The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 / The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy - H. P. Blavatsky

Cosmogenesis

The Theosophical Publishing House

London

1893

[Preface To The First Edition.]
[Preface To The Third And Revised Edition.]
[Introductory.]
[Proem: Pages From A Pre-Historic Record.]
[Part I. Cosmic Evolution.]
[Seven Stanzas From The “Book Of Dzyan”]
[Stanza I.]
[Stanza II.]
[Stanza III.]
[Stanza IV.]
[Stanza V.]
[Stanza VI.]
[Stanza VII.]
[Commentaries On The Seven Stanzas And Their Terms, According To Their Numeration, In Stanzas And Shlokas.]
[Stanza I.]
[Stanza II.]
[Stanza III.]
[Stanza IV.]
[Stanza V.]
[Stanza VI.]
[A Digression.]
[A Few Early Misconceptions Concerning Planets, Rounds, And Man.]
[The Septenary Division In Different Indian Systems.]
[Additional Facts And Explanations Concerning The Globes And The Monads.]
[Stanza VI.—Continued.]
[Stanza VII.]
[Summing Up.]
[Extracts From An Eastern Private Commentary, Hitherto Secret.]
[Part II. The Evolution Of Symbolism.]
[Section I. Symbolism and Ideographs.]
[Section II. The Mystery Language and Its Keys.]
[Section III. Primordial Substance and Divine Thought.]
[Section IV. Chaos: Theos: Kosmos.]
[Section V. On the Hidden Deity, Its Symbols and Glyphs.]
[Section VI. The Mundane Egg.]
[Section VII. The Days and Nights of Brahmâ.]
[Section VIII. The Lotus, as a Universal Symbol.]
[Section IX. The Moon; Deus Lunus, Phœbe.]
[Section X. Tree, Serpent, and Crocodile Worship.]
[Section XI. Demon est Deus Inversus.]
[Section XII. The Theogony of the Creative Gods.]
[Section XIII. The Seven Creations.]
[Section XIV. The Four Elements.]
[Section XV. On Kwan-Shi-Yin and Kwan-Yin.]
[Part III. Addenda. On Occult And Modern Science.]
[Section I. Reasons for These Addenda.]
[Section II. Modern Physicists are Playing at Blind Man's Buff.]
[“An Lumen Sit Corpus, Nec Non?”]
[Section III. Is Gravitation a Law?]
[Section IV. The Theories of Rotation in Science.]
[Current Hypotheses explaining the Origin of Rotation.]
[Hypotheses of the Origin of Planets and Comets.]
[Section V. The Masks of Science. Physics Or Metaphysics?]
[Section VI. An Attack on the Scientific Theory of Force by a Man of Science.]
[Section VII. Life, Force, or Gravity.]
[Section VIII. The Solar Theory.]
[Section IX. The Coming Force. Its Possibilities And Impossibilities.]
[Section X. On the Elements and Atoms.]
[Section XI. Ancient Thought in Modern Dress.]
[Section XII. Scientific and Esoteric Evidence for, and Objections to, the Modern Nebular Theory.]
[Section XIII. Forces—Modes of Motion or Intelligences?]
[Section XIV. Gods, Monads and Atoms.]
[Section XV. Cyclic Evolution and Karma.]
[Section XVI. The Zodiac and its Antiquity.]
[Section XVII. Summary of the Position.]
[Footnotes]

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