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The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4 / The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy — H. P. Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 908 pages

The third volume of H. P. Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine is a collection of essays on theosophy, occult tradition, and comparative religion. It examines magic, initiation, Kabbalistic and Hermetic doctrines, and the roots of Christianity through symbolic and historical readings. For those interested in esoteric thought and nineteenth-century spiritual scholarship, it is a rich, demanding survey.

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The Secret Doctrine
The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and
Philosophy
By
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Author of “Isis Unveiled.”
Third and Revised Edition.
SATYÂT NÂSTI PARO DHARMAH.
“There is no Religion higher than Truth.”
Volume III.
The Theosophical Publishing House
London
1897

Contents
Preface.
Introductory.
Section I. Preliminary Survey.
Section II. Modern Criticism and the Ancients.
Section III. The Origin of Magic.
Section IV. The Secresy of Initiates.
Section V. Some Reasons for Secresy.
Section VI. The Dangers of Practical Magic.
Section VII. Old Wine in New Bottles.
Section VIII. The Book of Enoch the Origin and the
Foundation of Christianity.
Section IX. Hermetic and Kabalistic Doctrines.
Section X. Various Occult Systems of Interpretations of
Alphabets and Numerals.
Section XI. The Hexagon with the Central Point, or the
Seventh Key.
Section XII. The Duty of the True Occultist toward
Religions.
Section XIII. Post-Christian Adepts and their Doctrines.
Section XIV. Simon and his Biographer Hippolytus.
Section XV. St. Paul the real Founder of present
Christianity.
Section XVI. Peter a Jewish Kabalist, not an Initiate.
Section XVII. Apollonius of Tyana.
Section XVIII. Facts underlying Adept Biographies.
Section XIX. St. Cyprian of Antioch.
Section XX. The Eastern Gupta Vidya & the Kabalah.
Section XXI. Hebrew Allegories.
Section XXII. The “Zohar” on Creation and the Elohim.
Section XXIII. What the Occultists and Kabalists have to
say.

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Contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface.
  3. Introductory.
  4. Section I. Preliminary Survey.
  5. Section II. Modern Criticism and the Ancients.
  6. Section III. The Origin of Magic.
  7. Section IV. The Secresy of Initiates.
  8. Section V. Some Reasons for Secresy.
  9. Section VI. The Dangers of Practical Magic.
  10. Section VII. Old Wine in New Bottles.
  11. Section VIII. The Book of Enoch the Origin and the Foundation of Christianity.
  12. Section IX. Hermetic and Kabalistic Doctrines.
  13. Section X. Various Occult Systems of Interpretations of Alphabets and Numerals.
  14. Section XI. The Hexagon with the Central Point, or the Seventh Key.
  15. Section XII. The Duty of the True Occultist toward Religions.
  16. Section XIII. Post-Christian Adepts and their Doctrines.
  17. Section XIV. Simon and his Biographer Hippolytus.
  18. Section XV. St. Paul the real Founder of present Christianity.
  19. Section XVI. Peter a Jewish Kabalist, not an Initiate.
  20. Section XVII. Apollonius of Tyana.
  21. Section XVIII. Facts underlying Adept Biographies.
  22. Section XIX. St. Cyprian of Antioch.
  23. Section XX. The Eastern Gupta Vidya & the Kabalah.
  24. Section XXI. Hebrew Allegories.
  25. Section XXII. The “Zohar” on Creation and the Elohim.
  26. Section XXIII. What the Occultists and Kabalists have to say.
  27. Section XXIV. Modern Kabalists in Science and Occult Astronomy.
  28. Section XXV. Eastern and Western Occultism.
  29. Section XXVI. The Idols and the Teraphim.
  30. Section XXVII. Egyptian Magic.

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