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The Book of Dzyan

por Timothy Maroney

Outros autores: Helena Blavatsky

Séries: Call of Cthulhu Fiction (6027)

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Mme. Blavatsky's famous transcribed messages from beyond, the mysterious Book of Dzyan, the heart of the sacred books of Kie-te, are said once to have been known only to Tibetan mystics. Quotations from Dzyan form the core of her closely-argued The Secret Doctrine, the most influential single book of occult knowledge to emerge from the last century. The text of the book you hold reproduces nearly all of Book of Dzyan that Blavatsky transcribed. It also includes long excerpts from her Secret Doctrine as well as from the Society of Psychical Research's 1885 report concerning phenomena witnessed by members of the Theosophical Society. There are notes and additional shorter materials. Editor Maroney's biographical essay starts off the book, a fascinating portrait of an amazing woman.… (mais)
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Maroney's book has much to offer any serious student of occultism. His historical essay on H.P. Blavatsky and her successors packs a remarkable amount of information and insight into less than sixty pages. The book is published under a curious aegis; the Chaosium game company has issued it as part of their series of Cthulhiana. Accordingly, Maroney details horror fantasist H.P. Lovecraft's attitude toward Theosophy and his interest in The Book of Dzyan. As an appendix, the book includes a "suitably abridged" text of the Hodgson report, an investigation of Blavatsky's Adyar operations that was commissioned by the Society for Psychical Research in 1884. The report proved to be extremely damaging to Blavatsky's credibility.

The titled feature of the volume is a set of extracts from Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine, particularly those which claim to directly recount the contents of the Stanzas of Dzyan, from a fabulously ancient manuscript which Blavatsky cited as the source for her central theses regarding cosmogony, prehistory, and evolution. The first section, "Cosmogenesis," is decidedly metaphysical. According to Maroney, Aleister Crowley claimed that his own "Liber Trigrammaton" was comparable to the Stanzas of Dzyan, and if a parallel were drawn from Crowley's book of trigrams, it would be to this "Cosmogenesis."

"Anthropogenesis" is the second section of the Stanzas of Dzyan; as Maroney notes, it "reads like the outline of a Lovecraftian weird tale, peopled with magical characters and broods of terrible monsters." (p. 64) The volume of The Secret Doctrine devoted to "Anthropogenesis" might be most easily compared with P.B. Randolph's Pre-Adamite Man (1888): both are concerned with an esoteric pre-history and its historical consequences. In Crowley's writings, the closest approach made to this topic is the "aeonic" historical model of Isis, Osiris, and Horus.

Maroney writes that Crowley "regarded his own system, Thelema, as the child of the Golden Dawn and Theosophy." (p. 47) The Aeon of Isis can reference the Theosophical Society as the province of the Matriarch Blavatsky, whose Isis Unveiled was her great doctrinal debut. On those lines, the Aeon of Osiris would be the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn under the Patriarch Mathers, with its Hierophant taking the god-form of Osiris. Then Crowley's Thelemic organizing would be the Child Horus of these parents.

I recommend The Book of Dzyan as a fascinating study in the creativity of Blavatsky and her heirs.
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Mme. Blavatsky's famous transcribed messages from beyond, the mysterious Book of Dzyan, the heart of the sacred books of Kie-te, are said once to have been known only to Tibetan mystics. Quotations from Dzyan form the core of her closely-argued The Secret Doctrine, the most influential single book of occult knowledge to emerge from the last century. The text of the book you hold reproduces nearly all of Book of Dzyan that Blavatsky transcribed. It also includes long excerpts from her Secret Doctrine as well as from the Society of Psychical Research's 1885 report concerning phenomena witnessed by members of the Theosophical Society. There are notes and additional shorter materials. Editor Maroney's biographical essay starts off the book, a fascinating portrait of an amazing woman.

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