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| publications = The Spiritualist, London, February 8th, 1878, pp. 62-63 | | publications = The Spiritualist, London, February 8th, 1878, pp. 62-63 | ||
| scrapbook = 4:195- | | scrapbook = 4:195-196 | ||
| previous = Blavatsky H.P. - Madame Blavatsky on the Views of the Theosophists | | previous = Blavatsky H.P. - Madame Blavatsky on the Views of the Theosophists | ||
| next = Blavatsky H.P. - The Author of | | next = Blavatsky H.P. - The Author of Isis Unveiled Defends the Validity of her Masonic Patent | ||
| alternatives = [https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/bcw/b78-2-8b.htm TS]; [https://theosophytrust.org/549-society-without-a-dogma TT]; [https://www.blavatsky.net/index.php/society-without-a-dogma B]; [https://universaltheosophy.com/hpb/a-society-without-a-dogma/ UT] | | alternatives = [https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/bcw/b78-2-8b.htm TS]; [https://theosophytrust.org/549-society-without-a-dogma TT]; [https://www.blavatsky.net/index.php/society-without-a-dogma B]; [https://universaltheosophy.com/hpb/a-society-without-a-dogma/ UT] | ||
| translations = | | translations = [[:t-ru-lib:Блаватская Е.П. - Общество без догм|Russian]] | ||
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{{Style P-Title|A SOCIETY WITHOUT A DOGMA<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[Square brackets in this article are H.P.B.’s own.—''Compiler''.]}}</ref>}} | {{Style P-Title|A SOCIETY WITHOUT A DOGMA<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[Square brackets in this article are H.P.B.’s own.—''Compiler''.]}}</ref>}} | ||
{{HPB-CW-comment|view=center|[The Spiritualist, London, February 8th, 1878, pp. 62-63]}} | |||
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And that no one that makes this search may suppose that we Theosophists send him to a place where there are no pitfalls for the unwary, I quote from the famous ''Commentary on the Bhagavad-Gîtâ'' of our brother Hurrychund Chintamon, the unqualified admission that “In Hindostan, as in England, there are doctrines for the learned and dogmas for the unlearned; strong meat for men, and milk for babes; facts for the few, and fictions for the many; realities for the wise, and romances for the simple; esoteric truth for the philosopher, and exoteric fable for the fool.” Like the philosophy taught by this author in the work in question, the object of the Theosophical Society “is the cleansing of Spiritual truth.” | And that no one that makes this search may suppose that we Theosophists send him to a place where there are no pitfalls for the unwary, I quote from the famous ''Commentary on the Bhagavad-Gîtâ'' of our brother Hurrychund Chintamon, the unqualified admission that “In Hindostan, as in England, there are doctrines for the learned and dogmas for the unlearned; strong meat for men, and milk for babes; facts for the few, and fictions for the many; realities for the wise, and romances for the simple; esoteric truth for the philosopher, and exoteric fable for the fool.” Like the philosophy taught by this author in the work in question, the object of the Theosophical Society “is the cleansing of Spiritual truth.” | ||
{{Style P-Signature in capitals|H. P. Blavatsky.}} | {{Style P-Signature in capitals|H. P. Blavatsky.}} | ||
{{Style P-No indent|New York, January 20th, 1877.<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[An obvious error for 1878.—''Compiler''.]}}</ref>}} | {{Style P-No indent|New York, January 20th, 1877.<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[An obvious error for 1878.—''Compiler''.]}}</ref>}} | ||
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{{HPB-CW-comment|[ {{SB-page|v=4|p=176|text=Page 176}} of H.P.B.’s ''Scrapbook'', Vol. IV, is occupied with various cuttings dealing with the Masonic Diploma granted to H.P.B. The ''Providence Journal'' announces on Feb. 4, 1878, that the ''Franklin Register'' will have a discussion of the genuineness of being a Freemason. To this H.P.B. remarks in pen and ink:]}} | {{HPB-CW-comment|[ {{SB-page|v=4|p=176|text=Page 176}} of H.P.B.’s ''Scrapbook'', Vol. IV, is occupied with various cuttings dealing with the Masonic Diploma granted to H.P.B. The ''Providence Journal'' announces on Feb. 4, 1878, that the ''Franklin Register'' will have a discussion of the genuineness of being a Freemason. To this H.P.B. remarks in pen and ink:]}} | ||