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The Secret Doctrine presents Volume One, Cosmogenesis, of H. P. Blavatsky's 1888 masterwork in a modernized, clear-English edition. The seven Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan, the core scripture at the heart of Blavatsky's synthesis, are reproduced here in full and left unparaphrased, exactly as she recorded them; the extensive philosophical commentary surrounding them, drawn from her Introduction, Proem, and stanza-by-stanza exposition through the closing Summing Up, has been modernized and condensed into clear contemporary prose while preserving its full doctrinal content. This edition also includes all fifteen of Volume One's companion Addenda essays, covering symbolism and sacred language, primordial substance, the mundane egg, the days and nights of Brahma, the lotus as a universal symbol, tree and serpent worship, the theogony of the creative gods, the seven creations, the four elements, and the figure of Kwan-Shi-Yin, among other topics. Together these twenty-nine chapters cover the whole of Volume One as Blavatsky wrote it. Volume Two, Anthropogenesis, is not included in this edition. Set in a classic serif type with the body fully justified for a clean, book-like page, this edition is suited to students of Theosophy, comparative religion, and Western esoteric philosophy, and to readers encountering Blavatsky's foundational synthesis for the first time. This is a historical philosophical text presented for study and interest; the publisher makes no claim regarding the truth of any doctrine described within, and readers are invited to draw their own conclusions.
The Secret Doctrine presents Volume One, Cosmogenesis, of H. P. Blavatsky's 1888 masterwork in a modernized, clear-English edition. The seven Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan, the core scripture at the heart of Blavatsky's synthesis, are reproduced here in full and left unparaphrased, exactly as sh...
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Merrick Press writes public domain editions of historical religious, esoteric and philosophical texts, prepared in modernized clear-English readings with original editorial framing to make primary source material accessible to modern readers
Merrick Press writes public domain editions of historical religious, esoteric and philosophical texts, prepared in modernized clear-English readings with original editorial framing to make primary source material accessible to modern readers
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