Band 2 Anthropogenesis - H.P. Blavatsky

periods of history and tradition. But literary form and method had to be sacrificed to the greater clearness of the general
exposition.
To accomplish the proposed task, the writer had to resort to the rather unusual means of dividing each volume or Book
into three Parts; the first of which only is the consecutive, though very fragmentary, history of the Cosmogony and the
Evolution of Man on this globe. But these two volumes had to serve as a PROLOGUE, and prepare the reader's mind for
those which shall now follow. In treating of Cosmogony and then of the Anthropogenesis of mankind, it was necessary to
show that no religion, since the very earliest, has ever been entirely based on fiction, as none was the object of special
revelation; and that it is dogma alone which has ever been killing primeval truth. Finally, that no human-born doctrine, no
creed, however sanctified by custom and antiquity, can compare in sacredness with the religion of Nature. The Key of
Wisdom that unlocks the massive gates leading to the arcana of the innermost sanctuaries can be found hidden in her
bosom only: and that bosom is in the countries pointed to by the great seer of the past century Emanuel Swedenborg.
There lies the heart of nature, that shrine whence issued the early races of primeval Humanity, and which is the cradle of
physical man.
Thus far have proceeded the rough outlines of the beliefs and tenets of the archaic, earliest Races contained in their
hitherto secret Scriptural records. But our explanations are by no means complete, nor do they pretend to give out the full
text, or to have been read by the help of more than three or four keys out of the sevenfold bunch of esoteric
interpretation, and even this has only been partially accomplished. The work is too gigantic for any one person to
undertake, far more to accomplish. Our main concern was simply to prepare the soil. This, we trust we have done. These
two volumes only constitute the work of a pioneer who has forced his way into the well-nigh impenetrable jungle of the
virgin forests of the Land of the Occult. A commencement has been made to fell and uproot the deadly upas trees of
superstition, prejudice, and conceited ignorance, so that these two
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volumes should form for the student a fitting prelude for Volumes III. and IV. Until the rubbish of the ages is cleared away
from the minds of the Theosophists to whom these volumes are dedicated, it is impossible that the more practical
teaching contained in the Third Volume should be understood. Consequently, it entirely depends upon the reception with
which Volumes I. and II. will meet at the hands of Theosophists and Mystics, whether these last two volumes will ever be
published, though they are almost completed.
Satyat Nasti paro dharmah.
THERE IS NO RELIGION HIGHER THAN TRUTH.
End of Vol. II.
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