ISIS UNVEILED &

THE SECRET DOCTRINE

AND ON WHAT COMES FROM

COMPARING THEIR CONTENTS

"That student whose Kama-Manas has been purified by past efforts, in this or

other lives, whose mentality is afire to gain knowledge for its own sake, who is

searching for answers to his unsolved problems, and whose sincerity is genuine,

evinces a different attitude very early in his contact with The Secret Doctrine.

A careful examination of

the Table of Contents and the structure of the book…

and a comparison of these with

the Table of Contents of the two volumes of Isis Unveiled...

will convince (the student) that in the writings of H. P. Blavatsky there is a

fullness, nay a completeness, which is unique; that her books are not like other

books.

More of this careful study in a truly reverent attitude, and there dawns on his

mind the idea that in her writings the end of knowledge is attained. The process

continued, and the sun of his ideation reaches the zenith of conviction."

from ‘Studies in “The Secret Doctrine”’ by B.P. Wadia, p 114 (p 87 in the PDF)

For study in the preceding Wednesdays from 6th January 2016 at the ULT in London UK

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ISIS UN VEILED :

A MASTER-KEY

TO THE

MYSTERIES OF ANCIENT AND MODERN

SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY.

BY

H. P. BLAVATSKY,

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

"Cecy est un livre de bonne Foy." — MONTAIGNE.

—————

VOL. I. –– SCIENCE. —————

THE AUTHOR

Dedicates these Volumes

TO THE

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,

WHICH WAS FOUNDED AT NEW YORK, A.D. 1875,

TO STUDY THE SUBJECTS ON WHICH THEY TREAT.

TABLE OF CONTENTS OF ISIS v.1:

PREFACE. . . . v

BEFORE THE VEIL.

Dogmatic assumptions of modern science and theology . . . ix

The Platonic philosophy affords the only middle ground . . . xi

Review of the ancient philosophical systems . . . xv

A Syriac manuscript on Simon Magus . . . xxiii

Glossary of terms used in this book . . . xxiii

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Volume First.

THE "INFALLIBILITY" OF MODERN SCIENCE.

——————————

CHAPTER I.

OLD THINGS WITH NEW NAMES.

The Oriental Kabala . . . 1

Ancient traditions supported by modern research . . . 3

The progress of mankind marked by cycles . . . 5

Ancient cryptic science . . . 7

Priceless value of the Vedas . . . 12

Mutilations of the Jewish sacred books in translation . . . 13

Magic always regarded as a divine science ... 25

Achievements of its adepts and hypotheses of their modern detractors . . . 25

Man's yearning for immortality . . . 37

CHAPTER II. PHENOMENA AND FORCES.

The servility of society . . . 39

Prejudice and bigotry of men of science . . . 40

They are chased by psychical phenomena . . . 41

Lost arts . . . 49

The human will the master-force of forces . . . 57

Superficial generalizations of the French savants . . . 60

Mediumistic phenomena, to what attributable . . . 67

Their relation to crime . . . 71

CHAPTER III.

BLIND LEADERS OF THE BLIND.

Huxley's derivation from the Orohippus . . . 74

Comte, his system and disciples . . . 75

The London materialists . . . 85

Borrowed robes . . . 89

Emanation of the objective universe from the subjective . . . 92

CHAPTER IV.

THEORIES RESPECTING PSYCHIC PHENOMENA.

Theory of de Gasparin . . . 100

“ of Thury . . . 100

“ of des Mousseaux, de Mirville . . . 100

“ of Babinet . . . 101

“ of Houdin . . . 101

“ of MM. Royer and Jobart de Lamballe . . . 102

The twins "unconscious cerebration" and "unconscious ventriloquism" . 105

Theory of Crookes . . . 112

“ of Faraday . . . 116

“ of Chevreuil . . . 116

The Mendeleyeff commission of 1876 . . . 117

Soul blindness . . . 121

CHAPTER V. THE ETHER, OR "ASTRAL LIGHT."

One primal force, but many correlations . . . 126

Tyndall narrowly escapes a great discovery . . . 127

The impossibility of miracle . . . 128

Nature of the primordial substance . . . 133

Interpretation of certain ancient myths . . . 133

Experiments of the fakirs . . . 139

Evolution in Hindu allegory . . . 153

CHAPTER VI. PSYCHO-PHYSICAL PHENOMENA.

The debt we owe to Paracelsus . . . 163

Mesmerism — its parentage, reception, potentiality . . . 165

"Psychometry" . . . 183

Time, space, eternity . . . 184

Transfer of energy from the visible to the invisible universe . . . 186

The Crookes experiments and Cox theory . . . 195

CHAPTER VII THE ELEMENTS, ELEMENTALS, AND ELEMENTARIES.

Attraction and repulsion universal in all the kingdoms of nature . . . 206

Psychical phenomena depend on physical surroundings . . . 211

Observations in Siam . . . 214

Music in nervous disorders . . . 215

The "world-soul" and its potentialities . . . 216

Healing by touch, and healers . . . 217

"Diakka" and Porphyry's bad demons . . . 219

The quenchless lamp . . . 224

Modern ignorance of vital force . . . 237

Antiquity of the theory of force-correlation . . . 241

Universality of belief in magic . . . 247

CHAPTER VIII. SOME MYSTERIES OF NATURE.

Do the planets affect human destiny? . . . 253

Very curious passage from Hermes . . . 254

The restlessness of matter . . . 257

Prophecy of Nostradamus fulfilled . . . 260

Sympathies between planets and plants . . . 264

Hindu knowledge of the properties of colors . . . 265

"Coincidences" the panacea of modern science . . . 268

The moon and the tides . . . 273

Epidemic mental and moral disorders . . . 274

The gods of the Pantheons only natural forces . . . 280

Proofs of the magical powers of Pythagoras . . . 283

The viewless races of ethereal space . . . 284

The "four truths" of Buddhism . . . 291

CHAPTER IX.

CYCLIC PHENOMENA.

Meaning of the expression "coats of skin" . . . 293

Natural selection and its results . . . 295

The Egyptian "circle of necessity" . . . 296

Pre-Adamite races . . . 299

Descent of spirit into matter . . . 302

The triune nature of man . . . 309

The lowest creatures in the scale of being . . . 310

Elementals specifically described . . . 311

Proclus on the beings of the air . . . 312

Various names for elementals . . . 313

Swedenborgian views on soul-death . . . 317

Earth-bound human souls . . . 319

Impure mediums and their "guides" . . . 325

Psychometry an aid to scientific research . . . 333

CHAPTER X. THE INNER AND OUTER MAN.

Pere Felix arraigns the scientists . . . 338

The "Unknowable" . . . 340

Danger of evocations by tyros . . . 342

Lares and Lemures . . . 345

Secrets of Hindu temples . . . 350

Reincarnation . . . 351

Witchcraft and witches . . . 353

The sacred soma trance . . . 357

Vulnerability of certain "shadows" . . . 363

Experiment of Clearchus on a sleeping boy . . . 365

The author witnesses a trial of magic in India . . . 369

Case of the Cevennois . . . 371

CHAPTER XI. PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL MARVELS.

Invulnerability attainable by man . . . 379

Projecting the force of the will . . . 380

Insensibility to snake-poison . . . 381

Charming serpents by music . . . 383

Teratological phenomena discussed . . . 385

The psychological domain confessedly unexplored . . . 407

Despairing regrets of Berzelius . . . 411

Turning a river into blood a vegetable phenomenon . . . 413

CHAPTER XII. THE "IMPASSABLE CHASM."

Confessions of ignorance by men of science . . . 417

The Pantheon of nihilism . . . 421

Triple composition of fire . . . 423

Instinct and reason defined . . . 425

Philosophy of the Hindu Jains . . . 429

Deliberate misrepresentations of Lempriere . . . 431

Man's astral soul not immortal . . . 432 The reincarnation of Buddha . . . 437

Magical sun and moon pictures of Thibet . . . 441

Vampirism — its phenomena explained . . . 449

Bengalese jugglery . . . 457

CHAPTER XIII. REALITIES AND ILLUSION.

The rationale of talismans . . . 462

Unexplained mysteries . . . 466

Magical experiment in Bengal . . . 467

Chibh Chondor's surprising feats . . . 471

The Indian tape-climbing trick an illusion . . . 473

Resuscitation of buried fakirs . . . 477

Limits of suspended animation . . . 481

Mediumship totally antagonistic to adeptship . . . 487

What are "materialized spirits"? . . . 493

The Shudala Madan . . . 495

Philosophy of levitation . . . 497

The elixir and alkahest . . . 503

CHAPTER XIV. EGYPTIAN WISDOM.

Origin of the Egyptians . . . 515

Their mighty engineering works . . . 517

The ancient land of the Pharaohs . . . 521

Antiquity of the Nilotic monuments . . . 529

Arts of war and peace . . . 531

Mexican myths and ruins . . . 545

Resemblances to the Egyptian . . . 551

Moses a priest of Osiris . . . 555

The lessons taught by the ruins of Siam . . . 563

The Egyptian Tau at Palenque . . . 573

CHAPTER XV. INDIA THE CRADLE OF THE RACE.

Acquisition of the "secret doctrine" . . . 575

Two relics owned by a Pali scholar . . . 577

Jealous exclusiveness of the Hindus . . . 581

Lydia Maria Child on Phallic symbolism . . . 583

The age of the Vedas and Manu . . . 587

Traditions of pre-diluvian races . . . 589

Atlantis and its peoples . . . 593

Peruvian relics . . . 597

The Gobi desert and its secrets . . . 599

Thibetan and Chinese legends . . . 600 The magician aids, not impedes, nature . . . 617 Philosophy, religion, arts and sciences bequeathed

by Mother India to posterity . . . 618

BEFORE THE VEIL.

Joan. — Advance our waving colors on the walls! — King Henry VI. Act IV.

"My life has been devoted to the study of man, his destiny and his happiness." — J. R. BUCHANAN, M.D.,

Outlines of Lectures on Anthropology.

ISIS UN VEILED :

A MASTER-KEY

TO THE

MYSTERIES OF ANCIENT AND MODERN

SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY.

BY

H. P. BLAVATSKY,

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

"Cecy est un livre de bonne Foy." — MONTAIGNE.

—————

VOL. II. –– THEOLOGY. —————

NEW YORK :

J. W. BOUTON , 706 BROADWAY .

LONDON : BERNARD QUARTCH .

1877 .

TABLE OF CONTENTS OF ISIS v.2:

PREFACE . . . . . . . . iv

Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson and Baroness Burdett-Coutts.

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Volume Second.

THE "INFALLIBILITY" OF MODERN RELIGION. ——————————

CHAPTER I.

THE CHURCH: WHERE IS IT?

Church statistics . . . 1

Catholic "miracles" and spiritualistic "phenomena" . . . 4

Christian and Pagan beliefs compared . . . 10

Magic and sorcery practised by Christian clergy . . . 20

Comparative theology a new science . . . 25

Eastern traditions as to Alexandrian Library . . . 27

Roman pontiffs imitators of the Hindu Brahm-âtma . . . 30

Christian dogmas derived from heathen philosophy . . . 33

Doctrine of the Trinity of Pagan origin . . . 45

Disputes between Gnostics and Church Fathers . . . 51

Bloody records of Christianity . . . 53

CHAPTER II.

CHRISTIAN CRIMES AND HEATHEN VIRTUES.

Sorceries of Catherine of Medicis . . . 55

Occult arts practised by the clergy . . . 59

Witch-burnings and auto-da-fe of little children . . . 62

Lying Catholic saints . . . 74

Pretensions of missionaries in India and China . . . 79

Sacrilegious tricks of Catholic clergy . . . 82

Paul a kabalist . . . 91

Peter not the founder of Roman church . . . 91

Strict lives of Pagan hierophants . . . 98

High character of ancient "mysteries" . . . 101

Jacolliot's account of Hindu fakirs . . . 103

Christian symbolism derived from Phallic worship . . . 109

Hindu doctrine of the Pitris . . . 114

Brahminic spirit-communion ... 115

Dangers of untrained mediumship . . . 117

CHAPTER III.

DIVISIONS AMONGST THE EARLY CHRISTIANS.

Resemblance between early Christianity and Buddhism . . . 123

Peter never in Rome . . . 124

Meanings of "Nazar" and "Nazarene" . . . 129

Baptism a derived right . . . 134

Is Zoroaster a generic name? . . . 141

Pythagorean teachings of Jesus . . . 147

The Apocalypse kabalistic . . . 147

Jesus considered an adept by some Pagan philosophers and early Christians . . . 150

Doctrine of permutation . . . 152

The meaning of God-Incarnate . . . 153

Dogmas of the Gnostics . . . 155

Ideas of Marcion, the "heresiarch" . . . 159

Precepts of Manu . . . 163

Jehovah identical with Bacchus . . . 165

CHAPTER IV.

ORIENTAL COSMOGONIES AND BIBLE RECORDS.

Discrepancies in the Pentateuch . . . 167

Indian, Chaldean and Ophite systems compared . . . 170

Who were the first Christians? . . . 178

Christos and Sophia-Achamoth . . . 183

Secret doctrine taught by Jesus . . . 191

Jesus never claimed to be God . . . 193

New Testament narratives and Hindu legends . . . 199

Antiquity of the "Logos" and "Christ" . . . 205

Comparative Virgin-worship . . . 209

CHAPTER V.

MYSTERIES OF THE KABALA.

En-Soph and the Sephiroth . . . 212

The primitive wisdom-religion . . . 216

The book of Genesis a compilation of Old World legends . . . 217

The Trinity of the Kabala . . . 222

Gnostic and Nazarene systems contrasted with Hindu myths . . . 225

Kabalism in the book of Ezekiel . . . 232

Story of the resurrection of Jairus's daughter found in the history of Christna . . . 241

Untrustworthy teachings of the early Fathers . . . 248

Their persecuting spirit . . . 249

CHAPTER VI.

ESOTERIC DOCTRINES OF BUDDHISM PARODIED IN CHRISTIANITY.

Decisions of Nicean Council, how arrived at . . . 251

Murder of Hypatia . . . 252

Origin of the fish-symbol of Vishnu . . . 256

Kabalistic doctrine of the Cosmogony . . . 264

Diagrams of Hindu and Chaldeo-Jewish systems . . . 265

Ten mythical Avatars of Vishnu . . . 274

Trinity of man taught by Paul . . . 281

Socrates and Plato on soul and spirit . . . 283

True Buddhism, what it is . . . 288

CHAPTER VII.

EARLY CHRISTIAN HERESIES AND SECRET SOCIETIES.

Nazareans, Ophites, and modern Druzes . . . 291

Etymology of IAO . . . 298

"Hermetic Brothers" of Egypt . . . 307

True meaning of Nirvana . . . 319

The Jayna sect . . . 321

Christians and Chrestians . . . 323

The Gnostics and their detractors . . . 325

Buddha, Jesus, and Apollonius of Tyana . . . 341

CHAPTER VIII.

JESUITRY AND MASONRY.

The Sohar and Rabbi Simeon . . . 348

The Order of Jesuits and its relation to some of the Masonic orders . . . 352

Crimes permitted to its members . . . 355

Principles of Jesuitry compared with those of Pagan moralists . . . 364

Trinity of man in Egyptian Book of the Dead . . . 367

Freemasonry no longer esoteric . . . 372

Persecution of Templars by the Church . . . 381

Secret Masonic ciphers . . . 395

Jehovah not the "Ineffable Name" . . . 398

CHAPTER IX.

THE VEDAS AND THE BIBLE.

Nearly every myth based on some great truth . . . 405

Whence the Christian Sabbath . . . 406

Antiquity of the Vedas . . . 410

Pythagorean doctrine of the potentialities of numbers . . . 417

"Days" of Genesis and "Days" of Brahma . . . 422

Fall of man and the Deluge in the Hindu books . . . 425

Antiquity of the Mahabharata . . . 429

Were the ancient Egyptians of the Aryan race? . . . 434

Samuel, David, and Solomon mythical personages . . . 439

Symbolism of Noah's Ark . . . 447

The Patriarchs identical with zodiacal signs . . . 459

All Bible legends belong to universal history . . . 469

CHAPTER X.

THE DEVIL-MYTH.

The devil officially recognized by the Church . . . 477

Satan the mainstay of sacerdotalism . . . 480

Identity of Satan with the Egyptian Typhon . . . 483

His relation to serpent-worship . . . 489

The Book of Job and the Book of the Dead . . . 493

The Hindu devil a metaphysical abstraction . . . 501

Satan and the Prince of Hell in the Gospel of Nicodemus . . . 515

CHAPTER XI.

COMPARATIVE RESULTS OF BUDDHISM AND CHRISTIANITY.

The age of philosophy produced no atheists . . . 530

The legends of three Saviours . . . 537

Christian doctrine of the Atonement illogical . . . 542

Cause of the failure of missionaries to convert Buddhists and Brahmanists . . . 553

Neither Buddha nor Jesus left written records . . . 559

The grandest mysteries of religion in the Bagaved-gita . . . 562

The meaning of regeneration explained in the Satapa-Brâhmana . . . 565

The sacrifice of blood interpreted . . . 566

Demoralization of British India by Christian missionaries . . . 573

The Bible less authenticated than any other sacred book . . . 577

Knowledge of chemistry and physics displayed by Indian jugglers . . . 583

CHAPTER XII.

CONCLUSIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

Recapitulation of fundamental propositions . . . 587

Seership of the soul and of the spirit . . . 590

The phenomenon of the so-called spirit-hand . . . 594

Difference between mediums and adepts . . . 595

Interview of an English ambassador with a reincarnated Buddha . . . 598

Flight of a lama’s astral body related by Abbe Huc . . . 604

Schools of magic in Buddhist lamaseries . . . 609

The unknown race of Hindu Todas . . . 613

Will-power of fakirs and yogis . . . 617

Taming of wild beasts by fakirs . . . 622

Evocation of a living spirit by a Shaman, witnessed by the writer . . . 626

Sorcery by the breath of a Jesuit Father . . . 633

Why the study of magic is almost impracticable in Europe . . . 635

Conclusion . . . 635

THE SECRET DOCTRINE:

Volume 1

THE SYNTHESIS OF

SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY.

by

H. P. BLAVATSKY, Author of "ISIS UNVEILED."

"There is no Religion higher than Truth."

Vol. I. — COSMOGENESIS.

—SCANNED AND EDITED TO —

A FACSIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF 1888

THE THEOSOPHY COMPANY

LOS ANGELES CALIF.

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."

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 OF THE S.D. v.1:

INTRODUCTION ... xvii.

The Need of such a Book ... xix.

The Antiquity of Documents and MSS. ... xxiii.

What the Book is intended to do ... xxviii.

VOLUME FIRST.

COSMOGENESIS.

PROEM ... 1

The Oldest MSS. in the world and its Symbolism ... 2

The One Life, Active and Passive ... 4

The Secret Doctrine — Pantheism — Atheism ... 6

"Space" in all Religions and in Occultism ... 9

Seven Cosmic Elements — Seven Races of Mankind ... 12

The Three Postulates of the Secret Doctrine ... 14

Description of the Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan ... 20

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BOOK I. — PART I.

COSMIC EVOLUTION.

SEVEN STANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN ... 27

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STANZA I. — THE NIGHT OF THE UNIVERSE... 35

The Seven Eternities ... 36

"Time" ... 37

The Universal Mind and the Dhyan Chohans ... 38

Nidana and Maya: The Causes of Misery ... 39

The Great Breath ... 43

Being and Non-Being ... 45

The Eye of Dangma ... 47

Alaya, the Universal Soul ... 49

X

STANZA II. — THE IDEA OF DIFFERENTIATION ... 53

The Absolute knows Itself not ... 55

The Germ of Life was not yet ... 57

The Universe was still concealed in the Divine Thought ... 61

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STANZA III. — THE AWAKENING OF KOSMOS ... 62

The Great Vibration ... 63

Nature's Symbols ... 65

The Power of Numbers ... 67

The Logoi and the Dragon ... 73

The Astral Light ... 75

Primeval Radiations from Unity ... 79

The Web of Being ... 83

Conscious Electricity: Fohat ... 85

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STANZA IV. — THE SEPTENARY HIERARCHIES ... 86

The Sons of the Fire ... 86

The Vehicle of the Universe — the Dhyan Chohans ... 89

The Army of the Voice ... 93

Speech and Mind ... 95

The Ogdoad and the Heptad ... 99

The Stellar "Sons of Light" ... 103

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STANZA V. — FOHAT: THE CHILD OF THE SEPTENARY HIERARCHIES ... 106

The Fiery Whirlwind and the Primordial Seven ... 106

They Produce Fohat ... 108

The Correlation of the "Gods" ... 113

Evolution of the "Principles" of Nature ... 119

The Mystery of the Fire ... 121

The Secret of the Elements ... 123

The Square of the Tabernacle ... 125

The Planetary Spirits and the Lipika ... 129

The Ring "Pass Not" ... 130

The Sidereal Book of Life ... 131

The Soul's Pilgrimage and its "Rest" ... 134

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STANZA VI.— OUR WORLD, ITS GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT ... 136

The Logos ... 136

Mystery of the Female Logos ... 137

xi

The Seven Layu Centres ... 138

The "Elementary Germs" ... 139

The Evolution of the Elements ... 140

The Building of the Worlds ... 145

A Neutral Centre ... 147

"Dead" Planets — The Moon ... 149

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THEOSOPHICAL MISCONCEPTIONS ... 152

The Planetary Divisions and the Human Principles ... 153

The Moon ... 155

Transmigrations of the Ego ... 159

The Septenary Chain ... 161

Relation of the other Planets to the Earth ... 163

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EXPLANATIONS CONCERNING THE GLOBES AND THE MONADS ... 170

The Lunar Chain and the Earth Chain ... 172

The Earth, the Child of the Moon ... 173

Classification of the Monads ... 175

The Monad Defined ... 177

The Lunar Monads—the Pitris ... 179

A Triple Evolution in Nature ... 181

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STANZA VI.— CONTINUED ... 191

"Creation" in the Fourth Round ... 191

The "Curse," "Sin," and "War" ... 193

The Struggle for Life and the Birth of the Worlds ... 202

The Adepts and the Sacred Island ... 207

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STANZA VII.— THE PARENTS OF MAN ON EARTH ... 213

Divisions of the Hierarchies ... 214

Correlations of Beings ... 223

What incarnates in Animal Man ... 233

Formation of Man: the Thinker ... 238

Occult and Kabalistic Pneumatics ... 243

Akasa and Ether ... 257

The Invisible "Lives" ... 259

Occult Vital Chemistry and Bacteriology ... 261

xii

The Watcher and his Shadow ... 265

Earth peopled by the Shadows of the Gods ... 267

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SUMMING UP ... 269

The pith and marrow of the Secret Doctrine ... 273

Hermes in Christian Garb ... 285

Some Occult Aphorisms ... 289

The Seven Powers of Nature ... 293

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BOOK I. — PART II.

THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLISM IN ITS APPROXIMATE ORDER.

I. SYMBOLISM AND IDEOGRAPHS ... 303

Emblem and Symbol differ ... 305

Magic Potency of Sound ... 307

Mystery Language ... 309

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II. THE MYSTERY LANGUAGE AND ITS KEYS ... 310

Egypt's many Religions ... 311

The Jews and their System ... 313

Moses copied from Sargon ... 319

Identity of Ancient Symbols ... 323

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III. PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE AND DIVINE THOUGHT ... 325

Divine Thought, or Cineritious Matter? ... 327

Ether and Intelligence ... 330

The Seven Prakritis ... 335

The Mystic Fire ... 339

One Tree of Knowledge ... 341

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IV. CHAOS — THEOS — KOSMOS ... 342

The Union of Chaos and Spirit ... 343

The Birth of Mind ... 345

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V. THE HIDDEN DEITY, ITS SYMBOLS AND GLYPHS ... 349

The Gnostic Idea ... 351

International Correlation of Gods ... 355

xiii

VI. THE MUNDANE EGG ... 359

Egg-born Logoi ... 363

The Winged Globe ... 365

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VII. THE DAYS AND NIGHTS OF BRAHMA ... 368

Human Gods and Divine Men ... 369

The Rebirth of Gods ... 371

The Puranic Prophecy ... 377

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VIII. THE LOTUS AS A UNIVERSAL SYMBOL ... 379

Exoteric and Esoteric ... 381

The Purity of early Phallicism ... 383

The Egyptian Lotus ... 385

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IX. DEUS LUNUS ... 386

A Glance at the Lunar Myth ... 387

A Key-note to the Moon ... 389

Copies and Originals... 393

The Moon Bi-sexual ... 397

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X. TREE AND SERPENT AND CROCODILE WORSHIP ... 403

Degeneration of the Symbol ... 405

The Seven-headed Dragons ... 407

Dragon and Crocodile ... 409

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XI. DEMON EST DEUS INVERSUS ... 411

Death is Life ... 413

The Fall of the Angels ... 418

Transformation of the Legend ... 421

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XII. THE THEOGONY OF THE CREATIVE GODS ... 424

The Point within the Circle ... 426

The Logos or Verbum ... 429

The Factors of Creation ... 432

Identity of the Hierarchies in all Religions ... 438

Difference between the Aryan and Semitic Systems ... 444

xiv

XIII. THE SEVEN CREATIONS ... 445

The Gnostic and the Hindu Versions ... 449

The Seven Puranic "Creations" ... 450

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XIV. THE FOUR ELEMENTS. ... 460

The "Gods" and the "Elements" ... 463

The Language of the Elements ... 464

Pagan and Christian Worship of the Elements ... 467

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XV. ON KWAN-SHI-YIN AND KWAN-YIN ... 470

Kwan-Shi-Yin and Phallicism ... 471

The Real Meaning ... 472

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BOOK I. — PART III.

SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED.

I. REASONS FOR THESE ADDENDA ... 477

Occultism versus Materialism ... 479

The Sabbath of the Mystic ... 481

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II. MODERN PHYSICISTS ARE PLAYING AT BLIND MAN'S BUFF ... 482

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III. AN LUMEN SIT CORPUS NEC NON? ... 483

The Hypothetical Ether ... 485

Scientific Theories of its Constitution ... 489

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IV. IS GRAVITATION A LAW? ... 490

Intelligences or Blind Forces? ... 493

The Cause of Attraction ... 498

xv

V. THE THEORIES OF ROTATION SCIENCE ... 500

Conflicting Hypotheses ... 502

More Hypotheses ... 505

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VI. THE MASKS OF SCIENCE ... 506

What are the "Forces?" ... 508

The View of the Occultists ... 510

Scientific and Occult Theories on Heat ... 515

The Atoms of Science ... 519

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VII. AN ATTACK ON THE SCIENTIFIC THEORY OF FORCE BY A MAN OF SCIENCE ... 523

Ether and Atoms ... 527

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VIII. LIFE, FORCE, OR GRAVITY? ... 529

Dr. Richardson on Nervous Ether ... 531

The Senses and their Action ... 535

Too much "Life" may Kill ... 539

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IX. THE SOLAR THEORY ... 540

The Primordial Element ... 542

Elements and Meta-Elements ... 546

The Tree of Life and Being ... 549

Prof. Crookes on the Elements ... 552

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X. THE COMING FORCE ... 554

Mr. Keeley, an Unconscious Occultist ... 557

Inter-Etheric Waves ... 561

The Secrets of Sound and Odour ... 565

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Xl. ON THE ELEMENTS AND ATOMS ... 566

Metaphysical Chemistry ... 569

What are the Seven Planets? ... 575

The Cyclic Fall of the Gods ... 577

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XII. ANCIENT THOUGHT IN MODERN DRESS ... 579

All-Potential Unity ... 583

The "Seventh" in Chemistry ... 585

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XIII. THE MODERN NEBULAR THEORY ... 588

Forces are Emanations ... 591

What is the Nebula? ... 595

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XIV. FORCES — MODES OF MOTION OR INTELLIGENCES? ... 601

The Vital Principle ... 603

Occult and Physical Science ... 605

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XV. GODS, MONADS, AND ATOMS ... 610

The Gods of the Ancients — the Monads ... 613

The Monad and the Duad ... 617

The Genesis of the Elements ... 621

Hermes and Huxley ... 625

The Teaching of Leibnitz ... 627

The Monads according to Occultism ... 632

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XVI. CYCLIC EVOLUTION AND KARMA ... 634

Karmic Cycles and Universal Ethics ... 637

Destiny and Karma ... 639

Karma-Nemesis ... 643

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XVII. THE ZODIAC AND ITS ANTIQUITY ... 647

The Jewish Patriarchs and the Signs of the Zodiac ... 651

Zodiacal Cycles ... 656

Hindu Astronomy ... 661

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XVIII. SUMMARY OF THE MUTUAL POSITION ... 668

Science Confesses her Ignorance ... 669

Materialism is leading Europe towards a catastrophe ... 675

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THE SECRET DOCTRINE:

Volume 2

THE SYNTHESIS OF

SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY.

by

H. P. BLAVATSKY,

Author of "ISIS UNVEILED."

"There is no Religion higher than Truth."

VOL. II. — ANTHROPOGENESIS.

—SCANNED AND EDITED TO —

A FACSIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF 1888

THE THEOSOPHY COMPANY

LOS ANGELES CALIF.

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."

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 OF THE S.D. v.2:

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VOLUME SECOND.

PRELIMINARY NOTES.

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 II — PART I.

ANTHROPOGENESIS.

STANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN . . . 15

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THE BEGINNINGS OF SENTIENT LIVE ... 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

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TWO ANTEDILUVIAN ASTRONOMERS ... 47

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STANZA II. — NATURE UNAIDED FAILS ... 52

The Monsters of Chaos ... 53

The "Double Dragon" ... 57

Who are the Flames? ... 63

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THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE BRAHMINS ... 66

The Race that never dies ... 67

Cosmogony, an intelligent plan ... 73

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STANZA III. — ATTEMPTS TO CREATE MAN ... 75

The various classes of Creators ... 77

Man, a god in animal form ... 81

"Fires," "Sparks," and "Flames" ... 83

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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

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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

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STANZA VI. — THE EVOLUTION OF THE SWEAT-BORN ... 131

Bi-sexual reproduction ... 133

The Virgin Third Race ... 135

A Few Words about Deluges and Noahs ... 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 Puranas ... 155

Oceans of Carbonic Acid? ... 159

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STANZA VII. — FROM THE SEMI-DIVINE DOWN TO THE FIRST HUMAN RACES ... 161

Monads and Rounds ... 167

A Suggestive Explanation ... 171

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A Saint — Hypnotised ... 175

Sweat-born and Androgynes ... 177

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STANZA VIII.— EVOLUTION OF THE ANIMAL MAMMALIANS — THE FIRST ... 180

Archaic Zoology ... 183

The Sin of the Mindless Men ... 185

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WHAT MAY BE THE OBJECTIONS TO THE FOREGOING ... 185

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STANZA IX. — THE FINAL EVOLUTION OF MAN ... 191

The Hairy Men of China ... 195

The Separation of Sexes ... 197

Primeval Language ... 199

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EDENS, SERPENTS AND DRAGONS ... 202

The Garden of Eden a College ... 203

Flying Camels ... 205

Two Schools of Magic ... 211

The Flying Dragons ... 219

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THE SONS OF GOD AND THE SACRED ISLAND ... 220

The Magicians of Atlantis ... 223

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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

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ARCHAIC TEACHINGS IN THE PURANAS AND GENESIS ... 251

From worm to man ... 255

Identity of Human and Animal embryos ... 259

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A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE EARLY RACES ... 263

The Natural "Fall" ... 267

The Symbolism of Kronos ... 269

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STANZA X. — Continued ... 271

The Golden Age ... 273

No Devils outside Humanity ... 275

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ARE GIANTS A FICTION? ... 277

The Seven Virgin Youths ... 281

The Tibetan Lilith ... 285

The Races of Men not all Human ... 287

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THE RACES WITH THE "THIRD EYE" ... 289

Occult Physiology ... 295

The Evolution of the Eye ... 299

The Third Eye is now a Gland ... 301

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THE PRIMEVAL MANUS OF HUMANITY ... 307

The Four Earlier Races ... 311

The Esoteric Meaning of " /Fish" ... 313

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STANZA XI. — 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

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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

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STANZA XII. — 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 ... 390

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The oldest Persian Traditions about the Polar, and the Submerged Continents ... 393

Western Speculations founded on the Greek and Puranic Traditions ... 402

The "Curse" from a Philosophical point of view ... 409

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ADDITIONAL FRAGMENTS FROM A COMMENTARY ON THE VERSES OF STANZA XII. ...

423

The Oldest Records about Atlantis ... 425

The Doom of Atlantis ... 427

The Races, Sub-Races, and Family Races ... 434

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CONCLUSION ... 437

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BOOK II. — PART II.

THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS.

ESOTERIC TENETS CORROBORATED IN EVERY SCRIPTURE ... 449

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§ XVI. ADAM-ADAMI ... 452

The Cabalistic Four Adams ... 457

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XVII. THE "HOLY OF HOLIES": ITS DEGRADATION ... 459

Christian Symbolism ... 463

The "Four-faced" Brahma ... 465

The Old and the New Jehovah ... 469

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XVIII. ON THE MYTH OF THE "FALLEN ANGEL," IN ITS VARIOUS ASPECTS ... 475

The Evil Spirit: Who and What? ... 475

The Gods of Light proceed from the Gods of Darkness ... 483

The many meanings of the "War in Heaven" ... 492

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XIX. IS PLEROMA SATAN'S LAIR? ... 506

Jehovah's Personating Spirit ... 509

The Mysterium Magnum ... 512

The Logos and Satan are One ... 515

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XX. PROMETHEUS THE TITAN ... 519

His Origin in Ancient India ... 519

The Boon he Gives ... 523

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XXI. ENOICHION-HENOCH ... 529

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XXII. THE SYMBOLISM OF THE MYSTERY NAMES IAO AND JEHOVAH ... 536

Cross and Circle ... 545

The Fall of the Cross into Matter ... 553

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XXIII. THE UPANISHADS IN GNOSTIC LITERATURE ... 563

When Time be no longer ... 565

The Divine Self's Wisdom ... 566

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XXIV. THE CROSS AND THE PYTHAGOREAN DECADE ... 573

Poseidon's Five Ministers ... 577

The Mystery of the Number Six ... 583

The Cross and Christian After-thought ... 587

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XXV. THE MYSTERIES OF THE HEBDOMAD ... 590

Saptaparna ... 590

The Tetraktis in relation to the Heptagon ... 598

The Septenary Element in the Vedas ... 605

The Septenary in the Exoteric Works ... 611

Seven in Astronomy, Science and Magic ... 618

The Seven Souls of the Egyptologists ... 630

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BOOK II. — PART III.

ADDENDA.

SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED.

I. ARCHAIC, OR MODERN ANTHROPOLOGY? ... 645

The Occult and the Modern Doctrines ... 649

Science is Silent on every Problem ... 653

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II. THE ANCESTORS MANKIND IS OFFERED BY SCIENCE ... 656

Various Modes of Reproduction ... 659

A Pithecoid Man Wanted ... 669

Plastidular Souls and Conscious Nerve-Cells ... 670

The atoms of our "Father-Bathybius" ... 674

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III. THE FOSSIL RELICS OF MAN AND THE ANTHROPOID APE ... 675

Insurmountable difficulties for the Darwinians ... 677

The Argument of "Rudimentary Organs" ... 683

"Epitomized History" in the Foetus ... 684

The Evidence of Skulls ... 687

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IV. DURATION OF THE GEOLOGICAL PERIODS, RACE CYCLES, AND THE ANTIQUITY OF

MAN ... 690

Sayce's Sketch of Chronology ... 691

(a) Speculations on the Age of the Globe ... 694

The Adept-Astronomer ... 698

(b) On Chains of Planets and their Plurality ... 699

States of Consciousness ... 701

Worlds mentioned in the Bible ... 703

(c) Esoteric Geological Chronology ... 709

Parallelism of Life ... 711

The Two Sciences contrasted ... 713

The Paleolithic Landseer ... 721

Astral Man — the Solution ... 728

The Kabalists and Science ... 730

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V. ORGANIC EVOLUTION AND CREATIVE CENTRES ... 731

Dhyan Chohans and these Centres ... 732

(a) Origin and Evolution of the Mammalia ... 734

(b) The European Paleolithic Races — whence and how distributed ... 738

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VI. GIANTS, CIVILIZATIONS, AND SUBMERGED CONTINENTS TRACED IN HISTORY ... 742

A Mysterious Nation ... 743

The Seven Sabbaths ... 747

"Revelation" and the "Secret Doctrine" ... 748

Druidic Stones ... 752

Races of Giants ... 755

Mazdean "Seven Earths" ... 759

(a) Statements about the Sacred Islands ... 760

The Heirloom of Atlantis ... 763

The God-bearing Land ... 765

The Power of Names ... 767

The Sons of Coelus and Terra ... 769

Southern and Northern Atlantis ... 770

Niobe and her Children ... 771

The Cycles of Time ... 773

The Titans in Prison ... 776

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VII. SCIENTIFIC AND GEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF SEVERAL

SUBMERGED CONTINENTS ... 778

Corroborations of Occultism by Geology ... 779

Evidence of the Flora ... 781

Atlantis necessary to Ethnology ... 783

Astraea falls on her Head ... 785

Communication between South-Sea Islands ... 788

Evidence of Language ... 790

Ragon explains Masonic Symbols ... 795

The End a fitting prelude to Truth ... 798

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"My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me."

— John vii. 16.