The Secret Doctrine
The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Volume 3
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Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
- Author: H. P. Blavatsky
- Editor: Annie Besant
- Date Published: May 2011
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108073240
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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. The first two volumes of The Secret Doctrine were published in 1888, but this third volume was published in 1897 by spiritualist Annie Besant from Blavatsky's notes. It looks at some ancient spiritual teachings and mysteries, and the development of the practice of magic.
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- Date Published: May 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108073240
- length: 628 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 35 mm
- weight: 0.91kg
- contains: 1 table
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface Annie Besant
Introductory
1. Preliminary survey
2. Modern criticism and the ancients
3. The origin of magic
4. The secresy of the initiates
5. Some reasons for secresy
6. The dangers of practical magic
7. Old wine in new bottles
8. The 'Book of Enoch' the origin and foundation of Christianity
9. Hermetic and kabalistic doctrines
10. Various occult systems of interpretations of alphabets and numerals
11. The hexagon with the central point, or the seventh key
12. The duty of the true occultist towards religion
13. Post-Christian adepts and their doctrines
14. Simon and his biography Hippolytus
15. St. Paul the real founder of present Christianity
16. Peter a Jewish kabalist, not an initiate
17. Apollonius of Tyana
18. Facts underlying adept biographies
19. St. Cyprian of Antioch
20. The eastern Gupta Vidya and the Kabalah
21. Hebrew allegories
22. The 'Zohar' on creation and the elohim
23. What the occultists and kabalists have to say
24. Modern kabalists in science and occult astronomy
25. Eastern and western occultism
26. The idols and the teraphim
27. Egyptian magic
28. The origin of the mysteries
29. The trial of the sun initiate
30. The mystery 'sun of initiation'
31. The object of the mysteries
32. Traces of the mysteries
33. The last of the mysteries in Europe
34. The post-Christian successors to the mysteries
35. Symbolism of sun and stars
36. Pagan sidereal worship or astronomy
37. The souls of the stars – universal heliolatry
38. Astrology and astrolatry
39. Cycles and avatâras
40. Secret cycles
41. The doctrine of the avatâras
42. The seven principles
43. The mystery of Buddha
44. 'Reincarnations' of Buddha
45. An unpublished discourse of Buddha
46. Nirvana-Moksha
47. The secret books of 'Lam-Rin' and Dzyan
48. Amita Buddha Kwan-Shai-yin, and Kwan-yin
49. Tsong-Khapa
50. A few more misconceptions corrected
51. The 'Doctrine of the eye' and the 'Doctrine of the heart', or the 'heart's seal'
Some papers on the bearing of occult philosophy on life.
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