The Bowen Notes, In the Version
Published by the Theosophy Company
Robert Bowen
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Being extracts
from the notes of personal teachings
given by H.P.
Blavatsky to private pupils during the
years 1888 to
1891, included in a large manuscript
volume left to
me by my father, who was one of the pupils.
- P.G. Bowen
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H.P. Blavatsky
was especially interesting upon the matter of “The Secret Doctrine” during the
past week. I had better try to sort it all out and get it safely down on paper
while it is fresh in my mind. As she said herself, it may be useful to someone
thirty or forty years hence. The Secret
Doctrine is only quite a small fragment of the Esoteric Doctrine known to
the higher members of the Occult Brotherhoods. It contains, she says, just as
much as can be received by the world during this coming century. “The World” (she
explained) means Man living in the Personal Nature. This “world” will find in
the two volumes of the S.D. all its utmost comprehension can grasp, but no
more. But this is not to say that the Disciple who is not living in “the world”
cannot find any more in the book than the “world” finds. Every form, no matter
how crude, contains the image of its “creator” concealed within it. So likewise
does an author’s work, no matter how obscure, contain the concealed image of
the author’s knowledge…
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