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Let students, therefore, be very careful to spiritualize the Papers and avoid materializing them; let them always try to find the highest meaning possible, confident that in proportion as they approach the material and visible in their speculations on the Papers, so far as they from the right understanding of them. This is especially the case with these first Papers and Diagrams, for as in all true arts, so in Occultism, we must first learn the theory before we are taught the practice.

Let students, therefore, be very careful to spiritualize the Papers and avoid materializing them; let them always try to find the highest meaning possible, confident that in proportion as they approach the material and visible in their speculations on the Papers, so far as they from the right understanding of them. This is especially the case with these first Papers and Diagrams, for as in all true arts, so in Occultism, we must first learn the theory before we are taught the practice.

{{Style P-Title level|3|{{Style S-Small capitals|Concerning Secrecy}} }}

{{Style P-Title level|3|{{Style S-Small capitals|Concerning Secrecy.}} }}

Students ask: Why such secrecy about the details of a doctrine the body of which has been publicly revealed, as in ''Esoteric Buddhism ''and the ''Secret Doctrine''?

Students ask: Why such secrecy about the details of a doctrine the body of which has been publicly revealed, as in ''Esoteric Buddhism ''and the ''Secret Doctrine''?

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{{Style P-Title level|3|{{Style S-Small capitals|About "Principles" and "Aspects"}} }}

{{Style P-Title level|3|{{Style S-Small capitals|About "Principles" and "Aspects".}} }}

Speaking metaphysically and philosophically, on strict Esoteric lines, man as a complete unit is composed of Four basic Principles and their Three Aspects on this earth. In the semi-esoteric teachings, these Four and Three have been called Seven Principles, to facilitate the comprehension of the masses.

Speaking metaphysically and philosophically, on strict Esoteric lines, man as a complete unit is composed of Four basic Principles and their Three Aspects on this earth. In the semi-esoteric teachings, these Four and Three have been called Seven Principles, to facilitate the comprehension of the masses.

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{{Style P-Title level|3|{{Style S-Small capitals|On Exoteric "Blinds" and "The Death of the Soul"}} }}

{{Style P-Title level|3|{{Style S-Small capitals|On Exoteric "Blinds" and "The Death of the Soul".}} }}

As a corollary to this, and before going into still more abstruse teachings, I must redeem the promise already given. I have to illustrate by tenets you already know, the awful doctrine of personal annihilation. Banish from your minds all that you have hitherto read in such works as ''Esoteric Buddhism'', and thought you understood, of such hypotheses as the eighth sphere and the moon, and that man shares a common ancestor with the ape. Even the details occasionally given out by myself in the ''Theosophist ''and ''Lucifer ''were nothing like the whole truth, but only broad general ideas, hardly touched upon in their details. Certain passages, however, give out hints, especially my foot-notes on articles translated from liphas Lévi’s ''Letters on Magic.''&nbsp;*

As a corollary to this, and before going into still more abstruse teachings, I must redeem the promise already given. I have to illustrate by tenets you already know, the awful doctrine of personal annihilation. Banish from your minds all that you have hitherto read in such works as ''Esoteric Buddhism'', and thought you understood, of such hypotheses as the eighth sphere and the moon, and that man shares a common ancestor with the ape. Even the details occasionally given out by myself in the ''Theosophist ''and ''Lucifer ''were nothing like the whole truth, but only broad general ideas, hardly touched upon in their details. Certain passages, however, give out hints, especially my foot-notes on articles translated from liphas Lévi’s ''Letters on Magic.''&nbsp;*