September 1, 1999
Unless less trouble is taken to reconcile the irreconcilable - that is to say the metaphysical and spiritual sciences with physical or natural philosophy, 'natural' being a synonym to them (mem of science) of that matter which falls under the perception of their corporeal senses - no progress can be really achieved. - from letter from a Master.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 166.

September 2, 1999
It becomes patent why we could not perceive, even with the help of the best earthly telescopes, that which is outside our world of matter. Those alone, whom we call adepts, who know how to direct their mental vision and to transfer their consciousness - physical and psychic both to other planes of being, are able to speak with authority on such subjects. And they tell us plainly: - [continued tomorrow]
-Secret Doctrine Vol I pages 166 to 167.

September 3, 1999
[continued]"Lead the life necessary for the acquisition of such knowledge and powers, and Wisdom will come to you naturally. Whenever you are able to attune your consciousness to any of the seven chords of 'Universal Consciousness,' those chords that run along the sounding-board of Kosmos, vibrating from one Eternity to another; when you have studied thoroughly the 'music of the Spheres,' then only will you become quite free to share your knowledge with those with whom it is safe to do so. Meanwhile, be prudent. Do not give out the great Truths that are the inheritance of the future Races, to our present generation. [continued tomorrow]
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 167.

September 4, 1999
[continued]"...Do not attempt to unveil the secret of being and non-being to those unable to see the hidden meaning of Apollo's HEPTACHORD-the lyre of the radiant god, in each of the seven strings of which dwelleth the Spirit, Soul and Astral body of the Kosmos, whose shell only has now fallen into the hands of Modern Science.... Be prudent, we say, prudent and wise, and above all take care what those who lean from you believe in; lest by deceiving themselves they deceive others... for such is the fate of every truth with which men are, as yet, unfamiliar...Let rather the planetary chains and other super-and-sub-cosmic mysteries remain a dreamland for those who can neither see, nor yet believe that others can...
-Secret doctrine Vol I page 167.

September 5, 1999
Of the four Vidyas-out of the seven branches of Knowledge mentioned in the Purânas-namely, "Yajna-Vidya" (the performance of religious rites in order to produce certain results); "Maha-Vidya," the great (Magic) knowledge, now degenerated into Tantrika worship; "Gupta-Vidya," the science of Mantras and their true rhythm or chanting, of mystical incantations, etc. -it is only the last one, "Atma-Vidya," or the true Spiritual and Divine wisdom, which can throw absolute and final light upon the teachings of the three first named. [continued tomorrow]
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 169.

September 6, 1999
[continued] Without the help of Atma-Vidya, the other three remain no better than surface sciences, geometrical magnitudes having length and breadth but no thickness. They are like the soul, limbs, and mind of a sleeping man: capable of mechanical motions, of chaotic dreams and even sleep-walking, of producing visible effects, but stimulated by instinctual not intellectual causes, least of all by fully conscious spiritual impulses.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 169.

September 7, 1999
And well he may; for outside of metaphysics no occult philosophy, no esotericism is possible. It is like trying to explain the aspirations and affections, the love and hatred, the most private and sacred workings in the soul and mind of the living man, by an anatomical description of the chest and brain of his dead body.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 170

September 8, 1999
"...the spiritual monads...do not fully complete their mineral existence on Globe A, then complete it on Globe B, and so on. They pass several times round the whole circle as minerals, and then again several times round as vegetables, and several times as animals."
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 170.

September 9, 1999
In reference to the Monads, the reader is asked to bear in mind that Eastern philosophy rejects the Western theological dogma of a newly-created soul for every baby born, as being as unphilosophical as it is impossible in the economy of Nature. There must be a limited number of Monads evolving and growing more and more perfect through their assimilation of many successive personalities, in every new Manvantara. This is absolutely necessary in view of the doctrines of Rebirth, Karma, and the gradual return of the human Monad to its source - absolute Deity. Thus, although the hosts of more or less progressed Monads are almost incalculable, they are still finite, as is everything in this Universe of differentiation and finiteness.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 171.

September 10, 1999
But at this point - and on this Fourth Round in which the human stage will be fully developed - the "Door" into the human kingdom closes; and henceforward the number "human" Monads, i.e., Monads in the human stage of development, is complete. For the Monads which had not reached the human stage by this point will, owing to the evolution of humanity itself, find themselves so far behind that they will reach the human stage only at the close of the seventh and last Round. They will, therefore, not be men on this chain, but will form the humanity of a future Manvantara and be rewarded by becoming "Men" on a higher chain altogether, thus receiving their Karmic compensation.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 173.

September 11, 1999
Now the evolution of the external form or body round the astral is produced by the terrestrial forces, just as in the case of the lower kingdoms; but the evolution of the internal or real MAN is purely spiritual. It is now no more a passage of the impersonal Monad through many and various forms of matter - endowed at best with instinct and consciousness on quite a different plane - as in the case of external evolution, but a journey of the "pilgrim-soul" through various states of not only matter but Self-consciousness and self-perception, or of perception from apperception.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 175.

September 12, 1999
But it [the atom] is a concrete manifestation of the Universal Energy which itself has not yet become individualized...
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 178.

September 13, 1999
The tendency towards segregation into individual Monads is gradual, and in the higher animals comes almost to the point.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 178.

September 14, 1999
...Buddhi stands in the same relation to Atma, as Adam-Kadmon, the Kabalistic Logos, does to En-Soph, or Mulaprakriti to Parabrahm.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 179.

September 15, 1999
It now becomes plain that there exists in Nature a triple evolutionary scheme, for the formation of the three periodical Upadhis; or rather three separate schemes of evolution, which in our system are inextricably interwoven and interblended at every point. These are the Monadic (or spiritual), the intellectual, and the physical evolutions. These three are the finite aspects or the reflections on the field of Cosmic Illusion of ATMA, the seventh, the ONE REALITY.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 181.

September 16, 1999
Each of these three systems [of evolution] has its own laws, and is ruled and guided by different sets of the highest Dhyanis of "Logoi." Each is represented in the constitution of man, the Microcosm of the great Macrocosm; and it is the union of these three streams in him [Man] which makes him the complex being he now is.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 181.

September 17, 1999
"Nature," the physical evolutionary Power, could never evolve intelligence unaided - she can only create "senseless forms," as will be seen in our "ANTHROPOGENESIS." The "Lunar Monads" cannot progress, for they have not yet had sufficient touch with the forms created by "Nature" to allow of their accumulating experiences through its means. It is the Manasa-Dhyanis who fill up the gap, and they represent the evolutionary power of Intelligence and Mind, the link between "Spirit" and "Matter" - in this Round.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 181.

September 18, 1999
And therefore it is, that, after this central turning-point has been passed in the Great Cycle, - i.e., after the middle point of the Fourth Race in the Fourth Round on our Globe - no more Monads can enter the human kingdom. The door is closed for this Cycle and the balance struck. For were it otherwise - had there been a new soul created for each of the countless milliards of human beings that have passed away, and had there been no reincarnation - it would become difficult indeed to provide room for the disembodied "Spirits;" nor could the origin and cause of suffering ever be accounted for. It is the ignorance of the occult tenets and the enforcement of false conceptions under the guise of religious education, which have created materialism and atheism as a protest against the asserted divine order of things.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 182.

September 19, 1999
Meanwhile man - or rather his Monad - has existed on the earth from the very beginning of this Round. But, up to our own Fifth Race, the external shapes which covered those divine astral doubles changed and consolidated with every sub-race; the form and physical structure of the fauna changing at the same time, as they had to be adapted to the ever-changing conditions of life on this globe during the geological periods of its formative cycle. And thus shall they go on changing with every Root Race and every chief sub-race down to the last one of the Seventh in this Round.

-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 183.

September 20, 1999
It has been repeatedly stated that evolution as taught by Manu and Kapila was the groundwork of the modern teachings, but neither Occultism nor Theosophy has ever supported the wild theories of the present Darwinists - least of all the descent of man from an ape. Of this, more hereafter.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 186.

September 21, 1999
Every Round repeats on a higher scale the evolutionary work of the preceding Round. With the exception of some higher anthropoids, as just mentioned, the Monadic inflow, or inner evolution, is at an end till the next Manvantara.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 187.

September 22, 1999
These "Men" of the Third race - the ancestors of the Atlanteans - were just such ape-like, intellectually senseless giants as were those beings, who, during the Third Round, represented Humanity. Morally irresponsible, it was these third Race "men" who, through promiscuous connection with animal species lower than themselves, created that missing link which became ages later (in the tertiary period only) the remote ancestor of the real ape as we find it now in the pithecoid family.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 190.

September 23, 1999
In those days there were animals of which zoology does not even dream in our own; and the modes of reproduction were not identical with the notions which modern physiology has upon the subject. It is not altogether convenient to touch upon such questions in public, but there is no contradiction or impossibility in this whatever.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 190, footnote.

September 24, 1999
The man who preceded the Fourth, the Atlantean race, however much he may have looked physically like a "gigantic ape" - "the counterfeit of man who hath not the life of a man" - was still a thinking and already a speaking man. The "Lemuro-Atlantean" was a highly civilized race, and if one accepts tradition, which is better history than the speculative fiction which now passes under that name, he was higher than we are with all our sciences and the degraded civilization of the day: at any rate, the Lemuro-Atlantean of the closing Third Race was so.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 191.

September 25, 1999
... to become the highest Dhyan Chohan it is necessary for each Ego to attain to full self-consciousness as a human, i.e., conscious Being, which is synthesized for us in Man. The Jewish Kabalists arguing that no Spirit could belong to the divine hierarchy unless Ruach (Spirit) was united to Nephesh (living Soul), only repeat the Eastern Esoteric teaching.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 193.

September 26, 1999
"And there was war in Heaven...The Kabalistic version of the same story is given in the Codex Nazareus, the scripture of the Nazarenes, the real mystic Christians of John the Baptist and the Initiates of Christos.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 194.

September 27, 1999
Here one finds a repetition of the early allegorical, dual systems, as the Zoroastrian, and detects a germ of the dogmatic and dualistic religions of the future, a germ which has grown into such a luxuriant tree in ecclesiastical Christianity. It is already the outline of the two "Supremes" - God and Satan. But in the Stanzas no such ideas exists.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 196.

September 28, 1999
Thus "SATAN," once he ceases to be viewed in the superstitious, dogmatic, unphilosophical spirit of the Churches, grows into the grandiose image of one who made of terrestrial a divine MAN; who gave him, throughout the long cycle of Maha-kalpa the law of the Spirit of Life, and made him free from the Sin of Ignorance, hence of death.

-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 198.

September 29, 1999
About the Nazarenes see Isis, Vol. II. p. 131 and 132; the true followers of the true Christos were all Nazarenes and Christians, and were the opponents of the later Christians.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 198, second footnote.

September 30, 1999
In the Kabala, worlds are compared to sparks which fly from under the hammer of the great Architect - LAW, the law which rules all the smaller CREATORS.
-Secret Doctrine Vol I page 199.