Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00690)

Friend
He was the terror of the Nubians... and as his father and grandfather,( Sesostris I and II) constructed nicely limerock covered pyramids.
His sarcophagus is badly preserved.inspite of the tecniques they used to keep the robbers away...

Krishtar

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From: Morten Nymann Olesen 
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Hallo all,

My views are:

That is interesting:
"xixfn Egyptologists error in identifying mummy of Sesostris"

So who was Sesostris really ?

from
M. Sufilight


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From: "Dallas TenBroeck" <dalval14@earthlink.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 12:02 PM
Subject: Theos-World RE: [bn-study] RE: PREDECESSORS OF HPB -- MAGICK OR
MAGIC ?


> 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.
>
>
>
> ===================================================================
> Page Key Word Notes References
> ===================================================================
>
> 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
>
>
>
> ========================
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Dallas
> \======================================
>
> -----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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