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Quote on Socrates

May 16, 2006 07:29 AM
by carlosaveline


Daniel,

Thanks.

So what? Your point is? Nobody said A. Besant's SD is entirely false. 


Carlos. 


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Data:Mon, 15 May 2006 15:23:54 -0000

Assunto:Theos-World HPB Quote on Socrates is actually from "spurious 'Third Volume' " of SD

> Carlos quotes HPB on Socrates:
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> Julian died for the same crime as Socrates. Both divulged 
> a portion of the solar mystery, the heliocentric system being only 
> a part of what was given during Initiation – one consciously (1) , 
> the other unconsciously, the Greek Sage never having been 
> initiated. It was not the real solar system that was preserved in 
> such secrecy, but the mysteries connected with the Sun's 
> constitution. Socrates was sentenced to death by earthly and 
> worldly judges; Julian died a violent death because the hitherto 
> protecting hand was withdrawn from him, and, no longer shielded by 
> it, he was simply left to his destiny or Karma. For the student of 
> Occultism there is a suggestive difference between the two kinds of 
> death. (2)
> ("Collected Writings of H. P. Blavatsky", TPH, Wheaton, USA, volume 
> XIV, 1985, 733 pp., see pp. 222-223, footnote.)
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> It is interesting that this HPB quote on Socrates is actually from 
> what the Theosophy Company calls the "spurious 'Third Volume'" of 
> THE SECRET DOCTRINE. See Volume III, 1897 ed., page 213 for HPB's 
> statement.
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> The Theosophy Company goes on to say that this volume III 
> was "compiled from miscellaneous papers found among her effects" 
> but "forms no part of the original SECRET DOCTRINE written by H.P.B."
> 
> Daniel
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