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    "title": "STANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN . . . 15",
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    "text": "## STANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN . . . 15\n\n\nThe Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky, Vol 2, Stanzas of Dzyan\n\n###### The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol.\n2\n\n####### [[Vol. 2, Page 13]]\n\n###### BOOK II. -- PART I.\n\n#### ANTHROPOGENESIS.\n\n---------------------\n\n###### STANZAS TRANSLATED WITH COMMENTARIES\nFROM THE\nSECRET BOOK OF DZYAN.\n\n[[Vol. 2, Page 14]]\n\nIn primeval times, a maiden,\n\nBeauteous Daughter of the Ether,\n\nPassed for ages her existence\n\nIn the great expanse of Heaven,\n\n. . . . . . . . . . .\n\nSeven hundred years she wandered,\n\nSeven hundred years she laboured,\n\nEre her first-born was delivered.\n\n. . . . . . . . . . .\n\nEre a beauteous duck descending,\n\nHastens toward the water-mother.\n\n. . . . . . . . . . .\n\nLightly on the knee she settles,\n\nFinds a nesting-place befitting,\n\nWhere to lay her eggs in safety,\n\nLays her eggs within, at pleasure,\n\n*Six, *the golden eggs she lays them,\n\nThen a *Seventh, *an egg of iron . . . . .\"\n\n(*Kalevala, Rune *I.)\n\n####### [[Vol. 2, Page]] 15 STANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN.\n\n##### ANTHROPOGENESIS IN THE SECRET VOLUME.\n\n(VERBATIM EXTRACTS.*)\n\n###### I.\n\n1. **T**HE **L**HA WHICH TURNS THE FOURTH\nIS SUBSERVIENT TO THE **L**HA OF THE **S**EVEN,\nTHEY WHO REVOLVE DRIVING THEIR CHARIOTS AROUND THEIR **L**ORD,\nTHE **O**NE **E**YE. **H**IS\nBREATH GAVE LIFE TO THE **S**EVEN; IT GAVE LIFE TO\nTHE FIRST.\n\n2. **S**AID THE **E**ARTH: -- \"**L**ORD\nOF THE **S**HINING **F**ACE; MY HOUSE\nIS EMPTY . . . . SEND THY SONS TO PEOPLE THIS WHEEL. **T**HOU\nHAST SENT THY SEVEN SONS TO THE **L**ORD OF **W**ISDOM.\n**S**EVEN TIMES DOTH HE SEE THEE NEARER TO HIMSELF,\nSEVEN TIMES MORE DOTH HE FEEL THEE. **T**HOU HAST\nFORBIDDEN THY SERVANTS, THE SMALL RINGS, TO CATCH THY LIGHT AND\nHEAT, THY GREAT BOUNTY TO INTERCEPT ON ITS PASSAGE. **S**END\nNOW TO THY SERVANT THE SAME.\"\n\n3. **S**AID THE \"**L**ORD OF THE\n**S**HINING **F**ACE\": -- \"**I**\nSHALL SEND THEE A FIRE WHEN THY WORK IS COMMENCED. **R**AISE\nTHY VOICE TO OTHER **L**OKAS; APPLY TO THY FATHER,\nTHE **L**ORD OF THE **L**OTUS, FOR HIS\nSONS . . . . THY PEOPLE SHALL BE UNDER THE RULE OF THE **F**ATHERS.\n**T**HY MEN SHALL BE MORTALS. **T**HE\nMEN OF THE **L**ORD OF **W**ISDOM, NOT\nTHE **L**UNAR **S**ONS, ARE IMMORTAL.\n**C**EASE THY COMPLAINTS. **T**HY SEVEN\nSKINS ARE YET ON THEE . . . . THOU ART NOT READY. **T**HY\nMEN ARE NOT READY.\"\n\n4. **A**FTER GREAT THROES SHE CAST OFF HER OLD THREE\nAND PUT ON HER NEW SEVEN SKINS, AND STOOD IN HER FIRST ONE.\n\n-------\n\n###### II.\n\n5. **T**HE WHEEL WHIRLED FOR THIRTY CRORES MORE.\n**I**T CONSTRUCTED RUPAS: SOFT STONES THAT HARDENED;\nHARD PLANTS THAT SOFTENED. **V**ISIBLE FROM INVISIBLE,\nINSECTS AND SMALL LIVES. **S**HE SHOOK THEM OFF HER\nBACK WHENEVER THEY OVERRAN THE MOTHER.\n\n####### [[Footnote(s) -------------------------------------------------]]\n\n* Only forty-nine Slokas out of several hundred are here given.\nNot every verse is translated verbatim. A periphrasis is sometimes\nused for the sake of clearness and intelligibility, where a literal\ntranslation would be quite unintelligible.\n\n####### [[Vol. 2, Page]] 16 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.\n\n. . . . **A**FTER THIRTY CRORES SHE TURNED ROUND.\n**S**HE LAY ON HER BACK; ON HER SIDE . . . **S**HE\nWOULD CALL NO SONS OF **H**EAVEN, SHE WOULD ASK NO\nSONS OF **W**ISDOM. **S**HE CREATED\nFROM HER OWN BOSOM. **S**HE EVOLVED WATER-MEN, TERRIBLE\nAND BAD.\n\n6. **T**HE WATER-MEN TERRIBLE AND BAD SHE HERSELF\nCREATED FROM THE REMAINS OF OTHERS, FROM THE DROSS AND SLIME OF\nHER FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD, SHE FORMED THEM. **T**HE\n**D**HYANI CAME AND LOOKED -- **T**HE\n**D**HYANI FROM THE BRIGHT **F**ATHER-MOTHER,\nFROM THE WHITE REGIONS THEY CAME, FROM THE ABODES OF THE IMMORTAL\nMORTALS.\n\n7. **D**ISPLEASED THEY WERE. **O**UR\nFLESH IS NOT THERE. **N**O FIT RUPAS FOR OUR BROTHERS\nOF THE FIFTH. **N**O DWELLINGS FOR THE LIVES. **P**URE\nWATERS, NOT TURBID, THEY MUST DRINK. **L**ET US DRY\nTHEM.\n\n8. **T**HE FLAMES CAME. **T**HE FIRES\nWITH THE SPARKS; THE NIGHT FIRES AND THE DAY FIRES. **T**HEY\nDRIED OUT THE TURBID DARK WATERS. **W**ITH THEIR\nHEAT THEY QUENCHED THEM. **T**HE **L**HAS\nOF THE **H**IGH, THE **L**HAMAYIN OF\nBELOW, CAME. **T**HEY SLEW THE FORMS WHICH WERE TWO-\nAND FOUR-FACED. **T**HEY FOUGHT THE GOAT-MEN, AND\nTHE DOG-HEADED MEN, AND THE MEN WITH FISHES' BODIES.\n\n9. **M**OTHER-WATER, THE GREAT SEA, WEPT. **S**HE\nAROSE, SHE DISAPPEARED IN THE MOON WHICH HAD LIFTED HER, WHICH\nHAD GIVEN HER BIRTH.\n\n10. **W**HEN THEY WERE DESTROYED, **M**OTHER-EARTH\nREMAINED BARE. **S**HE ASKED TO BE DRIED.\n\n-------\n\n###### III.\n\n11. **T**HE **L**ORD OF THE **L**ORDS\nCAME. **F**ROM HER BODY HE SEPARATED THE WATERS,\nAND THAT WAS **H**EAVEN ABOVE, THE FIRST **H**EAVEN.\n\n12. **T**HE GREAT **C**HOHANS CALLED\nTHE **L**ORDS OF THE **M**OON, OF THE\nAIRY BODIES. \"**B**RING FORTH MEN, MEN OF YOUR\nNATURE. **G**IVE THEM THEIR FORMS WITHIN. **S**HE\nWILL BUILD COVERINGS WITHOUT. **M**ALES-FEMALES WILL\nTHEY BE. **L**ORDS OF THE **F**LAME\nALSO . . . . \"\n\n13. **T**HEY WENT EACH ON HIS ALLOTTED LAND: SEVEN\nOF THEM EACH ON HIS LOT. **T**HE **L**ORDS\nOF THE **F**LAME REMAIN BEHIND. **T**HEY\nWOULD NOT GO, THEY WOULD NOT CREATE.\n\n####### [[Vol. 2, Page]] 17 THE SLOKAS OF \"DZYAN.\"\n\n###### IV.\n\n14. **T**HE **S**EVEN **H**OSTS,\nTHE \"**W**ILL-BORN **L**ORDS,\"\nPROPELLED BY THE **S**PIRIT OF **L**IFE-GIVING,\nSEPARATE MEN FROM THEMSELVES, EACH ON HIS OWN ZONE.\n\n15. **S**EVEN TIMES SEVEN **S**HADOWS\nOF FUTURE MEN WERE BORN, EACH OF HIS OWN COLOUR AND KIND. **E**ACH\nINFERIOR TO HIS FATHER. **T**HE FATHERS, THE BONELESS,\nCOULD GIVE NO LIFE TO BEINGS WITH BONES. **T**HEIR\nPROGENY WERE **B**HUTA, WITH NEITHER FORM NOR MIND.\n**T**HEREFORE THEY ARE CALLED THE **C**HHAYA.\n\n16. **H**OW ARE THE **M**ANUSHYA BORN?\n**T**HE **M**ANUS WITH MINDS, HOW ARE\nTHEY MADE? **T**HE FATHERS CALLED TO THEIR HELP THEIR\nOWN FIRE; WHICH IS THE FIRE THAT BURNS IN **E**ARTH.\n**T**HE **S**PIRIT OF THE **E**ARTH\nCALLED TO HIS HELP THE **S**OLAR **F**IRE.\n**T**HESE THREE PRODUCED IN THEIR JOINT EFFORTS A\nGOOD **R**UPA. **I**T COULD STAND, WALK,\nRUN, RECLINE, OR FLY. **Y**ET IT WAS STILL BUT A\n**C**HHAYA, A SHADOW WITH NO SENSE . . . .\n\n17. **T**HE BREATH NEEDED A FORM; **T**HE\n**F**ATHERS GAVE IT. **T**HE BREATH\nNEEDED A GROSS BODY; THE **E**ARTH MOULDED IT. **T**HE\nBREATH NEEDED THE **S**PIRIT OF **L**IFE;\nTHE **S**OLAR **L**HAS BREATHED IT INTO\nITS FORM. **T**HE BREATH NEEDED A **M**IRROR\nOF ITS **B**ODY; \"**W**E GAVE IT\nOUR OWN,\" SAID THE **D**HYANIS. **T**HE\n**B**REATH NEEDED A **V**EHICLE OF **D**ESIRES;\n\"**I**T HAS IT,\" SAID THE **D**RAINER\nOF **W**ATERS. **B**UT **B**REATH\nNEEDS A MIND TO EMBRACE THE **U**NIVERSE; \"**W**E\nCANNOT GIVE THAT,\" SAID THE **F**ATHERS. \"**I**\nNEVER HAD IT,\" SAID THE **S**PIRIT OF THE **E**ARTH.\n\"**T**HE FORM WOULD BE CONSUMED WERE I TO GIVE\nIT MINE,\" SAID THE **G**REAT **F**IRE\n. . . . **M**AN REMAINED AN EMPTY SENSELESS **B**HUTA\n. . . . **T**HUS HAVE THE BONELESS GIVEN LIFE TO\nTHOSE WHO BECAME MEN WITH BONES IN THE THIRD.\n\n-------\n\n###### V.\n\n18. **T**HE FIRST WERE THE SONS OF **Y**OGA.\n**T**HEIR SONS THE CHILDREN OF THE **Y**ELLOW\n**F**ATHER AND THE **W**HITE **M**OTHER.\n\n19. **T**HE **S**ECOND **R**ACE\nWAS THE PRODUCT BY BUDDING AND\n\n####### [[Vol. 2, Page]] 18 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.\n\nEXPANSION, THE **A**-**S**EXUAL FROM\nTHE **S**EXLESS* -- **T**HUS WAS, **O**\n**L**ANOO, THE **S**ECOND **R**ACE\nPRODUCED.\n\n20. **T**HEIR FATHERS WERE THE SELF-BORN. **T**HE\nSELF-BORN, THE **C**HHAYA FROM THE BRILLIANT BODIES\nOF THE **L**ORDS, THE **F**ATHERS, THE\n**S**ONS OF **T**WILIGHT.\n\n21. **W**HEN THE **R**ACE BECAME OLD,\nTHE OLD WATERS MIXED WITH THE FRESHER WATERS. **W**HEN\nITS DROPS BECAME TURBID, THEY VANISHED AND DISAPPEARED IN THE\nNEW STREAM, IN THE HOT STREAM OF LIFE. **T**HE OUTER\nOF THE FIRST BECAME THE INNER OF THE SECOND. **T**HE\nOLD **W**ING BECAME THE NEW **S**HADOW,\nAND THE **S**HADOW OF THE **W**ING.\n\n-------\n\n###### VI.\n\n22. **T**HEN THE SECOND EVOLVED THE **E**GG-BORN,\nTHE THIRD. **T**HE SWEAT GREW, ITS DROPS GREW, AND\nTHE DROPS BECAME HARD AND ROUND. **T**HE **S**UN\nWARMED IT; THE **M**OON COOLED AND SHAPED IT; THE\nWIND FED IT UNTIL ITS RIPENESS. **T**HE WHITE SWAN\nFROM THE STARRY VAULT OVERSHADOWED THE BIG DROP. **T**HE\nEGG OF THE FUTURE RACE, THE **M**AN-SWAN OF THE LATER\nTHIRD. **F**IRST MALE-FEMALE, THEN MAN AND WOMAN.\n\n23. **T**HE SELF-BORN WERE THE **C**HHAYAS:\nTHE **S**HADOWS FROM THE BODIES OF THE **S**ONS\nOF **T**WILIGHT.\n\n-------\n\n###### VII.\n\n24. **T**HE **S**ONS OF **W**ISDOM,\nTHE **S**ONS OF **N**IGHT, READY FOR\nREBIRTH, CAME DOWN, THEY SAW THE VILE FORMS OF THE **F**IRST\n**T**HIRD, \"**W**E CAN CHOOSE,\"\nSAID THE **L**ORDS, \"WE HAVE WISDOM.\" **S**OME\nENTERED THE **C**HHAYA. **S**OME PROJECTED\nTHE **S**PARK. **S**OME DEFERRED TILL\nTHE **F**OURTH. **F**ROM THEIR OWN **R**UPA\nTHEY FILLED THE **K**AMA. **T**HOSE\nWHO ENTERED BECAME **A**RHATS. **T**HOSE\nWHO RECEIVED BUT A SPARK, REMAINED DESTITUTE OF KNOWLEDGE; THE\nSPARK BURNED LOW. **T**HE THIRD REMAINED MIND-LESS.\n**T**HEIR **J**IVAS WERE NOT\n\n####### [[Footnote(s) -------------------------------------------------]]\n\n* The idea and the spirit of the sentence is here given, as a\nverbal translation would convey very little to the reader.\n\n####### [[Vol. 2, Page]] 19 THE SLOKAS OF \"DZYAN.\"\n\nREADY. **T**HESE WERE SET APART AMONG THE **S**EVEN.\n**T**HEY BECAME NARROW-HEADED. **T**HE\n**T**HIRD WERE READY. \"**I**N THESE\nSHALL WE DWELL,\" SAID THE **L**ORDS OF THE **F**LAME.\n\n25. **H**OW DID THE **M**ANASA, THE\n**S**ONS OF **W**ISDOM, ACT? **T**HEY\nREJECTED THE **S**ELF-BORN. **T**HEY\nARE NOT READY. **T**HEY SPURNED THE **S**WEAT-BORN.\n**T**HEY ARE NOT QUITE READY. **T**HEY\nWOULD NOT ENTER THE FIRST **E**GG-BORN.\n\n26. **W**HEN THE **S**WEAT-BORN PRODUCED\nTHE **E**GG-BORN, THE TWOFOLD AND THE MIGHTY, THE\nPOWERFUL WITH BONES, THE **L**ORDS OF **W**ISDOM\nSAID: \"**N**OW SHALL WE CREATE.\"\n\n27. **T**HE **T**HIRD **R**ACE\nBECAME THE **V**AHAN OF THE **L**ORDS\nOF **W**ISDOM. **I**T CREATED \"**S**ONS\nOF **W**ILL AND **Y**OGA,\" BY **K**RIYASAKTI\nIT CREATED THEM, THE **H**OLY **F**ATHERS,\n**A**NCESTORS OF THE **A**RHATS. .\n\n-------\n\n###### VIII.\n\n28. **F**ROM THE DROPS OF SWEAT; FROM THE RESIDUE\nOF THE SUBSTANCE; MATTER FROM DEAD BODIES OF MEN AND ANIMALS OF\nTHE WHEEL BEFORE; AND FROM CAST-OFF DUST, THE FIRST ANIMALS WERE\nPRODUCED.\n\n29. **A**NIMALS WITH BONES, DRAGONS OF THE DEEP,\nAND FLYING **S**ARPAS WERE ADDED TO THE CREEPING\nTHINGS. **T**HEY THAT CREEP ON THE GROUND GOT WINGS.\n**T**HEY OF THE LONG NECKS IN THE WATER BECAME THE\nPROGENITORS OF THE FOWLS OF THE AIR.\n\n30. **D**URING THE THIRD **R**ACE THE\nBONELESS ANIMALS GREW AND CHANGED: THEY BECAME ANIMALS WITH BONES,\nTHEIR **C**HHAYAS BECAME SOLID.\n\n31. **T**HE ANIMALS SEPARATED THE FIRST. **T**HEY\nBEGAN TO BREED. **T**HE TWO-FOLD MAN SEPARATED ALSO.\n**H**E SAID: \"**L**ET US AS THEY;\nLET US UNITE AND MAKE CREATURES.\" **T**HEY DID.\n\n32. **A**ND THOSE WHICH HAD NO SPARK TOOK HUGE SHE-ANIMALS\nUNTO THEM. **T**HEY BEGAT UPON THEM DUMB **R**ACES.\n**D**UMB THEY WERE THEMSELVES. **B**UT\nTHEIR TONGUES UNTIED. **T**HE TONGUES OF THEIR PROGENY\nREMAINED STILL. **M**ONSTERS THEY BRED. **A**\nRACE OF CROOKED RED-HAIR-COVERED MONSTERS GOING ON ALL FOURS.\n**A** DUMB RACE TO KEEP THE SHAME UNTOLD.\n\n####### [[Vol. 2, Page]] 20 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.\n\n###### IX.\n\n33. **S**EEING WHICH, THE **L**HAS WHO\nHAD NOT BUILT MEN, WEPT, SAYING: --\n\n34. \"**T**HE **A**MANASA HAVE DEFILED\nOUR FUTURE ABODES. **T**HIS IS **K**ARMA.\n**L**ET US DWELL IN THE OTHERS. **L**ET\nUS TEACH THEM BETTER, LEST WORSE SHOULD HAPPEN. **T**HEY\nDID . . . .\n\n35. **T**HEN ALL MEN BECAME ENDOWED WITH **M**ANAS.\n**T**HEY SAW THE SIN OF THE MINDLESS.\n\n36. **T**HE **F**OURTH **R**ACE\nDEVELOPED SPEECH.\n\n37. **T**HE **O**NE BECAME **T**WO;\nALSO ALL THE LIVING AND CREEPING THINGS THAT WERE STILL ONE, GIANT\nFISH-BIRDS AND SERPENTS WITH SHELL-HEADS.\n\n-------\n\n###### X.\n\n38. **T**HUS TWO BY TWO ON THE SEVEN ZONES, THE **T**HIRD\n**R**ACE GAVE BIRTH TO THE **F**OURTH-**R**ACE\nMEN; THE GODS BECAME NO-GODS; THE SURA BECAME A-SURA.\n\n39. **T**HE FIRST, ON EVERY ZONE, WAS MOON-COLOURED;\nTHE SECOND YELLOW LIKE GOLD; THE THIRD RED; THE FOURTH BROWN,\nWHICH BECAME BLACK WITH SIN. **T**HE FIRST SEVEN\nHUMAN SHOOTS WERE ALL OF ONE COMPLEXION. **T**HE\nNEXT SEVEN BEGAN MIXING.\n\n40. **T**HEN THE **F**OURTH BECAME TALL\nWITH PRIDE. **W**E ARE THE KINGS, IT WAS SAID; WE\nARE THE GODS.\n\n41. **T**HEY TOOK WIVES FAIR TO LOOK UPON. **W**IVES\nFROM THE MINDLESS, THE NARROW-HEADED. **T**HEY BRED\nMONSTERS. **W**ICKED DEMONS, MALE AND FEMALE, ALSO\n**K**HADO (DAKINI), WITH LITTLE MINDS.\n\n42. THEY BUILT TEMPLES FOR THE HUMAN BODY. **M**ALE\nAND FEMALE THEY WORSHIPPED. **T**HEN THE **T**HIRD\n**E**YE ACTED NO LONGER.\n\n-------\n\n###### XI.\n\n43. **T**HEY BUILT HUGE CITIES. **O**F\nRARE EARTHS AND METALS THEY BUILT, AND OUT OF THE FIRES VOMITED,\nOUT OF THE WHITE STONE OF\n\n####### [[Vol. 2, Page]] 21 THE SLOKAS OF \"DZYAN.\"\n\nTHE MOUNTAINS AND OF THE BLACK STONE, THEY CUT THEIR OWN IMAGES\nIN THEIR SIZE AND LIKENESS, AND WORSHIPPED THEM.\n\n44. **T**HEY BUILT GREAT IMAGES NINE YATIS HIGH,\nTHE SIZE OF THEIR BODIES. **I**NNER FIRES HAD DESTROYED\nTHE LAND OF THEIR FATHERS. **T**HE WATER THREATENED\nTHE FOURTH.\n\n45. **T**HE FIRST GREAT WATERS CAME. **T**HEY\nSWALLOWED THE SEVEN GREAT ISLANDS.\n\n46. **A**LL **H**OLY SAVED, THE **U**NHOLY\nDESTROYED. **W**ITH THEM MOST OF THE HUGE ANIMALS,\nPRODUCED FROM THE SWEAT OF THE EARTH.\n\n-------\n\n###### XII.\n\n47. **F**EW MEN REMAINED: SOME YELLOW, SOME BROWN\nAND BLACK, AND SOME RED REMAINED. **T**HE MOON-COLOURED\nWERE GONE FOREVER.\n\n48. **T**HE FIFTH PRODUCED FROM THE **H**OLY\nSTOCK REMAINED; IT WAS RULED OVER BY THE FIRST DIVINE **K**INGS.\n\n49. . . . . **W**HO RE-DESCENDED, WHO MADE PEACE\nWITH THE FIFTH, WHO TAUGHT AND INSTRUCTED IT. . . . . .\n\nNext Section\n\nContents",
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