Stanza XII

Commentaries On the Twelve Stanzas and Their Terms, According To Their Numeration, In Stanzas And Shlokas.

Stanza I. Beginnings of Sentient Life.

Two Antediluvian Astronomers.

Stanza II. Nature Unaided Fails.

Creation of Divine Beings in the Exoteric Accounts.

Stanza II.—Continued.

The Chronology of the Brâhmans.

Stanza III. Attempts To Create Man.

Stanza IV. Creation Of The First Races.

On The Identity And Differences Of The Incarnating Powers.

Stanza IV.—Continued.

Stanza V. The Evolution of the Second Race.

The Divine Hermaphrodite.

Stanza VI. The Evolution Of The “Sweat-Born.”

A Few Words About “Deluges” And “Noahs.”

Stanza VII. From The Semi-Divine Down To The First Human Races.

I. Fission.

II. Budding.

III. Spores.

IV. Intermediate Hermaphroditism.

V. True Sexual Union.

Stanza VIII. Evolution Of The Animal Mammalians: The First Fall.

What May Be The Objections To The Foregoing.

Stanza IX. The Final Evolution Of Man.

Edens, Serpents, And Dragons.

The “Sons Of God” And The “Sacred Island.”

Stanza X. The History Of The Fourth Race.

Archaic Teachings In The “Purânas” And “Genesis.” Physical Evolution.

A Panoramic View Of The Early Races.

Are Giants A Fiction?

The Races With The “Third Eye.”

The Primeval Manus Of Humanity.

Stanza XI. The Civilization And Destruction Of The Fourth And Fifth Races.

Cyclopean Ruins And Colossal Stones As Witnesses To Giants.

Stanza XII. The Fifth Race And Its Divine Instructors.

Serpents And Dragons Under Different Symbolisms.

The Sidereal And Cosmic Glyphs.

Our Divine Instructors.

The Origin Of The Satanic Myth.

Noah Was A Kabir, Hence He Must Have Been A Demon.

The Oldest Persian Traditions About The Polar, And The Submerged Continents.

Western Speculations, Founded On The Greek And Paurânic Traditions.

The “Curse” From A Philosophical Point Of View.

Additional Fragments From A Commentary On The Verses Of Stanza XII.

Conclusion.

Part II. The Archaic Symbolism Of The World-Religions.

Section I. Esoteric Tenets Corroborated in Every Scripture.

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.

A. The Evil Spirit: Who, And What?

B. The Gods Of Light Proceed From The Gods Of Darkness.

C. The Many Meanings Of The “War In Heaven.”

Section V. Is Plerôma Satan's Lair?

Section VI. Prometheus, the Titan.

His Origin In Ancient India.

Section VII. Enoïchion-Henoch.

Section VIII. The Symbolism of the Mystery-Names Iao and Jehovah, with their Relation to the Cross and Circle.

A. Cross And Circle.

B. The Fall Of The Cross Into Matter.

Section IX. The Upanishads in Gnostic Literature.

Section X. The Cross and the Pythagorean Decad.

Section XI. The Mysteries of the Hebdomad.

A. Saptaparna.

B. The Tetraktys In Relation To The Heptagon.

C. The Septenary Element In The Vedas.

D. The Septenary In The Exoteric Works.

E. Seven In Astronomy, Science, And Magic.

F. The Seven Souls Of The Egyptologists.

Part III. Addenda. Science And The Secret Doctrine Contrasted.

Section I. Archaic, or Modern Anthropology?

Section II. The Ancestors Mankind is Offered by Science.

Plastidular Souls, And Conscious Nerve-Cells.

Section III. The Fossil Relics of Man and the Anthropoid Ape.

A. Geological Facts Bearing On The Question Of Their Relationship.

B. Western Evolutionism: The Comparative Anatomy Of Man And The Anthropoid In No Way A Confirmation Of Darwinism.

C. Darwinism And The Antiquity Of Man: The Anthropoids And Their Ancestry.

Section IV. Duration of the Geological Periods, Race Cycles, and the Antiquity of Man.

A. Modern Scientific Speculations About The Ages Of The Globe, Animal Evolution, And Man.

B. On Chains Of Planets And Their Plurality.

C. Supplementary Remarks On Esoteric Geological Chronology.

Section V. Organic Evolution and Creative Centres.

A. The Origin And Evolution Of The Mammalia: Science And Esoteric Phylogeny.

B. The European Palæolithic Races: Whence, And How Distributed.

Section VI. Giants, Civilizations, and Submerged Continents Traced in History.

A. Some Statements About The Sacred Islands And Continents In The Classics, Explained Esoterically.

Section VII. Scientific and Geological Proofs of the Existence of Several Submerged Continents.

Footnotes

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Ἡ ἐμὴ διδαχὴ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐμή, ἀλλὰ τοῦ πέμψαντός με.

My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

John vii. 16.

Modern Science insists upon the doctrine of evolution; so do human reason and the Secret Doctrine, and the idea is corroborated by the ancient legends and myths, and even by the Bibleitself, when it is read between the lines. We see a flower slowly developing from a bud, and the bud from its seed. But whence the latter, with all its predetermined programme of physical transformation, and its invisible, therefore spiritual, forces which gradually develop its form, colour, and odour? The word evolution speaks for itself. The germ of the present human race must have preëxisted in the parent of this race, as the seed, in which lies hidden the flower of next summer, was developed in the capsule of its parent flower; the parent may be but slightly different, but it still differs from its future progeny. The antediluvian ancestors of the present elephant and lizard were, perhaps, the mammoth and the plesiosaurus; why should not the progenitors of our human race have been the “giants” of the Vedas, the Voluspa, and the Book of Genesis? While it is positively absurd to believe the “transformation of species” to have taken place according to some of the more materialistic views of the Evolutionists, it is but natural to think that each genus, beginning with the molluscs and ending with monkey-man, has modified from its own primordial and distinctive form.—Isis Unveiled, I. 152-3.