This study introduces the student to the Seven Stanzas translated from Book of Dzyan, the foundations for H P Blavatsky’s exposition of Cosmic Evolution — the coming into being of the Universe — in her great work The Secret Doctrine. Blavatsky therein states that these Stanzas are presented “in their modern translated version, as it would be worse than useless to make the subject still more difficult by introducing the archaic phraseology of the original, with its puzzling style and words.” The notes here are presented not as a formal study but as a stimulus to the student to pursue his own reflection on this deeply mystical and intriguing subject.