title: The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy (2-volume set)
author:  H. P. Blavatsky 
description: This massive study is an astonishing document. Blavatsky synthesizes science and spirituality into an exhilarating journey of spiritual awareness. --The Book Reader (1988)<br /><br />You dismiss H. P. Blavatsky rather too easily as 'hocus pocus.' Nobody ever affected the thought of so many able men and women by 'hocus pocus. The real source of her influence is to be found in The Secret Doctrine, a book on the religions of the world suggesting or disclosing an underlying unity between all great religions. It was a book which Maeterlinck said contained the most grandiose cosmogony in the world, and if you read it merely as a romantic compilation, it is one of the most exciting and stimulating books written for the last hundred years. It is paying a poor compliment to men like Yeats, Maeterlinck, and others, to men like Sir William Crookes, the greatest chemist of modern times, who was a member of her society, to Carter Blake, F.R.S., the anthropologist, and the scholars and scientists in many countries who read H. P. Blavatsky's books, to assume that they were attracted by 'hocus pocus.' If you are ever in the National Library, Kildare Street, and have a couple of hours to spare, you might dip into 'The Proem' to The Secret Doctrine, and you will understand the secret of the influence of that extraordinary woman on her contemporaries. --George W. Russell (AE), Irish poet and essayist
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  THE SYNTHESIS
  OF
  SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY.
  by
  H. P. BLAVATSKY,
  Author of "ISIS UNVEILED."
  "There is no Religion higher than Truth."
  Vol. I. — COSMOGENESIS.
   
  —SCANNED AND EDITED TO —
  A FACSIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF 1888
  THE THEOSOPHY COMPANY
  LOS ANGELES CALIF.
          This electronic version of The Secret Doctrine follows the pagination and style of the A FACSIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL
  EDITION OF 1888 except  for the footnotes, instead of breaking up the footnotes, that are continued on other pages, due to
  lack of space, on the pages printed in paper books, we placed all the information for each footnote together on the page of
  itsʹ origin.
  — Editor Theosophy Co. of Arizona 2005
  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.
  —
  1888.
  "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1888, by H. P. Blavatsky,
  in the Office of the Librarian of Co