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1938. Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766128350, 0766132080, 0766132129, 0766132161. Volume 2 of 5. Volume 2: Cosmogenesis Parts 2 and 3. The Evolution of Symbolism. Addenda. A new version of Isis Unveiled in which the work is issued in a better and clearer form. All that is important in Isis is retained, but the text is rearranged to provide a better grouping of the materials relating to any particular subject.

PART 2. THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLISM

SECTION 1-SYMBOLISM AND IDEOGRAPHS

(7)

Mythologies and Traditions have Historical Meaning

Emblem and Symbol Differ

Former is Series of Graphic Pictures explained allegorically

Esoteric History embedded in Symbols

Magic Potency of Sound

The Mystery Language, now called Symbolism.

SECTION 2-THE MYSTERY LANGUAGE AND ITS KEYS

(17)

Scholars have turned the Key once to Universal Language of Old

Ancient Records written in Universal Language

Egyptian Rituals and Dogmas preserve the Principal Teaching of the SECRET DOCTRINE

Scholars discover Geometrical and Numerical System of Great Pyramid Measures

The Quadrature of the Circle

Truth must prevail at last

Moses and the Ark of Bulrushes copied from Sargon

Occult Numbers Corner-stones of Occult Cosmogonies

Identity of Ancient Symbols

The Creation of several Adams

The "Satanic" Races.

SECTION 3-PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE AND DIVINE THOUGHT

(17)

Western Metaphysics fall short of the Truth

Divine Thought cannot be defined except by the Numberless Manifestations of Cosmic Substance

Cosmic Ideation non-existent during Universal Pralaya

The Whole Universe an Illusion

What is Primordial Substance?

AEther is Universal Fire

The Cosmogenesis of Manas

The Seven Prakritis

The Gods of Genesis

From the Triple One emanated the Whole Kosmos

The "Living Fire"

The Ether of Science

The Whole Kosmos has sprung from the Divine Thought

Occult Science still holds the Key to all World Problems.

SECTION 4-CHAOS: THEOS: COSMOS

(8)

Space, the Container and the firmly of the Universe in its Seven Principles

Chaos became the Soul of the World

The First Triangle

The Birth of Mind

The Ineffable Name

The Four Primary Elements

Cosmolatry.

SECTION 5-ON THE HIDDEN DEITY, ITS SYMBOLS AND GLYPHS

(10)

Prajâpatis and Patriarchs

The Macroposopus and the Microposopus

The Seven Secret Letters of which the God Name is composed

Universal Soul was considered as the Mind of the Demiurgic Creator

The Meaning of Sacred Animals and Plants

Symbols of the Creative Powers

The Seven and Ten Builders

Was there a Primeval Universal Revelation?

The Swan as a Symbol of the Spirit

Ancient Symbology.

SECTION 6-THE MUNDANE EGG

(10)

The Egg typifies the Universe and its Spherical Bodies

The Egg and the Ark

Ten the Sacred Number of the Universe

Symbolism of Lunar and Solar Deities

The Four Sacred Animals typify the Four Lower Principles in Man

Fiery Serpents

The Winged Globe

The Egg gives Birth to the Four Elements

All Egyptian Gods were Dual

Scandanavian Cosmogony

The Four Rivers of Eden symbolized by the Cube.

SECTION 7-THE DAYS AND NIGHTS OF BRAHMÂ

(10)

The Present Kalpa is the Varâha (Boar)

Avatâras indicate Major and Minor Cycles

Three Chief Pralayas

A Kabalistic Key

Fourteen Manus within the Term of a Mahâ Yuga

The Coming of Cosmic Night

Satya Yuga always First of the Four Ages and Kali the Last

The Return of Moru and Devâpi.

SECTION 8-THE LOTUS AS A UNIVERSAL SYMBOL

(8)

The Lotus typifies Creation and Generation

Divine Ideation passes from the Abstract to the Concrete

The Creative God is Thought made Visible

Hebrew Anthropomorphism

The Esoteric Meaning of Sin and the Fall in Genesis

The Sacred Meaning of the Letter "M".

SECTION 9-THE MOON; DEUS LUNUS, PHCEBE

102

(18)

Personification of the Moon

Solar and Lunar Gods, Races, and Dynasties

The Physiological Key to the Moon Symbol

The Double Number, Male and Female

An Allegory from the Zohar

The Complexity of the Lunar Symbol, its Physiological Key

The Dual Aspect of the Moon

Lunar Rites based upon a Knowledge of Physiology

The Sun and Moon as Male-Female Deities fructify the Earth

The Immaculate Virgin-Mother and Pagan Goddesses

Moon Worship as Old as the World

The Moon the Accepted Symbol of All Virgin-Mother Goddesses.

SECTION 10-TREE, SERPENT, AND CROCODILE WORSHIP

120

(9)

The Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge

Serpents and Dragons meant Wise Ones, the Initiated Adepts of Olden Times

The Serpent, the Symbol of initiation

Occultists know the Earlier Meanings of the Tree of Life and the Cross

The Tree of Life has its Roots in Heaven

The Seven-headed Serpents and Dragons of Antiquity typify the Seven Principles in Nature and Man

The Crocodile is the Egyptian Dragon

The Significance of the Seven Fires, the Seven Vowels, etc., represented by the Seven Heads of the Serpent of Eternity.

SECTION 11-DEMON EST DEUS INVERSUS

129

(13)

Good and Evil, can there be Two Eternal Absolutes?

How "Satan" was anthropomorphized

No Life without Death

Good and Evil are Two Faces of One and the Same Thing

Evil denotes the Polarity of Matter and Spirit

The "Fall" is the Desire to know

The Meaning of the Rebellion and Fall of the Angels

Adepts of the Right and the Left Hand

The War of the Gods

The Two Aspects of Vishnu

Creative Forces are Living and Conscious Entities

The Black and the White Pyramid.

SECTION 12-THE THEOGONY OF THE CREATIVE GODS

142

(22)

The Hierarchy of Forces

The Artificer of the Universe is not the Highest God

The Point is the Unit from which follows the Entire Numeral System

The Creations in Hindu Cosmogony

The Logos is the Verbum

Synonyms of the Logos

Female Powers in Nature

The Mystery of Sound

Light, Sound and Number are the Three Factors of Creation

The Pythagorean Doctrine of Numbers

The Mother of the Gods

The Antiquity of the Pyramids

Angels, Archangels, Principalities, Virtues, Dominions, Thrones, Cherubs and Seraphs

Cosmic Gods

Stages of Manifestation

The Unpronounceable Name

The Cosmogony of Confucius

The Seven and Fourteen Cycles of Existence

The Symbols of the Mystery of Darkness

The Higher Self alone is Divine and God.

SECTION 13-THE SEVEN CREATIONS

164

(17)

The Seven Creations of the Purânas

The Ogdoad

The First "Thinking" Man and the One, Three, and Seven Vowelled Sounds

Primary and Secondary Creations

Mahat is Divine Mind in Active Operation

Many Versions of the One Truth

Dhyân Chohans are the Collective Aggregate of Primordial Mind

The Seven Creations:

(1) Mahat-tattva, Primordial Self-evolution;

(2) Rudimental Principles or Tanmâtras;

(3) Ahamkâra, or the Conception of "i";

(4) The Series of four Elemental, Rudimental Kingdoms-the Bases of the Senses;

(5) Dumb Animal Creation;

(6) Prototypes of the First Race (human);

(7) Man-Who the Kumâras are-The Virgin Ascetics who refused to create Material Man-Importance of the Number Seven.

SECTION 14-THE FOUR ELEMENTS

181

(11)

The Elements are the Visible Garb of the Cosmic Gods

Corporeal and Spiritual Elements in the Forces of Nature

The Atlanteans understood the Phenomena of the Four Elements

St. Paul believed in Cosmic Gods

Jehovah a God of the Elements

Astarte and the Virgin Mary

Every Element is Dual in its Nature

Physical Forces the Vehicles of the Elements.

SECTION 15-ON KWAN-SHI-YIN AND KWAN-YIN

192

(7)

The Alpha and Omega of Manifested Nature

Mantras work a Magical Effect

Kwan-shi-yin is a Form of the Seventh Universal Principle, or mystically, the Logos

Kwan-yin is the Female Principle in Nature.

PART 3. ADDENDA

SECTION 1-REASONS FOR THESE ADDENDA

199

(6)

No Conflict between Occult and Exact Science whenever the Conclusions of the Latter are grounded upon Unassailable Fact

Forces are Intelligent and are Devas and Genii

The Sun is both Matter and Spirit

The Sun is the Life-Giver of the Physical World; the Concealed Spirit-Sun is the Life and Light

Giver of the Spiritual and Psychic Realms.

SECTION 2-MODERN PHYSICISTS ARE PLAYING BLIND-MAN'S-BUFF

205

(8)

Science has to learn what Matter, Atom, Ether, Force, are in Reality

Is Light a Body or Not?

Contradictory Hypotheses

Views on the Constitution of Ether

Occultists say the Author of Nature is Nature Itself.

SECTION 3-IS GRAVITATION A LAW?

213

(11)

Scientific views on Gravity

Pythagoras and Plato on Planetary Rulers

Fohat, the Energizing and Guiding Intelligence in the Universal Electrical Vital Fluid

Forces in Nature are Intelligent Individualities

Newton's Theory of a Universal Void

Perpetual Motion

Cosmic Magnetism

Kepler's Ideas on Cosmic Forces

The Cause of Rotation.

SECTION 4-THE THEORIES OF ROTATION IN SCIENCE

224

(7)

Hypotheses on the Origin of Rotation; on the Origin of Planets and Comets

The Paradoxes of Science

Forces are Realities.

SECTION 5-THE MASKS OF SCIENCE

231

(17)

Physics or Metaphysics?

Occult Doctrine and Principle in Spiller

Scientific Definitions of Force

Force and Substance in Occultism

What is Force?

Occultists call the Cause of Light, Heat, Sound, Cohesion, Magnetism, etc., a Substance

The Seven Mystic Rays of the Sun

Causes and their Effects

What is an Atom?

The Forty-nine Original Fires personified; Their Relation to Human Psychic Faculties and Chemical and Physical Potencies

The "Indiscrete Principle" in the Vishishtâdvaita System of Philosophy.

SECTION 6-AN ATTACK ON THE SCIENTIFIC THEORY OF FORCE BY A MAN OF SCIENCE

248

(5)

Several English Scientists teach Almost Occult Doctrines

The Spirit and Soul of Cosmos.

SECTION 7-LIFE, FORCE, OR GRAVITY

253

(11)

Attraction Alone not Sufficient to explain Planetary Motion

Sun-fluids or Emanations impart All Motion or awaken All Life in the Solar System

The Sun is the Storehouse of Vital Force

Pantheism or Monotheism?

The Seven Physical Senses

The Tree of Life

What is "Nervous Ether"?

A True Septenary Ladder.

SECTION 8-THE SOLAR THEORY

264

(14)

The Sun the Heart of the Solar System

The Elements now known are not the Primordial Elements

Chemistry approaches nearer the Realm of the Occult in Nature than Other Sciences

Prof. Crookes' Discoveries justify the Occult Teachings

Chemical Terms and the Genesis of Gods

The Power that directs the Atom

The Meaning of the Caduceus of Mercury

The Laya State and the Zero Point

Occultism says Matter is Eternal, becoming Atomic only periodically

Dominant "Atomicities"

Intelligent Minds and Rulers of Monads and Atoms.

SECTION 9-THE COMING FORCE

278

(12)

The Cause and Effects of Cosmic Electricity

Sound is an Occult Power

Keely an Unconscious Occultist

The Occult Meaning of a Laya Centre

Mankind psychically connected with the Dhyânic Groups

Why Keely could not push his Discoveries to their Logical End

Etheric Force not Permitted to serve the Purposes of Commerce and Traffic

"Vril" is a Real Force

Keely's Premature Discoveries.

SECTION 10-ON THE ELEMENTS AND ATOMS

290

(13)

When used metaphysically the Term Element means the Incipient Divine Man

Atom-Souls are Differentiations from the One

The Allegory of the "Promised Land"

The Monad according to the Teachings of Old Initiates

The Eternal Pilgrim

Buddhas of the Three Worlds

Dhyâni Buddhas and the Seven Sons of Light

Personality and Individuality

Angel-Monads, Human-Monads and Father-Stars

The Place of Uranus and Neptune

The Planetary Origin of the Monad as taught by the Gnostics

The Cyclic Fall of the Gods

The Nature of Jehovah.

SECTION 11-ANCIENT THOUGHT IN MODERN DRESS

303

(9)

Chemistry and Occult Science

Roger Bacon had a Key to the Real Meaning of Magic and Alchemy

The Atom is Inseparable from the Spirit

The Trinity in Unity

The Genesis of the Elements

Purânas versus the Royal Society.

SECTION 12-SCIENTIFIC AND ESOTERIC EVIDENCE FOR, AND OBJECTIONS TO, THE MODERN NEBULAR THEORY

312

(13)

The Nebular Theory is Wrong

The Sun and the Planets are Co-uterine Brothers

The Duty of the Occultist lies with the Soul and Spirit of Cosmic Space

The Necessity of Studying the Whole Esoteric Cosmogonical System

Forces are Aspects of the One Universal Life

The Views of a Master on Scientific Theories

What are the Nebulae?

The Nebular Theory and the SECRET DOCTRINE

Our Visible Universe is the Sthûla Sharira of the Seven-fold Kosmos

What is Primitive Matter?

Natural Selection and the Eastern Doctrine of Evolution.

SECTION 13- FORCES-MODES OF MOTION, OR INTELLIGENCES?

325

(10)

The Effects of Primeval Matter felt through Intelligences named Dhyân Chohans, etc.

These Intelligences must be admitted by Science

Universal Mind is the Divine Light (Fohat) emanating from the Logos

Terrestrial Phenomena are Aspects of the Dual-natured Essence of Cosmic Dhyân Chohans

The Law of Analogy is the First Key to the World Problem

Different Kinds of Humanity

Different Senses in Other Worlds

Everything has its Life Period: Earth, Mankind, Sun, Moon, Planets, Races, etc.

SECTION 14-GODS, MONADS, AND ATOMS

335

(24)

Cosmos is Full of Invisible, Intelligent, Existences

Only the Highest Initiates and Adepts are capable of Assimilating the Full Knowledge of the Mysteries of Nature

Who masters the Mysteries of Our Own Earth masters All Others

The Mathematical Point

The Absolutely Ideal Universe and the Invisible though Manifested Kosmos

The Monad as the Apex of the Manifested Equilateral Triangle, the "Father"

Space is the Real World

The Pythagorean Ten Points

The Ideal Triangle-The Monad and the Duad

Atomic Souls and their Individual Pilgrimage

The Descent and Ascent of the Individualized Monad

The Chemistry of the Future

Esoteric 'Science embraces the Whole Scope of Evolution from Spirit to Matter

The Noumenon of Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Nitrogen

The Theories of Leibnitz

Nature of the Monad

The "Gods" are the Radiations of Primordial Nature

The Atoms are that Motion which keeps the Wheels of Life perpetually going.

SECTION 15-CYCLIC EVOLUTION AND KARMA

359

(14)

Karma is the one Law which governs the World of Being

Occultists respect Man's Outer Animal Life as much as his Inner Spiritual Nature

The Esoteric Bearing of the Karmic Cycles upon Universal Ethics

No One can escape his Ruling Destiny

Karma the Law of Compensation

Great Geological Changes are but the Tools for the Accomplishment of Certain Purposes acting periodically

Great and Small Cycles

Karma-Nemesis

Ancient and Modern Prophecies

Astrology a Science.

SECTION 16-THE ZODIAC AND ITS ANTIQUITY

373

(20)

The Zodiac in the Bible

The Antiquity of the Zodiac

Messiahs, Avatâras and the Signs of the Zodiac

Chaldeo-Judear Gods and Cycles

The Antiquity of the Zodiac of the Hindus

Scientific Conclusion

The beginning of Kali Yuga

Hindu Astronomical Methods and Their Vindication.

SECTION 17-SUMMARY OF THE POSITION

393

(10)

What is Ether, Matter, Energy?

Little known of the Material Universe

Esoteric Teachings in Egypt and India were Identical

Outside the Boundaries of the Solar System are Other Suns and the Mysterious Central Sun

Fohat is the Key in Occultism which opens and unriddles the Symbols and Allegories of All Mythologies

Fohat under Many Names

Legend and History.

ADDITIONAL NOTES

403

(1)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

404

(2)

ADDITIONAL BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

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