The Secret Doctrine 3 Volume Paperback Set

Volume 1: Preface; Introduction; Book I; Section 1. Cosmic Evolution: Seven Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan: 1. The night of the universe; 2. The idea of differentiation; 3. The awakening of kosmos; 4. The septenary hierarchies; 5. Fohat: the child of the septenary hierarchies; 6. Our world, its growth and development, theosophical misconceptions, explanations concerning the globes and the monads; 6. Continued; 7. The parents of man on Earth; Summing up; Section 2. The Evolution of Symbolism in its Approximate Order: 1. Symbolism and ideographs; 2. The mystery language and its keys; 3. Primordial substance and divine thought; 4. Chaos - theos - kosmos; 5. The hidden deity, its symbols and glyphs; 6. The mundane egg; 7. The days and nights of Brahma; 8. The lotus as a universal symbol; 9. Deus lunus; 10. Tree and serpent and crocodile worship; 11. Demon est deus inversus; 12. The theogony of the creative gods; 13. The seven creations; 14. The four elements; 15. On Kwan-Shi-Yin and Kwan-Yin; Section 3. Science and the Secret Doctrine Contrasted: 1. Reasons for these addenda; 2. Modern physicists are playing at blind man's buff; 3. An lumen sit corpus nec non?; 4. Is gravitation a law?; 5. The theories of rotation in science; 6. The masks of science; 7. An attack on the scientific theory of force by a man of science; 8. Life, force, or gravity; 9. The solar theory; 10. The coming force; 11. On the elements and atoms; 12. Ancient thought in modern dress; 13. The modern nebular theory; 14. Forces - modes of motion or intelligences?; 15. Gods, monads, and atoms; 16. Cyclic evolution and karma; 17. The zodiac and its antiquity; 18. Summary of the mutual position. Volume 2: Preliminary notes; Book II; Section 1. Anthropogenesis. Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan: 1. Beginnings of sentient life; 2. Two antediluvian astronomers; 3. Nature unaided fails; 4. The chronology of the Brahmins; 5. Attempts to create man; 6. Creation of the first races; 7. The evolution of the second race; 8. The evolution of the weat-born; 9. From the semi-divine down to the first human races; 10. Evolution of the animal mammalians - the first fall. What may be the objections to the foregoing; 11. The final evolution of man. Edens, serpents and dragons. The sons of God and the sacred island; 12. The history of the fourth race. Archaic teachings in the Puranas and Genesis. A panoramic view of the early races; 12. Continued; 13. Are giants a fiction? The races with the 'third eye'. The primeval manus of humanity; 14. The civilization and destruction of the fourth and fifth races. Gyclopean ruins and colossal stones as witnesses to giants; 15. The fifth race and its divine instructors; Additional fragments from a commentary on the verses of stanza 12; Conclusion; Section 2. The Archaic Symbolism of the World-Religions: Esoteric Tenets Corroborated in Every Scripture: 1. Adam-Adami; 2. The 'Holy of Holies', its degradation; 3. On the myth of the 'Fallen angel', in its various aspects; 4. Is Pleroma Satan's lair?; 5. Prometheus the Titan; 6. Enoichion-Henoch; 7. The symbolism of the mystery names, Iao, and Jehovah; 8. The Upanishads in Gnostic literature; 9. The cross and the Pythagorean decade; 10. The mysteries of the Hebdomad; Section 3. Addenda. Science and the Secret Doctrine Contrasted: 1. Archaic, or modern anthropology?; 2. The ancestors mankind is offered by science; 3. The fossil relics of man and the anthropoid ape; 4. Duration of the geological periods, race cycles, and the antiquity of man; 5. Organic evolution and creative centres; 6. Giants, civilizations, and submerged continents traced in history; 7. Scientific and geological proofs of the existence of several submerged continents; Index. Volume 3: Preface Annie Besant; Introductory; 1. Preliminary survey; 2. Modern criticism and the ancients; 3. The origin of magic; 4. The secresy of the initi