Theos-Talk Archives (June 2003 Message tt00210)

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for this. I forwarded this message to him and will probably 
get his response soon.

Katinka
--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel H. Caldwell" 
<danielhcaldwell@y...> wrote:
> Several years ago one Theosophical historian told me that he 
doubted 
> the Bowen notes because he could NOT find any record of HPB holding 
> such SD classes in late 1890-early 1891.
> 
> Below is the documentation that I found for such SD classes.
> 
> Claude F. Wright writing from London in Oct. 1890 stated:
> 
> ". . . Our Blavatsky Lodge Meetings are held in the Lecture Hall on 
> Thursdays, and each week sees them grow larger and larger. We have 
> just started a course of discussions on 'Theosophy from the Root 
up' 
> which will be continued for a long time: the first syllabus, 
> extending to Dec. has been issued. BEFORE OUR MEETINGS WE HOLD A 
> CLASS FOR THE STUDY OF THE SECRET DOCTRINE, WHICH LASTS FOR ABOUT 
AN 
> HOUR AND A HALF. . . ." THE PATH, Dec. 1890, p. 295 Caps added.
> 
> In THE PATH for Nov. 1890 (see page 263), one finds the syllabus 
> mentioned in the above statement.
> 
> It states that THEOSOPHY, FROM THE ROOT UP will be held on Thursday 
> evenings, at 8:30 pm commencing October 9, 1890.
> 
> One of these Thursday meetings is on Dec. 4, 1890, according to the 
> syllabus. See next document for more on this Dec 4th date.
> 
> From the esoteric notebooks of Isabel Cooper-Oakley, one finds the 
> following notes:
> 
> "At Secret Doctrine Class, December 4, 1890"
> 
> "H.P.B. said: 'The best of us in the future will be Manasa-putras, 
> the lowest will be Pitris. We are several intellectual 
Hierarchies, 
> here. . . " Quoted from THE THEOSOPHIST, June, 1931, p. 303.
> 
> Katinka, does Barry Thompson know about this material?
> 
> Daniel
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