Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00440)

SUBJECT:  ". . . The system in question is no fancy of one or several
isolated individuals."

"The Secret Doctrine is the accumulated Wisdom of the Ages. . . . The
system in question [Theosophy] is no fancy of one or several isolated
individuals. . . . It is the uninterrupted record covering thousands of
generations of Seers whose respective experiences were made to test and
to verify the traditions passed orally by one early race to another, of
the teachings of higher and exalted beings. . . . For long ages, the
"Wise Men" of the Fifth Race. . . . passed their lives in learning. . .
. by checking, testing, and verifying in every department of nature the
traditions of old by the independent visions of great adepts; i.e., men
who have developed and perfected their physical, mental, psychic, and
spiritual organisations to the utmost possible degree. No vision of one
adept was accepted till it was checked and confirmed by the visions --
so obtained as to stand as independent evidence -- of other adepts, and
by centuries of experiences." SD, I, 272-273

This is Blavatsky's and the Mahatmas' view.  One may or may not agree
with it.  But that does not change the fact that this is the view of
Theosophy as given by HPB and her Masters.