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Blavatsky the Secret Doctrine Pdf Blavatsky the secret doctrine pdf Continue For Morgan Lefai's album, see Secret Doctrine (album). Secret Doctrine, Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy First EditionAutoor Elena Blavatastublished1888 Part of the series on the themes of the theosophySophical Society Founders Elena Blavatsky (en) William Kuan Judge Henry Steele Alcott Theosophists Annie Besant (en) Robert Crosby Abner Doubledeis (ru) Jeffrey Hodson W. Leadbeater G. R.S. Mead Arthur E. Powell Isabel Cooper-Oakley Subba-Rowe William Scott-Elliott Alfred Percy Sinnett (en) Rudolf Steiner Brian Stonehouse Catherine Ingle (en) Ernest Wood Theosophy philosophical concepts of The Roots Race (en) Round Seven Rays Theosophic Mysticism theosophical organizations of the Theosophical Society of theosophilic Society of Adyar theosophy Society in America (Hargrove) Theosophical Society pasadena Theosophical Society Point Loma - Blavat House United Lodge of the Feosophys Theosophytic Texts of Esoteric Buddhism (en) Isis (en) Isis unveiled (en) Isis (en) Isis unveiled (en) Isis (en) Isis unveiled (en) Isis en) Key to the thesisofia The secret doctrine of theosophical Glossary Of theosometic publications of Lucifer Magazine (en) Theosophist Theosophical Masters Of Kuthumi Master Ilarion Master Jesus Maitreya Moriah Paul Venetian Sanat Kumara Serapis BBC St. Germain Comparative Buddhism theosophy and Christianity Theosophy and Hinduism Theosophy and Theosophy Theosophy and literature Theosophy and visual art Theosophy and Western Philosophy Related Agni Yoga Alice Bailey (en) Anthroposophia Ascended Master of the Teachings of Esoteica (en) Hermetism Dedication Jeddah Krishnamurti Liberal Catholic Church Masters of Ancient Wisdom (en) Mystic New Age Neo-Toosophy Occultism of neoplatonism Order of the Stars of the East vte Tay Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, a pseudo-scientific book originally published as two volumes in 1888 written by Elena Blavatsky. The first volume is called Cosmogenesis, the second anthropogenesis. It was an influential example of a renewed interest in esoteric and occult ideas in the modern era, in particular because of his statement about the reconciliation of ancient Eastern wisdom with modern science. Blavatsky believed that the contents of the Privy Doctrine had been revealed to her by mahatms who had preserved knowledge of the spiritual history of mankind, knowing that it was now possible, in particular, to reveal. (not tested in the body) Tom the first (Cosmogenesis) In volume the first Blavatsky details her interpretation of the origin and evolution of the universe itself, in terms derived from the Hindu concept of cyclical development. Peace and everything in it is said to alternate between periods of activity (manvantaras) and periods of passivity (praaya). Each manvantara lasts many millions of years and consists of a number of Yugas, according to the Hindu Blavatsky tried to demonstrate that the discoveries of materialistic science were expected in the works of ancient sages and that materialism would be proved wrong. Cosmic Evolution: Elements of Cosmogony In this recapitulation of the Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky gave a summary of the central points of its cosmogony system. These central points are as follows: The first paragraph repeats Blavatsky's position that the Secret Doctrine is the accumulated Wisdom of the Ages, a system of thought that is a continuous record spanning thousands of generations of Proies whose respective experiences were made to test and validate traditions transmitted orally by one early race by another, the teachings of higher and higher beings who observed the childhood of mankind. The second paragraph repeats the first fundamental sentence (see above), calling this principle the fundamental law in this system. Here Blavatsky speaks about this principle that it is a homogeneous divine Substance-Principle, one radical reason. ... It is called the Principle Substance, for it becomes a matter on the plane of the manifested universe, an illusion, while it remains a principle in an impassive and infinite abstract, visible and invisible space. It's the ubiquitous Reality: impersonal, because it contains everything and everything. Its facelessness is a fundamental concept of the System. It is hidden in every atom in the universe and is the universe itself. The third paragraph repeats the second fundamental sentence (see above), once again impressing by the fact that the universe is a periodic manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence and also concerning the complex Sanskrit ideas of Parabrachma and Mulaprakriti. In this paragraph, the idea that the One unconditional and absolute principle is covered with a veil, Mulaprakriti, that the spiritual essence is forever covered with material essence. The fourth point is the common eastern idea of the Maya. Blavatsky claims that the whole universe is called an illusion, because everything in it is temporary, i.e. has a beginning and an end, and therefore is unrealistic in comparison with the eternal unrealization of the One Principle. The fifth paragraph repeats the third fundamental sentence (see above), which states that everything in the universe is conscious, in its own way and on its own perception plan. Because of this, the occult philosophy states that there are no unconscious or blind laws of Nature, that everything is governed by consciousness and consciousness. The sixth paragraph gives a basic insight into the theosophical philosophy that is both above and below. This is known as the law of correspondence, its basic premise is that everything in the universe works and manifests itself from the outside, or from the highest to the lowest, and that, thus, below, is a copy of the higher, macrocosm. Just as a person experiences every action preceded by the inner impulse of thought, emotion or will, so the universe is preceded by impulses from divine thought, feeling, and will. This paragraph gives rise to the notion of an almost infinite series of hierarchies of sentient beings, which in itself becomes the central idea of many theosophyists. The law of correspondence also becomes central to the methodology of many theosophyists, as they seek similar correspondence between different aspects of reality, such as the correspondence between the earth seasons and the process of one human life, through birth, growth, adulthood, and then decline and death. Tom II (Anthropogenesis) The second half of the book describes the origin of humanity through an account of the Root Races, said to date back millions of years. The first indigenous race was, she said, ethereal; the second root had more physical bodies and lived in Hyperborea. The third indigenous race, the first truly human, is said to have existed on the lost continent of Lemuria, and the fourth indigenous race is said to have developed in Atlantis. According to Blavatsky, the fifth root race is about a million years old, overlapping the fourth root race, and the first beginnings of the fifth root race were around the middle of the fourth root race. (quote needed) The real line of evolution is different from Darwinian, and the two systems are irreconcilable, says Blavatsky, except when the latter is separated from the dogma of natural selection. She explained that by man means divine Monad, not thinking Essence, much less his physical body. The occult rejects the idea that nature developed humans from a monkey, or even from an ancestor in common with both, but traces, conversely, of some of the most anthropoid species in the third race of man. In other words, the ancestor of the current anthropoid animal, the monkey, is the direct production of another thoughtless man who has desecrated his human dignity by placing himself physically at the level of an animal. Volumes three and four Blavatsky wanted to publish the third and fourth volume of the Secret Doctrine. After Blavatsky's death, the controversial third volume of Secret Doctrine was published by Annie Besant. Three fundamental sentences Blavatsky explained the basic ideas of the component of her cosmogony in her magnum opus, the Secret Doctrine. She started with three main sentences, of which she said: Before the reader continues... it is imperative that he familiarize himself with the few fundamental concepts that underlie and permeate the entire system of thought to which his attention is invited. These basic ideas are few in number, and their clear fears depend Of all that follows ... The first assumption is that there is one basic, substandard, indivisib Truth, differently called Absolute, Unknown Root, One Reality, One Reality, etc. However, the transient states of matter and consciousness are manifested in IT, in the unfolding gradation from the subtlest to the densest, the end of which is the physical plan. According to this view, explicit existence is a change of state and therefore is neither the result of creation nor a random event. Everything in the universe has become familiar with the potentials present in the Unknown Root and manifests itself with varying degrees of life (or energy), Consciousness and Matter. The second sentence is the absolute universality of this law of frequency, flow and reflux, ebb and flow. Accordingly, explicit existence is an ever-again recurring event on the limitless plane: The site of the immeasurable universes, constantly manifesting and disappearing, each of which stands against the effect of its predecessor and is the reason for the attitude of his successor, doing so during huge but finite periods of time. In connection with the above there is a third sentence: The fundamental identity of all souls with the Universal Supers sincere... and a mandatory pilgrimage for each soul - the spark of the first - through the Cycle of Incarnation (or Necessity) in accordance with the Cyclical and Karmic Law, for the duration. Individual souls are treated as units of consciousness (Monads) that are an integral part of the universal oculus, just as different sparks are parts of fire. These Monadas undergo a process of evolution where consciousness unfolds and matter develops. This evolution is not accidental, but informed by intelligence and purpose.
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