Theos-Talk Archives (April 2003 Message tt00114)

Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Re: Jesus Was He an Adept. Is there a historical record
for him ?


Dear Friends:

here are some further statements concerning Jesus that might
prove helpful -- specially in regard to the question of His
belonging to the Adept brotherhood.

Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Erica L
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 2:40 AM
To:
Subject: Re: Jesus required swords

If you try to study Theosophy you will find out that
he was.

Erica

--- Bart Lidofsky wrote:
> Dallas TenBroeck wrote:
> > However we do know that he was an adept of the
> Great Lodge,
>
> No, we don't.
>
> Bart


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WAS JESUS A REAL PERSON?



An impression seems to have arisen that H.P.B. denied that Jesus
ever lived at all.

My understanding is that she never said that but only denied the
historicity of the Gospel's "Jesus," -- i.e., Jesus, as portrayed
in the four Gospels, she says is a fabrication, a concoction.

She brings forward esoteric teaching to show that the Gospel
account is an historizing of the zodiacal signs and cycles of the
most ancient philosophers, under which they concealed some of
their Cosmogonical facts as myths, and she adds there indeed
lived a great reformer, the Adept Jesus.

There are literally hundreds of references to Jesus and
Christianity in Theosophical Literature the most significant are
by H P B.

Let me offer a few of these and some notes made in the course of
studying ISIS UNVEILED and The SECRET DOCTRINE.

But first consider these:

"The position THEY [MASTERS] give to Jesus, as far as we know, is
that of a great and pure man, a reformer who would fain have
lived but who had to die for that which he regarded as the
greatest birth-right of man -- absolute Liberty of conscience; of
an adept who preached a universal Religion knowing of, and having
no other "temple of God" but man himself; that of a noble Teacher
of esoteric truths which he had no time given to him to explain;
that, of an initiate who recognized no difference -- save the
moral one -- between men; who rejected caste, and despised
wealth; and who preferred death rather than to reveal the secrets
of initiation. And who, finally, lived over a century before the
year of our vulgar, so called, Christian era."
THEOSOPHIST July 1883


[ This quotation from an account by Charles Johnston of his
interview with H.P.B. when he met her for the first time in
London, in the Spring of 1887, soon after her arrival from
Ostende appeared originally in Theosophical Forum (New York) for
April, May, June and July 1900-1 ] and was reprinted in The
Theosophical Movement, April 1964.

Question: "How do the adepts guide the souls of men?"

H.P.B.: "In many ways, but chiefly by teaching their souls
direct, in the spiritual world But that is difficult for you to
understand. This is quite intelligible, though. At certain
regular periods, they try to give the world at large a right
understanding of spiritual things. One of their number comes
forth to teach the masses, and is handed down to tradition as the
Founder of a religion. Krishna was such a Master; so was
Zoroaster; so were Buddha and Shankara Acharya, the great sage of
Southern India. And, so also was the Nazarene. He went forth
against the counsel of the rest, to give to the masses before the
time, moved by a great pity, and enthusiasm for humanity; he was
warned that the time was unfavorable, but nevertheless he elected
to go, and so was put to death at the instigation of the
priests."

Question: "Have the adepts any secret records of his life?"

H.P.B.: "They must have," she answered; "for they have records of
the lives of all Initiates. Once I was in a great cave-temple in
the Himalaya mountains, with my Master," and she looked at the
picture of the splendid Rajput; "there were many statues of
adepts there; pointing to one of them, he said: 'This is he
whom you call Jesus. We count him to be one of the greatest
among us.' "But that is not the only work of the adepts. At
much shorter periods, they send forth a messenger to try to teach
the world. Such a period comes in the last quarter of each
century, and the Theosophical Society represents their work for
this epoch."
THE THEOS. FORUM, New York, Apl, 1900


"...Jesus, whether of Nazareth or Lud,* was a Chrestos, as
undeniably as that he never was entitled to the appellation of
Christos, during his life-time and before his last trial.

*"Lud" or Lydda, reference is made here to the Rabbinical
tradition in the Babylonian Gemara, called Sepher Toldoth Jeshu,
about Jesus being the son of one named Pandira, and having lived
a century earlier than the era called Christian, namely, during
the reign of the Jewish king Alexander Jannaeus and his wife
Salome, who reigned from the year 106 to 79 B.C. Accused by the
Jews of having learned the magic art in Egypt, and of having
stolen from the Holy of Holies the Incommunicable Name, Jehoshua
(Jesus) was put to death by the Sanhedrin at Lud. He was stoned
and then crucified on a tree, on the eve of Passover. The
narrative is ascribed to the Talmudist authors of "Sota" and
"Sanhedrin," p.19 Book of Zechiel." Isis Unveiled, II. 201


"A thick film of allegory and blinds, the "dark sayings" of
fiction and parable, thus covers the original esoteric texts from
which the New Testament--as now known--was compiled. Whence,
then, the Gospels, the life of Jesus of Nazareth? Has it not
been repeatedly stated that no human, mortal brain could have
invented the life of the Jewish Reformer, followed by the awful
drama on Calvary? We say, on the authority of the esoteric
Eastern School, that all this came from the Gnostics, as far as
the name Christos and the astronomico-mystical allegories are
concerned, and from the writings of the ancient Tanaim as regards
the Kabalistic connection of Jesus or Joshua, with the Biblical
personifications. One of these is the mystic esoteric name of
Jehovah--not the present fanciful God of the profane Jews
ignorant of their own mysteries, the God accepted by the still
more ignorant Christians--but the compound Jehovah of the pagan
Initiation. This is proven very plainly by the glyphs or mystic
combinations of various signs which have survived to this day in
the Roman Catholic hieroglyphics.

The Gnostic Records contained the epitome of the chief scenes
enacted during the mysteries of initiation, since the memory of
man; though even that was given out invariably under the garb of
semi-allegory, whenever entrusted to parchment or paper. But the
ancient Tanaim, the Initiates from whom the wisdom of the Kabala
(oral tradition) was obtained by the later Talmudists, had in
their possession the secrets of the mystery language, and it is
in this language that the Gospels were written."
HPB ART III 197


"We can assert, with entire plausibility, that there is not one
of all these sects--Kabalism, Judaism, and our present
Christianity included-- but sprung from the two main branches of
that one mother-trunk, the once universal religion, which
antedated the Vedic ages--we speak of that prehistoric Buddhism
which merged later into Brahmanism. The religion which the
primitive teaching of the early few apostles most resembled--a
religion preached by Jesus himself--is the elder of these two,
Buddhism. The latter as taught in its primitive purity, and
carried to perfection by the last of the Buddhas, Gautama, based
its moral ethics on three fundamental principles. It alleged
that 1, everything existing, exists from natural causes; 2, that
virtue brings its own reward, and vice and sin their own
punishment; and, 3, that the state of man in this world is
probationary. We might add that on these three principles rested
the universal foundation of every religious credal God, and
individual immortality for every man -- if he could but win it."
ISIS II 123


"... the secret doctrines of the Magi, of the pre-Vedic
Buddhists, of the hierophants of the Egyptian Thoth or Hermes,
and of the adepts of whatever age and nationality, including the
Chaldean kabalists and the Jewish nazars, were identical from the
beginning. When we use the term Buddhists, we do not mean to
imply by it either the exoteric Buddhism instituted by the
followers of Gautama-Buddha, nor the modern Buddhistic religion;
but the secret philosophy of Sakyamuni, which in its essence is
certainly identical with the ancient wisdom-religion of the
sanctuary, the pre-Vedic Brahmanism. (p. 143) Already some time
before our era, the adepts, except in India, had ceased to
congregate in large communities; but whether among the Essenes,
or the Neo-platonists, or, again, among the innumerable
struggling sects born but to die, the same doctrines, identical
in substance and spirit, if not always in form, are encountered.
By Buddhism, therefore, we mean that religion signifying
literally the doctrine of wisdom, and which by many ages
antedates the metaphysical philosophy of Siddartha Sakyamuni."
ISIS II 142


"...the followers of Jesus evidently adhered to a sect which
became a still more exasperating thorn...It appeared as a heresy
within another heresy; for while the nazars of the olden
time...were Chaldean kabalists, the adepts of the new dissenting
sect showed themselves reformers and innovators from the
first...The Essenes...were the converts of Buddhist missionaries
who had overrun Egypt, Greece, and even Jude at one time, since
the reign of Asoka the zealous propagandist; and while it is
evidently to the Essenes that belongs the honor of having had the
Nazarene reformer, Jesus, as a pupil, still the latter is found
disagreeing with his early teachers on several questions of
formal observance. He cannot strictly be called an
Essene...neither was he a nazar, or Nazaria of the older
sect...He is the founder of the sect of the new nazars, and...a
follower of the Buddhist doctrine...what is self-evident is that
he preached the philosophy of Buddha-Sakyamuni. Denounced by the
later prophets, cursed by the Sanhedrin, the nazars--they were
confounded with others of that name...they were secretly, if not
openly persecuted by the orthodox synagogue. It becomes clear
why Jesus was treated with such contempt from the first..."
ISIS II 132


"The motive of Jesus was evidently like that of Gautama-Buddha,
to benefit humanity at large by producing a religious reform
which should give it a religion of pure ethics; the true
knowledge of God and nature having remained until- then solely in
the hands of the esoteric sects, and their adepts. p. 137 - To
assure ourselves that Jesus was a true Nazarene -- albeit with
ideas of a new reform -- we must not search for the proof in the
translated Gospels, but in such original versions as are
accessible. ... Thus, if we take in account all that is puzzling
and incomprehensible in the four Gospels, revised and corrected
as they now stand, we shall easily see for ourselves that the
true, original Christianity, such as was preached by Jesus, is to
be found only in the so-called Syrian heresies. Only from them
can we extract any clear notions about what was primitive
Christianity." ISIS II 133


"... belief in reincarnation has nothing in it that can militate
against the teachings of Christ. We affirm, furthermore, that
the great Nazarene Adept distinctly taught it. So did Paul and
the Synoptics, and nearly all the earliest Church Fathers, with
scarcely an exception, accepted it, while some actually taught
the doctrine." HPB ART I 172


"Jesus, the Adept we believe in, taught our Eastern doctrines,
KARMA and REINCARNATION foremost of all. When the so-called
Christians will have learnt to read the New Testament between the
lines, their eyes will be opened and -- they will see."
HPB ART I 175


Question: "Do not the words and teachings of Jesus, taken in
their esoteric sense, point one (the) way to the Theosophic
Path?"

"WQJ: Taken in the sense he intended the people to take them,
they lead to the way. Taken in the sense in which he desired his
Disciples to receive them, they are teachings upon the way.
Taken in their esoteric sense -- as he knew them -- they are the
way. Were the wisdom of Egypt and India today blotted out from
both the seen and unseen worlds -- the true seeker would find in
his teachings, when rightly studied, all the teachings of Isis
and Buddha. As he received his instruction from Egypt, received
from India, it is more than probable that esoterically his
teachings are identical with both." WQJ ART II 459


"...what the Homilies do prove, is again our assertion that there
was a secret doctrine preached by Jesus to the few who were
deemed worthy to become its recipients and custodians. ... If we
now recall the fact that a portion of the Mysteries of the
"Pagans" consisted of the ... aporrheta, or secret discourses;
that the secret Logia or discourses of Jesus contained in the
original Gospel according to Matthew, the meaning and
interpretation of which St. Jerome confessed to be "a difficult
task" for him to achieve, were of the same nature; and if we
remember, further, that to some of the interior or final
Mysteries only a very select few were admitted; and that finally
it was from the number of the latter chat were taken all the
ministers of the holy "Pagan" rites, we will then clearly
understand this expression of Jesus quoted by Peter: "Guard the
Mysteries for me and the sons of my house," i.e. of my doctrine.
And, if we understand it rightly, we cannot avoid thinking that
this "secret" doctrine of Jesus, even the technical expressions
of which are but so many duplications of the Gnostic and
Neo-platonic mystic phraseology --that this doctrine, we say, was
based on the same transcendental philosophy of the Oriental
Gnosis as the rest of the religions of those and earliest days.
That none of the later Christian sects, despite their boasting,
were the inheritors of it, is evident from the contradictions,
blunders, and clumsy repatching of the mistakes of every
preceding century by the discoveries of the succeeding one."
ISIS II 191



Whether Jesus belonged to the sect of the Nazarenes or Essenes is
difficult to establish but Jesus preached the philosophy of
Sakyamuni, the Buddha.

While Nazars of olden time were the Chaldean Kabalists, the
Essenes were the converts of Buddhist missionaries who had
overrun the Middle East, Egypt, Greece and even Judea at one
time, since the reign of king Asoka [Glos. pp. 55-6], a zealous
Buddhist, who sent out missionary Buddhist monks far and wide --
even as far as Ireland it is rumored. [see ISIS UNVEILED II
132 and 133]


The Essenes [Glos. p. 115] were Buddhists, and have the honour of
the Nazarene reformer, Jesus, as a pupil, yet, the latter is
found disagreeing with his early teachers on questions of formal
observance. "He cannot strictly be called a Nazar, or a nazaria
of the older sect. What Jesus was, may be found in the Codex
Nazaraeus, in the unjust accusations of the Bardesanian
Gnostics." (we must note this hint and inquire into the Codex and
accounts of Bardesanian Gnostics). [Glos. pp. 226, 129,
50]

What does the Codex Nazareus [Glos., p. 86] say ? "Jesu is Nebu,
the false Messiah, the destroyer of the old orthodox religion."
It is further said in ISIS UNVEILED : He is the founder of the
sect of the new nazars -- a follower of the Buddhist doctrine.
Nebu is from naba, meaning inspiration in Hebrew, and Nebo is god
of wisdom. "But Nebo is also Mercury, and Mercury is Buddha in
the Hindu monogram of planets. Moreover, we find the Talmudists
holding that Jesus was inspired by the genius of Mercury
[Bodha - Wisdom. Glos. p. 226]."


Both in the KEY TO THEOSOPHY and ISIS UNVEILED we see parallels
drawn between the two great Reformer--Teachers : Jesus and
Gautama Buddha. [see ISIS UNVEILED II p. 133] It is said that
both of them had the same motive: 1. to reform the current
popular Jewish religion, and, 2. teaching pure Ethics, the
true teaching having been concealed as an exclusive property of
certain esoteric sects.


I U II p. 136 and 137 -- an account is given of how
Iranaeus manipulated the Gospels to make it appear that

(a) Jesus did not belong to the sect of Nazarenes, the school of
John the Baptist, and

(b) that his appellation Nazarene is derived from the fact that
his father 's residence was at Nazareth, and not because he
belonged to the sect of Nazarenes.


I U II p. 127 We are given a clue that Jesus was a true
Nazarene. With ideas of reform, we must not look for evidence in
the Gospels, which are fabrications, but seek in the true
original Christianity -- the remnants of the Gnostics. H P B
writs: "Thus, if we take into account all that is puzzling and
incomprehensible in the four Gospels, revised and corrected as
they now stand, we shall easily see for ourselves that the true,
original Christianity, such as was preached by Jesus, is to be
found in the so-called Syrian heresies. Only from them can we
extract any clear notions about what was primitive Christianity".


ISIS UNVEILED II p. 144. Jesus belonged to and received
initiation from Nazarenes in the desert and separated himself
from them and became an independent wandering Nazaria -- a
travelling therapeutae, a healer.

Here we see parallel between Gautama Buddha and Jesus. The former
received initiation from Brahmin Initiates and learnt all from
them, and seeing that the great life-giving truths were withheld
by this proud and exclusive caste from the masses, he separated
himself from his teachers and began preaching pure ethics and the
non-violent life to despised out-castes, servants, villagers, and
pariahs.


I U II p. 144 "Both Jesus and St. John the Baptist preached
the end of the Age ; which proves their knowledge of the secret
computation of the priests and Kabalists, who with the chief of
the Essene communities alone had the secret of the duration of
the cycles. The latter were kabalists and theurgists." We are
told that the meaning of the division of time into ages is
esoteric, and Buddhistic. The uninitiated Christians never
understood this, and accepted the words of Jesus literally,
believing the world would end abruptly.


ISIS UNVEILED II p. 145 : Virtues such as renunciation,
charity, non-violence, etc., taught by Jesus were practiced by
both Essnes and Nazarenes. Christ was a teacher of
'metempsychoses' or reincarnation -- repeating the Essenean
teachings. The Essenes were Pythagoreans in their doctrines and
habits. Jesus spoke in parables and metaphors that can be traced
to the Essenes and Nazarenes.


ISIS UNVEILED II p.147 : Like Pythagorean-Essenean methods
Jesus divided his teachings into the exoteric and the esoteric,
and divided his followers into "neophytes," "brethren" and the
"perfect." "But his career at least as a public Rabbi, was of a
too short duration tallow him to establish a regular school of
his own ; and with the exception, perhaps, of John, it does not
seem that he had initiated any other apostle."


I U II p. 148 : Sadducees (Zadokites) accused and crucified
Jesus for practicing the magic of Egyptians.


"... Talmudist says, in substance, the following: Jesus was
thrown in prison, and kept there forty days; then flogged as a
seditious rebel; then stoned as a blasphemer in a place called
Lud, and finally allowed to expire upon a cross. "All this,"
explains Levi, "because he revealed to the people the truths
which they (the Pharisees) wished to bury for their own use. He
had divined the occult theology of Israel, had compared it with
the wisdom of Egypt, and found thereby the reason for a
universal] religious synthesis." ISIS II 202 [see also H P B
Articles, Vol. III, pp. 180-181 ]


"...Jesus, whether of Nazareth or Lud,* was a Chrestos, as
undeniably as that he never was entitled to the appellation of
Christos, during his life-time and before his last trial.
*... "Lud" or Lydda, reference is made here to the Rabbinical
tradition in the Babylonian Gemara, called SEPHER TOLDOTH JESHU,
about Jesus being the son of one named Pandira, and having lived
a century earlier than the era called Christian, namely, during
the reign of the Jewish king Alexander Jannaeus and his wife
Salome, who reigned from the year 106 to 79 B.C. Accused by the
Jews of having learned the magic art in Egypt, and of having
stolen from the Holy of Holies the Incommunicable Name, Jehoshua
(Jesus) was put to death by the Sanhedrin at Lud. He was stoned
and then crucified on a tree, on the eve of Passover. The
narrative is ascribed to the Talmudist authors of "Sota" and
"Sanhedrin," p.19, Book of Zechiel." Isis Unveiled, II.
201



I U II p. 150 : Here Jesus is shown to be a real historical
character, a great reformer.
"All this points to the fact, that except a handful of
self-styled Christians who subsequently won the day, all the
civilized portion of the pagan world who knew of Jesus honoured
him as a philosopher an adept whom they placed on the same level
with Pythagoras and Apollonius. Whence such a veneration on their
part for a man, were he simply, as represented by the Synoptics,
a poor, unknown Jewish carpenter from Nazareth ? As an incarnated
God there is no single record of him on this earth capable of
withstanding the critical examination of science ; as one of the
greatest reformers, an inveterate enemy of every theological
dogmatism, a persecutor of bigotry, a teacher of one of the most
sublime codes of ethics, Jesus is one of the grandest and most
clearly-defined figures on the panorama of human history...."


I U II p. 152 : Early Nazarenes believed Jesus to have been
over-shadowed by the Divine and that its influence waned when he
was on the cross.


'THEOSOPHIST' for March 1883, has an article on the "Real
Jesus." There it states that Jesus was never a historical
personage but a myth built on the historical Jeshu of Lydda -- a
Jewish Adept who lived from 120 to 70 BC, and that the real
founder of Christianity was St. Paul.


Jesus was also known as Been Panthera [also PANDERA] (son of
Panthera) [Glos. p 248,
I U II p. 201, H P B Articles III 173].


ISIS UNVEILED II 135 :- Jesus is there said to be over 40 years
of age, according to Kabalisits, when he arrived at Jerusalem.


For the origin of non-existent Jesus of the Gospels we must turn
to accounts of the Gnostic sect of Marcion. [ Glos. p. 207]


In I U II p. 137 we are told, "To assure ourselves that Jesus
was a true Nazarene-- albeit with ideas of a new reform--we must
not search for the proof in the translated Gospels, but in such
original versions as are accessible...Thus, if we take into
account all that is puzzling and incomprehensible in the four
Gospels, revised and corrected as they now stand, we shall easily
see for ourselves that the true, original Christianity, such as
was preached by Jesus, is to be found only in the so-called
Syrian heresies. Only from them can we extract any clear notions
about what was primitive Christianity."


Who were the Syrian Gnostics ? They are early sects founded by
Marcion and Bardesanes. Hence it would be highly profitable to
study whatever is available of these two sects and their
philosophy. C. W. King recalls (GNOSTICS AND THEIR REMAINS) that
according to tradition they were of Persian origin and Magians by
religious training. In I U II 157-60 and 161-164 and in the
Glossary more information is available.


Hers is a brief summary of these references :


Gnostic doctrines held that Christ did not and cannot ever die
but only the bodily form which he had occupied died. But the
Church regards this as a heresy.

Gnostics taught the doctrine of Maya--Illusion, of the Real and
the Unreal, as Buddhists and Vedantins do. "Thus Christos, as a
unity, is but an abstraction : a general idea representing the
collective aggregation of the numberless spirit-entities, which
are the direct emanations of the infinite, invisible,
incomprehensible FIRST CAUSE--the individual spirits of men."
I U II p. 159


Orthodox Christians called the Gnostics 'Illusionists' for
believing that Christ did not and never could die. Gnosis was an
offshoot of Buddhism and held the same metaphysical ideas. They
made a clear distinction between Christos and the illusionary
Jesus.


Christos was for them what it is for Theosophists -- the Higher
Manas, Ego, Son of the Universal Mind, MANASA-PUTRA, the Vedic
VISWAKARMAN, who sacrificed himself to himself [his Higher Self
to serve the Lower Self, and thus to redeem the worlds]. [ see S
D II 167]


Christos or Christ--Krishna is explained as: "...the incarnating
Egos have taken upon themselves, voluntarily and knowingly, the
burden of all the future personalities. Thence it is easy to see
that it is neither Mr. A nor Mr. B, nor any of the personalities
that periodically clothe the Self-sacrificing Ego, which are real
sufferers, but verily the innocent Christos in us."
Transactions of Blavatsky Lodge, p. 68. [ B: CW Vol. X ]


In the majority of mankind this Christos [the HIGHER SELF] is
latent. It only overshadows the mortal, (which are its
radiations [Rays] on earth, but also, actively manifesting in
such god-like figures as the Buddha, Jesus, Krishna, etc.,
because all these succeeded earlier in uniting themselves
permanently with their divine prototype, their "Father in
Heaven."

Gnostic sects held this view of Christ, and of the perfectibility
of all men, which the ambitious, ignorant Church Fathers sought
to destroy and declared, as "pre-existence" to be anathema.


Marcion -- Gnostic Teachings

Marcion, [Glos p. 207] one of the prominent Gnostics, wrote
"Antithesis" challenging the Church corruptions of the pure
philosophy regarding the true nature of the Christos, and the
Church responded with its "Refutations" -- full of lies and
falsehoods -- Tertulian and Epiphanius, also early Church
Fathers, excelling in the art of falsification. The Church
destroyed most of the works of the Gnostics, yet preserved a
record of their doctrines in the "Refutations."

He looked on Jesus as neither a king, nor a Messiah of the Jews,
nor a "son of David." He declared that he was "... a divine
being sent to revel to man a spiritual religion, and a God of
goodness and grace hitherto unknown" ( I U II p. 162).

The Marcionites showed that the Church made a great blunder in
identifying Jehovah as the "Father in Heaven" of Jesus. Marcion
said that the mission of Jesus was to terminate the concept of
Jehovah being the Lord-God of the Israelites, and, instead, to
establish a pure spiritual religion, a universal faith based on
unadulterated Truth. The Universal Wisdom-Religion he desired to
establish, he had learned at the feet of the Gurus in the
Himalayas, not on mount Sinai. Marcion shows the contradictory
character of Jehovah and denies any relationship to Jesus, hence
the so-called Messianic prophecies of the Old Testament are done
away with.

I U II p. 164 shows a set of tables that compare the teachings
of Manu, Buddha and Jesus and thus demonstrate them to be
identical.


In summation, we could observe that the amount of evidence
brought forward is overwhelming.

One might repeat: Theosophy, is not a creed or dogma invented by
theologians, by fallible men, but ANCIENT and UNIVERSAL
KNOWLEDGE. It is the cumulative testimony of an innumerable,
endless series of Seers. [S D I 272-3] It is not a religion,
not a creed nor does it have dogmas. It is not built on anything
but that ancient foundation upon which every one of the religions
of the world have been based.


SAGES and WISE MEN

Concerning the Knowers of the Wisdom of the Universe, We find H P
B wrote:

"Their spiritual visions, real explorations by, and through,
physical and spiritual senses untrammeled by blind flesh, were
systematically checked and compared one with the other, and their
nature sifted. All that was not corroborated by unanimous and
collective experience was rejected, while that only was recorded
as established truth which, in various ages, under different
climes, and throughout an untold series of incessant
observations, was found to agree and receive constantly further
corroboration." [Key, p. 85]

"Let no man set up a popery instead of Theosophy, as this would
be suicidal and has ever ended most fatally" has been the plea of
H.P.B. to students.( "Five Messages to American Theosophists"
from H. P. Blavatsky. First Message).

Students are invited to seek for and make their own in-depth
study for of all the keys H.P.B. gives out in her books: ISIS
UNVEILED, SECRET DOCTRINE, and other of her numerous articles
pertaining to the roots of Christianity, the pagan origins of
Church rituals and dogmas ; of those Keys, we might mention: the
Anthropological, Mystical, Historical, Astrological,
Astronomical, Metaphysical, Cosmogonical, Psychical,
Physiological, Numerical, Ethnological Keys she has furnished in
respect to both Old and New Testaments, especially, the Book of
Genesis, the Gospels and the Revelations, and some Kabalistic
texts.


Best wishes,

DTB

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