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The Secret Doctrine. 127
It is interesting to notice, in this connection, that
Newton was famiUar with the writings of Jacob
Boehmen, the "Teutonic Theosopher," and that
among Newton's posthumous papers were found
copious notes and translations from his works. As
to the "Races," referred to in the above quotation,
it need only be said in passing, that the Secret
Doctrine declares that in the evolution of humanity
there are to be seven Races, of which ours is now
the fifth, and that each race makes seven rounds on
our planetary chain, of which rounds the present
race is now in the fourth, with here and there a
"fifth rounder" appearing. The Secret Doctrine
teaches, not only the immortality of the soul, but
the perfectibility of humanity by orderly evolution
on this Earth. This doctrine concerns the general
evolution which the present work touches only incidentally;
it is complicated, and necessarily so.
There are three fundamental propositions that underlie
the Secret Doctrine, (o) "An Omnipresent,
Eternal, Boundless, and Immutable Principle on
which all speculation is impossible, since it transcends
the power of human conception, and could
only be dwarfed by any human expression or similitude.
It is beyond the range and reach of human
thought—in the words of Mandukya, "unthinkable