The Secret Doctrine : The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy (Paperback)

Preface; Introduction; Book I; Section 1. Cosmic Evolution: Seven Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan: 1. The night of the universe; 2. The idea of differentiation; 3. The awakening of kosmos; 4. The septenary hierarchies; 5. Fohat: the child of the septenary hierarchies; 6. Our world, its growth and development, theosophical misconceptions, explanations concerning the globes and the monads; 6. Continued; 7. The parents of man on Earth; Summing up; Section 2. The Evolution of Symbolism in its Approximate Order: 1. Symbolism and ideographs; 2. The mystery language and its keys; 3. Primordial substance and divine thought; 4. Chaos ? theos ? kosmos; 5. The hidden deity, its symbols and glyphs; 6. The mundane egg; 7. The days and nights of Brahma; 8. The lotus as a universal symbol; 9. Deus lunus; 10. Tree and serpent and crocodile worship; 11. Demon est deus inversus; 12. The theogony of the creative gods; 13. The seven creations; 14. The four elements; 15. On Kwan-Shi-Yin and Kwan-Yin; Section 3. Science and the Secret Doctrine Contrasted: 1. Reasons for these addenda; 2. Modern physicists are playing at blind man's buff; 3. An lumen sit corpus nec non?; 4. Is gravitation a law?; 5. The theories of rotation in science; 6. The masks of science; 7. An attack on the scientific theory of force by a man of science; 8. Life, force, or gravity; 9. The solar theory; 10. The coming force; 11. On the elements and atoms; 12. Ancient thought in modern dress; 13. The modern nebular theory; 14. Forces ? modes of motion or intelligences?; 15. Gods, monads, and atoms; 16. Cyclic evolution and karma; 17. The zodiac and its antiquity; 18. Summary of the mutual position.