Theos-Talk Archives (June 2003 Message tt00091)

Quoting from THE DIALOGUES OF G DE P, VOL. 2,
PAGE 208:

<<Those of you who are students of Theosophy will 
see the logical, absolutely logical, necessity of an 
esoteric teaching, of an esoteric School wherein the 
deeper teachings are given: the profounder, broader, 
larger secrets of the Universe and of man's constitution, 
which cannot be given out publicly because they 
cannot be understood without at least some real 
esoteric training. When H. P. B. spoke in later years in 
her Secret Doctrine about the mistake that was made in 
the name of Sinnert's Esoteric Buddhism, it was a very 
wise and clever thing that she did. Every word that she 
wrote was true, yet it was a deliberate 'pulling of the 
wool' over the eyes of those who thought they knew so 
much, that it blinded them and thus they could not see 
the truth. I have used the same policy myself. When I 
find that an esoteric teaching is being argued about, or 
mocked at, or misconstrued, then instead of trying to 
remedy the situation by denying it, or explaining it, I 
say something like this: "Why yes, of course, this is the 
way to look at it," apparently but not really agreeing 
with the proud brain-minds who cannot because they 
will not see. It is an ancient rule in our School that 
when a teaching is misunderstood or is in danger of 
being abused, then it must be veiled. This is a wise 
thing to do. When H. P. B. said that if Mr. Sinnett had 
only called his book Esoteric Bodhism, or Esoteric 
Budhism, meaning 'Esoteric Wisdom,' it would have 
rightly expressed the teachings of the Masters, as far as 
it went, she made a true statement. Nevertheless, the 
title first given to the book was right, for it was indeed 
the esoteric teaching of the Lord Buddha which was in 
the background of the Masters' minds when they gave 
to Mr. Sinnett the knowledge that he received. It was in 
very truth Esoteric Buddhism.>>