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The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy

The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy

by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)

Occult PhilosophyHermeticismModern

Theosophy

Chapters

66

Total Words

244,994

Reading Time

980 min

Published

1861

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Table of Contents

1.Preface
1 min
2.Section LI. The “Doctrine of the Eye” & the “Doctrine of the Heart,” or
23 min
3.SECTION I. PRELIMINARY SURVEY.
27 min
4.SECTION II. MODERN CRITICISM AND THE ANCIENTS.
9 min
5.SECTION III. THE ORIGIN OF MAGIC.
10 min
6.SECTION IV. THE SECRESY OF INITIATES.
18 min
7.SECTION V. SOME REASONS FOR SECRESY.
17 min
8.SECTION VI. THE DANGERS OF PRACTICAL MAGIC.
14 min
9.SECTION VII. OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES.
8 min
10.SECTION VIII. THE BOOK OF ENOCH THE ORIGIN AND THE FOUNDATION OF
5 min
11.Chapter xcii. records a series of prophecies extending from
5 min
12.Chapter lxxxviii, in which one of the four Angels “went to the white cows
4 min
13.SECTION IX. HERMETIC AND KABALISTIC DOCTRINES.
9 min
14.SECTION X. VARIOUS OCCULT SYSTEMS OF INTERPRETATIONS OF ALPHABETS AND
10 min
15.SECTION XI. THE HEXAGON WITH THE CENTRAL POINT, OR THE SEVENTH KEY.
7 min
16.SECTION XII. THE DUTY OF THE TRUE OCCULTIST TOWARD RELIGIONS.
4 min
17.SECTION XIII. POST‐CHRISTIAN ADEPTS AND THEIR DOCTRINES.
8 min
18.SECTION XIV. SIMON AND HIS BIOGRAPHER HIPPOLYTUS.
8 min
19.SECTION XV. ST. PAUL THE REAL FOUNDER OF PRESENT CHRISTIANITY.
6 min
20.SECTION XVI. PETER A JEWISH KABALIST, NOT AN INITIATE.
4 min
21.SECTION XVII. APOLLONIUS OF TYANA.
13 min
22.SECTION XVIII. FACTS UNDERLYING ADEPT BIOGRAPHIES.
39 min
23.SECTION XIX. ST. CYPRIAN OF ANTIOCH.
6 min
24.SECTION XX. THE EASTERN GUPTA VIDYA & THE KABALAH.
17 min
25.part in it. How could these tribes, lost between 700 and 900 B.C., each
16 min
26.SECTION XXI. HEBREW ALLEGORIES.
21 min
27.SECTION XXII. THE “ZOHAR” ON CREATION AND THE ELOHIM.
19 min
28.SECTION XXIII. WHAT THE OCCULTISTS AND KABALISTS HAVE TO SAY.
6 min
29.SECTION XXIV. MODERN KABALISTS IN SCIENCE AND OCCULT ASTRONOMY.
2 min
30.C. E. Love, the well‐known railway builder and engineer in France, tired
2 min
31.M. Babinet was telling me but a few days ago that we had in
7 min
32.SECTION XXV. EASTERN AND WESTERN OCCULTISM.
16 min
33.SECTION XXVI. THE IDOLS AND THE TERAPHIM.
9 min
34.SECTION XXVII. EGYPTIAN MAGIC.
1 min
35.III. A curious document, the first‐mentioned, truly. It is a papyrus of
14 min
36.M. Chabas adds:
3 min
37.M. Chabas remarks:
10 min
38.SECTION XXVIII. THE ORIGIN OF THE MYSTERIES.
17 min
39.SECTION XXIX. THE TRIAL OF THE SUN INITIATE.
11 min
40.SECTION XXX. THE MYSTERY “SUN OF INITIATION.”
6 min
41.SECTION XXXI. THE OBJECTS OF THE MYSTERIES.
9 min
42.SECTION XXXII. TRACES OF THE MYSTERIES.
18 min
43.SECTION XXXIII. THE LAST OF THE MYSTERIES IN EUROPE.
1 min
44.M. Ragon well describes it:
6 min
45.SECTION XXXIV. THE POST‐CHRISTIAN SUCCESSORS TO THE MYSTERIES.
18 min
46.SECTION XXXV. SYMBOLISM OF SUN AND STARS.
14 min
47.SECTION XXXVI. PAGAN SIDEREAL WORSHIP, OR ASTROLOGY.
9 min
48.SECTION XXXVII. THE SOULS OF THE STARS—UNIVERSAL HELIOLATRY.
8 min
49.SECTION XXXVIII. ASTROLOGY AND ASTROLATRY.
12 min
50.SECTION XXXIX. CYCLES AND AVATARAS.
7 min
51.SECTION XL. SECRET CYCLES.
18 min
52.SECTION XLI. THE DOCTRINE OF AVATARAS.
20 min
53.SECTION XLII. THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES.
4 min
54.SECTION XLIII. THE MYSTERY OF BUDDHA.
15 min
55.SECTION XLIV. “REINCARNATIONS” OF BUDDHA.
9 min
56.SECTION XLV. AN UNPUBLISHED DISCOURSE OF BUDDHA.
3 min
57.SECTION XLVI. NIRVANA‐MOKSHA.
14 min
58.SECTION XLVII. THE SECRET BOOKS OF “LAM‐RIN” AND DZYAN.
3 min
59.SECTION XLVIII. AMITA BUDDHA KWAN‐SHAI‐YIN, AND KWAN‐YIN.—WHAT THE “BOOK
2 min
60.SECTION XLIX. TSONG‐KHA‐PA.—LOHANS IN CHINA.
6 min
61.SECTION L. A FEW MORE MISCONCEPTIONS CORRECTED.
14 min
62.SECTION LI. THE “DOCTRINE OF THE EYE” & THE “DOCTRINE OF THE HEART,” OR
28 min
63.C. Universal Ideation
1 min
64.D. The Spiritual Forces acting in Matter
1 min
65.I. II. III. are the Three Hypostases of ÂTMAN, its contact with Nature and
146 min
66.X. saying that she felt as though she saw on three planes, H. P. B.
196 min

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