The Secret Doctrine
The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Volume 1. Cosmogenesis
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- Author: H. P. Blavatsky
- Date Published: May 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108073226
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Ukrainian-born Madame Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891) was a powerful and controversial member of the spiritualist world and for a time famous for her powers as a medium. She was a co-founder of the theosophy movement in the United States, which she later extended to Europe and India, drawing from her extensive global travels and her familiarity with a broad range of belief systems, from Asian religions to New Orleans voodoo, as well as secret societies such as the Freemasons. Drawing from Hinduism and Buddhism, theosophy aimed to understand the mystic powers of the universe and promote the study of other religions. In The Secret Doctrine, published in 1888, Blavatsky aims to explain the spiritual origins of the world. Volume 1 looks at the world's 'cosmic evolution', the mystical symbolism that developed throughout this process, and scientific criticism.
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- Date Published: May 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108073226
- length: 730 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 41 mm
- weight: 1.06kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Book I
Section 1. Cosmic Evolution: Seven Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan:
1. The night of the universe
2. The idea of differentiation
3. The awakening of kosmos
4. The septenary hierarchies
5. Fohat: the child of the septenary hierarchies
6. Our world, its growth and development, theosophical misconceptions, explanations concerning the globes and the monads
6. Continued
7. The parents of man on Earth
Summing up
Section 2. The Evolution of Symbolism in its Approximate Order:
1. Symbolism and ideographs
2. The mystery language and its keys
3. Primordial substance and divine thought
4. Chaos – theos – kosmos
5. The hidden deity, its symbols and glyphs
6. The mundane egg
7. The days and nights of Brahma
8. The lotus as a universal symbol
9. Deus lunus
10. Tree and serpent and crocodile worship
11. Demon est deus inversus
12. The theogony of the creative gods
13. The seven creations
14. The four elements
15. On Kwan-Shi-Yin and Kwan-Yin
Section 3. Science and the Secret Doctrine Contrasted:
1. Reasons for these addenda
2. Modern physicists are playing at blind man's buff
3. An lumen sit corpus nec non?
4. Is gravitation a law?
5. The theories of rotation in science
6. The masks of science
7. An attack on the scientific theory of force by a man of science
8. Life, force, or gravity
9. The solar theory
10. The coming force
11. On the elements and atoms
12. Ancient thought in modern dress
13. The modern nebular theory
14. Forces – modes of motion or intelligences?
15. Gods, monads, and atoms
16. Cyclic evolution and karma
17. The zodiac and its antiquity
18. Summary of the mutual position.
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