Secret Doctrine Study Group

‘Theosophy, as already said, is the WISDOM-RELIGION.’
(The Key to Theosophy, p 13)

Theosophy, we say, is not a Religion.

Theosophy, we say, is not a Religion. Yet there are, as every one knows, certain beliefs, philosophical, religious and scientific, which have become so closely associated in recent years with the word “Th…[Read more]

“Why is it important not to call theosophy a religion?”

Perhaps the first question could be;

Why did the Maha Chohan write … ‘the Theosophical Society was chosen as the corner stone, the foundation of the future religion of humanity.’

Although that idea appears to have been scrapped by 1925 due to all the splits etc.

Why is it important not to call theosophy a religion?

This is a corroboration of that which has been stated many times before, and, unfortunately, too indiscreetly. Instead of benefiting humanity, the virulent charges of deliberate invention and imposture with a purpose thrown at those who asserted but a truthful, if even a little known fact, have only generated bad Karma for the slanderers. But now…[Read more]

SD Book i page XXXV-XXXVI

Moreover, there is a well-known fact, a very curious one, corroborated to the writer by a reverend gentleman attached for years to a Russian Embassy—namely, that there are several documents in the St. Petersburg Imperial Libraries to show that, even so late as during the days when Freemasonry, and Secret Societies of M…[Read more]

From B.P. Wadia’s Studies in the Secret Doctrine: The Eternal Pilgrim

From this original duality springs what man recognizes in himself as his dual nature — lower and higher mind, good and bad moral nature, the mortal body and the immortal Self. Further, the student of Occultism traces to this prototypal Dual Force, the dual power of the S…[Read more]

SD i page XXV

The danger was this: Doctrines such as the planetary chain, or the seven races, at once give a clue to the seven-fold nature of man, for each principle is correlated to a plane, a planet, and a race; and the human principles are, on every plane, correlated to seven-fold occult forces—those of the higher planes being of tremendous p…[Read more]

From B.P. Wadia

Studies in the Secret Doctrine:
The Basic Law of Brotherhood

Nature and man are one in their divine consubstantiality, but each has a dual aspect — its Non-manifested and manifested. Again, both the Non-manifested and the manifested have a triple characteristic, which in the case of the former is forever concealed while in the l…[Read more]

SD vol i, pages XXIV- XXXV

The Occultists assert that all these exist, safe from Western spoliating hands, to re-appear in some more enlightened age, for which in the words of the late Swami Dayanand Sarasvati, “the Mlechchhas (outcasts, savages, those beyond the pale of Aryan civilization) will have to wait.” For it is not the fault of the ini…[Read more]

SD i page XXXIV

To recapitulate. The Secret Doctrine was the universally diffused religion of the ancient and prehistoric world. Proofs of its diffusion, authentic records of its history, a complete chain of documents, showing its character and presence in every land, together with the teaching of all its great adepts, exist to this day in…[Read more]

SD i xix-xxi

Time and human imagination made short work of the purity and philosophy of these teachings, once that they were transplanted from the secret and sacred circle of the Arhats, during the course of their work of proselytism, into a soil less prepared for metaphysical conceptions than India; i.e., once they were transferred into China,…[Read more]

SD i XX-XIX

Unwise are those who, in their blind and, in our age, untimely hatred of Buddhism, and, by reaction, of “Budhism,” deny its esoteric teachings (which are those also of the Brahmins), simply because the name suggests what to them, as Monotheists, are noxious doctrines. Unwise is the correct term to use in their case. For the Eso…[Read more]

The first and the most important idea to understand in reference to evolution in this our kingdom is the following:

The pivotal doctrine of the Esoteric philosophy admits no privileges or special gifts in man, save those won by his own Ego through personal effort and merit throughout a long series of metempsychoses and reincarnations. (S.D. I,…[Read more]

In etymology Adi, and Adhi Budha, the one (or the First) and “Supreme Wisdom” is a term used by Aryâsanga in his Secret treatises, and now by all the mystic Northern Buddhists. It is a Sanskrit term, and an appellation given by the earliest Aryans to the Unknown deity; the word “Brahmâ” not being found in the Vedas and the early works. It means…[Read more]

Theosophy is synonymous with Gnanâ-Vidya, and with the Brahmâ-Vidya13 of the Hindus, and again with the Dzyan of the trans-Himalayan adepts, the science of the true Raj-Yogas, who are much more accessible than one thinks. This science has many schools in the East. But its offshoots are still more numerous, each one having ended by separating i…[Read more]

Yes, maybe the reptile brain (survival aspect) part of the human brain is predominant in these beings, and this is where the ‘reptilian’ aspect of conspiracy theory originates before it got to be taken in a more literal context.

An important distinction between the the black and white magicians is that the sixth principle (buddhi) of the former lies dormant; they do have not access to Wisdom because this requires purity of heart (or motive).

It’s an intriguing question Giles, that even people like ourselves, notwithstanding our acquaintance with the law of karma and realizing the possible consequences following from its effects, will, given the “right circumstances and desires”, go against our better judgment and “sin” against the law of karma.

Indeed, as you pointed out, and…[Read more]