Book of Dzyan

As the Book of Dzyan or book Dzyan (Engl. Book of Dzyan ) is in the esoteric , and especially in modern Theosophy a fictitious called, supposedly very old and secret book in Tibet of adepts will kept a secret brotherhood.

The " punches " of the book of Dzyan are contained in The Secret Doctrine (1888, German: The Secret Doctrine ) by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky , the founder of modern theosophy. This major work by Blavatsky is structured as a comprehensive commentary by the punching lines and claims to be able to explain the "original truths" of all religions. The Book of Dzyan called Blavatsky as the oldest document in the world. She used different spellings (Dan, Jan-na, Djan, Dzyn or Dzen) and claimed that it was written in the secret language Senzar , which is supposedly used by all adepts worldwide as the mystery language. However, there is no independent confirmation of this. Blavatsky went on to claim that the Book of Dzyan was the first volume of the "Incredibly Ancient Commentaries on the Seven Secret Books of Kiu-te, " which contained archaic teachings on the origin and structure of races and worlds.

The theosophist Alice Bailey published further stamps in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire (1925, German: A treatise on Cosmic Fire ).

Dzyan is the Tibetan name of the Daoist Ly-tzyn, who lived in the fourth century and wrote the book Yu-Fu-King ( The Book of the Secret Correspondences ), which was published again in Florence in 1878 and Blavatsky should have been known.

The Jewish theosophist Leonard Bosman, however, postulated in 1913 that the book of Dzyan was based on the Sifra di-Tzeniutha , part of the basic Kabbalistic work Zohar . The historian of religion Gershom Scholem agreed with this thesis.

References to the Book of Dzyan can be found in the work of the American writer HP Lovecraft , which can be assigned to the fantastic , and in other authors of the Cthulhu myth . From 1972 to 1974 there was a fusion band in Germany called Dzyan .

Web links

The book Dzyan ( Memento of October 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) from Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine at Edition Alpha et Omega

Individual evidence

↑ Kocku von Stuckrad : What is esotericism? , CH Beck, Munich 2004, p. 206f
^ Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke : Helena Blavatsky , North Atlantic Books, Berkeley 2004, p. 14
↑ James Webb : The Flight from Reason: Politics, Culture, and Occultism in the Nineteenth Century. marixverlag GmbH Wiesbaden; 1st edition 2009. p. 158.
↑ Martin Brauen : Traumwelt Tibet: Western illusions. Publishing house Paul Haupt Berne, Bern; Stuttgart; Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-258-05639-0 . Pp. 39-40.
^ Wouter J. Hanegraaff : New Age Religion and Western Culture , State University of New York Press, Albany NY 1998, p. 453
^ Boaz Huss: "The Sufi Society in America": Theosophy and Kabbalah in the Late Nineteenth Century . In: Boaz Huss, Marco Pasi, Kocku von Stuckrad (eds.): Kabbalah and Modernity: Interpretations, Transformations, Adaptations . Koninklijke Brill NV, 2010, ISBN 978-90-04-18284-4 , ISSN 1871-1405 , p. 188 ( google.de [accessed on July 5, 2012]).
^ Boaz Huss: "The Sufi Society in America": Theosophy and Kabbalah in the Late Nineteenth Century . In: Boaz Huss, Marco Pasi, Kocku von Stuckrad (eds.): Kabbalah and Modernity: Interpretations, Transformations, Adaptations . Koninklijke Brill NV, 2010, ISBN 978-90-04-18284-4 , ISSN 1871-1405 , p. 184 ( google.de [accessed on July 5, 2012]).

[1] Kocku von Stuckrad : What is esotericism? , CH Beck, Munich 2004, p. 206f

[2] Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke : Helena Blavatsky , North Atlantic Books, Berkeley 2004, p. 14

[3] James Webb : The Flight from Reason: Politics, Culture, and Occultism in the Nineteenth Century. marixverlag GmbH Wiesbaden; 1st edition 2009. p. 158.

[4] Martin Brauen : Traumwelt Tibet: Western illusions. Publishing house Paul Haupt Berne, Bern; Stuttgart; Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-258-05639-0 . Pp. 39-40.

[5] Wouter J. Hanegraaff : New Age Religion and Western Culture , State University of New York Press, Albany NY 1998, p. 453

[6] Boaz Huss: "The Sufi Society in America": Theosophy and Kabbalah in the Late Nineteenth Century . In: Boaz Huss, Marco Pasi, Kocku von Stuckrad (eds.): Kabbalah and Modernity: Interpretations, Transformations, Adaptations . Koninklijke Brill NV, 2010, ISBN 978-90-04-18284-4 , ISSN 1871-1405 , p. 188 ( google.de [accessed on July 5, 2012]).

[7] Boaz Huss: "The Sufi Society in America": Theosophy and Kabbalah in the Late Nineteenth Century . In: Boaz Huss, Marco Pasi, Kocku von Stuckrad (eds.): Kabbalah and Modernity: Interpretations, Transformations, Adaptations . Koninklijke Brill NV, 2010, ISBN 978-90-04-18284-4 , ISSN 1871-1405 , p. 184 ( google.de [accessed on July 5, 2012]).