Theos-Talk Archives (September 2004 Message tt00736)

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From: "Daniel H. Caldwell" <danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 9:18 PM
Subject: Theos-World Anand's quotes from SECRET DOCTRINE should be compared 
to other quotes in SD


> Anand,
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> Certainly H.P. Blavatsky wrote:
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> "But it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally
> that the teachings, however fragmentary and
> incomplete, contained in these volumes. . . . "
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> But the student should ALSO keep in mind the
> following statements by HPB in the SD:
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> ". . . 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." The Secret Doctrine, 1888, Vol I, p. xxxviii (original
> edition) .

If accept this statement as factual, since she used the words "this century" 
rather than "for a hundred years" the statement is true even if more were 
given out beginning as early as 1901.

> And on the same page Madame Blavatsky writes:
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> ". . . But it will take centuries before much more is given from it
> [the Secret Archaic Doctrine]. . . . "
If one studies the claims of contact with Masters of Wisdom and Compassion 
and finds that they do not resonate with one's own higher sense of wisdom 
and compassion then that would be a valid basis for dismissal in my opinion. 
However, I also think it a mistake to dismiss out of hand all claims of 
contact since Madam's time based solely on this and other similar statements 
by her. For instance, if we accept what she writes here as accurate, this 
quote clearly indicates that some more may be given in the intervening 
centuries before much more is given.


regards,

Bill

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