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Title: Isis Unveiled: Secrets of the Ancient Wisdom Tradition, Madame Blavatsky's First Work by Michael Gomes, Helena P. Blavatsky, Kern Foundation, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky ISBN: 0-8356-0729-1 Publisher: Quest Books Pub. Date: November, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: MUST READ FOR A DEEP UNDERSTANDING!!!
Comment: NOT A LIGHT READ BY ANY MEANS!- BUT NECESSARY IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND THE BASIS BEHIND MANY BELIEFS. (READ ALL OF HER WORK) ONE OF THE KEYS TO FINDING "THE TRUTH" IS TO FIND THE HINT OF TRUTH FROM ALL THE ANCIENT BELIEF SYSTEMS. THIS SET OF BOOKS IS A BIG HELP. THIS WOMAN SPENT HER WHOLE LIFE TRAVELING AND SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH. SHE SET A LOT OF PEOPLE THINKING AND CHANGED A LOT OF LIVES THROUGH HER WORK. YOU MUST OWN THIS COLLECTION IF YOU HAVE ANY INKLING FOR WANTING TO KNOW THE REAL TRUTH.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Introduction - but not the method itself
Comment: This book is an awe inspiring introduction to the largely ignored esoteric knowledge and history that weaves throughout human history. Blavatsky delivers to humanity a potent clue toward much that is unknown by common people. Those who have read her works develop a new appreciation and respect for mystical traditions the world over and gain more discriminatory thinking, as they are less likely to buy the mass illusion spun by our modern culture. Fortunately, the interested student doesnt have to stop there; previously, those who were inspired by Blavatsky and other such writers were left to struggle with learning how to incorporate such knowledge or discover how to access it themselves, and because she and all other true initiates were unable to reveal the direct and practical instruction that any student would require in order to enter the path, there were and are many who end in frustration, unable to access the experiences and knowledge they crave so much. This is a great tragedy, but it is no longer necessary. This all changed in 1950 when Samael Aun Weor began publishing his works. His works are not erudite, full of bibliographic references or in depth historical analysis: his works are entirely practical, as he was the first initiate duly authorized to reveal to humanity what had always previously been hidden. Thus his works are full of techniques and instruction that every student can use in order to discover in themselves the truths expressed by all the great teachers of humanity. Thus his teachings have spread so thick in the Spanish-speaking countries that you find small towns that don't even have a post office but they will have a Gnostic School. He was allowed to do so because this humanity has become so degenerated and caught in lies and deception that there is no other hope save to offer them a last chance by revealing the beauty of the Great Arcanum in order that some may redeem themselves of the suffering we are all trapped within. Try "The Doomed Aryan Race" or "The Mystery of the Golden Blossom." You can find his works at the Gnostic Institute zshop.
Rating: 5
Summary: The 'religion' of the 21st C.
Comment: I can only concur with the verdict of the other reviewers. Blavatsky - and 'Theosophy' generally - have been grossly under-rated and unfairly reviled in recent decades, frequently judged according to ill informed caricatures and distortions. Hence, there is a misleading preconception of Theosophy as occult 'hoo-hah,'or else a kind of 'cosmic porridge' and mish mash of all religion. But there are reasons for thinking that the basic principles of 'theosophy'must be the ultimate 'form' that any truly modern 'religion' will take - because it has had the courage and vision enabling it to perceive that there are no monopolies on the truth. Although fleshed out in encyclopaediac detail, 'Isis Unveiled' and 'The Secret Doctrine' both endeavour to make this point. On purely doctrinal terms, of course, nose against the page, one could spend an eternity - trying to figure out where the world's religious traditions truly converge. But by and large, organised or instutionalised religions have been loathe to relinquish their claim to monopolies on the truth. Blavatsky was very far-sighted in this respect, for her work prefigured the wider search for inter-faith understanding, which characterised the more promising features of religious renewal in the 20th c. Hence, Blavatsky's work has renewed significance and added meaning, at the beginning of a new century - and millennium. While fresh and lively thirty years ago, the search for spiritual alternatives and spirituality fit for a 'new age' has seen conservative reactions setting in. Doctrines once embraced by us - because of a perceived 'open-endedness' - have have since spawned some pretty rigid neo-orthodoxies, born of the the urge to make a fortress of the truth - and bolt the door shut against the rest of reality. Let's not forget the open-mindedness of people like the late D.T. Suzuki - who widened the spiritual horizons by exploring the dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity. Indeed, Suzuki even touched on the parallels between Buddhism - and certain aspects of Islam (i.e. Sufi teachings). Idries Shah spotted the parallels, even hazarding the claim that Zen was in fact inspired by Sufi influences, in part relying on old Chinese legends describing Bodhidharma as a Persian. In view of the Middle East crisis and those who forsee a 'clash of civilisations' - there is something to be said for Blavatsky's ideas, because the only answer is to keep widening the horizons. Come on guys! Let's get out of the religious closets - and live in the bare light of the truth! For all the detail heaped up in Blavatsky's writings, the ultimate point of it all - is to make us conscious of this central, underlying truth. We could make the 'New World' into another Alexandria, in which - rather than producing friction and tension, ethnic and religious diversity serve to richen the human spirit and community.As a multi-ethnic society, united in principle by a common constitution, the New World is - in embryo, a social and spiritual laboratory which could bring new light to the rest of the world. Blavatsky's vision spanned the ancient world and its mysteries, and also peered into the future - sensing seeds of potential. By no means a determinist, Blavatsky recognised that free will supervenes. The wisest expression of that 'free will' is actualise, spiritually, the potential latent in our age of intercultural and global awareness. Give Blavatsky the credit she rightly deserves. Our present economic policies do not work - and will not work, while governed by self-interest. What we really need is to is to see the 'global village' in a cosmic context.
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Title: The Secret Doctrine : The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy (Volumes 1 and 2) by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky ISBN: 1557000026 Publisher: Theosophical Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Voice of the Silence by Helene Petrovna Blavatsky ISBN: 0835606805 Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: The Key to Theosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky ISBN: 0911500073 Publisher: Theosophical Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece by Three Initiates, The Three Initiates ISBN: 0911662251 Publisher: DeVorss & Company Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Reader's Edition) by Manly Palmer Hall, J. Augustus Knapp ISBN: 1585422509 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 23 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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