Secret Doctrine

Name: Secret Doctrine
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ISBN: 9781585427086

ISBN-10: 158542708X

ISBN-13: 9781585427086

Edition: 2009

Authors: H. P. Blavatsky, Michael Gomes

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Madame Blavatsky’s Victorian-era masterpiece is now scaled down to its essentials, providing the most readable, accessible experience ever of one of history’s seminal occult works. The Secret Doctrine, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky’s masterwork on the origin and evolution of the universe and humanity itself, is arguably the most famous, and perhaps the most influential, occult book ever written. Published since 1888 only in expensive, two-volume editions of some 1,400 pages, it has long eluded the grasp of modern readers— until now. This single-volume edition, abridged and annotated by historian and Theosophical scholar Michael Gomes, places the ideas of The Secret Doctrinewithin reach of all…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 7/23/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Editor's Introduction


A Note on the Text


Proem



Cosmogenesis



The Night of the Universe



The Idea of Differentiation



The Awakening of Kosmos



The Septenary Hierarchies



Fohat: The Child of the Septenary Hierarchies



Our World, Its Growth and Development



The Parents of Man on Earth



Anthropogenesis



Beginnings of Sentient Life



Nature Unaided Fails



Attempts to Create Man



Creation of the First Races



The Evolution of the Second Race



The Evolution of the Sweat-Born



From the Semi-Divine Down to the First Human Races



Evolution of the Animal Mammalians-The First Fall



The Final Evolution of Man



The History of the Fourth Race



The Civilization and Destruction of the Third and Fourth Races



The Fifth Race and Its Divine Instructors



The Mystery Language of the Initiates



Symbolism and Ideographs



The Mystery Language and Its Keys



Primordial Substance and Divine Thought



The Hidden Deity, its Symbols and Glyphs



The Mundane Egg



The Days and Nights of Brahm&abar;



The Lotus, As a Universal Symbol



The Moon, Deus Lunus, Phoebe



Tree, Serpent, and Crocodile Worship



Demon Est Deus Inversus



The Theogony of the Creative Gods



The Seven Creations



The Four Elements



Kuan-Shih-Yin and Kuan-Yin



On the Myth of the "Fallen Angel"



Eno&iumlet;chion-Henoch



The Cross and Circle


Summing Up


Index


About the Authors