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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

Chapter 1834

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Having already given several instances of the vagaries of Science, it is delightful to find such agreement in this particular case. Read in connection with the scientific admission (cited elsewhere) of the Geologists’ ignorance of even the approximate duration of periods, the following passage is highly instructive: “We are not yet able to assign an approximate date for the most recent epoch at which our northern hemisphere was covered with glaciers. According to Mr. Wallace, this epoch may have occurred no more than seventy thousand years ago, while others would assign to it an antiquity of at least two hundred thousand years, and there are yet others who urge strong arguments on behalf of the opinion that a million of years is barely enough to have produced the changes which have taken place since that event.” (Fiske, Cosmic Philosophy, i. 304, Ed. 1874.) Prof. Lefèvre, again, gives us as his estimate one hundred thousand years. Clearly, then, if Modern Science is unable to estimate the date of so comparatively recent an era as the Glacial Epoch, it can hardly impeach the Esoteric Chronology of Race-Periods and Geological Ages.

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