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The Secret Doctrine, Volume II. Anthropogenesis

Part I. Anthropogenesis

Commentaries On The Twelve Stanzas And Their Terms, According To Their Numeration, In Stanzas And Shlokas

Stanza I. Beginnings of Sentient Life

Stanza IV. Creation Of The First Races

Part II. The Archaic Symbolism Of The World-Religions

Section I. Esoteric Tenets Corroborated in Every Scripture

Part III. Addenda. Science And The Secret Doctrine Contrasted

Preliminary Notes on The Archaic Stanzas, and the Four Pre-Historic Continents

Stanza II. Nature Unaided Fails

Stanza II.—Continued

Stanza III. Attempts To Create Man

Stanza IV.—Continued

Stanza V. The Evolution of the Second Race

Stanza VI. The Evolution Of The “Sweat-Born”

Stanza VII. From The Semi-Divine Down To The First Human Races

Stanza VIII. Evolution Of The Animal Mammalians: The First Fall

Stanza IX. The Final Evolution Of Man

Stanza X. The History Of The Fourth Race

Stanza XI. The Civilization And Destruction Of The Fourth And Fifth Races

Stanza XII. The Fifth Race And Its Divine Instructors

Section II. Adam=Adami

Section III. The “Holy of Holies.” Its Degradation

Section IV. On the Myth of the “Fallen Angels” in its Various Aspects

Section V. Is Plerôma Satan’s Lair?

Section VI. Prometheus, the Titan

Section VII. Enoïchion-Henoch

Section VIII. The Symbolism of the Mystery-Names Iao and Jehovah, with their Relation to the Cross and Circle

Section IX. The Upanishads in Gnostic Literature

Section X. The Cross and the Pythagorean Decad

Section XI. The Mysteries of the Hebdomad

Section I. Archaic, or Modern Anthropology?

Section II. The Ancestors Mankind is Offered by Science

Section III. The Fossil Relics of Man and the Anthropoid Ape

Section IV. Duration of the Geological Periods, Race Cycles, and the Antiquity of Man

Section V. Organic Evolution and Creative Centres

Section VI. Giants, Civilizations, and Submerged Continents Traced in History

Section VII. Scientific and Geological Proofs of the Existence of Several Submerged Continents

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The verse “did cast them to the earth,” plainly shows its origin in the grandest and oldest allegory of the Âryan Mystics, who, after the destruction of the Atlantean giants and sorcerers, concealed the truth—astronomical, physical, and divine, as it is a page out of pre-cosmic Theogony—under various allegories. Its true Esoteric interpretation is a veritable Theodice of the “Fallen Angels,” so called: the willing and the unwilling, the creators and those who refused to create, being now mixed up most perplexingly by Christian Catholics, who forget that their highest Archangel, St. Michael, who is shown to conquer (to master and to assimilate) the Dragon of Wisdom and of divine Self-sacrifice—now miscalled and calumniated as Satan—was the first to refuse to create! This has led to endless confusion. So little does Christian Theology understand the paradoxical language of the East and its symbolism, that it even explains, in its dead-letter sense, the Chinese Buddhist and Hindû exoteric rite of raising a noise during certain eclipses to scare away the “great red dragon,” which laid a plot to carry away the “light”! But here “light” means Esoteric Wisdom, and we have sufficiently explained the secret meaning of the terms Dragon, Serpent, etc., all of which refer to Adepts and Initiates.

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