Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00686)

Monday, April 26, 2004


Dear Gopi:

I for one agree with you.

To try to modify implies presumption.

I send you herewith a small sample of the kind of study-I have done with the
SECRET DOCTRINE - looking up cross references

------------------------------- SAMPLE ------------------------


A STUDY OF KEY WORDS AND IDEAS IN THE SECRET DOCTRINE


SD I & Introduction, Preliminary Notes



SUMMARY OF S D STUDY: PREFACES, DEDICATION


The Secret Doctrine is The Synthesis of Science, Religion and 
Philosophy -- not "a" synthesis. The record offered is

historical, factual. Theosophy is as old as thinking man.


In it the unity of knowledge. Testimony from many systems prove

their linkage and origin in a single, primitive Source. A

perfect fundamental agreement is traceable.


Deductive and inductive systems are inseparable and both used.


it commences with the metaphysics of the Universal and proceeds

to the physical and personal. Universals to particulars.


HPB claims the book is a portion of the Perennial Philosophy.  	
The Secret Doctrine exists in its entirety in many secret

inaccessible libraries of which the Ancient Lodge is the
custodian. The work is written in the service of Humanity.


During a thousand year period (4th to 14th Centuries), The 	
Catholic Church endeavored to erase all traces of wisdom 
in antiquity and its connection with those. European and

"Western" historical continuity was virtually separated from

antiquity and Eastern Wisdom until the 18th Century when

archaeology and ORIENTALISM began. 


The Secret Doctrine (book) is dedicated by HPB to True Theosophists.


They called it forth, and for them it is recorded. 

True Theosophists will not be daunted.

HPB claims no authority but only transmission from the wisdom 
of the Lodge of the Wise, whom she represented.

All the Buddhas, Mahatmas and Adepts belong to the Secret Grand
Lodge located then in The Trans-Himalaya.

The Book of Dzyan in Senzar is the framework of history and facts

of which The Secret Doctrine gives a few facts.

The book contains all that can be given out in this Century.
It is in 2 volumes. The 3rd and 4th volume MSS were
destroyed before her death.  
	
There is a record of millions of ancient and significant MSS 	
being lost or destroyed all over the world.

The Universe is Seven-fold, from Star to atom. 7 Keys exist.

Academic "Orientalism" began around 1820 and is inaccurate for 	
many reasons.

Testimony to be offered will be found adequate.

The book only outlines the Secret Doctrine.



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Page	Key Word	Notes	References
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INTRODUCTORY ( by HPB )

"Gently to hear, kindly to judge."
-- Shakespeare.


xvii	Theosophy is not solely "Esoteric Buddhism."
nor is it limited to Buddhism, or to the 
philosophical system of Gautama Buddha.
ML 302, 357

xvii	BIAS	Inescapable in the human mind
Opinions often formed before data is gathered.

xvii	Esoteric Ceases to be secret on publication.

xvii	Secret Doctrine of the East contains many more details
{ Contains far more than the book ]

xvii	"Esoteric Buddhism" book by A.P.Sinnett raised only a 	
corner of the veil	SD I xxii
HPB Art III 13&fn, 14-22
HPB to APS Letters 63-4
[ based on correspondence with Adepts ]
On Evolution	HPB Art iii 10-14, 23-27
Mistakes in	ML 357, 392, 481,

xvii	Secret Knowledge	No one permitted to divulge it.
Concealed for ages.	SD II 438
WQJ Art I 259-61, II 539;

xviii "Esoteric Buddhism" a misspell of budhism--wisdom
HPB could not correct the title, as it
was presented to her as a completed book.
Glos 115; Key 12; Lucif 2-255-6;
		
[Later, pp. 152 - 191 she is forced to correct
errors and mistakes made by Mr. Sinnett in his
presentation -- too materialistic -- of the facts
given to him. He did not ever forgive her, and
after her death made this public. Mr. Judge in 
his Articles takes up the defence of HPB on this 
matter.]	WQJ Art I 234-7;

xviii	Buddha	- the Enlightened	Glos. 68 SD I-271

xviii	Bodha	- wisdom (vidya)	Glos 68, 115; SD I 539fn

xviii	"Pre-Vedic Buddhism" Is II 99 128 142 169 413 608 619
Is II 639; SD I 668,


xviii Wisdom-Religion	- the inheritance of all Humanity
- HPB knew it before "Esoteric Buddhism"
was published, as it became her duty in 1880
to impart a small portion to 2 Europeans:
A.P.Sinnett and [ Hume ? }	SD I 558 top
		
"Wisdom-Religion" Is I 436 442 444 511 560 573,
Is II 39 99 116 142-3 146 216-7 225
289 417 457 551 571 586
SD I xx, xxxviii, 113, 273, 646-7,
SD II 67, 449, 794.

xix	Also taught in America to Olcott and 2 others
[ Judge, and Hillarion Smerdis ? ]
Their time for work yet to come:		
[ Hillarion S." Light on the Path,
Through the Gates of Gold
Judge: Path, Ocean, Echoes, Epitome,
Bhagavad Gita & Notes, etc...]

xix	Authority "No theosophical book acquires the least additional 
value from pretended authority.	Key 254

xix	Adi Buddha	First Supreme Wisdom - used by Aryasangha
indicates the Unknown Deity Glos 6 SD I 571

xix	Brahma Not found in the Vedas or early works	Glos 62 SD I 20

xix	Adi-Bhuta	Primeval uncreated Cause of all, First
Element. Uncreate Deity. Glos 6 Gita 58 SD II 621
Bodha	Innate possession of divine intellect or
understanding	Key 135; SD I 539fn

xix	Bodhi	or Samadhi - Deep meditation. During this
the subject reaches the culmination
of spiritual knowledge. Glos 286

xix	Buddha	Acquirement of wisdom by effort & merit

xix	Buddhi	The faculty of cognizing the channel through
which divine knowledge reaches the Ego,
the discernment of good and evil,
"divine consciousness," "Spiritual
Soul," the vehicle of Atma.
SD I 17 119, 244, 570, 453; Key 175-6

Xix Avalokiteshvara "When Buddhi absorbs our Egotism (destroys
it) with all its Vikharas [qualities,
or attractions-	TM 11-p. 23],
Avalokiteshvara [SD I-108, II-178, Glos. 44, ML 90] 
becomes manifested to us, and Nirvana, or Mukti is reached...
freedom from the trammels of Maya or illusion."	
SD Ixxi, 7, 132 II 615; Glos 211, 218, 232;

xix	Buddhist and Brahmanical esotericism are identical. Only
sectarians see any differences.  
Ex." Olcott: Buddhist Catechism.

xx	Esoteric Philosophy	"the Esoteric philosophy is alone
calculated to withstand, in this age of crass
and illogical materialism, the repeated attacks 
on all and everything man holds most dear and sacred, 
in his inner spiritual life. The true philosopher, the 
student of Esoteric Wisdom, entirely loses	
sight of personalities, dogmatic beliefs and 	
special religions...Esoteric philosophy reconciles
all religions, strips every one of its outward, 	
human garments, and shows the root of each to be 	
identical with that of every other great religion.

It proves the necessity of an absolute Divine 	
Principle in nature. It denies Deity no more than 	
it does the Sun. Esoteric philosophy has never 	
rejected God in Nature, nor Deity as the absolute 	
and abstract Ens...the Ever Unknowable...


xx Testimony	the records we man to place before the reader 	
embrace the esoteric tenets of the whole world 	
since the beginning of our humanity, and Buddhist 
occultism occupies therein only its legitimate
place..." SD I xx SD I xxxiv, xviii, vii, 272, 

xx	Dam, Janna, Dhyan, "ch'an,	- to reform one's self by 

xx fn	Dzyan, Djan, meditation and knowledge, a second inner birth... 

xx	Buddha's metaphysics	- "limited his public teachings to
the purely moral and physiological aspect of the
Wisdom Religion, to Ethics and man alone...reserving
the hidden Truths for a select circle of his 	
Arhats... Initiation at the Saptaparna Cave 
[Glos. 291, SD II 574], the Cheta cave of Fa-hian."
["Cave of the Heart" HPB Art I 251 ]


xxi	Buddhist philosophy became disfigured when transported and 
translated in China, Japan, Siam and Burma--a soil
less prepared for metaphysical conceptions than 	
India -- also in some schools in Tibet left in
the charge of uninitiated Lamas and Mongolian 
innovators."	Key 73-4

xxi	Exoteric and Esoteric teachings of Buddha are separate
HPB I 304, 436, 450fn, III 114, 340-1,

xxi	Taught by the Brahmins, Buddha's teachings are similar
SD II 462, Theos't 3, 117-9, HPB I 246-259,
HPB I 443-5, III 263, 361, Glos 345 (Tum),

xxi	Reform by Buddha	- giving out some of the secrets
SD I 270-1, HPB i 448-9, 466-7, ii 81

xxi	Buddha	- kept the soul teachings for his Elect
IS II 142 bot, 123, 169, 608, HPB III 301

[ NOTE: In Vol. 2 of the SD one does not find
much said about the Buddha. It is as though HPB
may have been referring to material which was to 
be included in one of the later Vols.: 3 or 4.  	
It is of interest, that when she gave the MSS
of the S D to her assistants, the 2 Keightleys and 
Mead, after they read through it, they suggested
to her that it be put in the present format. She
agreed to this, and accordingly the MSS were
rearranged. Some of the MSS had earlier been copied 	
by Countess Wachmeister and had been sent on to 
Subba Row in Madras, but he had refused to edit 
them. A. Besant may have used portions to include 
in the 1897 "3rd Vol. of the S D."

xxi	HPB then rewrote the Introduction and later
when A. Besant collected all the MSS she 
could find of HPB's that had not been published 
openly, she included some unedited material, and
one will find in the spurious Vol. 3 of the SD, 	
from pp. 376 to 392 many pages are there devoted 	
to aspects of Buddha's teaching. It is unfortunate 	
that HPB's original MSS are no longer available, 	
so that editing that was performed on them cannot 	
be checked with the original writing, as HPB had 	
intended them to be. Boris de Zircov has written
a long essay on the SD which goes into some of 
these details and documents his sources.]


xxi	Buddha's Esoteric doctrines preserved too secretly
SD I xxviii, 298-9, Key 81-2fn,

xxi	Nirvana	- does not mean annihilation.
SD I xix, 266, II 79, Glos. 232, 165,
Thy Mag 6-p. 111, Is II 116-7, 320, 286
Voice 75, Trans 13, SD II 79, 615, 
WQJ Art I p. 9,  

xxi-ii	Orientalism	- began around 1825 - Egyptian, Hindu,
Chinese -- exoteric texts and 
literal renditions.

xxi-ii	Orientalism	- Whether the text in Western hands are
exact and unaltered is question-
able (SD I xxiii fn )

xxii	Phallic Worship	emphasized vs. True Symbology
SD I 301, 358, 365, II 447, Key 277 280
SD II 273, 279, 285 362, 459-69, 471-2 Is II 5

[ Note: The sequence of religious development can be traced 
back almost in a straight line from Christianity which was a reform 
of Judaism, to that which rebelled against ancient Brahmanism, 
causing the emigration of the Semites Westward, so that 
Zoroastrianism is seen to be the root of Judaism. But Jesus also 
studied among the Buddhist missionaries that Asoka had sent to 
Judea in the 3rd. Cent. BC. [A monastery of Buddhist monks was 
in existence on the banks of the Sea of Galilee.] And combined 
that wisdom with that of the Nazarenes and the Egyptians.  

Buddhism was a reform of Brahmanism, which had become 
corrupt through exclusiveness. And prior to that Hinduism 
("Hindu" is derived from Indu, the Moon), was derived from 
"Pre-Vedic Bodhism" to which HPB refers in ISIS UNVEILED .  

The Jains are the direct descendants of those who were instructed 
by the Raj-Rishis in that pre-Vedic Bodhism, but this also became 
corrupt among the Jain laity in time, so that it has adopted many of
the 
forms of exoteric Brahmanism and also the philosophy of one of the 
old materialistic Schools. However, the Jains always had their 
sympathies with the Buddhists, and offered Buddhist pilgrims
shelter, 
food and transportation after the last Buddhists had been expelled 
from India by the Brahmins in the 3rd/4th Cent A D. ]

xxii	Symbology - will be found universal (later) and uniform.

xxii	Fundamental Truths of Archaic S D - now permitted 
exposure so as to clarify this sequence and
make symbology and similarity of ancient
religious and scientific knowledge available.
SD I viii, xvii, xxi, 6, Glos 283

xxii	Soul, Spirit	- loss of any knowledge of

xxii-iii	Verification	- Book of Dzyan - unknown to West


xxiii	DZYAN [ Dzyn, Zend, Zen, Gnyana, Dhyana, Dan, Jnana.]
Voice, p. vi, 8, 15, 20, 21fn, 50, 	
Voice, 53,65-6, 70, 75, HPB II 91,
Patanjali 37, 43-5, 88-89,
SD I xx fn, xliii, 23, 27, 31, 107-8, 
SD II 15, 375, 90 (Ajitas), HPB I 444,
Glos. 45, 107, 103, 128, (Gyn) 130, 165, 370
Glos. 128 (Gnyana Devas), 

xxiii	Doctrine	- available in thousands of scattered documents	
now select portions of which are 
assembled to make a coherent whole for our 	
consideration.	SD I vii, xx, xlv,

Commentaries and oral transmissions also used.

xxiii	Esoteric Schools - Trans-Himalayan [ ramifications 	
in China, Japan, Tibet, India, Syria and So. 	
America have the sum total of sacred and 	
MSS	philosophical works in MSS and type. ]

xxiii	Alexandrian Library destroyed - [ Isis II 27, 52fn ]
Thereafter all works leading to the Secret
MSS	Science were systematically searched for and
withdrawn, hidden, by the combined efforts
of the Brotherhoods.	SD II 698

xxiii-iv	Akbar's Era	in India saw the secretion of the last
xxivfn	of those MSS there.	Echoes p. 1, SD I xxxiv
(Badaoni)	SD I xxiii, 8,

xxiv	Copied in Cryptographs then originals destroyed.	Is II 395

xxiv	Crypts and Libraries in secret places all over the
Orient.	Lucif 3-372, SD I xxxii, II 215

xxiv	Kuen-Lun, Tarim desert, etc... inaccessible hiding 	
places for such records. SD I xxxii, 464
Isis I 598-9

xxv	Lost MSS - traditions of commentaries and other MSS:  
Lao-tse, Confucian,

xxv	Lao-tse	- 930 books on ethics ? Where now ?

xxv	Tao-Teh-King	- its value SD I 472

xxv	Veiling of the truth prior to 163 BC


xxvi	Chaldean Scriptures	
- Mosaic Bible, Torah, Kabbala
Is I 459, 567, II 264, Thy 14-p. 99, 16-p. 194,
Is I xxviii, 11, 17, SD I 392, 

xxvi	Astronomical Observations - only a few fragments,
attributed to Berosus found.	Is I 349
Glos 54, SD II 53, 139fn 143, 454-6, 504, 620
HPB Art III 78, Is I 154, 534-5, 576
Ths't ( Thy Mag. V. 36-p.533 )

xxvi	Eusebius - mangled and distorted the Chaldean records 	
left to Alexander and Aristotle by 

xxvi	Berosus - Copied some records for them Glos 54
[ see Index to SD - many mentions ] also

xxxvi	Manetho's synchronistic tables also mangled, charged by historians
of this.

xxvii	Chaldean Scared Literature - has all disappeared.

xxvii	Bel (Baal) Glos 52 48 218 , SD II 503, 540, 
Lucif 3- p. 69-70, IS I 550-2, II 423 444 486
5 Yrs Thy. 113,
xxvii	Dragon Glos 104, SD I 407 472 II 280 351 
SD II 485 501 Is I 550-7 SD I 657  
Is II 206-7 210 379 Nagas Glos. 222

xxvii	[ Serpents-Initiates- of Wisdom ] Glos 296

xxvii	Rig-Veda A key is needed to unlock	SD II 271
Has been abridged by Brahmins
Glos 277, SD II 378 450 605, Path 10-113, 282
Glos 361-2, SD I 269-70, II 483-4, 
HPB III 321, II 606, Ths't I 247, WQJ II 82-3

xxvii	Buddhist Literature
Kanjur and Tanjur	Glos 319
an enormous quantity, some concealed or have
disappeared ! Where ?

xxviii	Buddhist: 76,000 Ollas & tests "lost"	SD I 12 271

xxviii	Buddhism to China	Kashyapa 61 BC Glos 176

xxviii	Buddhist Missionaries	from 300 BC

xxviii	Orientalists - shortcomings of data available and scholarship

xxviii	Egyptian Hieratic writings not clear	
SD I 311 115fn Is II 3=51 (Nimrod)

xxviii	Indian	Pantheism	Glos 298

xxviii	Max Muller	- on shortcomings of texts available and
many interpretations. Also:

xxix	Language and religion connected by common bonds
3 great centers of these
SD I 10, 117, 313fn 319 II 200 Is I 589-91

1	Aryan and Hindu, Jain, Buddhist

2	Turanian and Chinese, Tibetan

3	Semitic and Zoroastrian,, Chaldean, 
Jewish
[ Max Muller's declaration ]
	
xxix	Orientalist	foibles and errors not "scientific" errors
between Odin and Buddha

xxixfn	Egyptologists error in identifying mummy of Sesostris

xxx	No historical basis established

xxx	Primeval Revelation	SD I 10, 50, HPB Art III 174, 196 

xxx	Buddhist Canon	- safely stored away inaccessibly SD I xxvii-iii

xxx	Okhee Nath in the Himalayan cave where MSS are stored
- accessible only to Brahmins
-- Dayanand Saraswati 1880
SD I 9-10, 69 xliv 50, xxxvi xxxiv

xxx	Vedic MSS - rejected copies and miscellaneous passages

xxxi	Wilford / Jones	- trick played by Brahmins -- clever 	
forgeries inserted in leaves of 	
(interpolation	Vishnu Purana - on Adam and his fraud)		
3 sons [ interpolations ]	HPB Art III 195
- tried to prove that the Vedic accounts
had been plagiarized from the Bible

xxxi	Neither New or Old Testaments borrowed anything from 	
the Vedic literature

Jews	- borrowed much from the Chaldeans

xxxi	Chaldeans - received teachings from the Brahmins
Is II 46, 236, 436, 442, 450, 128-9, Glos 87
		
xxxii	Mary - Maia - Maya - Mare - (Sea) Is II 95 111 203 446

xxxii	Central Asian Civilization - evidence	SD II 356
				
xxxii	- Libraries hidden	SD I xxiv Is I 589-90

xxxiii	Tchertshen Oasis - Glos 324, Is II 572 589, SD I 464

xxxiii	Khoorassan tribe

xxxiii	Col. Prjevalsky	- travelers accounts of finds in deserts,
mummies, etc... broken glass

xxxiv	Libraries - concealed in Oasis in C. Asia SD I xxiv

xxxiv	Secret Doctrine
"The Secret Doctrine was the universally diffused
religion of the ancient and prehistoric world. 
Proofs of its diffusion, authentic records of its
history, a complete chain of documents, showing 	
its character and presence in every land, together
with the teaching of all the great adepts, exist
to this day in several secret crypts of libraries
belonging to the occult fraternity."
SD II 272 423 442 451 449 475 742 794 Key 7-8, 
SD I viii xx, xxxvii-viii, xlv-i, 272 299 318 604 
Wadia - Studies in SD pp. 8 - 16
				
xxxiv	S D	The Universally diffused religion of antiquity

xxxiv	Alexandrian	1,000s of MSS saved	Isis I p. 3
Library	Is. II 27-9, 336, Thy 25-p.10, Glos 16,
Is I 229-32, 504, 510-1, 521, 529, 
SD II 432, 763fn 

xxxiv	Sanskrit Texts 1,000s "disappeared" during Akbar's
reign.	SD I xxi-ii
[ hidden meanings in SD I 78 94 
[ derived from Atlantis SD II 222 427fn

xxxiv	China & Japan	missing ancient commentaries
SD I 271fn 307 fn 376 II 692

xxxiv	Babylon's Literature - disappeared	SD I xxvii
SD I 357 II4 54 439; II 691 Is I 31, II 442 428
Is I 533 (470,000 years observations); II 170
[From India	SD I xxxi, 352, II 203 226 618]

xxxiv	Egyptian Hieroglyphics Is I 24 156, 524 II 424 523 530
SD I 649-50 672 II 130 431-3 632-3 793

xxxiv	India	"lost" tradition of secret commentaries 	
rendering the Vedas intelligible	SD I
xxiii-iv

xxxiv	Buddhist books "lost"	SD I xxvii-iii
All saved by the Occultists and preserved.

xxxiv-v	SECRECY - had to be maintained for the safety of the races

xxxv	Keely	- Vril	(power concealed)	
SD I 253fn 563; Lucif 4-137; CWB 8-267
Path 2-300, 382; Lucif 3-p. 30,
[ Levitation with sound: Lucif 6-259, 425 ] 

xxxv	Reasons for Secrecy given	Correlated to the 
7-fold divisions of Nature, man, planetary divisions, 
Ocean 32, Q & A 64 SD I 114-5 325 xl

xxxv	abuse would cause great evils to man

xxxv	Materialism now protects Westerns

xxxv	Wisdom never "lost" but always in possession of the
"Mysteries" and the "Temples"

xxxv	Plato, Pythagoras and other Adepts show their knowledge	
edge of it -- to time of Neo-Platonists Is. I xxxviii

xxxv	Nazarenes' new religion made a change for the worse in
the policy of centuries.	Glos 226 SD I xxvi

xxxvi	Russian Libraries show up to time of suppression of 
Freemasonry in Russia (to about 1825) a number of
Russian Mystics went to Asia and Tibet, & Pamir
Mod. Pan 370

xxxvi	THEOSOPHY IS AS OLD AS THINKING MAN SD I vii xlv
Its tenets have been cautiously given out by

xxxvi	Ragon	earlier Adepts, in Europe -- Ragon.   
Glos 273 208 [Trinosophs Society, Paris] 
SD II 575 795-6, Glos 199
SD I 100fn 310 363 II 580 591-2fn

xxxvi	Religious "Founders" were all transmitters of the old truths.
SD I 210 272 612 

xxxvi	PRIMEVAL ORAL REVELATIONS - preserved and 
perpetuated in the adyta [Holy of Holies-Glos. 7] 
of the temples by Initiates SD I 269 272 356-7 vii xxx

xxxvi	Primeval Truths - Diffused to every Nation in terms of their
own language and traditions.  
These developed and diverged in time.


xxxvii	Confucius - called himself a transmitter
		
xxxvii	HPB	- a transmitter in her turn what she learned

xxxvii	HPB loves the Ancient sages and their Lore
and believes in their modern heirs
Theos. History. 133, SD II 449 
Letters from the Masters of Wis. 54

xxxvii	Orientalists	- her testimony may be rejected by some
SD xxi-ii, xxix-xxx, xxxi-ii

xxxvii	Stanzas of Dzyan - Tongue of a people unknown to 
[ Senzar ] Ethnology and Occultism

xxxvii	In Century 21st it will be realized that the SD has 
only been outlined WQJ I 599	HH

xxxvii	S D antedates the Vedas	SD I 623  
IS II 39 128 608 639 413 619 142 169 256

xxxviifn	Hundred year effort 
- Done every century and will be gradually widened.  
Key 304, AP 2-150-1,
Thy Mag v. 13- p. 20 54 385; SD I 612

[*]	[ See Addendum for notes on the 
Hundred Year Effort since Tsong-Kha-Pa---sep. art.]

xxxviii	Orientalists	ignorance about the Vedas and Sanskrit reviewed

xxxviii	In 1820	the sacred books of the Brahmins, Magians, 
and Buddhists were practically 	
unknown in Europe, and no scholar 
could have translated the Vedas 	
[Goss 361], or the Zend-Avesta 	
[Glos 385, 363] or the Buddhist

xxxviii	Tripitaka - all of a high antiquity -- Max Muller.	[Glos 341]

xxxviii	Secret Archaic Doctrine
- "IT WILL TAKE CENTURIES BEFORE MUCH MORE IS 
GIVEN FROM IT." SD II 794 I xxxv 299 310 363

xxxviii	"...the Secret Doctrine is not a treatise, or a series of vague 
theories, but contains all that can be given out to the 
world in this century." S D I xxxiv

xxxviii	Zodiacal Mysteries (Is I 266)  

xxxviii	keys almost lost to the world -- must be turned seven times
before the whole system is divulged.
SD I 92 219-21 292 363 652 
SD II 112fn 208 268fn 331 502 600-1
HPB Art I 192 II 502 III 195-197 254-6
Is I 262 267 II 448-66 276-8 322 366 426
WQJ Art I 161 580-2 581 II 108 115
Theos Art & Notes, 202 ML 150  

xxxviii	KEYS	Philological & Archaeological   
"Difficulties" - Replies TM 423, 465 v. 37
S D -- The Book & the Philosophy	.	TM	9-
v.5
The Labyrinth of Science & Philosophy TM 161- v. 5
The Perennial Philosophy	.	.	TM	187	17
The Place of Myth in Philosophy	.	TM	120	6
Science-Religion-Philosophy	.	TM	137	35
Esoteric Philosophy vs. Modern Science	TM	22	26
Yoga Philosophy	.	.	.	TM	78	15
Philosophy and Yoga	.	.	TM	77	7

xxxviii	Seven Keys	SD II 22fn 99 471 379-85 Trans 78 110
SD II 36-41 130 381 536 538 540-62
SD II 574-8 580-8 590-1 795-7 SD I 150-1

xxxviii	Isis Unveiled	- one turn to the key of mystery was given

xxxviii	Century 20th	- may find one more informed and better fitted 
to give final and irrefutable proof of Gupta Vidya Glos 130,

SD II 565, I 272 ]Key 304-5 
WQJ Art II 82-3 144 153 214 Forum 110

xxxviii	"The Messenger"	Thy Vol. 11, p. 289
"The Future and the T S" WQJ Art. II 144

xxxix	Probability, genuineness and authenticity of the Esoteric 
teachings to be established.

xxxix	Authority - authorities to be quoted, old philosophers, classics, 
Church Fathers who knew and studied them
Key 74 300 SD I xix xliv-v, HPB Art II 32 
HPB Art II 35-6 517-9 Is I 396 SD II 640 655 

xxxix	Terra Incognita	and experience of similarities

xxxix	Checking and Comparing matter now offered with that
coming from the past beliefs and creeds
"Point of preliminary observation: "

xxxix	All the ancient and secret texts cannot be made public
but enough will be offered to show their
coherency and echoes in all ancient 
religious philosophies -- the traces at
their base of the S D are made clear.

Xl Sequence of these creeds and beliefs traced for Europe in Vol. 3  
Antique sources of Christian dogmas, rites and rituals to be cleared
[ see Isis, SD I vii II 106 798 ]

xl	S D Vol. 3	Lives of the adepts...Downfall of the Mysteries
[to be in S D Vol. 3]
...Initiation eliminated from human memory
...Occult arts became Sorcery...false Magic	
SD I xlv HPB Art II 80 III 192 333 341-5 366
WQJ Art I 192-3 432-3 615-6 II 53-4 

XL S D Vol. 3 [The scheme was changed and Vol 3 material
was destroyed and never issued under HPB's 	
editorship. In 1897 A. Besant issued a 	
spurious "Third Vol. of The SECRET DOCTRINE" made up
from discarded and unpublished MSS, and other 	
material after substantial editorial disfigurement. 
Some of the articles make no sense.
The Keightleys and Mead suggested the present 	
format to HPB and the material she describes 	
was set aside to form Vol. 3. Shortly 
before her death (it is rumored) she had it destroyed. ]

xl	Fanatical efforts to obliterate any record of past 
wisdom in Europe - bigotry and intolerance
used nascent Christian church - sought to 	
obliterate its antique sources.

xl	Review the millennium, half before, half after Christ

xl	[ Pythagoras to Hypatia ] c. 550 BC to 400 AD

xl	[ Jesus born 107 BC - HPB I 117 ] Is II 201 HPB III 173 	
HPB III 192 180fn Glos 109 top 156-7 ]

Xl Wisdom not swept away from the face of the Earth. SD I xxvi

xl-xli	Thousands of MSS destroyed - bands of fanatics roamed (7th - 8th
Cent)
Egypt and elsewhere seeking to destroy any vestige
of the past symbolism (as the TAU )

xli	Islam abetted Christianity in obliteration - torture, 	
execution and forced conversions mar the history '
of both Christianity and Islam

xli	[ Kalif Omar destroyed Alexandrian library for the 	
3rd time in 640 AD when he conquered Egypt 	
and imposed Islam on its people. ]

xli	Century I : "The karma of Israel"  
SD I 11 390 115 230 383 444 576  
S D II 200 470--1 537  
"cunningly made-up History"
"events purposely perverted"
"great characters slandered by posterity"
Bigotry and Materialism reign

xli	Wise is he who holds to the golden mid-point, who believes 
in the eternal justice of things."

xli	"...there is only one true religion--the worship of God's Spirit."
-- Max Muller

xli	THERE IS NO RELIGION HIGHER THAN TRUTH.
Benares' Maharaja Motto

xli	SD is not a version of ISIS (as originally intended)

xlii	SD is independent and an indispensable corollary to it.

xlii	SD throws light on problems left unsolved in Isis, especially the
opening pages.

[Isis Unveiled was published in New York in 1877, then, HPB and 
Olcott went to India in 1879. There, in Bombay, the 
THEOSOPHIST monthly was inaugurated.  	
	
In the meantime they had met Mr. A.P.Sinnett, Editor of the 	
Pioneer in Allahabad. He had read and grasped some of 
the implications of Isis and desired to meet with them and 
develop further its ideas and mysteries. He and
Mr .A. O. Hume ( former Secretary to the Indian Govt.) 
desired to start a Branch of the T S in Simla, and also to 
enter into correspondence, if possible with some of 
the members of the "First Section" of the T S the Masters.


This request was granted and that correspondence took 
place through HPB as the petroma or "interpreter" -- in the 
Pythagorean sense (IS II 93 104). As a result more 
information emerged (see the Mahatma Letters). Thus the 
publication of the SD, in which a link was established to
show
the continuity and coherence of all the teachings additional
to
those exposed in Isis was needed The first notice of the
writing of the SD was made in Theosophist January 1888.

This correspondence ran from 1880 to 1885, and was 
brought to an end by Sinnett who insisted on direct 
communication with the Masters by-passing HPB. He was
warned this was not possible, so he attempted to contact 
Them, using mediums. His doubts and suspicions of HPB 
were also whipped by his pride, she having to correct 
some errors he had made in writing Esoteric Buddhism -- 
which was published without consulting her, by Sinnett.] 

xlii	Occultism only sketched in Isis as it dealt with the 
philosophies known to history and with the symbols of 
ancient nations

xlii	S D to cover Cosmogenesis in detail, and 
Anthropogenesis. [ As outlined on p. 1 of 
Isis (quoted in last para)	SD I 13

xlii	Evolution of the 4 Races preceding ours on
Globe D of the present 4th Round.

xlii	Cosmic and Planetary Evolution to be disposed of before 
considering pre-Adamite Races.

xlii	Vol. 1 p. 1 of Isis quoted SD II 438-9 I 172 200

xlii	Siphrah Dzeniouta 	
- oldest Hebrew occult learning was compiled from it 

xlii	Correction made by Master in the text: ML p. 45, 120-1

xlii	(error corrected) "One of its illustrations represents Adam 
emanating from the Divine Essence like a luminous 
arc proceeding to form a circle...
[ Errors attributed by Master to proof reader ]

xliii	Very Old Book from it were compiled:	Is II 440 HPB II 80-7

xliii	Kiu-Ti	Glos. 178, SD II 621, HPB I 309 CWB 6-425

xliii	Siphra Dzeniouta	Is I p.1 580 II 42 174 205 210, Glos 299,
[see SD Index ]

xliii	Sepher Je(t)zirah Glos 295 [ see SD Index ] by Abraham

xliii	Shu-King	Is I p. 11, SD II 280 337 486
					
xliii	Books of Thoth-Hermes Egypt			

xliii	Puranas India

xliii	Book of Numbers [see Zohar ] [ see SD, Isis Index ]
Chaldea Is II 407 (on Sacred Seven)

xliii	Pentateuch Jewish

xliii	SENZAR Glos 295, Is. I 220 440 (language of the Sun)
Isis II 308 (invocation -- also Dream of 	
Ravan, p, 94) Is. II 45-6, 457, SD II 439, 
SD II 200 560, HPB to APS 76, SD I 9, 23-34, 
SD II 15-21      

xliii	Secret Sacerdotal Tongue - known to the Initiates of every 
nation Glos. 156 Is II 364-5

xliii	[ History of Occultism "in a nutshell" HPB II 425 ]

xliii	[In HPB LETTERS to A.P.SINNETT, p. 76, HPB writes 
Sinnett that "Coulomb stole a "queer looking paper" and
gave it to the missionaries with the assurance that it was 
a cipher used by the Russian spies..."It is one of my 
Senzar MSS," I answer is missing. I defy anyone 
but a Tibetan occultist to make it out, if it is this." ]

xliii	Parent Volume of the "Old Book" was received from :
Direct from the DEVAS OF THE 1st & 2nd RACES
"Self-Born, and "Sweat-Born"	[ SD Index p. 127 ]

xliii	Transmitted to the MANUSHIS OF THE 3rd RACE
"Lemurians" [ SD Index p. 86, 127 ] Gl. 206
SD I 52 108-9 267 571, SD II 309 765
[ List of HPB to APS p. 243 ] Trans 50 98

xliii	Dictated from the words of DIVINE BEINGS to the
SONS OF LIGHT in Central Asia at
the beginning of the 5th Race SD I 273 II 481

BROKEN OFF HERE



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Best wishes,

Dallas
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gopi Chari [mailto:ekcvv@juno.com] 
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 11:19 PM
To: study@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-study] RE: PREDECESSORS OF HPB -- MAGICK OR MAGIC ?


I understand that some great Theosophists of Theosophical Society are
planning on rewriting SD in modern language. I wonder if they feel they
are in touch with Masters as HPB was. I guess there is no shortage of
fools and clowns in this Theater.

I have no objection if someone wants to write commentaries, but to modify
(meaning correcting) her book and try to publish as if that is SD, is
disservice to her and to the world.

Gopi

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