Theos-Talk Archives (March 2001 Message tt00028)

Bart wrote:

>	Well, when one considers that the "secret doctrine" (the doctrine
>itself as opposed to Blavatsky's book about the secret doctrine) is the
>correct interpretation of Theosophy, then Blavatsky didn't have it, the
>Mahatmas didn't have it, and certainly those who came later didn't have
>it. 

Bart, I still find it hard to know what you are actually refering to especially
when you write that "the Mahatmas didn't have it [the 'secret doctrine']."
For those who are interested ponder some of what is said in THE MAHATMA
LETTERS:

"Our [secret?] doctrine knows no compromises. It either affirms or denies,
for it never teaches but that which it knows to be the truth." Letter 10

"We do not bow our heads in the dust before the mystery of mind -- for we
have solved it ages ago." Letter 10

"So far -- WE KNOW. Within and to the utmost limit, to the very edge of
the cosmic veil we know the fact to be correct -- owing to personal experience;
for the information gathered as to what takes place beyond -- we are indebted
to the Planetary Spirits, to our blessed Lord Buddha. This of course may
be regarded as second-hand information. There are those who rather than
to yield to the evidence of fact will prefer regarding even the planetary
gods as "erring" disembodied philosophers if not actually liars. Be it so.
Everyone is master of his own wisdom -- says a Tibetan proverb and he is
at liberty either to honour or degrade his slave --." Letter 22

"For the life of me I cannot make out how I could ever impart to you that
which I know since the very A.B.C. of what I know, the rock upon which the
secrets of the occult universe, whether on this or that side of the veil,
are encrusted, is contradicted by you invariably and a priori. My very dear
Brother, either we know something or we do not know anything. In the first
case what is the use of your learning, since you think you know better?
In the second case why should you lose your time?"

"From the first ages of man, the fundamental truths of all that we are permitted
to know on earth was in the safe keeping of the adepts of the sanctuary.
Those guardians of the primitive divine revelation, who had solved every
problem that is within the grasp of human intellect, were bound together
by a universal freemasonry of science and philosophy, which formed one unbroken
chain around the globe." HPB, ISIS I 37-38

"Believe me, there comes a moment in the life of an adept, when the hardships
he has passed through are a thousandfold rewarded. In order to acquire further
knowledge, he has no more to go through a minute and slow process of investigation
and comparison of various objects, but is accorded an instantaneous, implicit
insight into every first truth. . . . the adept sees and feels and lives
in the very source of all fundamental truths -- the Universal Spiritual
Essence of Nature, SHIVA the Creator, the Destroyer, and the Regenerator."
Letter 31 

For more relevant quotes see: http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/theosophy1.htm

Bart, you must have some meaning to what you are writing, some "mystical"
or "esoteric" sense. Please share with us that meaning.  

Daniel

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