{"product_id":"the-secret-doctrine-3-volume-set","title":"The Secret Doctrine   (3 - Volume Set)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: H P Blavatsky\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Theosophical Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2010\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 2035\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8170590574\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE Author -- the writer, rather -- feels it necessary to apologise for the long delay, which has occurred in the appearance of this work. It has been occasioned by ill-health and the magnitude of the undertaking. Even the two volumes now issued do not complete the scheme, and these do not treat exhaustively of the subjects dealt with in them. A large quantity of material has already been prepared, dealing with the history of occultism as contained in the lives of the great Adepts of the Aryan Race, and showing the bearing of occult philosophy upon the conduct of life, as it is and as it ought to be. Should the present volumes meet with a favourable reception; no effort will be spared to carry out the scheme of the work in its entirety. The third volume is entirely ready, the fourth almost so. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis scheme, it must be added, was not in contemplation when the preparation of the work was first announced. As originally announced, it was intended that the \"Secret Doctrine\" should be an amended and enlarged version of \"Isis Unveiled.\" It was, however, soon found that the explanations which could be added to those already put before the world in the last-named and other works dealing with esoteric science, were such as to require a different method of treatment: and consequently the present volumes do not contain, in all, twenty pages extracted from \"Isis Unveiled.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author does not feel it necessary to ask the indulgence of her readers and critics for the many defects of literary style, and the imperfect English which may be found in these pages. She is a foreigner, and her knowledge of the language was acquired late in life. The English tongue is employed because it offers the most widely-diffused medium for conveying the truths which it had become her duty to place before the world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese truths are in no sense put forward as a revelation; nor does the author claim the position of a revealer of mystic lore, now made public for the first time in the world's history. For what is contained in this work is to be found scattered throughout thousands of volumes embodying the scriptures of the great Asiatic and early European religions, hidden under glyph and symbol, and hitherto left unnoticed because of this veil. What is now attempted is to gather the oldest tenets together and to make of them one harmonious and unbroken whole. The sole advantage, which the writer has over her predecessors, is that she need not resort to personal speculations and theories. For this work is a partial statement of what she herself has been taught by more advanced students, supplemented, in a few details only, by the results of her own study and observation. The publication of many of the facts herein stated has been rendered necessary by the wild and fanciful speculations in which many Theosophists and students of mysticism have indulged, during the last few years, in their endeavour to, as they imagined, work out a complete system of thought from the few facts previously communicated to them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is needless to explain that this book is not the Secret Doctrine in its entirety, but a select number of fragments of its fundamental tenets, special attention being paid to some facts which have been seized upon by various writers, and distorted out of all resemblance to the truth. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings, however fragmentary and incomplete, contained in these volumes, belong neither to the Hindu, the Zoroastrian, the Chaldean, nor the Egyptian religion, neither to Buddhism, Islam, Judaism nor Christianity exclusively. The Secret Doctrine is the essence of all these. Sprung from it in their origins, the various religious schemes are now made to merge back into their original element, out of which every mystery and dogma has grown, developed, and become materialised. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is more than probable that the book will be regarded by a large section of the public as a romance of the wildest kind; for who has ever even heard of the book of Dzyan? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe writer, therefore, is fully prepared to take all the responsibility for what is contained in this work, and even to face the charge of having invented the whole of it. That it has many shortcomings she is fully aware; all that she claims for it is that, romantic as it may seem to many, its logical coherence and consistency entitle this new Genesis to rank, at any rate, on a level with the \"working hypotheses\" so freely accepted by modern science. Further, it claims consideration, not by reason of any appeal to dogmatic authority, but because it closely adheres to Nature, and follows the laws of uniformity and analogy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe aim of this work may be thus stated: to show that Nature is not \"a fortuitous concurrence of atoms,\" and to assign to man his rightful place in the scheme of the Universe; to rescue from degradation the archaic truths which are the basis of all religions; and to uncover, to some extent, the fundamental unity from which they all spring; finally, to show that the occult side of Nature has never been approached by the Science of modern civilization. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf this is in any degree accomplished, the writer is content. It is written in the service of humanity, and by humanity and the future generations it must be judged. Its author recognises no inferior court of appeal. Abuse she is accustomed to; calumny she is daily acquainted with; at slander she smiles in silent contempt. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDe minimis non curat lex. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eH.P.B. \u003cbr\u003eLondon, October 1888.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroductory\u003cbr\u003eThe need of such a Book\u003cbr\u003eThe Antiquity of Documents and MSS\u003cbr\u003eWhat the Book is intended to do\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME FIRST\u003cbr\u003eCOSMOGENESIS:\u003cbr\u003eProem\u003cbr\u003eThe Oldest MSS in the World and its Symbolism\u003cbr\u003eThe One Life, Active and Passive \u003cbr\u003eThe Secret Doctrine - Pantheism - Atheism\u003cbr\u003e‘Space’ in all Religions and in Occultism\u003cbr\u003eSeven Cosmic Elements - Seven Races of Mankind\u003cbr\u003eThe three Postulates of the Secret Doctrine\u003cbr\u003eDescription of the Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME I : PART I\u003cbr\u003eCOSMIC EVOLUTION:\u003cbr\u003eSeven Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza I - The Night of the Universe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza II - The Idea of Differentiation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza III - The Awakening of Kosmos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza IV - The Septenary Hierarchies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza V - Fohat: The Child of the Septenary Hierarchies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza VI - Our World, Its Growth and Development\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza VI - Continued\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza VII - The Parents of Man on Earth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME I : PART II\u003cbr\u003eTHE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOKISM IN ITS APPROXIMATE ORDER:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Symbolism and Ideographs\u003cbr\u003e2. The mystery-language and its Keys\u003cbr\u003e3. Primordial substance and Divine thought\u003cbr\u003e4. Chaos - Theos - Kosmos\u003cbr\u003e5. On the hidden Deity, its Symbols and Glyphs\u003cbr\u003e6. The Mundane Egg\u003cbr\u003e7. The Days and nights of Brahma\u003cbr\u003e8. The Lotus, as a Universal Symbol\u003cbr\u003e9. The Moon, Deus Lunus, Phoebe\u003cbr\u003e10. Tree, Seprpent, and Crocodile Worship\u003cbr\u003e11. Daemon Est Deus Inversus\u003cbr\u003e12. The Theogony of the Creative Gods \u003cbr\u003e13. The Seven Creations\u003cbr\u003e14. The four Elements\u003cbr\u003e15. On Kuan-Shih-Yin and Kuan-Yin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME I : PART III\u003cbr\u003eADDENDA\u003cbr\u003eSCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Reasons for These Addenda\u003cbr\u003e2. Modern Physicists are Playing at Blind Man’s Buff\u003cbr\u003e3. \"An Lumen Sit corpus An Nov\"\u003cbr\u003e4. Is Gravitation a law?\u003cbr\u003e5. The Theories of Rotation in Science\u003cbr\u003e6. The Mask of Science\u003cbr\u003e7. An Attack on the Scientific Theory of Force\u003cbr\u003e8. Life, Force, or Gravity?\u003cbr\u003e9. The Solar Theory\u003cbr\u003e10. The coming Force\u003cbr\u003e11. On the Elements and Atoms\u003cbr\u003e12. Ancient thought in Modern Dress\u003cbr\u003e13. The Modern nebular Theory\u003cbr\u003e14. Force - Modes of Motion or Intelligences?\u003cbr\u003e15. Gods, Monads, and Atoms\u003cbr\u003e16. Cyclic Evolution and Karma\u003cbr\u003e17. The Zodiac and its Antiquity\u003cbr\u003e18. Summary of The Mutual Position\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume - II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME SECOND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreliminary Notes\u003cbr\u003eOn the Archaic stanzas, and the Four Prehistoric continents\u003cbr\u003eThe Imperishable Sacred Land\u003cbr\u003eThe Hyperborean\u003cbr\u003eLemuria\u003cbr\u003eAtlantis\u003cbr\u003eThe Tropics at the Pole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME II : PART I\u003cbr\u003eANTHROPOGENESIS:\u003cbr\u003eStanzas from the Book of Dzyan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza I - Beginnings of Sentient Life\u003cbr\u003eTwo Antediluvian Astronomers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza II - Nature Unaided Fails\u003cbr\u003eThe Chronology of the Brahmans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza III - Attempts to Create Man\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza IV - Creation of the First Races\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza V - The Evolution of the Second Race\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza VI - The Evolution of the Sweat-Born\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza VII - From the Semi-Divine Down to the First Human Races\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza VIII - Evolution of the Animal Mammalians - The first Fall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza IX - The Final Evolution of Man\u003cbr\u003eEdens, Serpents, and Dragons\u003cbr\u003eThe \"Sons of God\" and the \"Sacred Island\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza X - The History of the Fourth Race\u003cbr\u003eArchaic teachings in the Puranas and Genesis\u003cbr\u003eA Panoramic View of the Early Races\u003cbr\u003eAre Giants a Fiction?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza X - Continued\u003cbr\u003eThe Races with the \"Third Eye\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Primeval Manus of Humanity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza XI - The Civilization and Destruction of the Third and \u003cbr\u003eFourth races\u003cbr\u003eCyclopean Ruins and Colossal Stones as Witness to Giants\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanza XII - The fifth Race and its Divine Instructors\u003cbr\u003eAdditional Fragments from a Commentary on the Verses of Stanza XII\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME II : PART II\u003cbr\u003eTHE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEsoteric Tenets Corroborated in Every Scripture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdam-Adami\u003cbr\u003eThe \"Holy of Holies\": It’s Degradation\u003cbr\u003eOn The Myth of The \"Fallen Angles\", in its various Aspects\u003cbr\u003eIs Pleroma Satan’s Lair?\u003cbr\u003ePrometheus, The Titan\u003cbr\u003eEnoichion-Henoch\u003cbr\u003eThe Symbolism of the Mystery-Names Iao and Jehovah\u003cbr\u003eThe Upanishads in Gnostic Literature\u003cbr\u003eThe Cross and The Pythagorean Decad\u003cbr\u003eThe Mysteries of The hedomad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME II : PART III\u003cbr\u003eADDENDA\u003cbr\u003eSCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED\u003cbr\u003eArchaic, or Modern Anthropology?\u003cbr\u003eThe Ancestors Mankind is Offered by Science\u003cbr\u003eThe Fossil Relics of Man and the anthropoid Ape\u003cbr\u003eDuration of The Geological Periods, Race Cycles, and the \u003cbr\u003e    Antiquity of Man\u003cbr\u003eOrganic Evolution and Creative Centers\u003cbr\u003eGiants, Civilizations, and Submerged Continents Traced in History\u003cbr\u003eScientific and Geological Proofs of The Existence of several\u003cbr\u003e    Submerged Continents \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME THIRD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConcordance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix I: \u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography of \u003cbr\u003eWorks on the Esoteric Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix II: \u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography of works\u003cbr\u003eClosely Related to subjects Discussed or \u003cbr\u003eReferred to in \"The Secret Doctrine\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix III: \u003cbr\u003eStanzas in the Wiirzburg Manuscript\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"H P Blavatsky \/ Theosophical Publishing \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153509118320,"sku":"23732","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/23732.jpg?v=1793910611","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/the-secret-doctrine-3-volume-set","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}