Abrac
"Behind the Secret Doctrine it is held that there is an experience or practice by which the Doctrine is justified."
Here he's talking about the practical application leading to the experience of reunion with Divinity. The Doctrine isn't just an empty intellectual exercise.
"It is obvious that in a handbook like the present I can do little more than state the claims, which, however, have been discussed at length in several of my other writings, while it is designed to treat two of its more important phases in books devoted to the Secret Tradition in Freemasonry and in Hermetic literature."
All he can do in the present work is say that there is such a practice and experience.
The way the sentence is constructed it's not easy to follow what he says in the second part; but I think when he says "it is designed" he's talking about the present work, and that it's designed to treat two of the more important phases of the experience. I have no idea what he means by ". . . in books devoted to the Secret Tradition in Freemasonry and in Hermetic literature." I also have no idea what the "two phases" are. I could be interpreting the whole thing wrong.
Here he's talking about the practical application leading to the experience of reunion with Divinity. The Doctrine isn't just an empty intellectual exercise.
"It is obvious that in a handbook like the present I can do little more than state the claims, which, however, have been discussed at length in several of my other writings, while it is designed to treat two of its more important phases in books devoted to the Secret Tradition in Freemasonry and in Hermetic literature."
All he can do in the present work is say that there is such a practice and experience.
The way the sentence is constructed it's not easy to follow what he says in the second part; but I think when he says "it is designed" he's talking about the present work, and that it's designed to treat two of the more important phases of the experience. I have no idea what he means by ". . . in books devoted to the Secret Tradition in Freemasonry and in Hermetic literature." I also have no idea what the "two phases" are. I could be interpreting the whole thing wrong.