Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00257)

H.P.B. in Volume I of The Secret Doctrine told her readers:

". . . 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) 

And a few lines above these two paragraphs, one reads:

". . . But it will take centuries before much more is given from it 
[the Secret Archaic Doctrine]. . . . " 

Later, HPB wrote:

"The Secret Doctrine is the accumulated Wisdom of the Ages, and its 
cosmogony alone is the most stupendous and elaborate system. The 
facts have actually occupied countless generations of initiated 
seers and prophets to marshal, to set down and explain. The flashing 
gaze of those seers has penetrated into the very kernel of matter, 
and recorded the soul of things there. The [Esoteric] system is no 
fancy of one or several isolated individuals. It is the 
uninterrupted record covering thousands of generations of Seers 
whose respective experiences were made to test and to verify the 
teachings of higher and exalted beings, who watched over the 
childhood of Humanity. For long ages, the 'Wise Men' of the Fifth 
Race had passed their lives in learning by checking, testing, and 
verifying in every department of nature the traditions of old by the 
independent visions of great adepts; i.e., men who have developed 
and perfected their physical, mental, psychic, and spiritual 
organisations to the utmost possible degree. No vision of one adept 
was accepted till it was checked and confirmed by the visions --- so 
obtained as to stand as independent evidence --- of other adepts, 
and by centuries of experiences." 
[Collated from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. I, pp. 273-274 with some 
phrases & sentences silently deleted.]

The main tenets of this Esoteric System are given in the pages of 
THE SECRET DOCTRINE as well in the thousands of other pages of HPB's 
writings.