The Masters Who Guided Helena Blavatsky 3.
Aside from the Mahatma Letters received by Sinnett, a considerable portion of Historical Introduction to The Secret Doctrine is devoted to the subject of the communication between the Mahatmas and Madame Blavatsky. This part is written by Boris De Zirkoff who is the editor of The Secret Doctrine.
In the last part of 'The Historical Introduction', Zirkoff elucidates the character of the treatise like The Secret Doctrine. He says, "In ancient days, some of this higher knowledge was taught in the Mystery-Schools, traces of which have been found among all the nations of the earth. In more modern days, its existence has been suspected by intuitive thinkers, who have called it by various names, such as the "Wisdom Religion", the "Gnosis", or the "Esoteric Philosophy"....It is to the elucidation of that "World Religion" that the two volumes of The Secret Doctrine are devoted."
In the words of Blavatsky herself, as quoted by Zirkoff at the end of the Introduction: "....This work is a partial statement of what she(Blavatsky) herself has been taught by more advanced students, supplemented in a few details only, by the results of her own study and observations...."
The "more advanced students" referred to here, are the Masters.
Zirkoff gives credit to the thought that..."In the light of existing evidence, both published and traditional, it is (therefore) obvious that the principal sources of The Secret Doctrine--and this applies to many other portions of H. P. B.'s literary output--are collectively The Brotherhood of Adepts whose direct Messenger she was, and individually two or more Initiates belonging to this Brotherhood, and who chose to unveil in our present era a certain portion of their traditionally hidden knowledge for the benefit of those who were ready to receive it."
An advertisement announcing the coming of The Secret Doctrine first appeared in The Theosophist in January, 1884. Thereafter , announcements kept appearing from time to time in the periodical issues of The Theosophist. But the project was delayed for various reasons. In the Spring of 1884, William Quan Judge, who was assisting in the publication of the work, started for India. He arrived in Paris on 25th of March and was "ordered by the Masters to stop here and help Madame(Blavatsky) in writing the "Secret Doctrine'. A little later, Madame and Col. Olcott, coming from India, joined him in Paris. The task of compilation, revision and editing was evidently becoming huge.
Sometime in the Summer of 1884, A. P. Sinnett received a letter from Master K. H. the contents of which suggest that they ere guiding the creation of the treatise. There is an entry in Col Olcott's diary at the beginning of 1885 saying that H. P. B. gets from [M] the plan for her Secret Doctrine and it is excellent.H. P. B. who had come back to Adyar, India at the end of 1884,left again for Europe on March 31, 1885. She was already at the task of writing by that time. She was accompanied by Dr. F. Hartmann from Madras to Europe on board of the S. S. Tibre. He wrote about his experience of those days in a letter to Mrs. Charles Johnston: ".....in April 1885, when I accompanied her on board the S. S. Tibre and on the open sea, she very frequently received in some occult manner many pages of manuscript referring to The Secret Doctrine, the material of which she was collecting at the time."
Aside from the Mahatma Letters received by Sinnett, a considerable portion of Historical Introduction to The Secret Doctrine is devoted to the subject of the communication between the Mahatmas and Madame Blavatsky. This part is written by Boris De Zirkoff who is the editor of The Secret Doctrine.
In the last part of 'The Historical Introduction', Zirkoff elucidates the character of the treatise like The Secret Doctrine. He says, "In ancient days, some of this higher knowledge was taught in the Mystery-Schools, traces of which have been found among all the nations of the earth. In more modern days, its existence has been suspected by intuitive thinkers, who have called it by various names, such as the "Wisdom Religion", the "Gnosis", or the "Esoteric Philosophy"....It is to the elucidation of that "World Religion" that the two volumes of The Secret Doctrine are devoted."
In the words of Blavatsky herself, as quoted by Zirkoff at the end of the Introduction: "....This work is a partial statement of what she(Blavatsky) herself has been taught by more advanced students, supplemented in a few details only, by the results of her own study and observations...."
The "more advanced students" referred to here, are the Masters.
Zirkoff gives credit to the thought that..."In the light of existing evidence, both published and traditional, it is (therefore) obvious that the principal sources of The Secret Doctrine--and this applies to many other portions of H. P. B.'s literary output--are collectively The Brotherhood of Adepts whose direct Messenger she was, and individually two or more Initiates belonging to this Brotherhood, and who chose to unveil in our present era a certain portion of their traditionally hidden knowledge for the benefit of those who were ready to receive it."
An advertisement announcing the coming of The Secret Doctrine first appeared in The Theosophist in January, 1884. Thereafter , announcements kept appearing from time to time in the periodical issues of The Theosophist. But the project was delayed for various reasons. In the Spring of 1884, William Quan Judge, who was assisting in the publication of the work, started for India. He arrived in Paris on 25th of March and was "ordered by the Masters to stop here and help Madame(Blavatsky) in writing the "Secret Doctrine'. A little later, Madame and Col. Olcott, coming from India, joined him in Paris. The task of compilation, revision and editing was evidently becoming huge.
Sometime in the Summer of 1884, A. P. Sinnett received a letter from Master K. H. the contents of which suggest that they ere guiding the creation of the treatise. There is an entry in Col Olcott's diary at the beginning of 1885 saying that H. P. B. gets from [M] the plan for her Secret Doctrine and it is excellent.H. P. B. who had come back to Adyar, India at the end of 1884,left again for Europe on March 31, 1885. She was already at the task of writing by that time. She was accompanied by Dr. F. Hartmann from Madras to Europe on board of the S. S. Tibre. He wrote about his experience of those days in a letter to Mrs. Charles Johnston: ".....in April 1885, when I accompanied her on board the S. S. Tibre and on the open sea, she very frequently received in some occult manner many pages of manuscript referring to The Secret Doctrine, the material of which she was collecting at the time."
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