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e Secret Doctrine by H. P. BlavatskyVol. 2

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THE SECRET DOCTRINE:

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ABLE OF CONTENTS.

Contents of Volume 1, Secret Doctrine Homepage]]

OLUME SECOND.

ELIMINARY NOTES.

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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OOK II.PART I.

NTHROPOGENESIS.

ANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN ... 15

ANZA 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 ... 39The First War in Heaven ... 45

WO ANTEDILUVIAN ASTRONOMERS ... 47

ANZA II.NATURE UNAIDED FAILS ... 52

The Monsters of Chaos ... 53

The Double Dragon ... 57

Who are the Flames? ... 63

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HE CHRONOLOGY OF THE BRAHMINS ... 66

The Race that never dies ... 67

Cosmogony, an intelligent plan ... 73

ANZA III.ATTEMPTS TO CREATE MAN ... 75

The various classes of Creators ... 77

Man, a god in animal form ... 81

Fires, Sparks, and Flames ... 83

ANZA 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

Mans Father, the Sun ... 105

ANZA 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

ANZA 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

ANZA 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 SaintHypnotised ... 175

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Sweat-born and Androgynes ... 177

ANZA VIII.EVOLUTION OF THE ANIMAL MAMMALIANSTHE FIRST FALL ... 180

Archaic Zoology ... 183

The Sin of the Mindless Men ... 185

HAT MAY BE THE OBJECTIONS TO THE FOREGOING ... 185

ANZA IX.THE FINAL EVOLUTION OF MAN ... 191

The Hairy Men of China ... 195

The Separation of Sexes ... 197

Primeval Language ... 199

DENS, SERPENTS AND DRAGONS ... 202

The Garden of Eden a College ... 203

Flying Camels ... 205

Two Schools of Magic ... 211

The Flying Dragons ... 219

HE SONS OF GOD AND THE SACRED ISLAND ... 220

The Magicians of Atlantis ... 223

ANZA 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

RCHAIC TEACHINGS IN THE PURANAS AND GENESIS ... 251

From worm to man ... 255

Identity of Human and Animal embryos ... 259

PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE EARLY RACES ... 263

The Natural Fall ... 267

The Symbolism of Kronos ... 269

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ANZA X.Continued... 271

The Golden Age ... 273

No Devil's outside Humanity ... 275

RE GIANTS A FICTION? ... 277

The Seven Virgin Youths ... 281

The Tibetan Lilith ... 285

The Races of Men not all Human ... 287

HE RACES WITH THE THIRD EYE ... 289

Occult Physiology ... 295

The Evolution of the Eye ... 299

The Third Eye is now a Gland ... 301

HE PRIMEVAL MANUS OF HUMANITY ... 307

The Four Earlier Races ... 311The Esoteric Meaning ofFish ... 313

ANZA 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

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The Antediluvian Buddhas ... 339

YCLOPEAN RUINS AND COLOSSAL STONES AS WITNESSES TO GIANTS ... 341

Living, Speaking, and Moving Stones ... 345

It takes a God to become a Man ... 349

ANZA 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 ... 378Noah 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

The Curse from a Philosophical point of view ... 409

DDITIONAL FRAGMENTS FROM A COMMENTARY ON THE VERSES OF STANZA XII. ... 423

The Oldest Records about Atlantis ... 425

The Doom of Atlantis ... 427The Races, Sub-Races, and Family Races ... 434

ONCLUSION ... 437

OOK II.PART II.

HE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS.

OTERIC TENETS CORROBORATED IN EVERY SCRIPTURE ... 449

XVI. ADAM-ADAMI ... 452

The Cabalistic Four Adams ... 457

VII. THE HOLY OF HOLIES: ITS DEGRADATION ... 459

Christian Symbolism ... 463

The Four-faced Brahma ... 465

The Old and the New Jehovah ... 469

VIII. 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

X. IS PLEROMA SATANS LAIR? ... 506

Jehovahs Personating Spirit ... 509

The Mysterium Magnum ... 512

The Logos and Satan are One ... 515

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X. PROMETHEUS THE TITAN ... 519

His Origin in Ancient India ... 519The Boon he Gives ... 523

XI. ENOICHION-HENOCH ... 529

XII. THE SYMBOLISM OF THE MYSTERY NAMES IAO, AND JEHOVAH ... 536

Cross and Circle ... 545

The Fall of the Cross into Matter ... 553

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XIII. THE UPANISHADS IN GNOSTIC LITERATURE ... 563

When Time be no longer ... 565

The Divine Selfs Wisdom ... 566

XIV. THE CROSS AND THE PYTHAGOREAN DECADE ... 573

Poseidons Five Ministers ... 577

The Mystery of the Number Six ... 583

The Cross and Christian After-thought ... 587

XV. THE MYSTERIES OF THE HEBDOMAD ... 590

Saptaparna ... 590

The Tetraktis in relation to the Heptagon ... 598

The Septenary Element in the Vedas ... 605

The Septenary in the Exoteric Works ... 611

Seven in Astronomy, Science and Magic ... 618

The Seven Souls of the Egyptologists ... 630

OOK II.PART III.

DDENDA.

CIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED.

ARCHAIC, OR MODERN ANTHROPOLOGY? ... 645

The Occult and the Modern Doctrines ... 649

Science is Silent on every Problem ... 653

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THE ANCESTORS MANKIND IS OFFERED BY SCIENCE ... 656

Various Modes of Reproduction ... 659

A Pithecoid Man Wanted ... 669

Plastidular Souls and Conscious Nerve-Cells ... 670

The atoms of our Father-Bathybius ... 674

THE FOSSIL RELICS OF MAN AND THE ANTHROPOID APE ... 675

Insurmountable difficulties for the Darwinians ... 677

The Argument ofRudimentary Organs ... 683

Epitomized History in the Foetus ... 684

The Evidence of Skulls ... 687

DURATION OF THE GEOLOGICAL PERIODS, RACE CYCLES, AND THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN ... 690

Sayces Sketch of Chronology ... 691

(a) Speculations on the Age of the Globe ... 694

The Adept-Astronomer ... 698

(b) On Chains of Planets and their Plurality ... 699

States of Consciousness ... 701

Worlds mentioned in the Bible ... 703

(c) Esoteric Geological Chronology ... 709

Parallelism of Life ... 711

The Two Sciences contrasted ... 713

The Paleolithic Landseer ... 721

Astral Manthe Solution ... 728

The Kabalists and Science ... 730

ORGANIC EVOLUTION AND CREATIVE CENTRES ... 731

Dhyan Chohans and these Centres ... 732

(a) Origin and Evolution of the Mammalia ... 734

(b) The European Paleolithic Raceswhence and how distributed ... 738

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. GIANTS, CIVILIZATIONS, AND SUBMERGED CONTINENTS TRACED IN HISTORY ... 742

A Mysterious Nation ... 743

The Seven Sabbaths ... 747

Revelation and the Secret Doctrine ... 748

Druidic Stones ... 752

Races of Giants ... 755

Mazdean Seven Earths ... 759

(a) Statements about the Sacred Islands ... 760

The Heirloom of Atlantis ... 763

The God-bearing Land ... 765

The Power of Names ... 767

The Sons of Coelus and Terra ... 769

Southern and Northern Atlantis ... 770

Niobe and her Children ... 771

The Cycles of Time ... 773

The Titans in Prison ... 776

I. SCIENTIFIC AND GEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF SEVERAL SUBMERGED CONTINENTS ... 778

Corroborations of Occultism by Geology ... 779

Evidence of the Flora ... 781Atlantis necessary to Ethnology ... 783

Astraea falls on her Head ... 785

Communication between South-Sea Islands ... 788

Evidence of Language ... 790

Ragon explains Masonic Symbols ... 795

The End a fitting prelude to Truth ... 798

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