II Anthropogenesis Our “Universe” is only one of an infinite ————– BY THE SAME AUTHOR —–——— number of Universes, . each one standing in the relation of an effect as regards its pre- AN INVITATION TO THE SECRET DOCTRINE decessor. and this stupendous develop- Selections from The Secret Doctrine based on study ment has neither conceivable beginning nor suggestions by H. P. Blavatsky, this book is a suc- imaginable end. — 1 : 43 cinct and appealing statement of the core teach- ings of theosophy. Includes an historical essay From Gods to men, from Worlds to atoms, on the writing of the SD. illustrated, 112 pages from a star to a rush-light, from the Sun to SECRET DOCTRINE COMMENTARY: the vital heat of the meanest organic being the Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge world of Form and Existence is an immense Further explanations by HPB of SD Stanzas I – IV: chain, whose links are all connected. cosmic genesis, space and time, the builders of — 1 : 604 worlds, fohat, manus, universal mind, and more. Also a section on the nature of dreams. Thus, there is a regular circulation of the facsimile edition, new index, 124 pages vital fluid throughout our system, of which THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE the Sun is the heart . the Sun contracting Translated from the “Book of the Golden Pre- as rhythmically at every return of it, as the cepts,” the Voice contrasts the two paths of spiritual human heart does. Only, instead of perform- attainment: enlightenment for self alone or for ing the round in a second or so, it takes the the benefit of all. An illumined exposition of the solar blood ten of its years, and a whole year to Heart Doctrine of Mahāyāna Buddhism. verbatim edition, 112 pages pass through its auricles and ventricles before it washes the lungs and passes thence to the THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY great veins and arteries of the system. Written in question and answer style, the Key ex- — 1 : 541 plains the origin and nature of theosophy, karma, free will, reincarnation, afterdeath states, God and There is but One Element in nature, and prayer, man’s septenary nature, the mahatmas, and practical theosophy. at the root of it is the Deity; . direct from verbatim edition, glossary, 442 pages the essence whereof comes Man, whether physically, psychically, mentally or spiritually ISIS UNVEILED considered. — 1 : 460 “One of the most remarkable productions of the century” (New York Herald, 1877) — “Monumen- It is only the knowledge of the constant tal” (North American Review). Still a best seller in its field, this is HPB’s groundbreaking work, re-births of one and the same individuality deftly contrasting Western science with the eso- throughout the life-cycle . that can explain teric wisdom-tradition. two volumes, 1471 pages to us the mysterious problem of Good and Evil, and reconcile man to the terrible and Complete catalog available on request apparent injustice of life. — 2 : 303 Theosophical University Press Post Office Box C Unabridged Verbatim Edition Pasadena, California 91109-7107 www.theosociety.org THE SECRET DOCTRINE. 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. I I.—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. “ 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. ” h Theosophical University Press Post Office Box C Pasadena, California 91109-7107 www.theosociety.org 2014 Unabridged Verbatim Edition This edition is a character-for-character, line-for-line reproduction of the two-volume 1888 first edition. It is set in new type which closely matches the Miller & Richard Old Style font used in the original. The Index at the end of Volume II is the version revised in 1925. Readers are also referred to The Secret Doctrine : Index, a separate 440-page volume available in print and online at our website. ISBN 978-1-55700-228-0 2-volumes, paperback ISBN 978-1-55700-229-7 2-volumes, PDF ebook The paper in the print edition is acid free and meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 for libraries and archives. Manufactured in the United States of America 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. 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 I I.— PART I 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 I I.— Nature Unaided Fails … … … … … … 52 The Monsters of Chaos … … … … … … … 53 The “ Double Dragon ” … … … … … … … 57 Who are the Flames ? … … … … … … … 63 viii contents. page. The Chronology of the Brahmins … … … … … … 66 The Race that never dies … … … … … … … 67 Cosmogony, an intelligent plan … … … … … … 73 Stanza I I I.— 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 V I.— 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 Purânas … … … … … 155 Oceans of Carbonic Acid ? … … … … … … 159 Stanza V I I.— From the Semi-Divine down to the First Human Races 161 Monads and Rounds … … … … … … … 167 A Suggestive Explanation … … … … … … 171 contents ix page. A Saint — Hypnotised … … … … … … … 175 Sweat-born and Androgynes … … … … … … 177 Stanza V I I I.— Evolution of the Animal Mammalians — the First Fall … … … … … … … … … 180 Archaic Zoology … … … … … … … … 183 The Sin of the Mindless Men … … … … … … 185 What may be the Objections to the Foregoing … … … … 185 Stanza I X.— 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 Island … … … … 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 Purânas 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 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 Eye … … … … … … … 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 X I.— 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 X I I.— 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