Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00896)

Friends, 

Both Pasadena TS and the ULT, as well as the Edmonton Theosophical Society and other groups, know well that Theosophy is ageless and therefore did not start by 1875. 

Grace F. Knoche, for instance,  wrote in "Sunrise" magazine: 

"One hundred years ago H. P. Blavatsky's monumental work, The Secret Doctrine, was published in London and New York on November 1st, and it has been in print ever since. This Special Issue, "The Secret Doctrine of the Ages," celebrates not only the SD's hundredth anniversary, but also the existence of a secret doctrine or ancestral wisdom that has been the lodestar for aspirants from remotest times to the present. Once widely disseminated over the globe, this body of truths about the nature, evolution, and destiny of mankind and the universe is the mother-source of which HPB wrote and from which she drew inspiration."

And Ms. Knoche says: 
"That there is a Primordial Tradition at the core of the world's sacred literatures and legendary lore is a theme familiar to students of comparative religions and mythologies. Its universal presence is evidenced by the near identity of terms still in use, such as gupta vidya (secret knowledge) and sanatana dharma (eternal truth or law) of India; nistorah hokhmah (hidden wisdom) of the Hebrew Qabbalah, passed down from rabbi to rabbi from earliest times, ishraqi theosophy (god wisdom) of Sufi mystics, gnosis (wisdom-knowledge) of the Gnostic, and the philosophia perennis (perennial philosophy) that kept aflame the Hermetic tradition of independent spiritual inquiry during the Renaissance. Embers of this primeval imparting of truth are aglow in varying degree in the souls of men and women over the face of the globe."

Read more at 

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sunrise/37-87-8/th-gfksd.htm

Regards,   Carlos. 


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