The Secret Doctrine
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-07323-3 (ISBN)
Ukrainian-born Madame Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891) was a powerful and controversial member of the spiritualist world and for a time famous for her powers as a medium. She was a co-founder of the theosophy movement in the United States, which she later extended to Europe and India, drawing from her extensive global travels and her familiarity with a broad range of belief systems, from Asian religions to New Orleans voodoo, as well as secret societies such as the Freemasons. Drawing from Hinduism and Buddhism, theosophy aimed to understand the mystic powers of the universe and promote the study of other religions. In The Secret Doctrine, published in 1888, Blavatsky aims to explain the spiritual origins of the world. Volume 2 looks at the creation of humans and animals, and considers the lost world of Atlantis.
Preliminary notes; Book II; Section 1. Anthropogenesis. Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan: 1. Beginnings of sentient life; Two antediluvian astronomers; 2. Nature unaided fails; The chronology of the Brahmins; 3. Attempts to create man; 4. Creation of the first races; 5. The evolution of the second race; 6. The evolution of the weat-born; 7. From the semi-divine down to the first human races; 8. Evolution of the animal mammalians – the first fall. What may be the objections to the foregoing; 9. The final evolution of man. Edens, serpents and dragons. The sons of God and the sacred island; 10. The history of the fourth race. Archaic teachings in the Puranas and Genesis. A panoramic view of the early races; 10. Continue.; Are giants a fiction? The races with the 'third eye'. The primeval manus of humanity; 11. The civilization and destruction of the fourth and fifth races. Gyclopean ruins and colossal stones as witnesses to giants; 12. The fifth race and its divine instructors; Additional fragments from a commentary on the verses of stanza 12; Conclusion; Section 2. The Archaic Symbolism of the World-Religions: Esoteric Tenets Corroborated in Every Scripture: 16. Adam-Adami; 17. The 'Holy of Holies', its degradation; 18. On the myth of the 'Fallen angel', in its various aspects; 19. Is Pleroma Satan's lair?; 20. Prometheus the Titan; 21. Enoichion-Henoch; 22. The symbolism of the mystery names, Iao, and Jehovah; 23. The Upanishads in Gnostic literature; 24. The cross and the Pythagorean decade; 25. The mysteries of the Hebdomad; Section 3. Addenda. Science and the Secret Doctrine Contrasted: 1. Archaic, or modern anthropology?; 2. The ancestors mankind is offered by science; 3. The fossil relics of man and the anthropoid ape; 4. Duration of the geological periods, race cycles, and the antiquity of man; 5. Organic evolution and creative centres; 6. Giants, civilizations, and submerged continents traced in history; 7. Scientific and geological proofs of the existence of several submerged continents; Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.5.2011 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge ; Volume 2 |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 1220 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-07323-9 / 1108073239 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-07323-3 / 9781108073233 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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