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The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4 The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy

H. P. Blavatsky · Public domain text

245,455 words · about 17 h 11 min to read

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Author
H. P. Blavatsky (1831–1891)
Language
English
Subjects
Theosophy
Length
245,455 words · about 17 h 11 min
Sections
57 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (57)
  1. Opening about 3 min
  2. Preface about 2 min
  3. INTRODUCTORY about 20 min
  4. SECTION I. PRELIMINARY SURVEY about 28 min
  5. SECTION II. MODERN CRITICISM AND THE ANCIENTS about 9 min
  6. SECTION III. THE ORIGIN OF MAGIC about 10 min
  7. SECTION IV. THE SECRESY OF INITIATES about 18 min
  8. SECTION V. SOME REASONS FOR SECRESY about 17 min
  9. SECTION VI. THE DANGERS OF PRACTICAL MAGIC about 14 min
  10. SECTION VII. OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES about 22 min
  11. SECTION IX. HERMETIC AND KABALISTIC DOCTRINES about 19 min
  12. SECTION XI. THE HEXAGON WITH THE CENTRAL POINT, OR THE SEVENTH KEY about 6 min
  13. SECTION XII. THE DUTY OF THE TRUE OCCULTIST TOWARD RELIGIONS about 3 min
  14. SECTION XIII. POST‐CHRISTIAN ADEPTS AND THEIR DOCTRINES about 8 min
  15. SECTION XIV. SIMON AND HIS BIOGRAPHER HIPPOLYTUS about 8 min
  16. SECTION XV. ST. PAUL THE REAL FOUNDER OF PRESENT CHRISTIANITY about 5 min
  17. SECTION XVI. PETER A JEWISH KABALIST, NOT AN INITIATE about 4 min
  18. SECTION XVII. APOLLONIUS OF TYANA about 13 min
  19. SECTION XVIII. FACTS UNDERLYING ADEPT BIOGRAPHIES about 41 min
  20. SECTION XIX. ST. CYPRIAN OF ANTIOCH about 6 min
  21. SECTION XX. THE EASTERN GUPTA VIDYA & THE KABALAH about 33 min
  22. SECTION XXI. HEBREW ALLEGORIES about 22 min
  23. SECTION XXII. THE “ZOHAR” ON CREATION AND THE ELOHIM about 20 min
  24. SECTION XXIII. WHAT THE OCCULTISTS AND KABALISTS HAVE TO SAY about 6 min
  25. SECTION XXIV. MODERN KABALISTS IN SCIENCE AND OCCULT ASTRONOMY about 10 min
  26. SECTION XXV. EASTERN AND WESTERN OCCULTISM about 16 min
  27. SECTION XXVI. THE IDOLS AND THE TERAPHIM about 9 min
  28. SECTION XXVII. EGYPTIAN MAGIC about 28 min
  29. SECTION XXVIII. THE ORIGIN OF THE MYSTERIES about 18 min
  30. SECTION XXIX. THE TRIAL OF THE SUN INITIATE about 11 min
  31. SECTION XXX. THE MYSTERY “SUN OF INITIATION.” about 6 min
  32. SECTION XXXI. THE OBJECTS OF THE MYSTERIES about 8 min
  33. SECTION XXXII. TRACES OF THE MYSTERIES about 19 min
  34. SECTION XXXIII. THE LAST OF THE MYSTERIES IN EUROPE about 7 min
  35. SECTION XXXIV. THE POST‐CHRISTIAN SUCCESSORS TO THE MYSTERIES about 19 min
  36. SECTION XXXV. SYMBOLISM OF SUN AND STARS about 14 min
  37. SECTION XXXVI. PAGAN SIDEREAL WORSHIP, OR ASTROLOGY about 9 min
  38. SECTION XXXVII. THE SOULS OF THE STARS—UNIVERSAL HELIOLATRY about 8 min
  39. SECTION XXXVIII. ASTROLOGY AND ASTROLATRY about 12 min
  40. SECTION XXXIX. CYCLES AND AVATARAS about 7 min
  41. SECTION XL. SECRET CYCLES about 18 min
  42. SECTION XLI. THE DOCTRINE OF AVATARAS about 21 min
  43. SECTION XLII. THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES about 3 min
  44. SECTION XLIII. THE MYSTERY OF BUDDHA about 15 min
  45. SECTION XLIV. “REINCARNATIONS” OF BUDDHA about 9 min
  46. SECTION XLV. AN UNPUBLISHED DISCOURSE OF BUDDHA about 3 min
  47. SECTION XLVI. NIRVANA‐MOKSHA about 14 min
  48. SECTION XLVII. THE SECRET BOOKS OF “LAM‐RIN” AND DZYAN about 4 min
  49. SECTION XLIX. TSONG‐KHA‐PA.—LOHANS IN CHINA about 6 min
  50. SECTION L. A FEW MORE MISCONCEPTIONS CORRECTED about 27 min
  51. SOME PAPERS ON THE BEARING OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY ON LIFE about 1 min
  52. Paper I. A Warning about 35 min
  53. Paper II. An Explanation about 45 min
  54. Paper III. A Word Concerning the Earlier Papers about 1 h 13 min
  55. Appendix. Notes on Papers I., II. and III about 6 min
  56. Notes On Some Oral Teachings about 1 h 24 min
  57. FOOTNOTES about 2 h 11 min

The opening of Preface

The task of preparing this volume for the press has been a difficult and anxious one, and it is necessary to state clearly what has been done. The papers given to me by H. P. B. were quite unarranged, and had no obvious order: I have, therefore, taken each paper as a separate Section, and have arranged them as sequentially as possible. With the exception of the correction of grammatical errors and the elimination of obviously un‐ English idioms, the papers are as H. P. B. left them, save as otherwise marked. In a few cases I have filled in a gap, but any such addition is enclosed within square brackets, so as to be distinguished from the text. In “The Mystery of Buddha” a further difficulty arose; some of the Sections had been written four or five times over, each version containing some sentences that were not in the others; I have pieced these versions together, taking the fullest as basis, and inserting therein everything added in any other versions. It is, however, with some hesitation that I have included these Sections in the Secret Doctrine.

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