All-Important Pages from The Secret Doctrine

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Blavatsky Speaks Series · 104 pages

The full version of what the abridged Student's Approach summarises: a hundred and four pages reproducing in full the passages Blavatsky herself commended to students, in the order she gave them. It opens with the four ideas she said must be held before anything else — that the first is unity, that there is no dead matter, that man is the microcosm, and the fourth expressed in the great Hermetic axiom.

Her method is stated bluntly and is the reason this compilation exists: reading the Secret Doctrine page by page as one reads any other book will only end in confusion. The first thing to do, even if it takes years, is to get some grasp of the three Fundamental Propositions of the Proem, and all three are reproduced here. That is to be followed by the Recapitulation — the numbered items in the Summing Up to the first part of Volume One — and then by the Preliminary Notes to Volume Two, which introduce the succession of continents: the Imperishable Sacred Land, the Hyperborean, and the third, which she proposes to call Lemuria. Anyone who has bought the Secret Doctrine and stalled in it will find this the document that unsticks them.

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