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

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.