Author: Boris Mihailovich de ZirkoffPublisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
A survey of the contents and authenticity of “The Secret Doctrine, Volume III,” as published in 1897.
The third volume of the Secret Doctrine is an unworthy companion to the first two
Author: Boris Mihailovich de ZirkoffPublisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
A survey of the contents and authenticity of “The Secret Doctrine, Volume III,” as published in 1897.
The Secret Doctrine
Author: Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752351160
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Secret Doctrine by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
The Secret Doctrine Volume Two
Author: Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
The Secret Doctrine, the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, a book originally published as two volumes in 1888 written by Helena Blavatsky. The first volume is named Cosmogenesis, the second Anthropogenesis. It was an influential example of the revival of interest in esoteric and occult ideas in the modern age, in particular because of its claim to reconcile ancient eastern wisdom with modern science.Blavatsky claimed that its contents had been revealed to her by 'mahatmas' who had retained knowledge of humanity's spiritual history, knowledge that it was now possible, in part, to reveal.Volume two (Anthropogenesis)The second half of the book describes the origins of humanity through an account of "Root Races" said to date back millions of years. The first root race was, according to her, "ethereal"; the second root had more physical bodies and lived in Hyperborea. The third root race, the first to be truly human, is said to have existed on the lost continent of Lemuria and the fourth root race is said to have developed in Atlantis.According to Blavatsky, the fifth root race is approximately one million years old, overlapping the fourth root race and the very first beginnings of the fifth root race were approximately in the middle of the fourth root race.[citation needed]"The real line of evolution differs from the Darwinian, and the two systems are irreconcilable," according to Blavatsky, "except when the latter is divorced from the dogma of 'Natural Selection'." She explained that, "by 'Man' the divine Monad is meant, and not the thinking Entity, much less his physical body." "Occultism rejects the idea that Nature developed man from the ape, or even from an ancestor common to both, but traces, on the contrary, some of the most anthropoid species to the Third Race man." In other words, "the 'ancestor' of the present anthropoid animal, the ape, is the direct production of the yet mindless Man, who desecrated his human dignity by putting himself physically on the level of an animal."
The Secret Doctrine
Author: H.P. BlavatskyPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101108606
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
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 Doctrine within reach of all who are curious. In particular, Gomes provides a critical sounding of the book's famous stanzas on the genesis of life and the cosmos- mysterious passages that Blavatsky said originated from a primeval source and which form the heart of The Secret Doctrine. Gomes scrupulously scales down the book's key writings on symbolism to their essentials, and offers notes and a glossary to illuminate arcane references. His historical and literary introduction casts new light on some of the book's sources and on the career of its brilliant and elusive author, one of the most intriguing personages of the nineteenth century. At once compact and representative of the work as a whole, this new edition of The Secret Doctrine brings unprecedented accessibility to the key esoteric classic of the modern era.
The Secret Doctrine
Author: Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781466367234
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
The second half of the book describes the origins of humanity through an account of "Root Races" dating back millions of years. The first root race was, according to her, "ethereal"; the second root had more physical bodies and lived in Hyperborea. The third root race, the first to be truly human, existed on the lost continent of Lemuria and the fourth root race developed in Atlantis. According to Blavatsky, the present fifth root race is approximately one million years old. It overlapped the fourth root race and the very first beginnings of the fifth root race were approximately in the middle of the fourth root race.
The Theosophist
Author: The Secret Doctrine
Author: Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Cosmogenesis
Author: Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Great Secret or Occultism Unveiled
Author: Eliphas LeviPublisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 160925421X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
So concludes what Levi considered to be his testament, his most important and final treatise, and a summation of his esoteric philosophy. This volume is the conclusion of the work he started as Book One, The Heiratic Mystery or the Traditional Documents of High Initiation, published as The Book of Splendours (Weiser, 1984). The Great Secret contains his final two works. In Book Two, The Royal Mystery or Art of Subduing the Powers, Levi discusses such topics as Evil, the Outer Darkness, the Great Secret, Magical Sacrifice, Evocations, the Arcana of Solomon's Ring, and the Terrible Secret. In Book Three, The Sacerdotal Mystery or the Art of being Served by Spirits, he expounds on the subjects of Aberrant Forces, the Chaining of the Devil, Sacred and Accursed Rites, Divination, Dark Intelligence, and the Great Arcanum.
The Secret Doctrine of Israel
Author: Arthur Edward WaitePublisher: Health Research Books
ISBN: 9780787309220
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A study of the Zohar & its connections. Some of the contents: Early Students of Kabalism; Hidden Church of Israel; Majesty of God in Kabalism; doctrine of Cosmology; Myth of Earthly Paradise; Serpent, Son of the Morning & Fall of the Angels; Fall.