Theos-Talk Archives (January 2006 Message tt00051)

ENQUIRER. But surely those few who have felt the need of such truths 
must have made up their minds to believe in something definite? You 
tell me that, the [Theosophical] Society having no doctrines of its 
own, every member may believe as he chooses and accept what he 
pleases. This looks as if the Theosophical Society was bent upon 
reviving the confusion of languages and beliefs of the Tower of 
Babel of old. Have you no beliefs in common? 

THEOSOPHIST. What is meant by the Society having no tenets or 
doctrines of its own is, that no special doctrines or beliefs are 
obligatory on its members; but, of course, this applies only to the 
body as a whole. The Society, as you were told, is divided into an 
outer and an inner body. Those who belong to the latter have, of 
course, a philosophy, or -- if you so prefer it -- a religious 
system of their own. 

ENQUIRER. May we be told what it is? 

THEOSOPHIST. We make no secret of it. It was outlined a few years 
ago in the Theosophist and "Esoteric Buddhism," and may be found 
still more elaborated in the "Secret Doctrine." It is based on the 
oldest philosophy of the world, called the Wisdom-Religion or the 
Archaic Doctrine. If you like, you may ask questions and have them 
explained. 

Quoted from:
THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY by H.P. Blavatsky
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/key/key-4.htm

Daniel
http://blavatskyarchives.com
http://keytotheosophy.net