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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 essay on The Plurality of Worlds (1853)—an anonymous work, yet well known to have been the production of Dr. Whewell—is a good proof of this. No Christian ought to believe in either the plurality of Worlds or the geological age of the Globe, argues the author; because, if it is asserted that this World is only one among the many of its kind, which are all the work of God, as it is itself; that all are the seat of life, all the realm and dwelling of intelligent creatures endowed with will, subject to law and capable of free-will; then, it would be extravagant to think that our World should have been the subject of God’s favours and His special interference, of His communications and His personal visit. Can the Earth presume to be considered the centre of the moral and religious Universe, he asks, if it has not the slightest distinction to rely upon in the physical Universe? Is it not as absurd to uphold such an assertion (of the plurality of inhabited worlds), as it would be to-day to uphold the old hypothesis of Ptolemy, who placed the Earth in the centre of our system? The above is quoted from memory, yet almost textually. The author fails to see that he is bursting his own soap-bubble with such a defence.

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