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The Secret Doctrine. 119
Hierophant knew the real doctrines in any case, and
only these, as a rule, in the earliest history of each
religion.
Furthermore, the Sacred Books of all religions,
including those of the Jews and the Christians, were
and are no more than parables and allegories of the
real Secret Doctrine, transcribed for the ignorant
and superstitious masses. All commentaries written
on these Sacred Books, whether on those of Moses,
the Psalms and the Prophets of Judaism, the Gospels
of the Gnostics and Christians, or those written
on the Sacred Books of the East—the Vedas, Puranas,
and Upanishads—all either make confusion
more confounded when written by one ignorant of
the Secret Doctrine, or, when written by initiates,
but ring the changes on, or further elaborate the
parables and allegories.
It is, furthermore, easily demonstrable that "the
Secret Doctrine came originally from the far East,
and is the Primitive Wisdom ReHgion. Its earlier
records are now found in India and Thibet; thence
it seems to have traveled to Ethiopia; thence to
Egypt and Chaldea. This route, or order of transmission,
however, is not to be easily ascertained
with accuracy, nor is it a matter of any consequence
to us at the present time. It is everywhere and at