Cosmogénesis (Inglés)

THE SECRET DOCTRINE BY H. P. BLAVATSKY THEOSOPHICAL UNIVERSITY PRESS ASCII EDITION VOLUMES 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------This edition may be downloaded for off-line viewing without charge. Because of current limitations in ASCII character fonts, and for ease of searching, no diacritical marks appear in this version of the text. THEOSOPHICAL UNIVERSITYPRESS publishing and distributing quality theosophical literature since 1886: PO Box C, Pasadena, CA 91109-7107 USA; e-mail: tupress@aol.com; voice: (626) 798-3378; fax: (626) 798-4749. Free printed catalog available on request. On-line catalog: http://user.aol.com/tstec/hmpage/tup.htm. Html versions of many TUP publications available online at: http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/tup-onl.htm.-----------------------------------------------------------------------[[Vol. 1, Page i]] THE SECRET DOCTRINE. -----------------------------------------------------------------------[[Vol. 1, Page ii]] [[picture]] HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY 1831-1891 -----------------------------------------------------------------------[[Vol. 1, Page iii]] THE SECRET DOCTRINE: THE SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE, RELIGION, ANDPHILOSOPHY. BY H. P. BLAVATSKY, AUTHOR OF "ISIS UNVEILED." [[devanagari characters]] "There is no Religion higher than Truth." VOL. I. -- COSMOGENESIS. London: THE THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, LIMITED. 7, Duke Street, Adelphi, W.C. WILLIAM Q. JUDGE, 117, Nassau Street, New York. THE MANAGER OF THE THEOSOPHIST, Adyar, Madras. --1888.-----------------------------------------------------------------------[[Vol. 1, Page iv]] "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1888, by H. P. Blavatsky, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C."

-----------------------------------------------------------------------[[Vol. 1, Page v]] This Work I Dedicate to all True Theosophists, In every Country, And of every Race, For they called it forth, and for them it wasrecorded. -----------------------------------------------------------------------[[Vol. 1, Page vi]] [[blank]] -----------------------------------------------------------------------[[Vol. 1, Page vii]] PREFACE. THE Author -- the writer, rather -- feels it necessary to apologise for the long delay which has occurred in the appearance of this work. It has been occasioned by ill-health and the magnitude ofthe undertaking. Even the two volumes now issued do not complete the scheme, and these do not treat exhaustively of the subjects dealt with in them. A large quantity of material has already been prepared, dealing with the history of occultism as contained in the lives of the great Adepts of the Aryan Race, and showing the bearing of occult philosophy upon the conduct of life, as it is and as itought to be. Should the present volumes meet with a favourable reception, no effort will be spared to carry out the scheme of the work in its entirety. The third volume is entirely ready; the fourth almost so. This scheme, it must be added, was not in contemplation when the preparation of the work was first announced. As originally announced, it was intended that the "Secret Doctrine" should be anamended and enlarged version of "Isis Unveiled." It was, however, soon found that the explanations which could be added to those already put before the world in the last-named and other works dealing with esoteric science, were such as to require a different method of treatment: and consequently the present volumes do not contain, in all, twenty pages extracted from "Isis Unveiled." The author doesnot feel it necessary to ask the indulgence of her readers and critics for the many defects of literary style, and the imperfect English which may be found in these pages. She is a foreigner, and her knowledge of the language was acquired late in life. The English tongue is employed because it offers the most widely-diffused medium for conveying the truths which it had become her duty to place...