 269
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STANZA X. -- Continued ... 271
The Golden Age ... 273
The Devil's outside Humanity ... 275
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ARE GIANTS A FICTION? ... 277
The Seven Virgin Youths ... 281
The Tibetan Lilith ... 285
The Races of Men not all Human ... 287
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THE RACES WITH THE "THIRD EYE" ... 289
Occult Physiology ... 295
The Evolution of the Eve ... 299
The Third Eye is now a Gland ... 301
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THE PRIMEVAL MANUS OF HUMANITY ... 307
The Four Earlier Races ... 311
The Esoteric Meaning of "Fish" ... 313
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STANZA XI. -- THE CIVILIZATION AND DESTRUCTION OF THE FOURTH AND FIFTH RACES ... 316
Degeneration of Mankind ... 319
Atlantis now Ocean Floor ... 325
Changes of Climate ... 329
How to Read Symbols ... 335
The Antediluvian Buddhas ... 339
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CYCLOPEAN RUINS AND COLOSSAL STONES AS WITNESSES TO GIANTS 341
Living, Speaking, and Moving Stones ... 345
It takes a God to become a Man ... 349
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STANZA XII. -- THE FIFTH RACE AND ITS DIVINE INSTRUCTORS 351
The Astronomical Dragon ... 353
Serpents and Dragons under different Symbolisms ... 355
The Sidereal and Cosmic Glyphs ... 357
Our Divine Instructors ... 365
The Origin of the Satanic Myth ... 378
Noah was a Kabir, hence he must have been a Demon ... 390
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The oldest Persian Traditions about the Polar, and the Submerged Continents ... 393
Western Speculations founded on the Greek and Puranic Traditions ... 401 [[sic]]
The "Curse" from a Philosophical point of view ... 409
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ADDITIONAL FRAGMENTS FROM A COMMENTARY ON THE VERSES OF STANZA XII. ... 423
The Oldest Records about Atlantis ... 425
The Doom of Atlantis ... 427
The Races, Sub-Races, and Family Races ... 434
CONCLUSION ... 437
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BOOK II. -- PART II.
THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS.
ESOTERIC TENETS CORROBORATED IN EVERY SCRIPTURE ... 449
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§ XVI. ADAM-ADAMI ... 452
The Cabalistic Four Adams ... 457
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XVII. THE "HOLY OF HOLIES": ITS DEGRADATION ... 459
Christian Symbolism ... 463
The "Four-faced" Brahm ... 465
The Old and the New Jehovah ... 469
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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
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XIX. IS PLEROMA SATAN'S LAIR? ... 506
Jehovah's Personating Spirit ... 509
The Mysterium Magnum ... 512
The Logos and Satan are One ... 515
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XX. PROMETHEUS THE TITAN ... 519
His Origin in Ancient India ... 519
The Boon he Gives ... 523
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XXI. ENOICHION-HENOCH ... 529
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XXII. THE SYMBOLTSM OF THE MYSTERY NAMES IAO, AND JEHOVAH 536
Cross and Circle ... 545
The Fall of the Cross into Matter ... 553
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XXIII. THE UPANISHADS IN GNOSTIC LITERATURE ... 563
When Time be no longer ... 565
The Divine Self's Wisdom ... 566
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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
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