Theos-Talk Archives (April 2012 Message tt00195)

"I was utterly ignorant; and...my education had left me totally unprepared..."

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When I first became interested in The Secret Doctrine, . . . I felt the work was utterly impossible, that there was little chance that I would ever be able to understand it. However, I found parts so interesting that I continued to read. Whole paragraphs passed without the least bit of comprehension, but occasionally a page really made sense to me.

That was in 1965. Several people told me that the S.D. could not be read per se, but used only as a sort of dictionary or reference work. Be that as it may, I started and read the entire two volumes all the way through. When I had finished, two things were uppermost in my mind: first, that I was utterly ignorant; and secondly, that my education had left me totally unprepared for the study of The Secret Doctrine. Here was a range of knowledge that required effort and scholarly endeavor, books that I had never heard of before, whole subject areas that were foreign to me. As it turned out, I really was motivated to begin my education over again. . . .
Richard i. Robb
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/ts/sdrefs-r.htm
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Daniel
http://hpb.cc