Theos-Talk Archives (September 2005 Message tt00065)

I've just put a couple of quotes below from the secret doctrine where HPB mentions the Cis  
or Trans Himalayan esoteric doctrine.
It seems the teachings given in the secret doctrine and the Mahatma lettersare from this 
particular tradition.

Members of the Society do not have to hold to this or any other tradition they don't have 
to accept the idea of "Masters" or "mahatmas" or any teaching but simply bein sympathy 
with the 3 objects.

To suggest the Adepts did not belong to any tradition seems to me to be unfounded and 
contrary to what is clearly stated in the writings of both HPB and her teachers.

The society on the other hand is not part of any particular tradition but is there to promote 
the 3 objects.
The writings of HPB merely present the perspective of a particular tradition members may 
accept, reject or be completely indifferent towards according to there own individual 
journey and what particular perspective they find themselves drawn towards.

This is simply put how I see the relationship of HPB's writings to that of the Society.


Secret Doctrine Vol. 1 pp.157

"we hold in this work to the "time-honoured" classification of the trans-Himalayan "Arhat 
Esoteric School."

Secret Doctrine v.2 636
"The "sevenfold classification" in the esoteric system has never been claimed (to the 
writer's knowledge) by any one belonging to it, as "the peculiar property of the Trans-
Himalayan esoteric doctrine"; but only as having survived in that old school alone. It is no 
more the property of the trans, than it is of the cis-Himalayan esoteric doctrine, but is 
simply the common inheritance of all such schools, left to the sages of theFifth Root Race 
by the great Siddhas** of the Fourth."


Secret Doctrine v. 2 p.602

"Cis-Himalayan Occultism with its sevening, and because of such sevening, must be 
regarded as the most ancient, the original of all. It is opposed by some fragments left by 
Neo-Platonists; and the admirers of the latter, who hardly understand what they defend, 
say to us: "See, your forerunners believed only in triple man, composed of
[[Footnote(s)]] -------------------------------------------------
* The seven planets are not limited to this number because the ancients knew of no 
others, but simply because they were the primitive or primordial houses of the seven 
Logoi. There may be nine and ninety-nine other planets discovered -- this does not alter 
the fact of these seven alone being sacred.

[[Vol. 2, Page]] 603 THE SEPTENARY DEMONSTRATED.
Spirit, Soul, and body. Behold, the Taraka Raja Yoga of India limits that division to 3, we, 
to 4, and the Vedantins to 5 (koshas)." To this, we of the Archaic school, ask: --
Why then does the Greek poet say that "it is not four but SEVEN who sing the praise of the 
Spiritual Sun," [[HEPTA ME]]? He says--
"Seven sounding letters sing the praise of me,
The immortal God, the Almighty deity." 
………………..

Secret Doctrine v.2 p.574

"In man as in nature, it is, according to the cis-Himalayan esoteric philosophy (which is 
that of the original Manu Cosmogony), the septenary division that is intended by Nature 
herself."


Cheers

Perry