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** "The body in the Soul," as Arjuna Misra is credited with saying, or rather the "Soul in the Spirit," and on a still higher plane of development: "the SELF or Atman in the Universal Self." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page]] 640 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. Such indeed, is this holy forest . . . . and understanding it, they (the Sages) act accordingly, being directed by the KSHETRAGNA. . . . " No translator among the Western Orientalists has yet perceived in the foregoing allegory anything higher than mysteries connected with sacrificial ritualism, penance, or ascetic ceremonies, and Hatha Yoga. But he who understands symbolical imagery, and hears the voice of SELF WITHIN SELF, will see in this something far higher than mere ritualism, however often he may err in minor details of the philosophy. And here, we must be allowed a last remark. No true theosophist, from the most ignorant up to the most learned, ought to claim infallibility for anything he may say or write upon occult matters. The chief point is to admit that, in many a way, in the classification of either cosmic or human principles, in addition to mistakes in the order of evolution, and especially on metaphysical questions, those of us who pretend to teach others more ignorant than ourselves -- are all liable to err. Thus mistakes have been made in "Isis Unveiled," in "Esoteric Buddhism," in "Man," in "Magic: White and Black," etc., etc.; and more than one mistake is likely to be found in the present work. This cannot be helped. For a large or even a small work on such abstruse subjects to be entirely exempt from error and blunder, it would have to be written from its first to its last page by a great adept, if not by an Avatar. Then only should we say, "This is verily a work without sin or blemish in it!" But, so long as the artist is imperfect, how can his work be perfect? "Endless is the search for truth!" Let us love it and aspire to it for its own sake, and not for the glory or benefit a minute portion of its revelation may confer on us. For who of us can presume to have the whole truth at his fingers' ends, even upon one minor teaching of Occultism? Our chief point in the present subject, however, was to show that the Septenary doctrine, or division of the constitution of man, was a very ancient one, and was not invented by us. This has been successfully done, for we are supported in this, consciously and unconsciously, by a number of ancient, mediaeval, and modern writers. What the former said, was well said; what the latter repeated, was generally distorted. An instance: Read the "Pythagorean Fragments," and compare the Septenary man as given by the Rev. G. Oliver, the learned mason, in his "Pythagorean Triangle" (ch. on "Science of Numbers," p. 179). He speaks as follows:-- "The Theosophic Philosophy counted SEVEN properties (or principles), in Man, viz.:-- (1.) The divine golden Man; (2.) The inward holy body from fire and light, like pure silver; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page]] 641 HYPNOTISM IS -- SATANISM. (3.) The elemental man; (4.) The mercurial paradisiacal man; (5.) The martial Soul-like man; (6.) The passionate man of desires; (7.) The Solar man; a witness to and inspector of the wonders of the Universe. They had also seven fountain Spirits, or Powers of Nature." Compare this jumbled account and distribution of Western theosophic philosophy with the latest theosophic explanations by the Eastern School of Theosophy, and then decide which is the more correct. Verily:-- "Wisdom hath builded her house, She hath hewn out her seven pillars." -- (Prov. ix, 1.) As to the charge that our School has not adopted the Seven-fold classification of the Brahmins, but has confused it, it is quite unjust. To begin with, the "School" is one thing, its exponents (to Europeans) quite another. The latter have first to learn the A B C of practical Eastern Occultism, before they can be made to understand correctly the tremendously abstruse classification based on the seven distinct states of Pragna (consciousness); and, above all, to realize thoroughly what Pragna is, in the Eastern metaphysics. To give a Western student that classification is to try to make him suppose that he can account for the origin of consciousness, by accounting for the process by which a certain knowledge, through only one of the states of that consciousness, came to him; in other words, it is to make him account for something he knows on this plane, by something he knows nothing about on the other planes; i.e., to lead him from the spiritual and the psychological, direct to the ontological. This is why the primary, old, classification was adopted by the Theosophists, of which classifications there are many. To busy oneself, after such a tremendous number of independent witnesses and proofs have been brought before the public, with an additional enumeration from theological sources, would be quite useless. The seven capital sins and seven virtues of the Christian scheme are far less philosophical than even the Seven Liberal and the Seven Accursed Sciences -- or the Seven Arts of enchantment of the Gnostics. For one of the latter is now before the public, pregnant with danger in the present as for the future. The modern name for it is HYPNOTISM. In the ignorance of the seven principles, and used by scientific and ignorant materialists, it will soon become SATANISM in the full acceptation of the term.
------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page 642]] [[blank]] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page 643]] BOOK II. -- PART III. ADDENDA. SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED. "The knowledge of this nether world -- Say, friend, what is it, false or true? The false, what mortal cares to know? The true, what mortal ever knew?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page 644]] ------- §§ PAGE I. ARCHAIC OR MODERN ANTHROPOLOGY? ... 645 ------- II. THE ANCESTORS MANKIND IS OFFERED BY SCIENCE ... 656 Plastidular Souls, and Conscious Nerve-Cells ... 670 ------- III. THE FOSSIL RELICS OF MAN AND THE ANTHROPOID APE ... 675 Western Evolutionism: the comparative Anatomy of Man and Ape ... 680 Darwinism and the Antiquity of Man: the Anthropoids and their Ancestry ... 685 ------- IV. ON THE DURATION OF GEOLOGICAL PERIODS, RACE CYCLES, AND THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN ... 690 Modern Scientific Speculations thereon ... 694 On Chains of Planets and their Plurality ... 699 Esoteric Geological Chronology ... 709 ------- V. ORGANIC EVOLUTION -- CREATIVE CENTRES ... 731 The Origin and Evolution of the Mammalia ... 734 The European Palaeolithic Races ... 738 ------- VI. GIANTS, CIVILIZATIONS, AND SUBMERGED CONTINENTS TRACED IN HISTORY ... 742 ------- VII. SCIENTIFIC AND GEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF SEVERAL SUBMERGED CONTINENTS ... 778 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[Vol. 2, Page]] 645 THE NEW MASTERS OF PROTESTANTISM. ADDENDA TO BOOK II. § I. ARCHAIC, OR MODERN ANTHROPOLOGY?
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THE SECRET DOCTRINE BY H. P. BLAVAT
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Various Deluges ... 141 The Arkite
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CONCLUSION ... 437 ------- BOOK II.
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The Seven Sabbaths ... 747 "Revelat
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* As it is now asserted that the Ch
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upheaval of the continent, changed
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Beauteous Daughter of the Ether, Pa
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VI. 22. THEN THE SECOND EVOLVED THE
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(b) This expression shows in plain
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Wake. "This animal was the especial
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first pp. of Book I) and fallen int
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(c) Number Seven, the fundamental f
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"Now light," explains the author, "
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mysticism Adam was not a man but a
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ate of the forbidden fruit. The for
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Continuing to create, Brahma assume
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evolution of life on Earth, there m
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tribes and people are also represen
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passage by Mr. Laing, which gives t
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exact period of the lunar year and
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in its spiritual aspects and emanat
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What is Binah Understanding? But wh
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of termination required to express
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* Whence the subsequent assertions
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love the science, and where the god
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possess an intelligence of their ow
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[[Vol. 2, Page]] 107 BATH-KOL, DAUG
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correlatives and contraries inhabit
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(Omoroka) who presided over the mon
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The occult doctrine, anyhow, can be
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** Schol. Eurip. "Orestes," 463, Di
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and Adam is the collective name for
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This is a very curious statement as
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dissociated matter in the critical
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Vaivasvata produces a daughter and
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[[Vol. 2, Page]] 144 THE SECRET DOC
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have declared that "Ila was primari
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In the same letter, "The Evolution
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As far as XIXth century thought is
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3. The Third Root-Race, the "Two-fo
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generally) larger by one cubic inch
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Darwinism," p. 159.) Apart from suc
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who after refusing to "create proge
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* An allegorical reference to the "
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WHAT MAY BE THE OBJECTIONS TO THE F
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eason that no "missing links" betwe
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others, PROBABLY arose in the tropi
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the same conditions and by the same
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The above is suggestive. We will se
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** "Science Occulte," p. 646. *** "
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originals, who were symbolized by s
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** Vide infra, "The Septenary," in
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In other words, they were the Lemur
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Panini (!); that the Hindus had all
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to Hades (the cave of Initiation) t
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To close this rather lengthy commen
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When reading of "the last transform
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Mankind -- MAN was on earth in this
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to distinguish them. Even at the ag
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As witnesses to the Lemurians but a
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traditions about Hermes (of whom Eg
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(a) Such were the first truly physi
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Happily for the human race the "Ele
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a physical nature and spiritual att
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This period is the one described in
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A few more occult teachings must no
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a Spirit, or Deva; and the "Bird's
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VI R. R. 6 1/2 VII ROOT RACE theref
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evolve, and that our humanity is ju
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Thus, if we are to believe esoteric
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Here reference is also made to the
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II. The several meanings of the wor
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Which means again, that our globe i
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When it is maintained that no large
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De Mirville -- who seeks to justify
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Snakes). The eminent scholar saw in
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eing regarded as a direct denunciat
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It is the Kabiri who are credited w
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"Now," says Panadoras, "it is befor
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fourth book of Laws, says that, lon
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through the pen of Biblical scholar
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Rahu, mythologically is a Daitya --
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Dragon of absolute Wisdom -- that W
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Satan represents metaphysically sim
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The Noachian Deluge, as described i
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In the same tradition that wise pri
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the abode of the wicked (the Atlant
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Thus, we believe we know that, thou
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islands beyond, which are not far f
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"Supreme Deity" bears, in every anc
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that she must travel eastward, afte
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Brahminical and Buddhistic legends,
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the physical brain may forget event
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"The waters arose, and covered the
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some still older records -- to whic
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Thus let it be. No disbeliever who
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ecause while the evolution of the F
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is born from Asat, and ASAT is bego
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less entitled to a hearing, or less
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THE "HOLY OF HOLIES." ITS DEGRADATI
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Now Eustathius declares that ([IO])
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Measures," 159). Besides the same a
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in his supposed monotheism over the
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help half a dozen volumes full of s
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This "pagan" view was accepted from
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since man appeared on earth, and ma
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Perchance, this is justified on tha
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cherub . . . thou hast walked up an
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In the exoteric works, however, the
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Whether Milton's grandiose descript
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anthropomorphic deity, and adopt fr
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Thus, esoteric philosophy shows tha
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Melia, Decharme thinks, is the pers
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"This process, such as it is minute
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From all that has been said in this
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in the arena, breaking a lance with
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which is of still earlier date . .
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neolithic flints in the Jordan vall
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Strabo speaks of an island near to
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There are those Orientalists and hi
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shown to claim the same descent lik
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So much so, that all ancient writin
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Atlantis. So, also, the war between
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True; but is not the phenomenon her
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Touching on the problem in another
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800 and 1,000 leagues, and that, ac
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of the skin on both sides of the At
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periods of history and tradition. B
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