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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (Compiler)
Two Books of the Stanzas of Dzyan

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235 pages
published by The Theosophical Publishing House
ISBN 0722990294

The "Stanzas of Dzyan" are the skeleton to which the body of H.P. Blavatsky's work The Secret Doctrine is built up. The aim of the book is to lay bare that skeleton, to make the treetrunks stand out by cutting away the under-brush, so that the underlying structure of the whole may become better visible. Two Books of the Stanzas of Dzyan - from Sanskrit dhyana (mystic meditation) is an excerpt of the first volume of the Commentaries (in 14 volumes) upon the seven secret folios of Kiu-ti and a glossary of the public works (35 volumes) of the same name.

«The Stanzas are given throughout in their modern translated version, as it would be worse than useless to make the subject still more difficult by introducing the archaic phraseology of the original, with its puzzling style and words. Extracts are given from the Chinese, Tibetan and Sanskrit translations of the original Senzar Commentaries...»

- H.P. Blavatsky - Introduction

Synopsis: The Night of the Universe; The Idea of Differentiation; The Awakening of Cosmos; The Septenary Hierarchies; The Fiery Whirlwind, the Child of the Septenary Hierarchies; Our World, its Growth and Development; The Partents of Man on Earth; Beginnings of Sentient Life; Nature Unaided Fails; Attempts to Create Man; Creation of the First Race; The Evolution of the Second Race; The Evolution of the Sweat-Born; From the Seven Divine Down to the First Human Race; Evolution of the Animal Mammalian - The First Fall; The Final Evolution of Man; The History of the Fourth Race; The Civilization and Destruction of the Third and Fourth Races; The Fifth Race and its Divine Instructions; Conclusions; Notes; Glossary of Technical Terms.

Last Updated Monday, January 18, 1999