The original edition of this book plunged the reader straight into the surging waters of the storm of debate about how mankind came to be. In this new edition, we the editors have given you some gradual steps into the pool.
Firstly, since the writing and lectures of Samael Aun Weor continually and profoundly draw from a primary resource, we provide a brief excerpt from it: The Secret Doctrine (1888) by H.P. Blavatsky. Being a truly monumental work, we could do no more than a short excerpt. The reader who really wants to understand what Samael Aun Weor taught is advised to study the rest of The Secret Doctrine as well.
Secondly, we include a lecture given by Samael Aun Weor that provides an overview of the themes of the book.
Finally, as an expansion of the points made by the author, we include an epilogue that explains the essential events of our epic history.
We hope the sum of these writings moves you towards profound reflection.
“Modern science insists upon the doctrine of evolution; so do human reason and the “Secret Doctrine,” and the idea is corroborated by the ancient legends and myths, and even by the Bible itself when it is read between the lines. We see a flower slowly developing from a bud, and the bud from its seed. But whence the latter, with all its predetermined programme of physical transformation, and its invisible, therefore spiritual forces which gradually develop its form, colour, and odour? The word evolution speaks for itself. The germ of the present human race must have preexisted in the parent of this race, as the seed, in which lies hidden the flower of next summer, was developed in the capsule of its parent flower...” — H.P Blavatsky, “Isis Unveiled,” Vol. I., p. 153
