Category: Philosophy & Ethics

The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy

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. S...

Chapters

1. Volume I.

2. 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...

3. 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. Secti...

4. 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 I...

5. Volume I of _Isis_ begins with a reference to an “old book”:

So very old that our modern antiquarians might ponder over its pages an indefinite time, and still not quite agree as to the nature of the fabric upon which it is written. It is...

6. PART I. COSMIC EVOLUTION.

Nor Aught nor Nought existed; yon bright sky Was not, nor heaven’s broad roof outstretched above. What covered all? What sheltered? What concealed? Was it the water’s fathomless...

7. Volume II. During the three Rounds to come, Humanity, like the Globe on

which it lives, will be ever tending to reässume its primeval form, that of a Dhyân Chohanic Host. Man tends to become _a_ God and then—_God_, like every other Atom in the Unive...

8. Volume II. When Karma has reached them at the stage of human evolution:

“_They will have to drink it to the last drop in the bitter cup of retribution. Then they become an active force and commingle with the elementals, the progressed entities of th...

9. PART II. THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLISM.

Is not a symbol ever, to him who has eyes for it, some dimmer or clearer revelation of the God‐like?... Through all ... there glimmers something of a Divine Idea. Nay, the highe...

10. PART III. ADDENDA. ON OCCULT AND MODERN SCIENCE.

Many of the doctrines contained in the foregoing seven Stanzas and Commentaries having been studied and critically examined by some Western Theosophists, certain of the Occult T...

11. ii. It does not regard the comets as involved in that particular

evolution which has produced the Solar System. [The Esoteric Doctrine does, because it, too, “recognizes the comets as forms of cosmic existence co‐ordinated with earlier stages...