TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE SECRET DOCTRINE

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE FIRST EDITION

 

The following table of contents appeared in the 1888 publication:

 

 

VOLUME FIRST

COSMOGENESIS

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

The Need of such a Book   xix

The Antiquity of Documents and MSS.   xxiii

What the Book is intended to do   xxviii

 

 

PROEM

 

The Oldest MSS. in the world and its Symbolism   2

The One Life, Active and Passive   4

The Secret Doctrine – Pantheism – Atheism   6

"Space" in all Religions and in Occultism   9

Seven Cosmic Elements – Seven Races of Mankind   12

The Three Postulates of the Secret Doctrine   14

Description of the Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan   20

 

 

BOOK I – PART I

COSMIC EVOLUTION

 

Seven Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan   27

 

STANZA I – THE NIGHT OF THE UNIVERSE

 

The Seven Eternities   36

"Time"   37

The Universal Mind and the Dhyan Chohans   38

Nidana and Maya: The Causes of Misery   39

The Great Breath   43

Being and Non-Being   45

The Eye of Dangma   47

Alaya, the Universal Soul   49

 

STANZA II – THE IDEA OF DIFFERENTIATION

 

The Absolute knows Itself not   55

The Germ of Life was not yet   57

The Universe was still concealed in the Divine Thought   61

 

STANZA III – THE AWAKENING OF KOSMOS

 

The Great Vibration   63

Nature's Symbols   65

The Power of Numbers   67

The Logoi and the Dragon   73

The Astral Light   75

Primeval Radiations from Unity   79

The Web of Being   83

Conscious Electricity: Fohat   85

 

STANZA IV – THE SEPTENARY HIERARCHIES

 

The Sons of the Fire   86
The Vehicle of the Universe – the Dhyan Chohans   89
The Army of the Voice   93
Speech and Mind   95
The Ogdoad and the Heptad   99
The Stellar "Sons of Light"   103

 

STANZA V – FOHAT: THE CHILD OF THE SEPTENARY HIERARCHIES

 

The Fiery Whirlwind and the Primordial Seven   106
They Produce Fohat   108
The Correlation of the "Gods"   113
Evolution of the "Principles" of Nature   119
The Mystery of the Fire   121
The Secret of the Elements   123
The Square of the Tabernacle   125
The Planetary Spirits and the Lipika   129
The Ring "Pass Not"   130
The Sidereal Book of Life   131
The Soul's Pilgrimage and its "Rest"   134

 

STANZA VI – OUR WORLD, ITS GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

 

The Logos   136
Mystery of the Female Logos   137

The Seven Layu Centres   138
The "Elementary Germs"   139
The Evolution of the Elements   140
The Building of the Worlds   145
A Neutral Centre   147
"Dead" Planets – The Moon   149

 

THEOSOPHICAL MISCONCEPTIONS

 

The Planetary Divisions and the Human Principles   153
The Moon   155
Transmigrations of the Ego   159
The Septenary Chain   161
Relation of the other Planets to the Earth   163

 

EXPLANATIONS CONCERNING THE GLOBES AND THE MONADS

 

The Lunar Chain and the Earth Chain   172
The Earth, the Child of the Moon   173
Classification of the Monads   175
The Monad Defined   177
The Lunar Monads – the Pitris   179
A Triple Evolution in Nature   181

 

STANZA VI – CONTINUED

 

"Creation" in the Fourth Round   191
The "Curse," "Sin," and "War"   193
The Struggle for Life and the Birth of the Worlds   202
The Adepts and the Sacred Island   207

 

STANZA VII – THE PARENTS OF MAN ON EARTH

 

Divisions of the Hierarchies   214
Correlations of Beings   223
What incarnates in Animal Man   233
Formation of Man: the Thinker   238
Occult and Kabalistic Pneumatics   243
Akasa and Ether   257
The Invisible "Lives"   259
Occult Vital Chemistry and Bacteriology   261

The Watcher and his Shadow   265
Earth peopled by the Shadows of the Gods   267

 

SUMMING UP

 

The pith and marrow of the Secret Doctrine   273
Hermes in Christian Garb   285
Some Occult Aphorisms   289
The Seven Powers of Nature   293

 

 

BOOK I – PART II

THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLISM IN ITS APPROXIMATE ORDER

 

I. SYMBOLISM AND IDEOGRAPHS

 

Emblem and Symbol differ   305

Magic Potency of Sound   307

Mystery Language   309

 

II. THE MYSTERY LANGUAGE AND ITS KEYS

 

Egypt's many Religions   311

The Jews and their System   313

Moses copied from Sargon   319

Identity of Ancient Symbols   323

 

III. PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE AND DIVINE THOUGHT

 

Divine Thought, or Cineritious Matter?   327
Ether and Intelligence   330
The Seven Prakritis   335
The Mystic Fire   339
One Tree of Knowledge   341

 

IV. CHAOS – THEOS – KOSMOS

 

The Union of Chaos and Spirit   343
The Birth of Mind   345

 

V. THE HIDDEN DEITY, ITS SYMBOLS AND GLYPHS

 

The Gnostic Idea   351
International Correlation of Gods   355

 

VI. THE MUNDANE EGG

 

Egg-born Logoi   363
The Winged Globe   365

 

VII. THE DAYS AND NIGHTS OF BRAHMA

 

Human Gods and Divine Men   369
The Rebirth of Gods   371
The Puranic Prophecy   377

 

VIII. THE LOTUS AS A UNIVERSAL SYMBOL

 

Exoteric and Esoteric   381
The Purity of early Phallicism   383
The Egyptian Lotus   385

 

IX. DEUS LUNUS

 

A Glance at the Lunar Myth   387
A Key-note to the Moon   389
Copies and Originals  393
The Moon Bi-sexual   397

 

X. TREE AND SERPENT AND CROCODILE WORSHIP

 

Degeneration of the Symbol   405
The Seven-headed Dragons   407
Dragon and Crocodile   409

 

XI. DEMON EST DEUS INVERSUS

 

Death is Life   413
The Fall of the Angels   418
Transformation of the Legend   421

 

XII. THE THEOGONY OF THE CREATIVE GODS

 

The Point within the Circle   426
The Logos or Verbum   429
The Factors of Creation   432
Identity of the Hierarchies in all Religions   438
Difference between the Aryan and Semitic Systems   444

 

XIII. THE SEVEN CREATIONS

 

The Gnostic and the Hindu Versions   449
The Seven Puranic "Creations"   450

 

XIV. THE FOUR ELEMENTS

 

The "Gods" and the "Elements"   463
The Language of the Elements   464
Pagan and Christian Worship of the Elements   467

 

XV. ON KWAN-SHI-YIN AND KWAN-YIN

 

Kwan-Shi-Yin and Phallicism   471
The Real Meaning   472

 

 

BOOK I – PART III

SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED

 

I. REASONS FOR THESE ADDENDA

 

Occultism versus Materialism   479
The Sabbath of the Mystic   481

 

II. MODERN PHYSICISTS ARE PLAYING AT BLIND MAN'S BUFF

 

III. AN LUMEN SIT CORPUS NEC NON?

 

The Hypothetical Ether   485
Scientific Theories of its Constitution   489

 

IV. IS GRAVITATION A LAW?

 

Intelligences or Blind Forces?   493
The Cause of Attraction   498

 

V. THE THEORIES OF ROTATION SCIENCE

 

Conflicting Hypotheses   502
More Hypotheses   505

 

VI. THE MASKS OF SCIENCE

 

What are the "Forces?"   508
The View of the Occultists   510
Scientific and Occult Theories on Heat   515
The Atoms of Science   519

 

VII. AN ATTACK ON THE SCIENTIFIC THEORY OF FORCE BY A MAN OF SCIENCE

 

Ether and Atoms   527

 

VIII. LIFE, FORCE, OR GRAVITY?

 

Dr. Richardson on Nervous Ether   531
The Senses and their Action   535
Too much "Life" may Kill   539

 

IX. THE SOLAR THEORY

 

The Primordial Element   542
Elements and Meta-Elements   546
The Tree of Life and Being   549
Prof. Crookes on the Elements   552

 

X. THE COMING FORCE

 

Mr. Keeley, an Unconscious Occultist   557
Inter-Etheric Waves   561
The Secrets of Sound and Odour   565

 

Xl. ON THE ELEMENTS AND ATOMS

 

Metaphysical Chemistry   569
What are the Seven Planets?   575
The Cyclic Fall of the Gods   577

 

XII. ANCIENT THOUGHT IN MODERN DRESS

 

All-Potential Unity   583
The "Seventh" in Chemistry   585

 

XIII. THE MODERN NEBULAR THEORY

 

Forces are Emanations   591
What is the Nebula?   595

 

XIV. FORCES – MODES OF MOTION OR INTELLIGENCES?

 

The Vital Principle   603
Occult and Physical Science   605

 

XV. GODS, MONADS, AND ATOMS

 

The Gods of the Ancients – the Monads   613
The Monad and the Duad   617
The Genesis of the Elements   621
Hermes and Huxley   625
The Teaching of Leibnitz   627
The Monads according to Occultism   632

 

XVI. CYCLIC EVOLUTION AND KARMA

 

Karmic Cycles and Universal Ethics   637

Destiny and Karma   639

Karma-Nemesis   643

 

XVII. THE ZODIAC AND ITS ANTIQUITY

 

The Jewish Patriarchs and the Signs of the Zodiac   651

Zodiacal Cycles   656

Hindu Astronomy   661

 

XVIII. SUMMARY OF THE MUTUAL POSITION

 

Science Confesses her Ignorance   669

Materialism is leading Europe towards a catastrophe   675

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VOLUME SECOND

ANTHROPOGENESIS

 

 

PRELIMINARY 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

 

 

BOOK II – PART I

ANTHROPOGENESIS

 

STANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN

 

STANZA I – THE BEGINNINGS OF SENTIENT LIVE

 

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

 

TWO ANTEDILUVIAN ASTRONOMERS   47

 

STANZA II – NATURE UNAIDED FAILS

 

The Monsters of Chaos   53
The "Double Dragon"   57
Who are the Flames?   63

 

THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE BRAHMINS

 

The Race that never dies   67
Cosmogony, an intelligent plan   73

 

STANZA III – ATTEMPTS TO CREATE MAN

 

The various classes of Creators   77
Man, a god in animal form   81
"Fires," "Sparks," and "Flames"   83

 

STANZA IV – CREATION OF THE FIRST RACES

 

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

 

STANZA V – THE EVOLUTION OF THE SECOND RACE

 

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

 

STANZA VI – THE EVOLUTION OF THE SWEAT-BORN

 

Bi-sexual reproduction   133
The Virgin Third Race   135
A Few Words about Deluges and Noahs   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

 

STANZA VII – FROM THE SEMI-DIVINE DOWN TO THE FIRST HUMAN RACES

 

Monads and Rounds   167
A Suggestive Explanation   171

A Saint – Hypnotised   175
Sweat-born and Androgynes   177

 

STANZA VIII – EVOLUTION OF THE ANIMAL MAMMALIANS; THE FIRST

 

Archaic Zoology   183
The Sin of the Mindless Men   185

 

WHAT MAY BE THE OBJECTIONS TO THE FOREGOING

 

STANZA IX – THE FINAL EVOLUTION OF MAN

 

The Hairy Men of China   195
The Separation of Sexes   197
Primeval Language   199

 

EDENS, SERPENTS AND DRAGONS

 

The Garden of Eden a College   203
Flying Camels   205
Two Schools of Magic   211
The Flying Dragons   219

 

THE SONS OF GOD AND THE SACRED ISLAND

 

The Magicians of Atlantis   223

 

STANZA X – THE HISTORY OF THE FOURTH RACE

 

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

 

ARCHAIC TEACHINGS IN THE PURANAS AND GENESIS

 

From worm to man   255
Identity of Human and Animal embryos   259

 

A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE EARLY RACES

 

The Natural "Fall"   267
The Symbolism of Kronos   269

 

STANZA X – Continued

 

The Golden Age   273
No Devils outside Humanity   275

 

ARE GIANTS A FICTION?

 

The Seven Virgin Youths   281
The Tibetan Lilith   285
The Races of Men not all Human   287

 

THE RACES WITH THE "THIRD EYE"

 

Occult Physiology   295
The Evolution of the Eye   299
The Third Eye is now a Gland   301

 

THE PRIMEVAL MANUS OF HUMANITY

 

The Four Earlier Races   311
The Esoteric Meaning of "Fish"   313

 

STANZA XI – THE CIVILIZATION AND DESTRUCTION OF THE FOURTH AND FIFTH RACES

 

Degeneration of Mankind   319
Atlantis now Ocean Floor   325
Changes of Climate   329
How to Read Symbols   335
The Antediluvian Buddhas   339

 

CYCLOPEAN RUINS AND COLOSSAL STONES AS WITNESSES TO GIANTS

 

Living, Speaking, and Moving Stones   345
It takes a God to become a Man   349

 

STANZA XII – THE FIFTH RACE AND ITS DIVINE INSTRUCTORS

 

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

The oldest Persian Traditions about the Polar, and the Submerged Continents   393
Western Speculations founded on the Greek and Purânic Traditions   402
The "Curse" from a Philosophical point of view   409

 

ADDITIONAL FRAGMENTS FROM A COMMENTARY ON THE VERSES OF STANZA XII

 

The Oldest Records about Atlantis   425
The Doom of Atlantis   427
The Races, Sub-Races, and Family Races   434

 

CONCLUSION

 

 

BOOK II – PART II

THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS

 

ESOTERIC TENETS CORROBORATED IN EVERY SCRIPTURE

 

XVI. ADAM-ADAMI

 

The Cabalistic Four Adams   457

 

XVII. THE "HOLY OF HOLIES": ITS DEGRADATION

 

Christian Symbolism   463
The "Four-faced" Brahma   465
The Old and the New Jehovah   469

 

XVIII. ON THE MYTH OF THE "FALLEN ANGEL," IN ITS VARIOUS ASPECTS

 

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

 

XIX. IS PLEROMA SATAN'S LAIR?

 

Jehovah's Personating Spirit   509
The Mysterium Magnum   512
The Logos and Satan are One   515

 

XX. PROMETHEUS THE TITAN

 

His Origin in Ancient India   519
The Boon he Gives   523

 

XXI. ENOICHION-HENOCH

 

XXII. THE SYMBOLISM OF THE MYSTERY NAMES IAO AND JEHOVAH

 

Cross and Circle   545
The Fall of the Cross into Matter   553

 

XXIII. THE UPANISHADS IN GNOSTIC LITERATURE

 

When Time be no longer   565
The Divine Self's Wisdom   566

 

XXIV. THE CROSS AND THE PYTHAGOREAN DECADE

 

Poseidon's Five Ministers   577
The Mystery of the Number Six   583
The Cross and Christian After-thought   587

 

XXV. THE MYSTERIES OF THE HEBDOMAD

 

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

 

 

BOOK II – PART III

ADDENDA

SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED

 

I. ARCHAIC, OR MODERN ANTHROPOLOGY?

 

The Occult and the Modern Doctrines   649
Science is Silent on every Problem   653

 

II. THE ANCESTORS MANKIND IS OFFERED BY SCIENCE

 

Various Modes of Reproduction   659
A Pithecoid Man Wanted   669
Plastidular Souls and Conscious Nerve-Cells   670
The atoms of our "Father-Bathybius"   674

 

III. THE FOSSIL RELICS OF MAN AND THE ANTHROPOID APE

 

Insurmountable difficulties for the Darwinians   677
The Argument of "Rudimentary Organs"   683
"Epitomized History" in the Foetus   684
The Evidence of Skulls   687

 

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

 

Sayce's 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 Man – the Solution   728
The Kabalists and Science   730

 

V. ORGANIC EVOLUTION AND CREATIVE CENTRES

 

Dhyan Chohans and these Centres   732

(a) Origin and Evolution of the Mammalia   734

(b) The European Paleolithic Races – whence and how distributed   738

 

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

 

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

 

VII. SCIENTIFIC AND GEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF SEVERAL SUBMERGED CONTINENTS

 

Corroborations of Occultism by Geology   779
Evidence of the Flora   781
Atlantis 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

 

  

INDEX

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VOLUME THIRD

OCCULTISM

 

In 1897 Annie Besant published a book entitled "Occultism" claiming that it was the Third Volume of the Secret Doctrine, and this book contains the following table of contents:

 

 

INTRODUCTORY

 

One Key to All Sacred Books

Assumptions have to be proven

The Spirit of Plato’s Teaching

Self-Contradiction of the Critic

The Character of Animonius Saccas

Plato a follower of Pythagoras

 

 

SECTION 1

 

Preliminary Survey

The Protectors of China

The A B C of Magic

Magic as old as Man

The Tree of Knowledge

Occultism must win the Day

Black Magic at work

Black Magic and Hypnotism

The Philosophy stands on its own Merits

 

 

SECTION 2

 

Modern Criticism and the Ancients

All Honour to Genuine Scientists

What is a Myth?

Chaldean Oracles

 

 

SECTION 3

 

The Origin of Magic

The Books of Hermes

What is the Origin of Magic

Pherecydes of Syror

Cain Mathematical and Anthropomorphic

 

 

SECTION 4

 

 

The Secresy of the Initiates

Exoteric and Esoteric Teachings

Origen on Genesis

The “Dark Sayings” of the Testaments

The Greatest Crime ever perpetrated

Asiatic Religions proclaim their Esotericism openly

The Wisdom Religion

 

 

SECTION 5

 

Some Reasons for Secresy

The Key of Practical Theurgy

The Ladder of Being

Three Ways open to the Adept

Man is God

Jesus taught Reincarnation

 

 

SECTION 6

 

The Dangers of Practical Magic

Names are Symbols

The Three Mothers

The Bible and Word-Juggling

Mo.ses and the Jews

Old Wine in New Bottles

Copies that Ante-dated Originals

Which were the Thieves?

Character of the Bible

 

 

SECTION 8

 

The Book o Enoch the Origin and Foundation of Christianity

The Book of Enoch and Christianity

Enoch records the Races

The Book of Enoch symbolical

Occultists do not reject the “Bible”

 

 

SECTION 9

 

Hermetic and Kabalistic Doctrines

The Kabalah and the Book of Enoch

Numbers and Measures

The Doctrine belongs to All

 

 

SECTION 10

 

Various Occult Systems of Interpretations of Alphabets and Numerals

Numbers and Magic

Gods and Numbers

The Universal Language

 

 

SECTION 11

 

The Hexagon with the Central Point, or the Seventh Key

Occult Weapons

 

 

SECTION 12

 

The Duty of the True Occultist towards Religions

Christian and non-Christian Adepts

 

 

SECTION 13

 

Post- Christian Adepts and their Doctrines

Unfair Criticism

The Two Eternal Principles

 

 

SECTION 14

 

Simon and his Biographer Hippolytus

Uneven Balances

Stones as “Evidences”

 

 

SECTION 15

 

St. Paul the Real Founder of present Christianity

Abrogation of Law by Initiates

Paul changed to Simon

 

 

SECTION 16

 

Petera Jewish Kabalist, not an Initiate

The Seat of Peter

 

 

SECTION 17

 

Apollonius of Tyana

The Mysterious Teacher

Apollonius cannot be Destroyed

De Mirville on Apollonius

Apollonius no Fiction

 

 

SECTION 18

 

Facts underlying Adept Biographies

Jesus and Apollonius

Biographies of Initiates

Similarity of Legends

Nature of Christ

A Serious Mistranslation

Secret Doctrine of Jesus

The Cross and Crucifix

The Story of Jesus

The Primitive Woman

Kabalistic Reading of Gospels

Universal Teachings

 

 

SECTION 19

 

St. Cyprian of Antioch

Magic in Antioch

Sorcerer become Saint

 

 

SECTION 20

 

The Eastern Gupta Vidya and the Kabalah

A Mystery within a Mystery

Authorship of the Zohar

Chaldaic and Hebrew

The First Men

Many Events not Historical

The reaj Hebrew Characters Lost

Hebrew Esotericism not Primitive

The Concealed of All the Concealed

Three-in-One and Four

The Septenary Sephira

The Blind Leading the Blind

 

 

SECTION 21

 

Hebrew Allegories

The Hebrew Bible does not exist

Some Hebrews were Initiates

The Seven Creative Gods

Seven Keys to all Allegories

Gerald Massey on the Seven Creators

The Father and Mothe

 

 

SECTION 22

 

The Zohar on Creation and the Elohim

Angels as Builders

Who are the Elohim

Monad, Duad, and Triad

The Creative Gods

God the Host

 

 

SECTION 23

 

What the Occultists and Kabalists have to say

The Mystery of the Sun

 

 

SECTION 24

 

Modern Kabalists in Science and Occult Astronomy

The Place of Neptune

Self-Generation ex-Nihilo

Are there Angels in Stars

 

 

SECTION 25

 

Eastern and Western Occultism

Primordial Matter

The Great Deep

The Chaos of Genesis

The Bible of Humanity

Chaos is Theos or Kosmos

One Hundred and Eight

 

 

SECTION 26

 

The Idols and the Teraphim

Divining by Teraphim

Jehovah and Teraphim

Idol of the Moon

 

 

SECTION 27

 

Egyptian Magic

Evidence of Papyri

Symbols and their Reading

Rebirth and Transmigration

The Egyptian Khous

Obsession in Egypt

Two Rituals of Magic

Magical Statues

Romances–but True

 

 

SECTION 28

 

The Origin of the Mysteries

An Instant in Heaven

Growth of Popular Beliefs

A True Priesthood

The Egyptian Priests

Revealing and Reveiling

Atlanteans Degenerating

 

 

SECTION 29

 

The Trial of the Sun Initiate

Vishvakarma Vikarttana

The Transmission of Light

Masonry and the Jesuits

 

 

SECTION 30

 

The Mystery “Sun of Initiation”

The Sun as God

 

 

SECTION 31

 

The Object of the Mysteries

Mysteries and Theophany

The Mysteries and Masonry

 

 

SECTION 32

 

Traces of the Mysteries

Christos and Chrestos

The Symbolism of Narada

Egyptian Initiation

The Self-sacrificing Victim

Orpheus

 

 

SECTION 33

 

The Last of the Mysteries in Europe

Alesia and Bibractis

The Learning of Egypt

 

 

SECTION 34

 

The Post-Christian Successors to the Mysteries

The Root Races

The “False Gnosis”

Teachings of Ammonius

Difficulties and Dangers

The Neo-Platonic School

 

 

SECTION 35

 

Symbolism of Sun and Stars

The Circle Dance

Christian Astrolatry

Michael the Conqueror

The Christian Sun-God

 

 

SECTION 36

 

Pagan Sidereal Worship or Astronomy

The Planetary Angels

Celestial Wheels

The Promethean Mystery

 

 

SECTION 37

 

The Souls of the Stars–Universal HelioIatry

Christian Star-Worship

A Singular Confession

 

 

SECTION 38

 

 

Astrology and Astrolatry

The Defense of Astrology

Its Later Deterioration

Its Prominent Disciples

 

 

SECTION 39

 

Cycles and Avataras

An Unfulfilled Prophecy

Secret Cycles

 

 

SECTION 40

 

Secret Cycles

The Naros

Age of the Vedas

Testimony of the Song Celestial

Mackey’s Arguments

 

 

SECTION 41

 

The Doctrine of the Avataras

All Avataras Identical

Voluntary Incarnations

Cardinal de Cusa

The Seven Rays

Special Cases

The Higher Astral

 

 

SECTION 42

 

The Seven Principles

 

 

SECTION 43

 

The Mystery of Buddha

Shankaracharya

The Buddha cannot Reincarnate

A Fuller Explanation

Sacrifice

Shankiracharya still Living

 

 

SECTION 44

 

“Reincarnations” of Buddha

Vajradhara

Living Buddhas

An Obscure Passage

 

 

SECTION 45

 

An Unpublished Discourse of Buddha

A Mistaken View

 

 

SECTION 46

 

Nirvana-Moksha

The Akasha

Matter is ever living

Blind Faith not Expected

What Annihilation Means

 

 

SECTION 47

 

The Secret Books of “Lam-Rin” and Dzyan

 

 

SECTION 48

 

Amita Buddha Kwan-Shai-yiu, and Kwan-yin. – What the Book of Dzyan and the Lamaseries of Tsong-Khapa say

 

 

SECTION 49

 

Tsong-Khapa– Lohans in China

The Lost Word

Tibetan Prophecies

 

 

SECTION 50

 

A Few More Misconceptions Corrected

Misrepresentations of Buddhism

A Mysterious Land

Absurd Conclusions

Materialistic Orientalists

Introduction of Buddhism into Tibet

 

 

SECTION 51

 

The “Doctrine of the Eye” and the “Doctrine of the Heart,” or the “Heart’s Seal”

Swedenborg’s Claims

The God “Who”

More Misrepresentations

Aryasanga

 

 

SOME PAPERS ON THE BEARING OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY ON LIFE

(Blavatsky's Esoteric Instructions)

 

Note

A Warning

The Jewel in the Lotus

The Pythagorean Triad

Seven Correspondential Contents

Correspondence between Races and Man

Man and the Logos

Cosmic, Spiritual and Physical Centres

Woman and Alchemy

Sound and Colour

The Days of the Week

An Explanation

Astrology and Lunar Weeks

Seeing Sounds and Hearing Colours

Planetary and Human Bodies

Planets and Faculties

Simon Magus the Magician

Series of Aeons

The Triple Aeon

Magic and Miracles

Magic a Divine Science

The Seven Hierarchies

Origines

Colours and Principles

The Primordial Seven

The Hierarchies and Man

Wisdom and Truth

Occult Secresy

The Light and Dark Sides of Nature

Nature’s Finer Forces

The “Seven Principles”

The Auric Egg

Five or Seven Tattvas

The Tattvas

Esoteric and Tantra Tables of the Tattvas

Hatha and Raja Yoga

The Awakening of the Seventh Sense

The Master Chakras

The Human Harp

The Duality of Manas

The Living and the Dead

Gaining Immortality

Light and Life

The Two Egos

Death of the Soul

Reincarnation of Lower Soul

The Dweller on the Threshold

The Word

The Divine Witness

Appendix

A Mantra Operative

Colour and Spiritual Sound

Musical Table

Notes on some Oral Teachings

The Dweller on the Threshold

Fear and Hatred

Triangle and Quaternary

Prana and Antahkarana

Sacred Centres of the Body

Akasha Nature’s Sounding-Board

Kosmic Consciousness

Divisions of the Astral Plane

Kosmic Planes

Differentiation

Men and Pitris

Power of Imagination

Why Cycles Return

Talas and Lokas

States of Consciousness

Man and Lokas

Yogis in Svarloka

Consciousness and Self-Consciousness

States of Consciousness

Vibrations and Impressions

The Crucifixion of the Christos

Rising above the Brain

Christ and Apollonius

The Beginnings

Karmic Effects

Fire is Kriyashakti

Responsibility and the Ego

Functions of the Astral Body