Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- PROEM
- PART I COSMIC EVOLUTION
- PART II THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLISM IN ITS APPROXIMATE ORDER
- I SYMBOLISM AND IDEOGRAPHS
- II THE MYSTERY LANGUAGE AND ITS KEYS
- III PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE AND DIVINE THOUGHT
- IV CHAOS—THEOS—KOSMOS
- V THE HIDDEN DEITY, ITS SYMBOLS AND GLYPHS
- VI THE MUNDANE EGG
- VII THE DAYS AND NIGHTS OF BRAHMA
- VIII THE LOTUS AS A UNIVERSAL SYMBOL
- IX DEUS LUNUS
- X TREE AND SERPENT AND CROCODILE WORSHIP
- XI DEMON EST DEUS INVERSUS
- XII THE THEOGONY OF THE CREATIVE GODS
- XIII THE SEVEN CREATIONS
- XIV THE FOUR ELEMENTS
- XV ON KWAN-SHI-YIN AND KWAN-YIN
- PART III SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED
XIII - THE SEVEN CREATIONS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- PROEM
- PART I COSMIC EVOLUTION
- PART II THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLISM IN ITS APPROXIMATE ORDER
- I SYMBOLISM AND IDEOGRAPHS
- II THE MYSTERY LANGUAGE AND ITS KEYS
- III PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE AND DIVINE THOUGHT
- IV CHAOS—THEOS—KOSMOS
- V THE HIDDEN DEITY, ITS SYMBOLS AND GLYPHS
- VI THE MUNDANE EGG
- VII THE DAYS AND NIGHTS OF BRAHMA
- VIII THE LOTUS AS A UNIVERSAL SYMBOL
- IX DEUS LUNUS
- X TREE AND SERPENT AND CROCODILE WORSHIP
- XI DEMON EST DEUS INVERSUS
- XII THE THEOGONY OF THE CREATIVE GODS
- XIII THE SEVEN CREATIONS
- XIV THE FOUR ELEMENTS
- XV ON KWAN-SHI-YIN AND KWAN-YIN
- PART III SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED
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- The Secret DoctrineThe Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, pp. 445 - 459Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011