Ever Wondered about Madame Blavatsky?

Posted on | May 17, 2009 |

That’s probably not a question that comes your way every day, but it is a serious question. Madame Blavatsky was the founder of the Theosophy movement which flourished in the last years of the nineteenth century and then on into the twentieth. The movement’s core beliefs have remained somewhat obscure - despite its huge impact on its generation - until now.

This new light is now being shed because Harvey Tordoff, scholar and poet, has worked tirelessly to extricate the teachings of the legendary Book of Dzyan from Madame B.’s obscurely-worded fifteen hundred page tome. The book has just been re-released by Findhorn Press as Madame Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine Revealed.

The great thing about Harvey Tordoff’s book is that it is written as a very accessible poem, and that lets the reader know right off that this is a metaphorical way of looking at the great question that faces humankind: how is it we have divine aspirations but are fastened to these physical bodies which pull us in a contrary direction?

This may all sound very esoteric, but here is the point: if we do not read the works of earlier thinkers and see how they perceived their world, then how are we to begin to gauge the words of spiritual and religious leaders in our own times? It’s a book to delight scholars, the curious, and for those who want to understand Theosophy. And it’s also a book that offers a new way to think of who we are and where we are.

This new release is now available as an ebook, which means you can download it instantly, or by using your kindle.

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