Theosophy and Blavatsky

Just when I thought I have started to have a good grasp of God and religions, along come this theosophist named Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. An excerpt from her book The Key to Theosophy:

"ENQUIRER. Theosophy and its doctrines are often referred to as a new-fangled religion. Is it a religion?

THEOSOPHIST. It is not. Theosophy is Divine Knowledge or Science.

ENQUIRER. What is the real meaning of the term?

THEOSOPHIST. "Divine Wisdom," (Theosophia) or Wisdom of the gods, as (theogonia), genealogy of the gods. The word theos means a god in Greek, one of the divine beings, certainly not "God" in the sense attached in our day to the term. Therefore, it is not "Wisdom of God," as translated by some, but Divine Wisdom such as that possessed by the gods. The term is many thousand years old."
Pause here. Deep breath. Okay? Right, another quote from the same book:

"THEOSOPHIST. The WISDOM-RELIGION was ever one, and being the last word of possible human knowledge, was, therefore, carefully preserved. It preceded by long ages the Alexandrian Theosophists, reached the modern, and will survive every other religion and philosophy.

ENQUIRER. Where and by whom was it so preserved?

THEOSOPHIST. Among Initiates of every country; among profound seekers after truth -- their disciples; and in those parts of the world where such topics have always been most valued and pursued: in India, Central Asia, and Persia.

ENQUIRER. Can you give me some proofs of its esotericism?

THEOSOPHIST. The best proof you can have of the fact is that every ancient religious, or rather philosophical, cult consisted of an esoteric or secret teaching, and an exoteric (outward public) worship. Furthermore, it is a well-known fact that the MYSTERIES of the ancients comprised with every nation the "greater" (secret) and "Lesser" (public) MYSTERIES -- e.g. in the celebrated solemnities called the Eleusinia, in Greece. From the Hierophants of Samothrace, Egypt, and the initiated Brahmins of the India of old, down to the later Hebrew Rabbis, all preserved, for fear of profanation, their real bona fide beliefs secret. The Jewish Rabbis called their secular religious series the Mercavah (the exterior body), "the vehicle," or, the covering which contains the hidden soul. -- i.e., their highest secret knowledge. Not one of the ancient nations ever imparted through its priests its real philosophical secrets to the masses, but allotted to the latter only the husks. …"

The book, of course, goes on and on, but I am pretty sure at this point, you have said, “Uh?” My comment: "Exactly". Sigh. Just at the point of when I think I know something, somebody slapped me on my head and said otherwise.

I think the book has given me a new possibility of viewing life and ‘God’. It is a very interesting view as well. Each of the religions or belief systems that exists today or in the past have a piece of puzzle which help us makes much more sense of life. But each is so cryptic as well that what we understand today perhaps is no way near to what the bible or whoever is the principle person in our religion/belief system wants to say.

I will tell you more about it when I get a better grasp of what she is saying. In the meantime you can check her out, for instance in The homepage of The Theosophical Society or a website dedicated to Helena Blavatsky. I supposed then the journey is far from over. And I am taking you along with me. All the way.