The Secret Doctrine
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The Secret Doctrine, the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, a book originally published as two volumes in 1888, is Madame Blavatsky's magnum opus. The first volume is named Cosmogenesis, the second Antropogenesis. It is a seminal book of esoteric knowledge in the modern age.
Blavatsky wanted also to publish a third and a fourth volume of the Secret Doctrine. After Blavatskys death a controversial third volume of the Secret Doctrine was published by Annie Besant.
Alice Bailey wrote about the Secret Doctrine: But those of us who really studied it and arrived at some understanding of its inner significance have a basic appreciation of the truth that no other book seems to supply. H.P.B. said that the next interpretation of the Ageless Wisdom would be a psychological approach, and A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, which I published in 1925, is the psychological key to The Secret Doctrine. None of my books would have been possible had I not at one time made a very close study of The Secret Doctrine.
Quotations
Such a work as this has to be introduced with no simple Preface, but with a volume rather; one that would give facts, not mere disquisitions, since the SECRET DOCTRINE is not a treatise, or a series of vague theories, but contains all that can be given out to the world in this century. (The Secret Doctrine)
External links
- The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 and Vol.2 (http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd-hp.htm) Online Version
- The third volume of the Secret Doctrine (http://www.theosophical.ca/SecDoctrine3A.htm)
- The Secret Doctrine Net (http://www.secretdoctrine.net)
- The Secret Doctrine at Blavatsky.Net (http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/secret_doctrine/secret_doctrine.htm)
- The Book of Dzyan Research Reports by David Reigle (http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/reiglecon.htm)
- Blavatsky and The Secret Doctrine (http://correiorosacruz.netfirms.com/blavatsky.htm), little essay on H.P. Blavatsky and "The Secret Doctrine" published in 1933
