Our Teachings affirm that, if it is quite correct to say that Nature once built around the human astral form ape-like appearance, then it is just as true that this form was as far removed from the form of the “missing link” as were all the other manifold envelopes of this astral form during its natural evolution through all the kingdoms of Nature. Also that such an evolution, as has already been proven, did not take place on this planet in its Fourth Round, but only during the First, Second and Third Round, when man was alternately "stone, plant and beast" until he became what he was in the First Root Race of present Humanity. The true line of evolution is different from Darwin's, and the two systems are irreconcilable unless the latter abandons "natural selection" and similar dogmas. Indeed, between the Monera of Haeckel and the Sarisripa of Manu lies an impenetrable gulf in the form of the Jiva: for the "human" Monad, whether it be "immetallized" in the atom of a stone, or "invegetalized" in a plant, or "inanimalized" in an animal, will always be divine, therefore also human Monad. She ceases to be human only when she becomes absolutely divine. The terms "mineral", "vegetable" and "animal" Monad are used for the purpose of creating a superficial distinction; there is no other Monad (Jiva) other than divine, and therefore, once it already was or in the future should become human. The latter term will remain meaningless unless this distinction is well understood. The Monad is a drop from the transcendental Boundless Ocean, or, to put it more correctly, inside primary differentiation plan. She divine in its highest aspect and human in its lowest state - the qualifiers "higher" and "lower" are used here for want of better words - but it always remains a Monad under all conditions or in any external forms, excepting only the states in Nirvana. Just as the Logos reflects the Universe in the Divine Mind, and the manifested Universe is reflected in each of its Monads, as Leibniz says, repeating only the Eastern Teaching, so the Monad must, during the cycle of its incarnations, reflect in itself everything basic forms every kingdom. Therefore, the Kabbalists correctly say that “man becomes stone, plant, animal, man, spirit and, finally, God,” thus completing his cycle or circulation and returning to the point from which he began, as Sky Man. But by “Man” is meant the Divine Monad, and not the Thinking Being, still less his physical body. Scientists, while denying the existence of an immortal Soul, nevertheless now try to trace it through a series of animal forms, from the lowest to the highest; whereas, in reality, all real fauna are the offspring of those primitive monsters of which the Stanzas speak. The animals - the reptiles and those of the waters - which preceded man in this Fourth Round, as well as those contemporary with the Third Race, and even the mammals which appeared after the Third and Fourth Races, are all directly or indirectly physically are mutual and cumulative works of Man. It is correct to say that man of this Manvantara, that is, of the three previous Rounds, has passed through all the Kingdoms of Nature. That he was “a stone, a plant, an animal.” But (a) these stones, plants and animals were prototypes, vague hints of the stones, plants and animals of the Fourth Circle; And (b) even the latter, at the beginning of the Fourth Circle, were astral shadows, as the occultists say, of real stones, plants and animals. And, furthermore, neither the forms nor the species of man, animal, or plant were what they subsequently became. Thus, as stated in "Esoteric Buddhism" astral prototypes of the lower beings of the animal kingdom of the Fourth Circle, which preceded Chhayam people were condensed, although still very ethereal shells still more ethereal forms or images created at the conclusion of the Third Circle on the sphere D; created from the remains of matter; from matter from the dead bodies of people and (others extinct) animals, the previous "Wheel" or the one preceding Third Circle, as verse 28 says. Therefore, while the indescribable "animals" which preceded Astral Man at the beginning of this Life-Cycle on our Earth were still, so to speak, the offspring of the man of the Third Circle, the mammals of this Circle owe their existence to a great least again to Man. In addition, the “ancestor” of the real anthropoid animal, the monkey, is the direct offspring of a man who did not yet possess reason, who desecrated his human dignity by descending physically to the level of an animal.

Elena Petrovna Blavatsky left us a large literary legacy, which includes articles, letters, notes, interviews, and most importantly, interesting books. They surprise, excite, irritate some, even enrage, but without them our life would be boring and not fully conscious. Her works on philosophy, theosophy, mysticism, occultism, magic, and religion brought her worldwide fame. Blavatsky's first great work that shook the world was Isis Unveiled, a solid two-volume work in which a deep analysis of various religious teachings and secret sciences of the West and East was made. The book compares the ideas and achievements of antiquity with the achievements of the 19th century, and convincingly shows that the truth is on the side of the ancients.

The main creation, as if the result of E.P.’s enormous intellectual work, was the book “The Secret Doctrine”, a work that became a classic on the problems of space, the history of mankind, its mental life, as well as its hidden forces - occultism, esotericism and mysticism, which gave rise to a lot of discussions in society. The book has a subtitle: “Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy.” In fact, it was a great work on the esoteric philosophy of the East, covering the formation and development of the world throughout its history. Blavatsky's wisdom is based on the wisdom of the Great Himalayan Teachers, the harbingers of progress of the 20th and 21st centuries. The huge three-volume “Secret Doctrine” was a bottomless storehouse of various knowledge that constituted the pinnacle of human wisdom. The “Secret Doctrine,” as we understand, is not the entire Secret Doctrine of the East, but only a small part of it. Knowledge of the complete Doctrine, according to Blavatsky, is possessed only by the Great Teachers of Wisdom - the Mahatmas. It is not difficult to notice that the origins of their knowledge go deep not only into our planet, where our older brothers in mind founded the fabulous country of Shambhala, but also into the solar system. Their minds extend further, to other planets, other solar systems, where perhaps life has other forms, greater and more beautiful, where disease and death are absent. Blavatsky plunged headlong into this fantastic kingdom and saw our future in it. Therefore, he boldly says that the time will come when man will master other planets and other solar systems, experience another life and unite with the Universal Mind for new creation and eternal life.

There is no need to remind that Blavatsky was a messenger of the Eastern Teachers - Mahatmas, about whom the Western world had no idea. Mahatmas are Teachers, Adepts, Great Souls, the personification of wisdom and masters of many sciences, including mysticism, Kabbalah and esotericism. They live in the inaccessible regions of the Himalayas, where the road is closed to ordinary adventurers. It was they, our Teachers, who passed on part of their knowledge to the greatest thinkers and sages of all times and peoples.

Blavatsky, as the main theosophist, was given a specific task - to transfer the consciousness of Europeans to a different plane from materialism - to idealism and to show that the World Spirit is primary, and Nature is secondary, although it has the same power as it. And prove that crude materialism must give way to enchanting metaphysics, magic, idealism, sciences free from dogmatic materialism. Blavatsky considered materialists' conversations about the laws of nature, life and death to be not entirely truthful, twisted, and turned upside down. They did not allow new thinking to break through and slowed down spiritual progress. The “Secret Doctrine” must demonstrate to people that Theosophy is a new idea of ​​​​the development of the Cosmos, Earth and Humanity. It is in it that a solid foundation is laid for the sciences of the future - cosmology, philosophy, gerontology, astrophysics, medicine, new technology and Living Ethics. It contains knowledge about development and mutual assistance in the Cosmos, other worlds and solar systems, about cyclicality, the strict pattern of everything that happens, the infinity of life and the endless aspirations of all things for improvement, Unity and Harmony.

The “Secret Doctrine” confirmed that Unity is the law on which the whole world stands: science and culture, religion and philosophy. It provides an idea of ​​a single source of knowledge about where everything came from and how it spread; how new ideas penetrated into human consciousness, how they strive to change the world and people. With her books, Blavatsky made a revolution in the material and spiritual world. She boldly entered into polemics with all the outstanding scientists of her and the future centuries, philosophers, religious scholars, astrologers, physicists and chemists on various issues of existence, supporting her ideas and theories with excerpts from the works of ancient authors. Although it is not news to us that in her works not everything is as smooth as it seems at first glance. In some ways she is wrong, in some ways she is not entirely consistent, she is not always as convincing as we would like, and in some ways she goes too far. But the fact that the “Secret Doctrine” made a profound revolution in human consciousness, made a synthesis of the ancient teachings of the East and West, their symbolism, touched upon a huge range of problems from Space to man, gives us reason to assert that this book is a world popular science textbook on human wisdom.

And we see that it is based on the encrypted formulas of the twelve stanzas of the “Book of Dzyan”, which are more than a million years old. In her time, no one, not a single scientist in the world, saw them. And even if I had seen it, I would have thrown up my hands: I could neither read it due to the difficulty of the language, nor understand what it was talking about. We are surprised by Elena Petrovna’s performance. After all, the “Secret Doctrine,” numbering more than two thousand pages, was written in just two years, which is a record in the world history of the creation of scientific treatises. This time would only be enough to rewrite books, and not to create them, which means that what Blavatsky so candidly talked about in her book happened: a miracle happened.

Creation of the "Secret Doctrine"

In August 1882, Mahatma Koot Hoomi wrote in a letter to Sinnett: “Don't you see that everything you find in Isis is barely outlined, barely sketched - nothing completed or fully revealed. Okay, the time has come, but where are the workers for such a huge task? (1) (Letter 72. “Letters of the Mahatmas”). Thus, the Teachers had the idea not so much to rewrite Isis, which has many significant shortcomings, but to create a new book that would be slimmer, more compact, with a clearly expressed idea and theme. The leaders of the Theosophical Society determined that the new book would be published in twenty-four parts, each seventy pages long. However, in January 1885, on the orders of Mahatma Kuta Humi, plans were changed.

Having received the instructions, Elena Petrovna sat down at her desk for a long time: the matter was gaining new momentum. About the work of H.P.B. Judge reported on the new book in his letter from Paris in the spring of 1884. He writes that he is helping E.P. in the process of working on a book, it will be called "The Secret Doctrine", and that its publication has already been announced in the Theosophist magazine. Bertram Keightley reports that in early 1887 he visited Blavatsky in Ostend. She asked him to look over the manuscripts of a new work called The Secret Doctrine. Upon review, Keightley realized that this book was destined to become "the most important contribution of this century to the literature of occultism." Although he was aware that the manuscript would undergo a thorough revision and difficult editing before it was submitted for publication. When Blavatsky moved to England, settling in a new place (Macotte), she handed over to Dr. Archibald Keightley (his uncle), and personally to him - Bertram, a part of the manuscript that had been finalized at that time for reading, correcting punctuation, language, various footnotes, grammatical errors. She offered to treat this work as if it were her own.

“Both of us,” writes B. Keightley in his report, “carefully read the manuscript. It was a pile of paper, a meter high, they corrected the English and punctuation, other errors and told Blavatsky that the book was chaotic. It needs to be arranged according to some specific plan, tied to ideas, otherwise it will turn out to be another “Isis Unveiled.” Surprisingly, Blavatsky sent them to hell and ordered them to do as they wanted. B. Keightley writes: “We set out before her our plan, which was suggested to us by the nature of the subject itself, namely, to make the work four volumes, with each volume being divided into three parts: 1) Stanzas and commentaries on them; 2) Symbolism; 3) Science. Further, instead of making the first volume, as she intended, a history of some of the great occultists, we advised her to follow the natural order of presentation. To begin with the evolution of the cosmos, from there to the evolution of man, and then, in the third volume, to take up the historical part, examining the lives of the Great Occultists, and finally to talk about practical occultism in the fourth volume - if she is able to write it at all. (2) (Report by B. Keightley on the "Secret Doctrine").

Blavatsky approved the plan of Archibald and Bertram Keightley. The next step of the conscientious assistants was to distribute the material on cosmogony and anthropology, which make up the first two volumes. This was also done without comment.

But we know that the architecture of the grandiose plan was in the hands of several people - the Himalayan Mahatmas, the Great Teachers of Wisdom, who guided Blavatsky on the right path. HPB herself talks about this. “Every morning,” she writes, “a new place and a new event appear. I'm leading a double life again. The Master finds it too difficult for me to look at the astral light while working on my "Secret Doctrine" while conscious, and therefore for about two weeks now I have been observing everything that I need, as if in a dream. I see huge, long rolls of paper on which everything is written, and then I reconstruct everything from memory...” (3) (Letters from Blavatsky to Sinnett). Blavatsky reports that if she needed to consult and obtain information from a book, she concentrated her mind to create an astral copy of the book that was needed.

Dr. Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden, who was present in Würzburg with Blavatsky, left a certificate of her work on the book. He saw many corrections and notes made in blue pencil, in the Kuta Hoomi handwriting that was familiar to him. The manuscripts of the book were on the desk, so it was easy for him to remember everything. The doctor noticed everything and recorded it on paper. He slept on the couch in her workroom. The couch was just a few steps away from the desk. Therefore, he remembers well his surprise when one morning he discovered a great many pages, full size, covered with blue pencil. The sheets lay next to pages written by Blavatsky herself. The doctor had no idea how these pages got there. He knows for sure that no one entered the room: he sleeps lightly.

History has left us testimonies from various individuals confirming how the “Secret Doctrine” was created. All of them indicate that the authors of most of the articles were Great Mahatmas. To establish the truth about how this book was created, Charles Johnson scrupulously studied the handwriting of the Mahatmas who took part in the work on this tome. He didn't want to make any mistakes in this matter. Johnson found that a man with a soft and even character and great willpower writes with a blue pencil. He thinks logically, is kind, and is ready to make every effort to make his thoughts understandable. Johnson believes that this is the handwriting of a highly cultured and tactful person. The handwriting of the other co-author, who wrote in red, was completely different. His style is assertive, sharp, authoritative and strong. It looks like lava erupting from a volcano. For him, the first author is water, and the second is fire. History has preserved their names - these are Kut Hoomi and Moriah. In addition to the Mahatmas, Blavatsky had many other assistants, all of them worked conscientiously, by the sweat of their brow, with knowledge of the matter, and they worked day and night, without complaining of fatigue.

The Secret Doctrine scholar, Bertram Keightley, reports that the quotations for The Secret Doctrine were taken from various sources that were not in Blavatsky's room. All the rare books were in the British Museum, and in a single copy, so there was no way to use them. He can testify to this under oath. All books corresponded to their authors and their purpose.

E.D. made a significant contribution to the work on the book. Fawcett, who gave Blavatsky many quotations from his scientific works. He also helped to verify manuscripts and occult doctrines taken by Blavatsky from various rarities. It is also impossible to remain silent about the main assistant E.P. in work on the book - Colonel Olcott G.S. His knowledge, painstaking work, friendly participation and support helped Blavatsky overcome all the difficulties that befell her. A whole book could be written about his dedicated work. Later, in the article “My Books,” Blavatsky will tell how about half a dozen Theosophists worked on editing the book, helping to organize the material, correct imperfect English and prepare it for publication. But not one of them can say, says HPB, that the Secret Doctrine is not her creation. This is her hard-earned, painfully born, fateful book.

The essence of the "Secret Doctrine"

The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky's main work, was published in 1888. It was originally published in 2 volumes. The third volume was published after her death in 1897. Many of her early articles are included there, which she, of course, would not have included without looking at them again and adding additional explanations to them.

Much of it is unclear and may be misleading. After all, she was constantly learning and expanding her knowledge. Not all pages of the Secret Doctrine were written exclusively under the dictation of the Great Teachers.

In the book, Blavatsky sets out the main principles of esoteric philosophy, not entirely revealed in Isis Unveiled, and shows the greatness of the ancient sciences, their advantage over the sciences of the 19th century. If in “Isis Unveiled” the main questions of Being, Cosmos, and personality are described somewhat schematically, one might say hastily, then in “The Secret Doctrine” everything is thought out, justified and convincing.

According to Elena Petrovna, the “Secret Doctrine” is just a small fragment of an esoteric teaching that embraces the world, the Universe, with all visible and invisible laws known only to Adepts. It contains exactly as much information as the world will be able to perceive in the coming century. Blavatsky does not claim to be the ultimate Truth; The book is not a revelation, not a exposer of various sciences. The Secret Doctrine is a synthesis of many sciences, it also has three fundamental provisions, four main ideas, six numbered points, five proven facts and ten points showing the essence of Isis Unveiled. In addition to all the problems posed in the book, Blavatsky brings to the fore the main idea - the One in everything. It is from it that everything arose, everything exists in it, everything returns to its beginning. Without understanding the One, it is impossible to understand the essence of the science of Theosophy and other occult sciences.

The Secret Doctrine establishes three basic provisions that are the main ones. First: this is the Eternal and Infinite Principle, about which no reasoning is possible. It is beyond human understanding and any attempts to express it and compare it with something lead to its belittlement. He is the One and Absolute in everything, the Infinite and Eternal Cause of everything that was, is and ever will be.

Second: this is the Eternity of the Universe generally, as a periodic arena of countless universes manifesting and disappearing. They testify to the absolute universal law of periodicity, ebb and flow, increase and decrease, recorded by science in all areas of nature. This alternation extends to day and night, life and death, sleep and wakefulness and other phenomena, which makes it one of the most absolute and fundamental Laws of the Universe.

Third: - this is the fundamental identity of all shower with the World Over-Soul, which is one of the aspects of the Unknown Root. No divine soul can have an independent existence until it has fulfilled the following requirements: a) has passed through every primary form of the phenomenal world; b) will not acquire individuality controlled by karma.

If the reader has understood them and grasped the light they shed on every problem of life, then no further proof is needed.

Blavatsky puts forward a universal formula for cosmic evolution. She admits that transferred to dances the history of cosmic evolution is an abstract formula of all evolution. Starting from the first stanza and ending with the seventh, Blavatsky shows the awakening of the Universe, its formation into a sevenfold hierarchy of conscious Divine Forces, the formation of numerous worlds, including one of them in which we live, and ends her analysis with the descent of life before the appearance of man.

Using ancient sources, Blavatsky explains that everything in the Universe is interconnected and endowed with consciousness, including animate and inanimate objects. For esoteric philosophy there is no “dead” or “blind” matter; any matter is alive and breathing. She is endowed with consciousness. Consequently, the world is the diversity of life in all its manifestations. The universe is created and is directed from the inside to the outside. As above, so below, as in heaven, so on earth, and man - a microcosm, a miniature copy of the macrocosm, is a living testimony to this universal law and the way it operates. The entire Cosmos is governed, controlled and animated by endless series of hierarchies of conscious beings, each of which has its own purpose. All of them are executors of the laws of Karma and Cosmos. They are not pure spirits, each of them was human in previous Manwantaurs. It is characteristic that Elena Petrovna in her work constantly exalts man, endows him with reason, strength, will, and the ability to create a new State or Society of Equals, in which human life will be transformed and become equal to Heavenly Paradise.

In the Preface to The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky writes: “The purpose of this work may be defined as follows: to prove that Nature is not a “random combination of atoms,” and to show man his rightful place in the scheme of the Universe; save archaic truths, which are the basis of all religions, from corruption; to reveal to some extent the basic unity from which they all originated; finally, to show that the occult side of Nature has never before been accessible to the science of modern civilization.” (4) ("Secret Doctrine", vol. 1, p. 19). Blavatsky emphasizes that her work was performed in the service of humanity, and must be judged by humanity and future generations.

We see that this book raises as many problems as our inquisitive mind can comprehend, and we know that it will take more than one century to resolve them. Let us dwell on only one of them, this is “Evolution of Cycles and Karma”. It is interesting for us because it covers the issues of Karma, the teaching that is accepted by all followers of the ancient religions of the East. The basis of their philosophy is that every being, every creature on earth, no matter how insignificant and small it may be, is an immortal particle of immortal matter. The main thing is that everything is subject to Karma. “Replace this word with God,” writes Blavatsky, “and it will become an axiom.” Speaking about man as a free individual, capable of weaving around himself the pure robe of the righteous, H.P.B. cites the saying of the ancients that “Our destiny is written in the stars,” although he adds that “man is a free agent during his stay on Earth.” Free, we say, and active, but not completely. We cannot escape the leading role of Fate, although we have a choice of two paths leading us into the depths of Being. A person can reach the limit of happiness or the limit of misfortune, if it is intended for him: either to be in the pure robes of the righteous, or in the filthy robes of evil. There are internal and external conditions that influence a person’s decisions and actions. Although a person can change them by the power of his will.

Whoever believes in Karma, Blavatsky emphasizes, must believe in Fate, which from birth to death each of us weaves thread by thread around us, like a spider its yarn. And this destiny is directed either by the heavenly voice of the invisible Prototype, or by the astral voice, or by our inner “I”. When the last thread is woven, and a person is, as it were, wrapped in his actions, he sees himself entirely in the power of fate, created by himself. And then he depends entirely on her decision. It is not Karma that punishes and rewards a person, but the person himself rewards or punishes himself, with his actions, with his way of life.

New provisions in anthropogenesis

The Secret Doctrine revolutionized anthropogenesis. In connection with human evolution, Blavatsky's book puts forward three new propositions that are completely at odds with both modern science and existing religious dogmas. Let's name them. The first is the simultaneous evolution of seven human groups in seven different parts of our planet. Second: birth astral bodies in front physical, and the first serves as a model for the second. And third: the precedence of man in this Circle to all mammals. Blavatsky names four great races that were the predecessors of our Aryan race. These four races had many archaic and esoteric names. They changed according to the language of the people named in the ancient scriptures. HPB names the continents on which the Races developed:

1) An indestructible sacred country. This name is based on the assertion that this “Indestructible Sacred Country” never shared the fate of the other continents. She is the only one of all who is destined to exist from the beginning to the end of the manvantara, throughout each round.

2) Hyperborea. This is the name of the second continent and the country that extended in the southern and western directions from the north pole. The remains of this continent are now known as Northern Asia.

3)Lemuria. This name is given to the third continent. The continent included part of the regions of present-day Africa. Basically, this giant continent, stretching from the Indian Ocean to Australia, was completely submerged under the waters of the Pacific Ocean.

4) Atlantis- fourth continent. It would be the first historical country about which we have some knowledge. Atlantis was first mentioned in Plato’s book “The State”, where a description of this country was also given.

5) Europe. In fact, America was the fifth continent. But, since it is located in the opposite hemisphere, Indo-Aryan occultists call contemporary Europe and Asia Minor the fifth continent. Since the sequence of continents is considered by Blavatsky in the order of evolution of races, from the First to the Fifth, our Aryan root race, then Europe should be considered the Fifth great continent. (6).

Human races, according to Blavatsky, are born from one another. E, P, B. said: “There is neither APPEARANCE nor DISAPPEARANCE, but there is only eternal BECOMING.” The Fourth Root Race still exists. The same is the case with the Third, and the Second, and the First, since one can observe their manifestations on our present material plane.” (8) If modern science, and behind it philosophy, do not dispute the fact that the human family consists of different, clearly defined types and races, it is only because it is impossible to deny. E.P. I don’t believe that there is a person who would argue that there is no external difference between an Englishman, an African Negro, a Japanese or a Chinese. She does not understand the motives of some naturalists who deny the formation of mixed human races in our days. She does not believe their claims that in the future, humanity will not face any changes. For her, such a theory is absurd and unprovable. On the contrary, she says, humanity will change for the better: there will be no cruelty, violence, prisons and premature deaths.

The world's evil comes out of hiding

E.P. Blavatsky brings into the arena of world history the evil spirit - Lucifer. In ancient times Lucifer, or Luciferus, was the name of the Angelic Being who presided over the light of truth, as well as the light of day. Lucifer is the Logos in his highest aspect, and the “Adversary” in his lowest. Both of these aspects are reflected in our consciousness, in the Ego itself. The legend of the fallen angels, as it is set out in many teachings widespread in the West, reflects the Cosmic Law of the evolution of the highest Beings of Light in the bodies of people. The physical manifested world cannot be left to itself; it cannot exist autonomously from the entire Creation. And due to the large presence of the forces of chaos in the manifested world, it requires constant care and guardianship from the higher manifested worlds of this Universe. The process of the descent of the Highest Spirits into the bodies of people is a necessary stage of evolutionary development. Millions of years ago, angels or higher Beings of Light descended into the bodies of people on Earth, who endowed man with mind and became part of his Supreme body.

In The Secret Doctrine we learn that Satan, or the Red Fire Dragon, the Demon and Lucifer, or the Light-Bearer, is within ourselves: it is our mind, our tempter and redeemer, our rational liberator and savior from pure animality. Without this principle - an emanation of the very essence of pure divine Mind, emanating directly from the Divine Mind - we would certainly be no better than animals. “Fallen Angels,” says Blavatsky, “are all of humanity. The demon of pride, lust, resentment and hatred had no place for himself before the appearance of being, a physical and conscious man. It was man who gave birth to and nurtured this enemy and allowed him to take up residence in his heart. He dishonored and desecrated the God who dwells within himself. If the Kabbalistic saying “The Demon is the inversion of God” finds metaphysical confirmation in the duality of Nature itself, then the practical application of this unclean thing is found only in man himself. The Secret Doctrine proves that the Angels of heaven are identical with their fallen souls. All of them were in prehistoric times the people and souls of their carriers.

However, Lucifer was indeed one of the eight Sons of Light who came from the Higher planets to our Earth and incarnated in various races to accelerate the mental development of humanity. The fall of Lucifer began from the time of Atlantis. His downfall was that he went against the law of evolution, or the Will of the Cosmos. At the end of the Third Race, people were divided into two classes - the “Sons of the Night” or Darkness and the “Sons of the Sun” or Light. Lucifer became their leader. It happened as follows. “Everyone, being gifted with divine powers and feeling within himself internal God, realized that by nature he was a God-man, although an animal in his physical self. The struggle between these two natures began from the very day they ate the fruit of the Tree of Wisdom; the struggle for life between the spiritual and the mental, the mental and the physical. Those who defeated the lower “principles”, taming their flesh, joined the “Sons of Light”; those who fell victim to their lower natures became slaves of Matter. From the "Sons of Light and Reason" they ended up becoming the "Sons of Darkness". They fell in the struggle between mortal life and Immortal Life, and all who fell in this way became the seed of the coming generations of Atlanteans.

<…>Thus the first races of the Atlanteans, born on the continent of Lemuria, were divided, starting from their earliest tribes, into the righteous and the unrighteous; on those who worshiped the single invisible Spirit of Nature, the Ray of which man feels within himself - or pantheists, and on those who provided fanatical worship to the spirits of the Earth, the dark, cosmic, anthropomorphized Forces with which they entered into an alliance.” (TD2.ch.I.Comments, Stanza X, verse 40-42)

Elena Ivanovna Roerich, who translated the “Secret Doctrine” into Russian at the direction of the Teacher, wrote: “As it is said, the struggle of despair changed the Bearer of Light, and his ruby ​​aura was filled with a scarlet glow. His followers, truly, began to resort to shameful means that only delay the deadlines, but do not exhaust fate.” (18.01.36 Roerich E.I. Letters. 1929-1938 v.2)

“The great battle in the fourth race between the Sons of Light and the sons of darkness, mentioned in all ancient traditions, vividly marked this great drama of our planet. The drama is that Lucifer, according to cosmic law, is the true Master of our Earth. The grain of his spirit potentially contains all the energies inherent in the core of our planet, therefore one can easily imagine how the Master of the Earth knows its depths and how all its energies are subordinated to him. Whereas the other Great Sons of Light who arrived on our planet belong to higher Worlds. The highest among Them took responsibility for the planet. He stands on permanent Watch.” (28.12.35 Roerich E.I. Letters. 1929-1938 v.2)

The Secret Doctrine was received enthusiastically by society. Theosophists and their supporters - admirers of Eastern wisdom and secret sciences - were especially jubilant. They called this book “epochal,” “brilliant,” “the book of the century,” and one that would become “a model of wisdom for other generations.” Most newspapers in Europe, Asian countries, and America wrote about the greatest phenomenon created by a Russian woman, a theosophist, who published such an epoch-making book. Blavatsky's work was rated very highly. But those were only newspaper notes and small articles. There were no solid articles in which the main problems of the book were analyzed in detail, neither in newspapers nor in magazines. The book turned out to be too tough for either positivists, theologians, or theosophists themselves. They were all silent in unison.

"Critic" of the "Secret Doctrine" got punched in the teeth

After the laudatory odes addressed to Blavatsky with the release of The Secret Doctrine, there were “experts” who questioned not only the knowledge, but also the very integrity of the author in such profound questions of Being. For example, in 1893, a certain W. E. Coleman attempted to prove that Blavatsky's books, especially The Secret Doctrine, were complete plagiarism. The critic claimed that over the past three years he had made a “more or less exhaustive analysis” of Madame Blavatsky’s writings and traced the sources from which she borrowed her quotations, bibliography and various footnotes. Coleman stated that by quoting liberally from authorities, both past and present, Blavatsky tries to present herself as “an incredibly well-read man of vast erudition,” when in reality “she was a complete ignoramus in all fields of knowledge.” Moreover, a meticulous critic began to argue that Blavatsky took the main material of the Secret Doctrine from two sources: Wilson's translation of the Vishnu Purana, and the World Life by Alexander Winchell, professor of geology and paleontology at the University of Michigan. However, when the text of “World Life” was compared with the text of “TD”, it was possible to find only a few borrowings without reference to a secondary source. And not seventy, as Coleman claimed, but only six. The notes to the English edition describe these six passages in detail. Three of them set out the specific views of Leucipus and Democritus, Kepler and Empedocles, and facts from modern astronomy. In two borrowings, Blavatsky gives a link to the original source quoted by Winchell. In yet another instance, where two quotes from Winchell are given without reference to him, he and his book are mentioned at the beginning and end of The Secret Doctrine. So the arguments of the meticulous critic W.E. Coleman, turned out to be untenable. (7).

Academic science was also skeptical, to say the least, about the “Secret Doctrine”. Scientists did not so much criticize the book as try to ignore it. In a word, most of them took water into their mouths. For Elena Petrovna, the silence of the “wise men” was worse than death. She could not believe that her fundamental work had remained on the sidelines of the development of scientific and philosophical thought. And this is at the end of the 19th century. Even her friends and colleagues could not understand why the venerable scientists whom she knew and with whom she corresponded did not say a single word about the book: neither positive nor negative. It turns out there were plenty of reasons for silence. The first of them was that the esoteric orientation of theosophical doctrine and its enthusiastic attitude towards occult wisdom - mysticism, occultism, esotericism, and other secret sciences, did not fit into the academic scientific paradigm at all. The dominant cult of matter and “positive” knowledge was not suitable for comprehending Blavatsky’s book. It is no secret that Western science and philosophy from the very beginning of modern times developed under the slogan of the struggle against metaphysics, idealism and dogmatic theology of past centuries. The world of classical science was surprisingly simple: everything was subject to materialism and mechanism. And the world of secret knowledge, occultists and esotericists, was beyond their minds.

The “Secret Doctrine” is thoroughly saturated with secret sciences, metaphysical ideas that exploded all mechanism and crude materialism. To recognize the spiritual principle as primary, and the material as secondary, was worse than a catastrophe for them. Blavatsky's book rehabilitated all the spiritual truths that were in persecution, it cleared the way for the hidden, unknown spiritual forces of the universe and dealt a heavy blow to the apologists of classical scientific theories. Later, as we know, science will confirm many of the philosophical and scientific predictions of the Mahatmas. It is no coincidence that many scientists, including Albert Einstein, will constantly turn to the ideas of the “Secret Doctrine”, which will become consonant with their own ideas. But the main thing was different - the theosophical picture of the world contradicted the main postulates of the ruling ideology.

Secondly, the “Secret Doctrine” turned out to be too difficult for narrow specialists who have no idea about the extensive knowledge of Eastern philosophy, history, religion, and other sciences. Their Western education did not fit into Eastern mythology, culture, science and art. Occultism, Kabbalah, magic - for European science they were terrible words and enemies. The book turned out to be very difficult for theosophists themselves, experts in the secret sciences. Some scientists even tried to write commentaries on this book, to adapt it to the popular presentation, but the nut was too tough: “The Secret Doctrine” remained a book with seven seals. Blavatsky was aware that her book was indeed overloaded with secondary facts and side lines of the narrative. I understood that this complicated the overall perception of the text. But she couldn’t do anything. And we know that it is no coincidence that half a century after the book was published, Mahatma Moriah suggested that Helena Roerich, his student and translator of the “Secret Doctrine” into Russian, write an independent short commentary on the stanzas of the book Dzian, without side lines of the narrative. However, this work was not completed.

How to read an epoch-making book

As Blavatsky explained, the Secret Doctrine is just a small fragment of that esoteric knowledge known to the highest members of the occult brotherhoods. She put into it as much information or knowledge as the human brain could perceive. She left us her recommendations for how to read the Secret Doctrine, written down by theosophist Robert Bowen a few days before her death. We quote her words: “Reading TD page by page, like reading any other book, will inevitably end in confusion and confusion. First of all, even if it takes years, it is necessary to understand the three fundamental principles discussed in the Prologue. Let this be followed by a study of a brief repetition - the numbered points in the “Summary” section to the 1st part of the 1st volume. Then take the “Preliminary Notes” in Volume 2 and the “Conclusion” (Vol. 2)” (8). (R. Bowen).

HPB convinces us that we should not cling to her as the final authority, but rather rely on our own perceptions. 19 days before her death, Blavatsky told her students: “If anyone imagines that from the Secret Doctrine he can get a satisfactory picture of the structure of the Universe, then as a result of studying this book he will only become completely confused. The Secret Doctrine was created not at all in order to make a final verdict on all questions of existence, but only to lead to the truth.” (8). She repeated the last word many times. Therefore, we must perceive it as a means of exercising and developing our mind.

Bowen writes that H.P. convinced her listeners and readers of the futility of turning to those who are called “advanced students”, to various commentators and interpreters for “explanations of “TD”. They are not able to give a sensible explanation of her ideas. If someone tries to do this, then the listeners will hear nothing of substance from them, except fragmentary and emasculated exoteric interpretations, which will be far from the truth. By assimilating such interpretations, the listeners will focus only on fixed ideas, while Truth exceeds all ideas for which there are no boundaries. For Blavatsky , all exoteric interpretations are good, she does not condemn them if they serve only as pointers to beginners and are not perceived by them as something more. HPB is aware that many of those who have already joined or will join the Theosophical Society are not able to overcome the framework of generally accepted exoteric concepts, but I am sure that there are and will be others who need to be recommended the only correct approach to the “Secret Doctrine”.

Therefore, she recommends to her students, readers and listeners to approach “TD” without any hope that the final truth of existence can be gleaned from it. For her, this point of view is wrong. The book must be studied without any other goals than the desire to find out for yourself how much it can bring the reader closer to the Truth. "TD" should be considered as one of the ways to develop the mind, untouched by other important problems. When reading, the following rules must be observed: regardless of what is studied in the “Secret Doctrine”, what goals the reader pursues, what ideas and articles are close to his understanding, each of us must take the following ideas as a basis:

a) The Basic Unity of all things. This unity has nothing to do with the generally accepted idea of ​​unity, which the reader has in mind when he says, for example, that a nation or an army is united, or that our planet is united with others by the force of gravity. She sees the essence of the teaching as a friend. It lies in the fact that everything that exists is One Whole, and not just a collection of interconnected things. At the basis of the One Whole, there is a Single Being, which has two aspects - positive and negative. The positive aspect is Spirit, or Consciousness. Negative is Matter, the object of consciousness. Being is the Absolute in its primary manifestation. Since it is absolute, nothing exists beyond it. This is All-Being, it is inseparable, otherwise it would not be absolute. If some part could be separated from it, then what remained would not be absolute, since the question of comparing it with the separated part would immediately arise. Comparison is incompatible with any idea of ​​absoluteness. Thus, it becomes clear to the reader that this fundamental One Existence, or Absolute Being, must be present as Reality in any of the existing forms.

b) The second idea that he recommends adhering to is that there is no Dead Matter. Even the smallest atom is endowed with life. It cannot be otherwise, since each atom represents Absolute Being. Thus, there are no “spaces” of Ether, or Akasha - they can be called differently - in which angels and elementals frolic like trout in a river. For Blavatsky, this is a widely held view. Indeed, the correct idea is that every atom of matter, regardless of what plane it is on, is essentially Life.

c) The third main idea to remember. It consists in the fact that Man is a Microcosm. And if so, then all the Heavenly Hierarchies exist in him. In reality, there is neither macrocosm nor microcosm, but only One Existing. Only to a limited consciousness does the great seem great, and the small - small.

d) The fourth and last of all the fundamental ideas which she recommends to be remembered is expressed in the Great Axiom of Hermeticism. It summarizes and synthesizes all other ideas. As there is Internal, so is External; as there is Great, so there is Small; as there is above, so there is below: there is only One Life and One Law; and the One who controls them is the One. Nothing is either Internal or External; nothing is neither Great nor Small, nothing is neither high nor low in the Divine Order.

Regardless of what is taught in TD, the reader should always relate its study to these core ideas. However, Blavatsky warns that when studying her book one should not be a fool: do not drive yourself to a madhouse by intending to comprehend too much at once. This is unacceptable. Our brain is the instrument of waking consciousness. And the formation of any conscious mental image generates change and destruction of the atoms of the brain. “Therefore, writes H.P.B. - you need to think within the limits of the possible. Ordinary human intellectual activity proceeds quite steadily, without forcing the brain to make sudden changes in the composition of its substance, it does not cause destruction. Only strong mental stress leads to the emergence of “new directions of brain activity”, to a restructuring of the organization of brain cells. Carelessly accelerating such a process can cause great physical damage to the brain” (9). Blavatsky so that after reading her book, each of us remains in our own mind and health. For a person of weak mind, such a cosmic load can damage his health.

Ramacharaka recommends approaching Blavatsky's book with caution. He believes that the main goal of such a person is to know himself. This is all science and all wisdom: to know and find yourself, to merge your higher and lower “I” into one. If a person accomplishes this, he will be an Initiate. And the symbol of the Initiate who managed to do this is a snake crawling on the ground. “It is a straight line or sine wave, and this line is always limited. But a snake biting its tail becomes a circle, and a circle is infinity, limitlessness, eternity. A person who has succeeded in realizing in himself the symbol of the circle enters a world where boundaries no longer exist, where all distinctions between up and down are erased, since all the powers, wealth and virtues that the true higher “I” possesses merge with his lower self. "I". The small and the large form a unity, and man becomes the Divine.” (10). Therefore, in order to know the science of the “Secret Doctrine”, a person must know himself. To be pure body and soul, wise and the personification of holiness, according to the requirements of Jnani Yoga. Of course, such a requirement is unacceptable for most of our readers.

The Indians call the way of thinking presented by Blavatsky Jnani - yoga. India, for Blavatsky, is the country of Great Wisdom, the birthplace of Sanskrit, the indigenous language of the world, the mother of all religions and all philosophy of the world. In India all the verbal symbols arose that made serious thinking and the expression of deep thoughts possible. It was from the thinkers and teachers of India that great ideas came to the Europeans, from which all the philosophical systems and religions of the world grew. And Blavatsky is one of such teachers and thinkers, who gave the world the wisdom of the Indian people and the peoples of the East.

Walking along the path of Jnani yoga, Blavatsky writes, a person feels how new concepts arise in him, which he is aware of, without being able to either express them or give them the form of a mental image. Over time, these concepts will take the form of mental images. During such a period, one should be especially careful not to be misled by the idea that this newfound image is an image of reality. This is not entirely true. Blavatsky leads the reader to the fact that, continuing his work, a person discovers a strange metamorphosis: the image that once delighted him begins to fade, ceases to satisfy him, and, in the end, it is completely erased and disappears. “Here another danger awaits him, because at the moment when a person finds himself, as it were, in emptiness and deprived of any concept that can support him, he may succumb to the temptation to revive the discarded image in order to gain more reliable support. However, a true disciple, not paying attention to this, will continue his work.” (eleven).

In the end, Elena Petrovna writes, an unclear light will again appear before him, from which, over time, an image will again emerge, more majestic and more beautiful than before. But now the student will already know that no image can be considered an image of the Truth. This one - the last and magnificent - will also fade and be erased, like the others. This will continue until, finally, both the mind and the images created by it are left behind, and the student enters the World without Form and remains in this world as a pale reflection of the form itself. This path is the True Path of the Western student. And in order to give the reader a pointer on such a Path, so that we do not get lost in the kingdom of thought, the “Secret Doctrine” was written.

Lacking the opportunity, strength and time, health and energy, a person, nevertheless, with all his might joins this wisdom. After looking through the recordings of theosophist Robert Bowen, who asked her questions, Elena Petrovna called him a “moron” and doubted that anything could be correctly expressed in words. In general, she approved of the recording and stated that Bowen recorded her thoughts much better than she could have done it herself.

Bowen interviewed Blavatsky shortly before her death. He saw that she had changed a lot since he met her two years ago. It was amazing to him how bravely she looked into the face of a terrible disease. If she were to meet a man who knows nothing and believes in nothing, he says, Blavatsky would convince even him that she resides somewhere beyond her body and brain. During the last meetings with her, when physically H.P.B. became helpless, Bowen had the feeling that Theosophists were receiving these teachings from some other, higher sphere. It seems to him, he feels and knows that she speaks completely differently “than he hears with his own ears.” Under his document, Bowen wrote the date: April 19, 1891.

Scientific predictions of E.P. Blavatsky

Elena Petrovna left numerous scientific predictions in her books, from which it follows that the future of humanity was for her a matter of life and death. As a true scientist, thinker and seer, Blavatsky wanted to look beyond the horizon and see what would be there; What can humanity expect in its future? What discoveries will be made in the world of science? What will happen to our world? Will people discover new planets? Will man fly into space? Will human life expectancy increase? Will good prevail over evil, and truth over lies? We have selected some of her statements so that readers can see how the problems of the whole world have become her personal problems. Here are some of them, conveyed by us verbatim:

“The process of preparation for the Sixth Root Race will continue throughout the sixth and seventh sub-races. But latest the remains of the Fifth Continent will not disappear immediately after birth New race but only when a new home, the Sixth Continent, appears above the new waters on the surface of our planet to receive the new newcomer. Everyone who is lucky enough to escape the general disaster will move and settle there.” (12).

When will this be - H.P.B. does not report, just as the author of the Apocalypse does not report. But, since nature does not act in sudden leaps, the final cataclysm will be preceded by many small dives and destructions, both by water and by underground volcanic fires. In the heart of the race, now located in the American zone, there will be a “triumphant pulse beating rapidly,” but by the appearance of the Sixth Race, there will be no more Americans left than Europeans. By this time they will be A new race and many new peoples. The fifth race will not die out; it will live for some time, coexisting with the new race for many millennia. Although he will change both mentally and physically, and will change his height.

This is what it says in the “Secret Doctrine,” but here is what Elena Ivanovna Roerich wrote about this: “Now your question is about the sixth race. Yes, in many theosophical books, even in the Secret Doctrine, one can find an indication that the sixth race is gathering in America. But, precisely, in the “Secret Doctrine” I encountered a contradiction - in one place it is said that the sixth subrace the fifth race, and in the other - the sixth race. Of course, the difference in these concepts of sub-race and root race is enormous. The possibility of a typo should also be taken into account. At the birth of America, most of the settlers belonged to the sixth and even seventh classes. subrace fifth race. It is very curious that no one pays attention to the strange circumstance that the Theosophist. literature almost nowhere mentions our country, as if a sixth of the Light has no place in the cosmic plan and evolution. Almost no one asks the question, what is the matter, where is the reason for this? I will answer you - everything secret is especially protected, and if it had been announced ahead of time that this country had a great future ahead of it, it would have been torn to pieces. And the Teaching of the “Secret Doctrine” would not have been accepted. But as for the sixth race, individuals belonging to it, of course, are born in all countries, and by a certain time the majority of them will be collected in the main and safe places. The seeds of the fifth race were saved, the seeds of the sixth race will be protected." (18.06.36 Roerich E.I. Letters. 1929-1938 v.2)

“No great truth was ever accepted a priori, and it usually took a century or two before glimpses of it began to flash into human consciousness as a possible truth. And real work will be justified partially or entirely only in the 20th century. We will wait for our time."(13) (T.D., vol. II). The prediction was justified. The Secret Doctrine has become a reference book for most scientists in the world.

Reading Blavatsky’s books, we are once again convinced that theosophy fought not with science, not with truth, but with the monopoly of that scientific worldview, which in our time has led humanity to the brink of a global catastrophe. Blavatsky called not for a return to the old and outdated, but for a revision of those ancient doctrines that contain precious grains of our future. Without denying the need to revise individual sciences, she warned that science would not go far on old dogmas. We urgently need to take care of revealing the boundless energy of the spirit, that eternal engine that has propelled science at all times. Blavatsky attacked Darwin's theory and Newton's law of gravitation with all her courage in The Secret Doctrine. “Someday it will be found that this scientific hypothesis is unsatisfactory. We call the forces acting under this name consequences, and even very secondary ones... Gravity does not exist, at least not in the form that science teaches... "(T.D. vol. 1, part III, section 3. Is gravity a law?). (14).

In her criticism, Blavatsky spares neither famous physicists nor biologists for their dogmatism and stagnation of thought. He considers them slow-witted and stagnant people. She rehabilitated the Ancient Wisdom, the greatest exponents of which were Hermes Trismegistus, Pythagoras and Plato. Her criticism of the leaders of 19th century science did not refute the theory of natural selection and the law of gravity. It only pointed out their shortsightedness in matters of insight and efficiency. Scientists have become convinced that Newton’s idea of ​​the universe is valid only within the framework of a special case of Einstein’s concept.

Modern science has confirmed that it is currently impossible to explain the origin of life and intelligence. “All dilemmas in science and philosophy are defective, because the essence of the dilemma is either-or, a product of Aristotle’s flat logic, and they are not viable. There is no dilemma - either a supernatural act of creation, or natural selection, just as there is no dilemma - light is a wave process, or discrete. The last dilemma is the subject of a dispute between Newton and Leibniz, which once ended in Newton’s favor (the temporary triumph of the wave theory), and in the 20s. of our century, in the scientific duel between Heisenberg and de Broglie - a draw. It has been proven that light has both a wave and discrete nature. This is the statement of our scientists.” However, half a century before this discovery, which meant a revolution in physics, Blavatsky knew that there was no dilemma: “The theory of waves or the corpuscular theory is All One, for these are judgments based on an aspect of the phenomenon, but not on the basis of knowledge of the essence of the nature of the cause.”(15 ) (T.D., vol. 1, part III, section 3).

The key to the mystery of humanoid aliens, their mysterious UFO appearances and instantaneous disappearances is offered to us by H.P.B. in the following such picture of the interpenetration of worlds; "There are millions and millions of worlds... invisible to us; and an even greater number beyond those visible to the telescope, and many of the latter kind do not belong to our objective sphere of existence... they are with us, near us, within our own world, as material for their inhabitants as our world is for us... Their inhabitants... can... pass through us and around us, like you through empty space, their homes and countries are intertwined with our homes and countries, however less, they do not interfere with our vision..." (16) (T. D., vol. 1, part 3, Science).

Blavatsky writes: “The sun, with each revolution, contracts as rhythmically as the human heart. Only... solar blood takes 11 years to pass through the cavity of the heart, before it washes the lungs, and then returns to the large arteries and veins of the system " (T.D., part III, section III). Scientists claim that the physics of the Sun has made great strides in recent decades and has moved significantly closer to understanding our Sun as a rhythmically pulsating living organ. People learned that the Sun breathes. But the seer Blavatsky also knew about this.

It is known that ultrasound entered science in the 20th century. And Blavatsky knew about him in 1888. “We... affirm,” she writes, “that sound is... a terrible force. Sound can be produced of such a quality that the Cheops pyramid would rise into the air. This is a vibrational force... Atoms in Occultism are called Vibrations: so but by Sound - collectively" (17) (T. D., vol. 1, part III).

Blavatsky anticipated the advent of atomic energy and its terrible destructive force - the atomic bomb. And this power was hidden in the smallest particle - the atom, which she writes about in her book. In the structure of the Universe and matter, matter, atoms are depicted in the form of “wheels” around which cosmic energy grows. "Wheels" are the prototype of atoms, each of which exhibits an increasing tendency towards rotational motion. The “God” becomes a “vortex”; the “vortex” gives rise to a spiral movement. From time immemorial, the Universe was symbolically expressed by a spiral, that is, a vortex movement.

In her book we find ancient texts about an unknown weapon - Agniastra. It was "made of seven elements." Scientists assumed that we were talking about a rocket, but Blavatsky warned that their secret would be revealed not in the 19th century, or even the 20th, but much later. This weapon, “in addition to bringing down fire from the sky,” causes rain, a storm, and also paralyzes the enemy, plunging his senses into deep sleep. Scientists are just beginning to discover such weapons.

An interesting article is posted on the Adamant portal - “Scientific predictions of E.P. Blavatsky" Yu.I. Dolgikh. We recommend that all lovers of Blavatsky's work familiarize themselves with it.

There is no need to further analyze and comment on the two volumes of TD, for the simple reason that this epoch-making work is not for one article. We refer lovers of the study of Cosmosogenesis and Anthropogenesis to other sources, of which there are plenty. There they will find answers to all their questions.

Elena Petrovna had great happiness: she took part in the secret knowledge of the ancient worlds, which gave her the opportunity to anticipate many events of the future, realizing that the 19th century was not ready to accept her “inconvenient truths” due to its limited mental and physical abilities. She knew that this Century would even condemn her, brand her with shame for her courage to speak the truth, but this would not last long: the next century would recognize the “Secret Doctrine”, appreciate it and establish that the “Secret Doctrine” is an epoch-making book and it is intended for everyone peoples of the world, both today and the distant future. The “Secret Doctrine” is destined for the fate of the books of ancient authors, as well as such as the Bible and Kabbalah. Her book is not fictional, not invented by humanoids or other aliens from outer space, nor is it a magical phenomenon. This book is the product of her brain, physical and spiritual powers, and it is built on real facts, on true history, on the books of ancient sages.

Everything repeats itself in history. Nowadays, we are plunging deeper into the mysterious knowledge of the ancients, more carefully studying ancient history, past civilizations, their sciences and culture in order not to repeat their mistakes, and to apply all the best that they created in our modern life. Blavatsky's books help us expand the horizon of our knowledge, delve deeper into the achievements of past centuries, seek the truth in everything, strive through our work to contribute to the flourishing of a new civilization, the civilization of the 21st century. If we take into account how many works Blavatsky wrote, both scientific and popular science, her complex physical and spiritual life, filled with torment and various knowledge, surprises and adventures, a mission to distant countries, her organizational and scientific abilities as a scientist, a major public figure, her knowledge of the occult and other secret sciences, then one cannot help but recognize Elena Petrovna as the greatest scientist in the world in the field of all secret sciences and the direct guide of the Himalayan Mahatma Brotherhood.

Friends and associates about E.P. Blavatsky

Charles Johnston, American writer and translator from Sanskrit: “My very first impression of Madame Blavatsky is the power and magnitude of her individuality; I seemed to be in the presence of some primordial force of Nature... But at the same time, I did not experience the feeling of my own insignificance that arises next to a great personality who suppresses those around him and despotically tramples on their independence. It was, rather, a feeling of a deep, all-encompassing reality, a truly inexhaustible supply of strength - it was a spirit that had passed through the crucible of Nature and reached the eternal principles of Truth. But gradually, through the dominant feeling of power, her enormous tenderness and kindness emerged, her constant readiness to completely forget about herself and devote herself wholeheartedly to serving people” (18).

Henry Olcott, Blavatsky’s closest collaborator: “No one who knew H.P. Blavatsky cannot forget her gifts, but no one has all her gifts. Her life, as I have come to know her over the past seventeen years as a friend, comrade and collaborator, has been one of continuous martyrdom for the love of people. She burned with jealousy for their spiritual welfare, for their spiritual freedom and, far from any selfish motive, devoted her life and strength to the cause of love, without expecting either gratitude or reward. For this she was persecuted by the slander of bigots and Pharisees until her death, which they hastened with their malice...” (19).

Annie Besant, follower of Blavatsky, President of the TO: “I saw her in the presence of her worst enemy, who came to her in a moment of need, and I saw how an unearthly light of compassion illuminated her face. If only her enemies knew who they were throwing dirt at. (..) Her truthfulness and purity of her intentions were amazing, and at the same time, the strength of her character did not succumb to any blows of fate. She was so poor that she was constantly in need of money, and when she had money, it immediately disappeared. Her generosity was truly royal. Everything she had: things, money, clothes - everything was given to the first person she met who was in need. (...) I always found it funny when they talked about her ability to make mistakes in people and trust those who subsequently deceived her. They did not understand that she considered it her duty to give every person the opportunity to improve and was not at all interested in the fact that in case of failure she might find herself in an uncomfortable position” (20).

Our great and holy Elena Ivanovna Roerich said wonderful words about Elena Petrovna. Here they are:

“Let us also remember our much slandered Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, who spent three years in one of the Ashrams of Tibet, bringing great knowledge and the bright News of the Great Mahatmas. If it were not for the anger and envy of those around her, she would have written two more volumes of The Secret Doctrine, which would have included pages from the lives of the Great Teachers. But people chose to kill her, and the work remained unfinished (21). (F.A. Butsen, 03/25/35, vol. 3, p. 154)

“It was Elena Petrovna Blavatsky who was the Fiery Messenger of the White Brotherhood. It was she who was the Bearer of the Knowledge entrusted to her. Of all the Theosophists, only Helena Petrovna Blavatsky had the good fortune to receive the Teaching directly from the Great Teachers in one of Their Ashrams in Tibet. It was she who was the Great Spirit who took upon herself the heavy Assignment - to give a shift to the consciousness of humanity, entangled in the dead snares of dogma and atheism rushing into the dead end... I bow before the great spirit and fiery heart of our compatriot and I know that in the future Russia her name will be put on due level of veneration. E.P. Blavatsky is truly our national pride. Great Martyr for Light and Truth. Eternal Glory to her!” (22). (E.I. Roerich V.A. Dukshta-Dukshinskaya, 09/08/34, vol. 2, p. 355)

“...such a brilliant soul deserves the most careful treatment, and even more so for revealing it to the Russian people, who know almost nothing about it. She was a great patriot and suffered that she would have to live and die in a foreign land. Her feat was great: alone, persecuted by everyone, suspected of everything and everyone, without means, without knowing the language, she arrived in America to show the world the most beautiful Sacred Teaching, to give for the first time a religious and philosophical synthesis of all times and peoples, to create an international Fraternal Union, to give the greatest happiness of knowledge about the existence of the Great Guardians and Leaders of our humanity and the path to Them. Who will not bow before her, who took upon herself such a feat amid the abyss of ignorant denials, suspicions and persecutions? Truly, she was a martyr for the new salvation she revealed to humanity in an era of suffocating and corrupting materialism. But this torment wove her a new beautiful CROWN. Let us send her our admiration, our gratitude and our love” (23). (E.I. Roerich V.L. Dutko, 05/14/45, vol. 7, pp. 233-234)

We are finally closing a wonderful book - Blavatsky’s “Secret Doctrine”. Let's be honest: we were not able to fully understand everything in it. Most of her articles were not reviewed as we would have liked, but for some reason we didn’t have time and patience at a gallop. For some, we walked through it with a pencil in our hands, while others skipped it altogether. Probably for the first time, this is normal, this is probably how it should be. After all, we promised ourselves to return to this book a little later, when we realize what we read and our daring thoughts subside, when silence reigns in the house. And when this will happen, and whether it will happen at all, we ourselves don’t know.

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6. Blavatskaya E.P. The Secret Doctrine. T. 2, pp. - M. Eksmo, 2010.
7. Sylvia Cranston. Life and work of E.P. Blavatsky. Riga, Ligitma, 1999..
8. Bowen R. Madame Blavatsky on the study of Theosophy. "The Secret Doctrine" and its study. Internet.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Blavatskaya E.P. The Secret Doctrine. T. 1. M. 2010.
13. Blavatskaya E.P. The Secret Doctrine. T. 2. M. 2010.
14. Blavatskaya E.P. The Secret Doctrine. T.1, part III, department 3.M. 2010.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Johnson about Blavatsky. Internet.
19. Olcott. Sheets of an old diary. In Mary Naf's book. Personal memoirs of E.P. Blavatsky. M. Sfera, 1991.
20. A. Besant. E.P. Blavatsky and the Teachers of Wisdom.
21. Roerich E.I. Letter from F.A. Butsen, 03/25/35, vol. 3, p. 154.
22. Roerich E.I. Letter from V.A. Dukshta-Dukshinskaya, 09/08/34, vol. 2, p. 355.
23. Roerich E.I. Letter from V.L. Dutko, 05/14/45, vol. 7, pp. 233-234.
24. Corson R. E.P. Blavatsky and predictions of scientific discoveries of the twentieth century. Portal "Adamant".
25. Dolgikh Yu.I. Scientific predictions of E.P. Blavatsky. // “Bulletin of Theosophy”, No. 1, 1992.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Secret Doctrine. Volume III

Either the inspired prediction of the great Hebrew prophet, predicting with marvelous accuracy the future teaching of Jesus of Nazareth, or the Semitic fiction from which the latter borrowed His concepts of the triumphant return of the Son of man to sit on his rightful throne among rejoicing saints and trembling sinners, awaiting either eternal happiness or the eternal fire, whether these celestial visions are taken to be human or divine, they exercised such an enormous influence on the destinies of mankind for nearly two thousand years that candid and impartial seekers after religious truth can no longer postpone the investigation of the connections of the Book of Enoch with revelation or evolution Christianity.

"Book of Enoch" -

It also keeps records on the supernatural control of the elements through the activities of individual angels who have power over the winds, sea, hail, frost, dew, flashes of lightning and thunderclaps. Also given are the names of the chief fallen angels, among whom we recognize some of the invisible forces named by name in the (magical) incantations written on the terracotta bowls of Jewish-Chaldean invocations.

On these cups we also find the word "Hallelujah", proving

The word that the Syro-Chaldeans used in spells, through the vicissitudes of the fate of the language, has now become the secret password of modern revivalists.

The editor then quotes fifty-seven verses from various parts of the Gospels and Acts, with similar passages from the Book of Enoch, and says:

The attention of theologians has been focused on passages of the Epistle of Jude, since the author specifically mentions the name of the prophet, but the totality of linguistic coincidences and ideas in Enoch and the authors of the New Testament writings, which were revealed in similar quotations in our comparison, clearly indicates that this work is the Semitic Milton served as an inexhaustible source from which the evangelists and apostles, or those people who wrote under their names, borrowed their concepts of resurrection, judgment, immortality, the destruction of sinners and the universal reign of righteousness under the eternal rule of the Son of man. The gospel plagiarism reaches its climax in the Revelation of John, which adapts the visions of Enoch to Christianity with modifications in which we no longer find the stately simplicity of the great master of apocalyptic prediction, who prophesied in the name of the antediluvian patriarch.

To be fair to the truth, one would at least have to hypothesize that the Book of Enoch in its present form is simply a copy - with numerous pre-Christian and post-Christian additions and interpolations - from much older texts. Modern research has already advanced so much as to lead to the discovery that in chapter LXXI, Enoch divides day and night into eighteen parts and represents the longest day of the year as consisting of twelve of these eighteen parts, whereas a day of sixteen hours cannot exist in Palestine. The translator, Archbishop Laurens, says this about this:

The region in which the author lived must be located not below forty-five degrees north latitude, where the longest day is fifteen and a half hours, and not above forty-nine degrees, where the longest day is exactly sixteen hours. This places the country where he wrote at the height of at least the northern regions of the Caspian and Euxine seas... the author of the Book of Enoch was perhaps a member of one of the tribes that Shalmaneser carried away and placed "in Hale and Gabor by the river Goshen, and in the cities of Media."

It is further recognized that:

It cannot be said that the evidence arising from the facts of the case demonstrates the superiority of the Old Testament over the Book of Enoch. ... The Book of Enoch affirms the pre-existence of the Son of Man. The Chosen One, the Messiah, who "from the beginning existed in secret, and whose name was spoken in the presence of the Lord of Spirits before the sun and signs were created." The author also refers to "another Power that was upon the Earth above the waters that day" - an obvious allusion to the language of Genesis I, 2. (We contend that this also applies to the Hindu Narayana - "hovering above the waters.") Thus thus we have the Lord of Spirits, the Chosen One, and the third Power, who seem to foreshadow this Trinity (as well as the Trimurti) of the future; but although Enoch's ideal Messiah undoubtedly had a significant influence on the primary concepts of the divinity of the Son of man, we fail to identify his vague allusion to another "Power" with the belief in the doctrine of the Trinity of the Alexandrian school, especially since "angels of power" abound in the visions Enoch.

It is unlikely that an occultist would not recognize the said “Power.” The editor, concluding his remarkable reasoning, adds:

Thus far we learn that the Book of Enoch was published before the Christian era by some great Unknown of a Semitic (?) tribe, who, believing himself to be inspired in the post-prophetic age, borrowed the name of the antediluvian patriarch to vindicate his own enthusiastic prediction of the kingdom of the Messiah. And since the contents of this wonderful book are freely included in the New Testament, it follows that if the author was not an inspired prophet who predicted the teachings of Christianity, then he was an enthusiastic visionary, whose illusions were accepted by the evangelists and apostles as revelations - here two alternative conclusions that involve the question of the divine or human origin of Christianity.

According to the same editor, the result of all this was:

The discovery that the language and ideas of the supposed revelation are found in a pre-existing Work, accepted by the evangelists and apostles as inspired, but classified by modern theologians as apocryphal works.

This also explains the reluctance of the venerable librarians of the Bodleian Library to publish the Ethiopic text of the Book of Enoch.

The prophecies of the Book of Enoch are indeed prophetic, but they were intended to cover the events of only five of the seven Races - everything relating to the last two is kept secret. Therefore, the remark made by the editor of the English translation that

Chapter XXII contains a series of prophecies extending from the time of Enoch himself to about a thousand years after our present generation,

Wrong. These prophecies extend to the end of our present Race, and not just another "thousand years" into the future. It is very correct that:

In the system of chronology accepted by Christians, one day (sometimes) symbolizes a hundred years, and a week symbolizes seven hundred years.

But this is an arbitrary and unrealistic system adopted by Christians to make biblical chronology conform to facts or theories, and does not represent genuine thought. "Days" symbolize the indeterminate periods of the lateral races, and "weeks" the sub-races: the root races were referred to by a designation which cannot even be found in the English translation. Also, the sentence at the end of page 150:

Subsequently, in the fourth week... the saints and the righteous will be seen, the order of generation after generation will be established,

Completely wrong. The original says: “the order generation after generation was established on Earth,” etc.; that is, after the first human race, born in a truly human manner, was born in the third root race - which completely changes the meaning. This means that everything that is given in the translation - as probably as in the Ethiopic text, for the copies are very altered - about events that should happen in the future, in the original Chaldean manuscript, as we know, was stated in the past tense, and is not a prophecy, but a narration of events that have already happened. When Enoch begins to "speak from the book," he is reading a description given by a great Seer, and these prophecies are not his own, but come from that Seer. Enoch or Enochion means "inner eye" or Seer. In this way every prophet or adept can be called an "Enochion" without becoming a pseudo-Enoch. But here the Seer who composed this "Book of Enoch" is clearly indicated as reading from the book:

I was born seventh in the first week (the seventh branch or lateral Race of the first sub-race, after the physical birth began, namely in the third root race)... But after me, in the second week (in the second sub-race) a great evil will arise (or rather, arose), and this week the end of the first will come, in which humanity will be safe. But when the first one ends, hostility will increase.

The way it is translated it makes no sense. Thus, as stated in the esoteric text, this simply means that the first root race must come to its end during the second sub-race of the third root race, during which time humanity will be safe. All this has nothing to do with the biblical Flood, verse 10 speaks of the sixth week (the sixth sub-race of the third root race), when

All those who are in it will darken; their hearts will become forgetful of wisdom (divine knowledge will fade away) and one person will rise in it.

For some mysterious reasons of their own, interpreters consider this “man” to be Nebuchadnezzar; in reality he is the first hierophant of the purely human Race (after the allegorical Fall into generation), chosen to preserve the fading wisdom of the devas (angels or elohim). He is the first "Son of Man", this mysterious name was given to the divine initiates of the first human school of Manushi (people), at the very end of the third root race. He was also called the “Savior”, since He was the one who, together with other hierophants, saved the Chosen and the Perfect from the geological fire, leaving to perish in the cataclysm of the End those who had forgotten the original wisdom, immersed in sexual sensuality.

And during the completion of it (the “sixth week” or sixth sub-race) he will burn the house of the headship (half the globe or the continent inhabited at that time) with fire, and the entire race of the chosen root will be scattered.

The above refers to the chosen initiates, and not at all to the Jews, to the supposed chosen people, or to the Babylonian captivity, as interpreted by Christian theologians. Whereas we find Enoch, or his perpetuator, mentioning the execution of "the judgment upon sinners" in several different weeks, saying that "all the works of the unbelievers shall perish from the face of the earth," during this fourth time (fourth Race) - then this cannot in any way be applied to the single Flood of the Bible, much less to the Captivity.

It follows, therefore, that since the Book of Enoch covers the five Races of the Manvantara and gives a few allusions to the last two, it does not contain “Biblical prophecies,” but simply facts taken from the hidden books of the East. In addition, the editor admits that:

The preceding six verses, viz., 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18, are taken from the interval between verses 14 and 15 of the nineteenth chapter, where they are found in the manuscript.

With this arbitrary rearrangement he made the confusion even more confusing. Yet he is quite right in saying that the doctrines of the Gospels and even of the Old Testament were taken entirely from the Book of Enoch, for this is as obvious as the sun in the sky. The whole of the Pentateuch was adapted to agree with the facts given therein, and this explains why the Jews refused to give this book a place in their Canon, just as the Christians subsequently refused to admit it among their canonical works. The fact that the apostle Jude and many of the fathers of Christianity refer to it as a revelation and a sacred book, however, is an excellent proof that the early Christians recognized it; Among them, the most learned - Clement of Alexandria, for example - understood Christianity and its doctrines in a completely different light from their modern followers, and viewed Christ under an aspect that only occultists can appreciate. The early Nazarenes and Chrestians, as Justin Martyr calls them, were followers of Jesus, the true Chrestos and Christos of initiation; whereas modern Christians, especially Western ones, may be Papists, Greeks, Calvinists, or Lutherans, but they can hardly be called Christians, that is, followers of Jesus, Christ.

So, the Book of Enoch is entirely symbolic. It tells the history of the human races and their early connection with theogony, the symbols being mixed with astronomical and cosmic mysteries. However, one chapter is missing from the records of Noah (both the Paris and Bodleian manuscripts), namely, chapter LVIII in section X; it could not be remade and therefore it had to disappear, only distorted fragments remained from it. The dream about cows, black, red, and white heifers refers to the first Races, their separation and disappearance. Chapter LXXXVIII, in which one of the four angels “went to the white cows and taught them the secret,” after which the emerging mystery “became man,” refers to a) the first group developed from the primitive Aryans, and b) the so-called “secret of Hermaphroditus” ", relating to the birth of the first human Races as they are now. A well-known rite in India - a rite which has survived in that patriarchal country to this day, known as the passage, or birth, through a cow - a ceremony to which those of the lower castes undergo who wish to become Brahmins - has its origins in this mystery. Let any Eastern Occultist read with great attention the above-mentioned chapter in the Book of Enoch, and he will find that the “Lord of the Sheep,” in whom Christians and European mystics see Christ, is the Hierophant Sacrifice, whose name in Sanskrit we dare not give out. And again, while Western churchmen see in the “sheep and wolves” the Egyptians and Israelites, all these animals, in fact, have to do with the trials of the neophyte and the mysteries of initiation, be it in India or Egypt, and the most terrible punishment brought upon oneself "wolves" - those who recklessly reveal what only the Elect and the "Perfect" should know.

Christians who, thanks to later interpolations, have seen in this chapter a triple prophecy relating to the Flood, Moses and Jesus, are mistaken, since in reality it has a direct bearing on punishment, the destruction of Atlantis and retribution for indiscretion. The "Lord of the Sheep" is karma, and also the "chief of the hierophants", the supreme initiator on Earth. He says to Enoch, who begs him to save the sheep drivers so that they are not devoured by wild beasts:

I will make sure that everything is listed to me... how many they destroyed and... what they will do; whether they will do as I ordered them or not.

However, they should not know about this; Also, you should not explain anything to them, and you should not scold them, but an account must be taken of all the destruction they committed in their time.

And silently, rejoicing, he watched as they were devoured, swallowed, carried away, and left them for the beasts to eat...

Those who have the impression that occultists of any nation reject the Bible in its original text and meaning are wrong. This would be the same as rejecting the Book of Thoth, the Chaldean Kabala, or the Book of Dzyan itself. Occultists reject only one-sided interpretations and the human element in the Bible, which is as much an occult and therefore sacred work as any other. And, indeed, the punishment of all those who transgress the permitted boundaries of secret revelations is terrible. From Prometheus to Jesus, and from him to the highest adept, as well as to the lowest disciple, every revealer of secrets had to become a Chrestos, a “man of sorrows” and a martyr. “Beware,” said one of the greatest Teachers, “from revealing the Mystery to those outside,” to the profane, the Sadducees and the unbelievers. History testifies that all the great hierophants: Buddha, Pythagoras, Zoroaster, most of the great Gnostics, the founders of their respective schools, and in our more modern era - a number of Fire philosophers, Rosicrucians and adepts - ended their lives with violent deaths. They are all shown, simply or allegorically, as having been punished for the revelations they made. To a lay reader this may seem like just a coincidence. For the occultist, the death of every “Master” is important and seems full of meaning. Where shall we find in history that a "Messenger", great or small, initiate or neophyte, who, after he has become the bearer of some hitherto hidden truth or truths, is not crucified and torn to pieces by "the dogs"? » envy, anger and ignorance? This is the terrible occult law; and he who does not feel that he has the heart of a lion to despise the wild barking, and the soul of a dove to forgive poor ignorant fools, let him renounce sacred science. To be successful, the occultist must be fearless, must face danger, dishonor and death bravely, be full of forgiveness and remain silent about what cannot be revealed. Those who have labored in vain in this direction must now wait, as the Book of Enoch teaches, "until the wicked are destroyed" and the power of the wicked destroyed. It is unlawful for an occultist to seek or even crave revenge; let him

Waits until sin disappears; for their (sinners) names will be blotted out from the sacred books (astral records), their seed will be destroyed and their souls killed.

Esoterically Enoch is the first “Son of Man,” and symbolically the first sub-race of the fifth root race. there are three separate Enochs (Kanokh or Hanoch) - the son of Cain, the son of Seth and the son of Jared; but they are all identical and two of them are mentioned only to mislead. The years of only the last two are given, the first being left out.] And if his name, being applied as a numerical and astronomical glyph, gives the meaning of the solar year or 365, according to the age assigned to him in the Book of Genesis, it is because, being the seventh, he, for occult purposes, is the personified period of the two preceding Races with their fourteen sub-races. Therefore he is shown in this book as the great grandfather of Noah, who in turn is the personification of the humanity of the fifth, fighting with the humanity of the fourth root race; it was that great period of revealed and profaned Mysteries when the “sons of God” came to earth and took human daughters as wives and taught them the secrets of the angels; in other words, when the “mind-born” people of the third Race mixed with the people of the fourth and divine science was gradually reduced by people to witchcraft.

HERMETIC AND KABBALISTIC DOCTRINES

The cosmogony of Hermes is as veiled as the system of Moses, only in its appearance it is much more in harmony with the doctrines of the secret sciences and even with modern science. The thrice-great Trismegistus says: “The hand that sculpted the world from formless pre-existent matter is not a hand”; to which the Book of Genesis replies: “The world was created out of nothing,” although the Kabbalah denies such a meaning in its first lines. The Kabbalists, like the Indian Aryans, never recognized such absurdity. They considered Fire or Heat and Motion to be the main tools in the formation of the world from pre-existing Matter. Parabrahman and Mulaprakriti of the Vedantists are the prototypes of the Ein Soph and Shekinah of the Kabbalists. Aditi is the original of the Sephira, and the Prajapatis are the elder brothers of the Sephiroths. The theory of the stellar nebulae of modern science, with all its secrets, was revealed in the cosmogony of archaic doctrine; and the paradoxical, although very scientific formulation that “cooling causes compression, and compression causes heating, therefore cooling causes heating,” is shown as the main mediator in the formation of the worlds and especially our sun and solar system.

All this is contained in a small volume of the Sepher Yetzirah, in its thirty-two Paths of Wisdom, signed “Jah Jehovah of Hosts,” for everyone who holds the key to its hidden meaning. As for the dogmatic or theological interpretation of the first verses in the Book of Genesis, there is an answer to it essentially in the same book, where, speaking of the Three Matters - Air, Water and Fire, the writer describes them as scales in which

Good is on one bowl, evil is on the other, and the oscillating arrow of the scales is between them.

One of the secret names of the one eternal and omnipresent deity was the same in every country and has preserved to this day a sound similarity in different languages. Aum of the Hindus, this sacred syllable, became ’???? among the Greeks and Aevum among the Romans - Pan or Vsom. The “Thirtieth Way” in Sefer Yetzirah is called “gathering understanding”, since

With them the celestial adepts collect judgments about the stars and celestial signs, and their observations of orbits are the perfection of science.

The thirty-second and final path is called “serving understanding,” and it is so called because it is

Steward of all those who serve in the work of the seven Planets, according to their Hosts.

The Secret Doctrine of Helena Blavatsky. First meeting with Annie Besant. Creation of the school of occultism and Madame Blavatsky's lodge. Biography of the creator of "Lucifer"

The Secret Doctrine and its Creator

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (née von Hahn) was born on August 12, 1831 in Dnepropetrovsk. It mixed the blood of famous families of France, Germany and Russia.

Since 1842, after the death of her mother, Elena and her younger sister Vera moved to Saratov to live with their grandmother E.P. Fadeeva. At the age of 17, Elena married the old retired general N.V. Blavatsky, this was a way to gain freedom.

Three months later in 1849, Elena, with her father’s money, went on a long trip to Turkey and Egypt.

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In 1851 she came to London, where she met her Teacher Mahathma Morya. She immediately recognized him as the same person whom she had seen in astral form as a child. He revealed to her that she should become the founder of the Theosophical Society.

To prepare and improve the Spirit, she needs to spend 3 years in Tibet. In the same year, Elena visits the USA, South America and then India.

However, this time the trip to Tibet had to be postponed. Only three years later, in 1854, from America through India, she again made an attempt to get to Tibet to her Teacher.

In 1858, having undergone initiation, she returned to Europe, and then to Russia in Pskov - to her sister Vera.

Very soon the whole city was talking about the “miracles” of Madame Blavatsky. She had clairvoyance and moved objects with her gaze.

From 1860 to 1865 Traveling through the Caucasus, Elena experienced a severe physical and mental crisis. But everything ended well, and she learned to control her unusual abilities.

In 1868, Elena again went to Tibet and spent about three years in the house of her teacher Kut Khumi, continuing her novitiate.

At the end of 1870, Blavatsky returned to Europe, then to Odessa to visit her relatives.

On the instructions of her Teacher in 1873, Elena comes to America. There she meets Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, the famous Irish-American lawyer, and William Quan Judge, who would play a decisive role in the establishment of the Theosophical Society in 1875.

In 1877, her “Isis Unveiled” was published. And in 1879, Elena went with the colonel to Bombay, where the headquarters of the Theosophical Society was created and the first Theosophical magazine “The Theosophist” was published there, which still exists today.

In 1884, a scandal broke out due to the slander of two employees who accused Blavatsky of fraud. Unfortunately, based on these facts, the London Society for Psychical Research (SPR) published a report in which it described Blavatsky as “one of the most brilliant and interesting frauds in history.” And to this day this report is cited as evidence of Blavatsky’s fraud.

It later turned out that this case was concocted by the Jesuits, who hated Helen and the Society she created. The accusation was built and fabricated on letters allegedly written by Blavatsky with instructions on how to organize phenomena. The Jesuit conspiracy involved a Columa couple who talked about the secret refurbishment of her house.

An excerpt from E.I. Roerich’s letter to Vera Alexandrovna Dushinskaya is of interest: “...due to the lack of a special selection of persons possessing the synthesis of the high Spirit, the Society for Psychical Research will continue to drag out its shameful existence...”

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It’s funny that the author of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who devoted 50 years of his life to the occult and spiritualism, studied theosophy for several years and, having become disillusioned with it, in 1891 joined the Society for Psychical Research.

Hodgson's accusations were analyzed and refuted in 1963 by Adley Waterman in Obituary: Hodgson's Report on Madame Blavatsky.

Only 100 years later, the OPI disavowed its “famous report,” recognizing it as biased. OPI published its apologies in leading English-language publications in the USA, Canada and Australia.

Judicial squabbles and false accusations undermined Elena Petrovna's health, and in 1887 she moved to London, where she was invited by English theosophists. And by the fall of 1888, her famous “Secret Doctrine” (La Doctrina Secreta) was published. In order to protect the secret doctrine, the brainchild of her whole life, Elena is preparing the release of a new magazine, the name of which has caused a storm of criticism and...

incredible success.

Subject to increasing attacks from the London Lodge, and having effectively lost control of her magazine, The Theosophist, Helen creates a new magazine, Lucifer. The first issue, which in 1888 not only protected her from the militant profane, but also became the stronghold of her own esoteric lodge - the Lodge of Madame Blavatsky.

Vera and Charles Johnston with Henry Alcott stand behind Helena Blavatsky and her sister, Vera Zhelikhovskaya. London, 1888_"secret doctrine"

In the same 1888, the active madam opened her esoteric school “Practical Occultism”. In the context of these meetings, a summary has been preserved, now known as the “Proceedings of the Blavatsky Lodge.”

Thanks to “Lucifer” and “The Secret Doctrine” in 1889, the world saw new revelations of Madame Blavatsky - “The Key to Theosophy” (La Clave de la Teosofia) and the mystical book “The Voice of Silence” (La voz del Silencio).

Meanwhile, the secret doctrine, which was gaining momentum and popularity, made it possible by 1890 to open the European headquarters of the Theosophical Society. It was there that Elena met Annie Besant for the first time.

Nee Wood, Annie was so attractive and eloquent that Elena could not help but invite her to join her bed. This brilliant person was very popular not only in society; Bernard Shaw, whom Annie almost married, dedicated his plays to her.

Finding an older friend in Madame Blavatsky, Annie developed mystical and spiritualistic abilities and became the leader of the Theosophical Society after Blavatsky's death.

In Germany, Theosophy was banned by the Third Reich, but immediately after its fall in 1945, the Theosophical Society of Germany resumed its educational activities. And on the house in which Helena Blavatsky wrote her “Secret Doctrine,” the house of Countess Constance Wachmeister in Würzburg (Würzburg, Ludwigstraße 6), a memorial plaque is now installed in her honor.

Secret Doctrine

from the Creator of "Lucifer"

"There is no doctrine higher than truth"

Blavatsky

Volume 1

Stanza 1 "secret doctrine"

“The eternal birthing mother, eternally invisible, once again dozed for 7 eternities.”

The mother giving birth is space. 7 eternities are 7 periods of one Manvantara during the “Great Age” (100 Years of Brahma). As a result, 311,040,000,000,000 years. The year of Brahma = 360 days and nights, and the day of Brahma = 4,320,000,000 mortal years. These eternities belong to the most secret calculations, in which, in order to come to a true result, each figure must be 7 to the power of X, and X varies depending on the cycle and each figure in the real or unreal world must be a multiple of 7. Key this cannot be given, it is the secret of esoteric calculations.

“One darkness filled the boundless everything, for father, mother and son were still one, and the son had not yet awakened for the new wheel and wanderings on it.”

The term "wheel" is a symbol of the world or ball, indicating that the ancients knew that the Earth was a rotating ball. The “Great Wheel” is a complete revolution of a chain of globes or spheres. “Small wheels” = circles, of which there are also 7. Father-mother-son in the cosmophysical sense, this is the Universe - Planetary chain - Earth. In the spiritual sense = this is the Unknowable Deity - Planetary Spirit - Man - the Son of both, a being of Spirit and Matter and their manifestation in its periodic manifestations on Earth during the “Wheels” or Manvantar.

Stanza 2 "secret doctrine"

“The hour has not yet struck, the ray has not yet penetrated the embryo, the matripadma has not yet swelled.”

Padma is the Indian word for lotus. The lotus is a product of heat (fire) and water (ether). Water is the mother, fire is the father. The lotus symbolizes human life, as well as the life of the Cosmos.

Stanza 3 "secret doctrine"

“The last trembling of the 7th eternity trembles in infinity, the mother swells like a lotus bud.”

“The darkness disappeared and no longer existed, it disappeared in its nature, in the body of fire and water, father and mother.”

In the Gospel of John 1.4: “And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it” - the word “darkness” does not apply to the spiritual vision of man, but truly to Darkness, the Absolute, which does not know, cannot imagine the transitory Light.

The “secret doctrine” gate awaits everyone who finds it.

The Devil is now called "Darkness" by the church. Whereas in the bible or in the book of Job he is called "Son of God", the bright star of the early morning Lux, the Dawn of Manvantara. He was transformed by the church into Lucifer or Satan because he was higher and older than Jehovah and had to be sacrificed to the New Dogma.

Stanza 4 "secret doctrine"

« There is Darkness, infinity or Adi - Nidana - 0

Adi - Sanat = 1, Voice of the word, Svabhavat (spirit), numbers, square without form,

These three, enclosed in O, are the hidden quaternity, then come the sons, the seven warriors, one - the eighth is left aside, and his breath is the light giver.”

O is an infinite circle; zero becomes a number only when one of the nine digits precedes it. The “Word” or Logos in combination with the Voice and Spirit (the expression and source of Consciousness) reveals nine numbers, forming with zero a decade that contains the entire Universe. The triad forms a quadrangle or “Hidden Quaternary” inside a circle. The square in the circle is the most powerful of the magical figures. “The One Rejected” is the Sun of our system.

Stanza 5 "secret doctrine"

“The primordial seven breaths of the dragon of wisdom generate a fire whirlwind with their sacred circular-spiral breath. They make him the messenger of their will, Jyu becomes Fohat.”

The doctrine teaches that in order to become a divine conscious God - yes! Even the highest – Spiritual, Primordial Minds – had to pass through the human stage. And when we say “human,” this applies not only to our earthly humanity, but also to mortals living in other worlds.

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Ju is collective Wisdom. Its antithesis is Jyuma, who deals only with illusions.

In the unmanifested Universe, Fohat is not the winged cupid (Eros) or Love. Fohat does not yet have contact with the Cosmos. For the Cosmos has not yet been born. It is an abstract philosophical concept. He's just a potential creative force. When the "Divine Son" is revealed, Fohat becomes the active Power that forces the one to become Two and Three on the cosmic plane of manifestation. The Trinity "One" differentiates into "Many" and then Fohat turns into that force which attracts the basic atoms and causes them to gather and combine.

Stanza 6 "secret doctrine"

“Fohat brought to life the ghostly form of the Universe and the 7 principles. The impetuous and radiant one generates 7 Laila - centers (nirvanas), which no one will overcome until the great day “Be with us” and surrounds the Universe with primary germs (atoms).”

The worlds, including our Earth, of course, developed initially from one element in its second stage of “Father-Mother,” the differentiated world Soul. Esotericism knows no gender. His Supreme Deity is as much beyond gender as he is beyond form. His first manifested beings are only gradually separated into two principles. Thus, in “Manu” Brahma (also Logos) is revealed as dividing his body into 2 parts of the male and female principles and subsequently creating the Son, who is himself and the same Brahma.

Neither water, nor air, nor earth (synonyms for all solid bodies) existed at all in their present states. For all of them, and even fire, are only products in new atmospheric combinations, already completely formed spheres, thus, in the first periods of the formation of the Earth they were something completely different. Not only the elements of our planet, but also the elements of all its sisters in the Solar System vary in their combinations from each other as widely as from the cosmic elements outside the Solar System. Each world has its own Fohat, which is omnipresent in its field of activity.

Kosmicheskaja sila_“secret doctrine”

Fohat, the creative force of the Cosmos, itself arose from “the brain of the Father and the womb of the Mother.” And then he himself was transformed into two principles, male and female, i.e. into positive and negative electricity. He has 7 sons, who are also his brothers. Fohat is forced to be born every time one of his “sons-brothers” gets too close to each other. To avoid this, he unites and binds together those who are different in nature. And separates those who are identical. As everyone knows, this refers to electricity. The “7 principles” are electricity, magnetism, sound, light, heat, and so on.

It is Fohat that directs the transfer of principles from one planet to another and from one star to another. When a planet dies, its life-giving principles are transferred to the laya or dormant center, which has potential energy, which begins to form again into a new stellar body.

Starting from the 7th stanza of the secret doctrine, everything will concern our solar system. Among the eleven stanzas of the secret doctrine released, there is one (apparently the seventh) giving a description of the formation of planetary chains. Divinity is the Law, the only eternal law, based on the sevenfold principle of constructing countless circles of the Chains of Worlds, consisting of 7 Globes. Of these 7, only the fourth, the lowest and most material, is accessible to our knowledge. The other six belong to higher planes and are invisible to our eyes. The planetary circle is a large circle, from Globe A to Globe G. Each Globe also goes through its own 7 circles - Circles of the Globe, or let’s call them Earth Circles.

Fajeton planetarnye cepi_“secret doctrine”

When a Planetary Chain is in its last circle, its Globe A, before it finally freezes, sends all its energy and all its principles to the neutral center of latent force, the laya center, and thereby revitalizes matter, giving it life for the next planetary chain.

So, every stellar body, every planet visible to us, has 6 fellow Globes, invisible to us. The evolution of life occurs on these 7 Globes over 7 Circles of Globes or 7 Cycles. Each Globe has its own 7 cycles.

These Globes are formed by a process called the process of rebirth of Planetary Chains or Rings. When the seventh and last round of one of these Rings has begun, the highest (or first) Globe A, and then the other globes, instead of entering into a long period of rest as was the case in the previous Rounds, begins to die and transfers all its principles to laya - center. And then to the new Planetary Chain. Globe A animates Globe A of the new chain, Globe B sends its energy to Globe B of the new chain, etc.

Only during the 1st Circle does the Heavenly Man (otherwise the Lunar ancestors or Pitrises) become a human being on Globe e A and again become a mineral, plant, animal on Globes B, C, D. The process changes completely from the second circle. Our Earth forms and hardens during the first three circles. Her humanity develops fully only in the 4th Circle - our real Circle. During the last three, it will return to its primary form, becoming, so to speak, spiritualized.

Jenergetika Dushi, Monady_“secret doctrine”

Now we should remember that Monads (Souls) are divided into 7 classes or hierarchies. Each new Manvantara must have a limited number of monads. Since this is necessary in view of the doctrine of Reincarnation and Karma and the gradual return of the human Monad to its source - the Absolute Divinity. The appearance of these Monads on the Globe is so adjusted that when class 7 (the last one) appears on Globe A, then class 1 has just transferred to Globe B from another planetary chain and so on. Thus it turns out that in the first round only the first class of monads reaches the human state, the Second Class Monads achieve human development only in the second round, etc. until the fourth round. In the middle of the 4th Circle, in which the human stage will be fully developed, the “door” to the human kingdom closes, since all other Monads will reach the human stage only at the end of the 7th Circle. They will therefore not be people in this chain, but will constitute the humanity of the future Manvantara in a higher Chain of the spiral of development.

Roughly speaking, according to the secret doctrine, there are 3 large classes of human Monads.

1. The most developed Monads are the Moon Gods or Pitrises, whose purpose is to pass in the 1st Round through the entire triple cycle of the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms in their most ethereal forms in order to adapt to the nature of the newly formed Chain. It is they who are the first to achieve human form on Globe A in the first circle, if it is appropriate to call it “people”. They do not resemble us either in form or in nature, but in terms of their spiritual development they can rather be called “Gods.”

2. Those monads who first reach the human stage within three and a half rounds and become "humans."

Rasy i Monady_“secret doctrine”

3. The remaining Monads who will not have time to reach the human stage.

There are Mineral Monads, Plant Monads, Animal Monads. The Mineral Monads are on the opposite arc of the circle from the Human Monads.

The mineral kingdom forms a turning point in the stages of the "Monadic nature." The complete development of the mineral age (three principles) on globe A prepares the way for the development of vegetation (first principle). As soon as it begins, the mineral life impulse passes to Globe B. Then, when the development of vegetation on Globe A ends, animal (first principle) development begins. The plant life impulse passes to Globe B, the mineral impulse passes to Globe C.

Finally, the development of animals ends and the last, human impulse (2 principles) enters Globe A.

The "Human Monad" is a combination of two principles in man - the sixth and seventh. The term “Human Monad” is applicable only to the Dual Soul (Atma-Buddhi), but not to its highest spiritual principle, Atma, taken separately.

The most developed Lunar Monads reach the human embryonic stage in the First Round, become earthly, although very ethereal beings by the end of the 3rd Round, remaining on the Earthly (4th) Globe as a seed for the future humanity in the 4th Round.

The Pitris developed astral doubles from themselves, which became the first Human Race on Earth. Thus, man, or, more precisely, his Monad, existed on Earth from the 1st Circle, but right up to our Fifth Race, the external appearances that clothed these “gods” changed and became denser, because they had to adapt to the constantly changing conditions on the Earth's Globe.

In the 1st Circle on the Earthly Globe, the First Race is the Pitris, and by analogy, the First Race of the 4th Circle is also ethereal, spiritual, but unreasonable.

In the 2nd Circle on Earth, Man becomes more physical, but less intelligent than spiritual. It has no sex and, like plants and animals, develops monstrous bodies corresponding to the harshness of its surroundings.

Circle 3rd - Man has a dense body, at first it is the form of a huge monkey and now he is more intelligent, or rather cunning, rather than spiritual. In the last half of the Third Circle, his gigantic build decreases and he becomes more intelligent. All this is almost exactly repeated in the Third Root Race of the 4th Circle.

4 Circle. Reason reaches enormous development. The Fourth Race acquires human speech. At this midpoint of the 4th Circle (as in the fourth Root Race or the Atlantean Race), the world is saturated with the results of rational activity and a decrease in spirituality.

The people of the Third Race, the ancestors of the Atlanteans, were exactly the same ape-like giants who did not possess reason, like those creatures who represented humanity during the 3rd Circle. Being morally irresponsible, these "people" of the Third Race, through indiscriminate copulation with animals of a lower level than themselves, created that missing link, which, several centuries later, became the distant ancestor of the real ape. However, the Lemuro-Atlanteans were a highly civilized race, this race was superior to us, with all our sciences and the degraded civilization of our days.

From the middle of the 4th Round there was to be an equilibration between spirit and matter, the highest point of civilization and knowledge. It was at this time that humanity was divided into two diametrically opposed paths: the Right path and the Left path. Thus the seeds of White and Black Magic were sown to sprout in the early period of the Fifth (our Race).

The Holy Youths (Gods) refused to reproduce and create species in their own image. And they had to suffer for this in later births, as written in Volume 2. Creatures who rebelled against the laws of nature and thereby interfered with its legitimate progress were doomed to suffer.

Stanza 7 "secret doctrine"

“The spark of Fohat, connected with the flame by a thin thread, it wanders through the 7 worlds of Maya, it stops in the first, becoming metal and stone, comes to the second and see a plant, etc.”

The phrase "Through the 7 Worlds of Maya" refers here to the 7 Globes of the Planetary Chain and the 7 Circles or 49 places of active existence which stand before the "spark" or Monad, at the beginning of each Great Cycle of Life or Manvantara. The “Thread of Fohat” is the thread of life.

The sequence of primary aspects of nature, with which the sequence of Circles is associated, concerns the development of the elements: fire, air, water and earth. In the Old Testament:

Hypotheses of the origin of life_Sotvorenie Mira_“secret doctrine”

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” is a distorted translation that does not mean heaven and earth. But there are two heavens: upper and lower heavens. Or the separation of the original Substance, which was light in its upper part and darkness in its lower (manifested Universe). Its duality of invisible to our senses and visible to our knowledge. “And God separated the light from the darkness and then created the firmament” (that is, air) “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it separate the waters from the waters,” that is, under the firmament is our manifested Universe, and above the firmament are plans invisible to us Genesis. In chapter 2, plants were created before water: “The Lord God created the earth and the sky, and every bush of the field that was not yet on the earth, and every grass of the field that was not yet growing, for the Lord God did not send rain on the earth” - this is absurdity , if you do not accept the esoteric explanation. Plants were created before they were in the earth - for then there was no such earth as there is now.

"secret doctrine" year 1888

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