WHAT SOME DISTINGUISHED THINKERS
SAID ABOUT THE BOOKS OF H.P.BLAVATSKY
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The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy:
"Some of our ablest scientists, Albert Einstein and Robert Millikan are said to have had THE SECRET DOCTRINE on their table all the time."
The Journal of San Diego History
THEODORE ROSZAK, social historian, writes in a chapter titled "Madame Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine":
Her books reveal "the first philosophy of psychic and spiritual evolution to appear in the modern West. ... One of the great liberated ladies of her day – she could not help but draw withering, critical fire by her every act and word, especially when she presumed to challenge the most entrenched intellectual orthodoxies of the age. Still today people who have never read a line she wrote remain adamantly convinced she was a fraud and a crank. ... Above all she is among the world's trailblazing psychologists of the visionary mind."
[from The Unfinished Animal, Harper & Row, 1975]
CHRISTMAS HUMPHREYS, British author, jurist, judge, and Buddhist philosopher:
"In Buddhism I saw the road, but why is it there? I remember stopping in the street in Cambridge and demanding loudly, ‘Buddhism won't do, dammit, it won't do! Who am I and why am I revolving in this particular universe?’ I found my Plan in The Secret Doctrine. This for the first time gave me what seemed to me then, and seems to me now, a clear exposition of the coming into being of the universe and the genesis and meaning of man. Here was a map of becoming."
[The Middle Way, Aug. 1969]
GEORGE RUSSELL (AE), Irish author and editor:
"The real source of H.P.Blavatsky's influence is to be found in The Secret Doctrine. It is one of the most exciting and stimulating books written for the last hundred years. Yeats, Maeterlinck, Sir William Crookes (the greatest chemist of modern times, who was a member of her society) and scholars and scientists in many countries read H.P.Blavatsky's books. Dip into ‘The Proem’ to The Secret Doctrine, and you will understand the secret of the influence of that extraordinary woman on her contemporaries which still persists strong as ever, as I have found over here [in London] among many intellectuals and well-known writers."
[in a letter to Sean O'Faolain]
Editions of THE SECRET DOCTRINE
2 volumes in one, 1500 pages, original 1888 edition (cloth) £16.00, with separate index £4.50.
A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology.
ALFRED R. WALLACE, co-author with Darwin of the theory of evolution, regarding Isis Unveiled:
"I am amazed at the vast amount of erudition displayed in these handsome volumes and the great interest of the topics on which they treat. Opens a whole world of new ideas and cannot fail to be of the greatest value."
[in a letter to H.P.Blavatsky, Jan. 1, 1878]
WILLIAM STEWART ROSS remarked in The Agnostic Journal of which he was editor:
"Anyone with the capacity to recognize human greatness and to discern the Shekinah light of Genius, could not fail to know that the world held only one Madame Blavatsky. She had that overflow of soul which falls to the lot of few.
… In spite of her tremendous attainments and unrivalled talent, she had not a vestige of pedantic assumption, and had the simple heart of a child. ‘Impostor’ indeed! She was almost the only mortal I have ever met who was not an impostor." For evidence, he said, "read Isis Unveiled, The Secret Doctrine and The Key to Theosophy."
[The Agnostic Journal]
Editions of ISIS UNVEILED
2 volumes in one, 1300 pages (cloth). Original 1877 edition £15.00.
The first editions of Isis sold out in just 10 days, and have been in print ever since.
From the Book of the Golden Precepts (Tibetan), translated and annotated by H.P.Blavatsky.
Dr. D.T.SUZUKI, renowned Zen Buddhist teacher:
"The Voice of the Silence is true Mahayana Buddhist doctrine.
Undoubtedly Madame Blavatsky had in some way been initiated into the deeper side of Mahayana teaching.
She did more than any other single individual to bring to the West a knowledge of Eastern religious philosophy."
[in his review of William Kingsland's biography The Real H.P.Blavatsky]
Editions of the THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE
Hardback, 114 pages £4.00
A dialogue between an inquirer and a theosophist; explains fundamental theosophical principles.
GANDHI remarked in his Autobiography that as a young man
"this book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition."
His biographer, Louis Fischer, records Gandhi as informing him that
"Theosophy is the brotherhood of man. Theosophy is the teaching of Madame Blavatsky. It is Hinduism at its best."
Theosophy is equally interested in Eastern and Western religions. It aims to unify ALL the world's religions, philosophies and sciences into one complete whole by uncovering the essential truths underlying each of them, and remove dogma and superstition.
The word religion comes from the Latin 'religare' RE again, LIG to tie or bind. Therefore true religion has its echo in its original meaning, that which brings people together.
Editions of the KEY TO THEOSOPHY
Hardback, 310 pages £5.20