The Enoch Project

PROJECT ENOCH

freely admitted. They borrowed heavily from classical Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism, with large doses of Gnosticism, astrology and other occultic power-quests. So despite the name "New" Age, we are surveying an ancient system of worship, found in various forms around the world (Babylonian, Egyptian, Norse, Atlantian, Pan/animist, American Indian, and other religions depend ent on enpowerment from various spirit -guides). This is why New Age teaching is so easily adapted to so many cultures.

According to Madame Blavatsky’s original statements, this wisdom has been transmitted through the ages as a secret doctrine by a brotherhood of adepts or mahatmas (spirit guides) scattered through the world but in connection with one another. With a certain group of these in Tibet she claimed to be in communication. A Master Morya (spirit guide) is supposed to have taken on Madame Blavatsky as his personal pupil, or chela . In adepts such as Morya the spiritual nature is supposed to have been so developed that the body has become the ductile instrument of the intelligence. Theosophical language includes references to astral bodies, guardian angels, and such the like.

"In Isis Unveiled ” , 8 Madame Blavatsky sought to establish that the one source of all the wisdom of the past is India.

"The Indian doctrines which are often treated in theosophical writings are the identity of the human and the d ivine, the

concept of reincarnation and transmigration... and the concept of karma. ..."The goal of the struggle to achieve wisdom

which leads to self-actualization is Nirvana, when the lower self or selves is annihilated and the true self liberated." 9

The first part of her other work, “The Secret Doctrine”, explained the origin and evolution of the universe itself, in terms derived from the Hindu concept of cyclical development. The world and everything in it is supposed to alternate between periods of ac tivity (manvanataras) and periods of passivity (pralayas). Each manvantara lasts many millions of years and consists of a number of Yugas, in accordance with Hindu cosmology. The second half of the book describes the origins of humanity through an account of "Root Races" dating back millions of years. The first root race was, according to her, "ethereal" (spiritual beings from a dimension outside of earth), the second root had more physical bodies and lived in Hyperborea. The third root race, the first to be truly human, existed on the lost continent of Lemuria and the fourth root race developed in Atlantis. 10

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