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The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy

H. P. Blavatsky · Public domain text

379,264 words · about 26 h 34 min to read

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Author
H. P. Blavatsky (1831–1891)
Language
English
Subjects
Theosophy
Length
379,264 words · about 26 h 34 min
Sections
84 reader sections · Table of contents
Contents (84)
  1. Opening about 20 min
  2. I. ANTHROPOGENESIS under 1 min
  3. Text about 1 min
  4. Stanza II about 1 min
  5. Stanza III under 1 min
  6. Stanza IV about 1 min
  7. Stanza V about 1 min
  8. Stanza VI under 1 min
  9. Stanza VII about 1 min
  10. Stanza VIII about 1 min
  11. Stanza IX under 1 min
  12. Stanza X about 1 min
  13. Stanza XI under 1 min
  14. Stanza XII under 1 min
  15. Stanza I. Beginnings of Sentient Life about 40 min
  16. Two Antediluvian Astronomers about 7 min
  17. Stanza II. Nature Unaided Fails about 8 min
  18. Creation of Divine Beings in the Exoteric Accounts about 9 min
  19. Stanza II.—Continued. about 5 min
  20. The Chronology of the Brâhmans about 13 min
  21. Stanza III. Attempts To Create Man about 19 min
  22. Stanza IV. Creation Of The First Races about 3 min
  23. On The Identity And Differences Of The Incarnating Powers about 4 min
  24. Stanza IV.—Continued. about 31 min
  25. Stanza V. The Evolution of the Second Race about 26 min
  26. The Divine Hermaphrodite about 12 min
  27. Stanza VI. The Evolution Of The “Sweat‐Born.” about 11 min
  28. A Few Words About “Deluges” And “Noahs.” about 37 min
  29. Stanza VII. From The Semi‐Divine Down To The First Human Races about 7 min
  30. I. Fission under 1 min
  31. II. Budding under 1 min
  32. III. Spores under 1 min
  33. IV. Intermediate Hermaphroditism under 1 min
  34. V. True Sexual Union about 21 min
  35. Stanza VIII. Evolution Of The Animal Mammalians: The First Fall about 8 min
  36. What May Be The Objections To The Foregoing about 11 min
  37. Stanza IX. The Final Evolution Of Man about 15 min
  38. Edens, Serpents, And Dragons about 31 min
  39. The “Sons Of God” And The “Sacred Island.” about 13 min
  40. Stanza X. The History Of The Fourth Race about 1 h
  41. A Panoramic View Of The Early Races about 22 min
  42. Are Giants A Fiction? about 20 min
  43. The Races With The “Third Eye.” about 30 min
  44. The Primeval Manus Of Humanity about 56 min
  45. Cyclopean Ruins And Colossal Stones As Witnesses To Giants about 15 min
  46. Stanza XII. The Fifth Race And Its Divine Instructors about 7 min
  47. Serpents And Dragons Under Different Symbolisms about 3 min
  48. The Sidereal And Cosmic Glyphs about 16 min
  49. Our Divine Instructors about 22 min
  50. The Origin Of The Satanic Myth about 19 min
  51. Noah Was A Kabir, Hence He Must Have Been A Demon about 31 min
  52. The “Curse” From A Philosophical Point Of View about 43 min
  53. Conclusion about 18 min
  54. II. THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD‐RELIGIONS under 1 min
  55. Section I. Esoteric Tenets Corroborated in Every Scripture about 6 min
  56. Section II. Adam=Adami about 12 min
  57. Section III. The “Holy of Holies.” Its Degradation about 28 min
  58. Section IV. On the Myth of the “Fallen Angels” in its Various Aspects about 16 min
  59. B. The Gods Of Light Proceed From The Gods Of Darkness about 15 min
  60. C. The Many Meanings Of The “War In Heaven.” about 24 min
  61. Section V. Is Plerôma Satan’s Lair? about 23 min
  62. Section VI. Prometheus, the Titan about 18 min
  63. Section VII. Enoïchion‐Henoch about 31 min
  64. A. Cross And Circle about 16 min
  65. B. The Fall Of The Cross Into Matter about 17 min
  66. Section IX. The Upanishads in Gnostic Literature about 17 min
  67. Section X. The Cross and the Pythagorean Decad about 33 min
  68. Section XI. The Mysteries of the Hebdomad about 1 min
  69. A. Saptaparna about 9 min
  70. B. The Tetraktys In Relation To The Heptagon about 13 min
  71. C. The Septenary Element In The Vedas about 10 min
  72. D. The Septenary In The Exoteric Works about 12 min
  73. E. Seven In Astronomy, Science, And Magic about 16 min
  74. F. The Seven Souls Of The Egyptologists about 18 min
  75. III. ADDENDA. SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED under 1 min
  76. Section I. Archaic, or Modern Anthropology? about 19 min
  77. Section II. The Ancestors Mankind is Offered by Science about 24 min
  78. Plastidular Souls, And Conscious Nerve‐Cells about 7 min
  79. Section III. The Fossil Relics of Man and the Anthropoid Ape about 40 min
  80. B. On Chains Of Planets And Their Plurality about 18 min
  81. C. Supplementary Remarks On Esoteric Geological Chronology about 35 min
  82. Section V. Organic Evolution and Creative Centres about 11 min
  83. B. The European Palæolithic Races: Whence, And How Distributed about 1 h 40 min
  84. FOOTNOTES about 4 h 39 min

The opening of Text

Stanza I.

1. The Lha which turns the Fourth is Servant to the Lha(s) of the Seven, they who revolve, driving their Chariots around their Lord, the One Eye of our World. His Breath gave Life to the Seven. It gave Life to the First.

2. Said the Earth: “Lord of the Shining Face, my House is empty.... Send thy Sons to people this Wheel. Thou hast sent thy Seven Sons to the Lord of Wisdom. Seven times doth he see thee nearer to himself, seven times more doth he feel thee. Thou hast forbidden thy Servants, the small Rings, to catch thy Light and Heat, thy great Bounty to intercept on its passage. Send now to thy Servant the same.”

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