The Secret Doctrine

"The Secret Doctrine," Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's masterwork on the origin and evolution of the universe and humanity itself, is one of the most influential occult books ever written. This single-volume edition places the ideas of the work within reach of all who are curious.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-û1891) was the cofounder of the Theosophical Society. A world-famous figure of mystery and controversy and a leading intellect behind the occult revival in the West, Blavatsky published The Secret Doctrine in 1888 as her magnum opus.

Michael Gomes is a historian, author, and the librarian at the New York Lodge of the Theosophical Society. He is one of today-'s most respected writers on esoteric movements, as well known to readers of occult and esoteric literature as to students and scholars of modern religion.

Editor's Introduction	p. ix
A Note on the Text	p. xxiii
Proem	p. 1
Cosmogenesis
The Night of the Universe	p. 9
The Idea of Differentiation	p. 17
The Awakening of Kosmos	p. 21
The Septenary Hierarchies	p. 29
Fohat: The Child of the Septenary Hierarchies	p. 35
Our World, Its Growth and Development	p. 43
The Parents of Man on Earth	p. 51
Anthropogenesis
Beginnings of Sentient Life	p. 63
Nature Unaided Fails	p. 67
Attempts to Create Man	p. 71
Creation of the First Races	p. 75
The Evolution of the Second Race	p. 81
The Evolution of the Sweat-Born	p. 85
From the Semi-Divine Down to the First Human Races	p. 87
Evolution of the Animal Mammalians-The First Fall	p. 91
The Final Evolution of Man	p. 95
The History of the Fourth Race	p. 99
The Civilization and Destruction of the Third and Fourth Races	p. 105
The Fifth Race and Its Divine Instructors	p. 109
The Mystery Language of the Initiates
Symbolism and Ideographs	p. 115
The Mystery Language and Its Keys	p. 121
Primordial Substance and Divine Thought	p. 131
The Hidden Deity, its Symbols and Glyphs	p. 139
The Mundane Egg	p. 145
The Days and Nights of Brahm&abar;	p. 151
The Lotus, As a Universal Symbol	p. 157
The Moon, Deus Lunus, Phoebe	p. 163
Tree, Serpent, and Crocodile Worship	p. 171
Demon Est Deus Inversus	p. 177
The Theogony of the Creative Gods	p. 183
The Seven Creations	p. 191
The Four Elements	p. 199
Kuan-Shih-Yin and Kuan-Yin	p. 205
On the Myth of the "Fallen Angel"	p. 209
Enoïet;chion-Henoch	p. 217
The Cross and Circle	p. 223
Summing Up	p. 233
Index	p. 239
About the Authors	p. 257
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