More on Bowen notes in theosophical history
May 09, 2005 07:02 PM
by Daniel H. Caldwell
Several years ago one Theosophical historian
told me that he doubted the Bowen notes because
he could NOT find any record of HPB holding
such SD classes in late 1890-early 1891.
Below is the documentation that I found for
such SD classes.
Claude F. Wright writing from London in Oct.
1890 stated:
". . . Our Blavatsky Lodge Meetings are held
in the Lecture Hall on Thursdays, and each week
sees them grow larger and larger. We have
just started a course of discussions on 'Theosophy
from the Root up' which will be continued for a l
ong time: the first syllabus, extending to Dec.
has been issued. BEFORE OUR MEETINGS WE HOLD A
CLASS FOR THE STUDY OF THE SECRET DOCTRINE,
WHICH LASTS FOR ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF. . . ."
THE PATH, Dec. 1890, p. 295 Caps added.
In THE PATH for Nov. 1890 (see page 263), one finds the syllabus
mentioned in the above statement.
It states that THEOSOPHY, FROM THE ROOT UP will be held on Thursday
evenings, at 8:30 pm commencing October 9, 1890.
One of these Thursday meetings is on Dec. 4, 1890, according to the
syllabus. See next document for more on this Dec 4th date.
>From the esoteric notebooks of Isabel Cooper-Oakley, one finds the
following notes:
"At Secret Doctrine Class, December 4, 1890"
"H.P.B. said: 'The best of us in the future will be Manasa-putras,
the lowest will be Pitris. We are several intellectual Hierarchies,
here. . . " Quoted from THE THEOSOPHIST, June, 1931, p. 303.
Katinka, does Barry Thompson know about this material?
Daniel
BLAVATSKY STUDY CENTER/BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES
http://blavatskyarchives.com
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