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Band 2 Anthropogenesis THE SECRET DOCTRINE BY H. P. BLAVATSKY VOLUME 2 THEOSOPHCAL UNIVERSITY PRESS ASCII EDITION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page i]] THE SECRET DOCTRINE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page ii]] [[blank]] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page iii]] THE SECRET DOCTRINE: THE SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY. BY H. P. BLAVATSKY AUTHOR OF "ISIS UNVEILED." "There is no Religion higher than Truth." VOL. II. -- ANTHROPOGENESIS. London: THE THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, LIMITED. 7 Duke Street, Adelphi, W. C. WILLIAM Q. JUDGE, 117 Nassau Street, New York. THE MANAGER OF THE THEOSOPHIST, Adyar, Madras --- 1888. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page iv]] "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1888, by H. P. Blavatsky, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page v]] This Work I Dedicate to all True Theosophists, In every Country, And of every Race, For they called it forth, and for them it was recorded. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page vi]] [[blank]] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page vii]] TABLE OF CONTENTS. ------- VOLUME SECOND. PRELIMINARY NOTES. PAGE. 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... 15 ------- STANZA 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 ... 39 The First War in Heaven ... 45 ------- TWO ANTEDILUVIAN ASTRONOMERS ... 47 ------- STANZA II. -- NATURE UNAIDED FAILS ... 52 The Monsters of Chaos ... 53 The "Double Dragon" ... 57 Who are the Flames? ... 63 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page]] viii CONTENTS. PAGE. THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE BRAHMINS ... 66 The Race that never dies ... 67 Cosmogony, an intelligent plan ... 73 ------- STANZA III. -- ATTEMPTS TO CREATE MAN ... 75 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 ... 86 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 ... 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 ------- STANZA 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 ------- STANZA VII. -- FROM THE SEMI-DIVINE DOWN TO THE FIRST HUMAN RACES ... 161 Monads and Rounds ... 167 A Suggestive Explanation ... 171 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page]] ix CONTENTS. PAGE. A Saint -- Hypnotised ... 175 Sweat-born and Androgynes ... 177 ------- STANZA VIII. -- EVOLUTION OF THE ANIMAL MAMMALIANS -- THE FIRST FALL ... 180 Archaic Zoology ... 182 The Sin of the Mindless Men ... 183 ------- WHAT MAY BE THE OBJECTIONS TO THE FOREGOING ... 185 ------- STANZA IX. -- THE FINAL EVOLUTION OF MAN ... 191 The Hairy Men of China ... 195 The Separation of Sexes ... 197 Primeval Language ... 199 ------- EDENS, SERPENTS AND DRAGONS ... 202 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 ISLAND0 ... 220 The Magicians of Atlantis ... 223 ------- STANZA 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 ------- ARCHAIC TEACHINGS IN THE PURANAS AND GENESIS ... 251 From worm to man ... 255 Identity of Human and Animal embryos ... 259 ------- A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE EARLY RACES ... 263 The Natural "Fall" ... 267 The Symbolism of Kronos ... 269 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page]] x CONTENTS. PAGE. STANZA X. -- Continued ... 271 The Golden Age ... 273 The Devil's outside Humanity ... 275 ------- ARE GIANTS A FICTION? ... 277 The Seven Virgin Youths ... 281 The Tibetan Lilith ... 285 The Races of Men not all Human ... 287 ------- THE RACES WITH THE "THIRD EYE" ... 289 Occult Physiology ... 295 The Evolution of the Eve ... 299 The Third Eye is now a Gland ... 301 ------- THE PRIMEVAL MANUS OF HUMANITY ... 307 The Four Earlier Races ... 311 The Esoteric Meaning of "Fish" ... 313 ------- STANZA 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 The Antediluvian Buddhas ... 339 ------- CYCLOPEAN RUINS AND COLOSSAL STONES AS WITNESSES TO GIANTS 341 Living, Speaking, and Moving Stones ... 345 It takes a God to become a Man ... 349 ------- STANZA 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 ... 378 Noah was a Kabir, hence he must have been a Demon ... 390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page]] xi CONTENTS. PAGE. The oldest Persian Traditions about the Polar, and the Submerged Continents ... 393 Western Speculations founded on the Greek and Puranic Traditions ... 401 [[sic]] The "Curse" from a Philosophical point of view ... 409 ------- ADDITIONAL FRAGMENTS FROM A COMMENTARY ON THE VERSES OF STANZA XII. ... 423 The Oldest Records about Atlantis ... 425 The Doom of Atlantis ... 427 The Races, Sub-Races, and Family Races ... 434 CONCLUSION ... 437 ------- BOOK II. -- PART II. THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS. ESOTERIC TENETS CORROBORATED IN EVERY SCRIPTURE ... 449 ------- § XVI. ADAM-ADAMI ... 452 The Cabalistic Four Adams ... 457 ------- XVII. THE "HOLY OF HOLIES": ITS DEGRADATION ... 459 Christian Symbolism ... 463 The "Four-faced" Brahm ... 465 The Old and the New Jehovah ... 469 ------- XVIII. 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 ------- XIX. IS PLEROMA SATAN'S LAIR? ... 506 Jehovah's Personating Spirit ... 509 The Mysterium Magnum ... 512 The Logos and Satan are One ... 515 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page]] xii CONTENTS. PAGE. XX. PROMETHEUS THE TITAN ... 519 His Origin in Ancient India ... 519 The Boon he Gives ... 523 ------- XXI. ENOICHION-HENOCH ... 529 ------- XXII. THE SYMBOLTSM OF THE MYSTERY NAMES IAO, AND JEHOVAH 536 Cross and Circle ... 545 The Fall of the Cross into Matter ... 553 ------- XXIII. THE UPANISHADS IN GNOSTIC LITERATURE ... 563 When Time be no longer ... 565 The Divine Self's Wisdom ... 566 ------- XXIV. THE CROSS AND THE PYTHAGOREAN DECADE ... 573 Poseidon's Five Ministers ... 577 The Mystery of the Number Six ... 583 The Cross and Christian After-thought ... 587 ------- XXV. THE MYSTERIES OP 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 --------------------- BOOK II. -- PART III. ADDENDA. SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED. §§ I. ARCHAIC, OR MODERN ANTHROPOLOGY? ... 645 The Occult and the Modern Doctrines ... 649 Science is Silent on every Problem ... 653 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page]] xiii CONTENTS. PAGE. II. 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 ------- III. THE FOSSIL RELICS OF MAN AND THE ANTHROPOID APE ... 675 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 ... 690 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
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