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BY
H. P. BLAVATSKY,
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.
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1888.
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This Work
I Dedicate to all True Theosophists,
In every Country,
And of every Race,
For they called it forth, and for them it was recorded.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
[[Contents of Volume 1, Secret Doctrine Homepage]]
VOLUME SECOND.
PRELIMINARY NOTES.
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BOOK II. — PART I.
ANTHROPOGENESIS.
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STANZA VII. — FROM THE SEMI-DIVINE DOWN TO THE FIRST HUMAN RACES ... 161
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STANZA VIII. — EVOLUTION OF THE ANIMAL MAMMALIANS — THE FIRST FALL ... 180
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STANZA XI. — THE CIVILIZATION AND DESTRUCTION OF THE FOURTH AND FIFTH RACES ... 316
STANZA XII. — THE FIFTH RACE AND ITS DIVINE INSTRUCTORS ... 351
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The oldest Persian Traditions about the Polar, and the Submerged Continents ... 393
Western Speculations founded on the Greek and Puranic Traditions ... 401
The “Curse” from a Philosophical point of view ... 409
ADDITIONAL FRAGMENTS FROM A COMMENTARY ON THE VERSES OF STANZA XII. ... 423
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XVIII. ON THE MYTH OF THE “FALLEN ANGEL,” IN ITS VARIOUS ASPECTS ... 475
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XXII. THE SYMBOLISM OF THE MYSTERY NAMES IAO, AND JEHOVAH ... 536
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ADDENDA.
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III. THE FOSSIL RELICS OF MAN AND THE ANTHROPOID APE ... 675
IV. DURATION OF THE GEOLOGICAL PERIODS, RACE CYCLES, AND THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN ... 690
(b) The European Paleolithic Races — whence and how distributed ... 738
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VI. GIANTS, CIVILIZATIONS, AND SUBMERGED CONTINENTS TRACED IN HISTORY ... 742
VII. SCIENTIFIC AND GEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF SEVERAL SUBMERGED CONTINENTS ... 778
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