At the end of the twentieth century, our country experienced a series ofcrises, each of which can be safely called systemic. Economic upheavals, the collapse of a single state, a reassessment of historical facts, a change in attitudes towards religious life - this is just an incomplete list of events, like an avalanche of former Soviet people who have become accustomed to living, although modestly but stably.
Former atheists were at a crossroads.They could keep their disbelief or choose between many denominations. The fashionable word "esoteric" attracted by its foreign sound, it felt something modern, progressive and the opposite of obsolete, in the opinion of many confused citizens, moral and ethical standards - both communist and religious.
On the book shelves appeared works of Helena Roerich,Blavatsky was next door to her. "Secret Doctrine" for a short time became a bestseller. Still, everything accessible only to the enlightened is so attractive, and here is the book of all books, the synthesis of all religions and science.
However, most of those who decided tohard times to lay out for a weighty three-volume a considerable amount, seized a complex feeling, consisting of dumbfounded frustration and boredom. Helen Blavatsky wrote heavily. The “secret doctrine” is set forth in a manner that is incomprehensible to a wide circle of readers. Scholarly people have begun to mourn. The single and absolute reality is somehow familiar, in which we have all got used to living for many decades. But the “rootless root” is too much. Reincarnation, the presence of super-soul and other attributes of Buddhism can not be called a personal invention of the author.
Invented this is not Blavatsky.The “secret doctrine”, however, is replete with these concepts. The work has nothing to do with science at all; it is based on the fact that there are certain sources of knowledge to which an extraordinary writer has joined, while others have been ordered into this palace.
Mysterious fleur, which during life was surroundedBlavatsky. The secret doctrine of countless worlds, disappearing, and after re-emerging, and other cycles of the universe claimed the role of another universal law, describing everything and everyone. The trouble was the complete inapplicability of this complex concept to the solution of any practical issues. The writer herself in the years of her enthusiasm for spiritualism tried to predict, but, obviously, to no avail. From the medium require short-term forecasts that are easy to check. Then she switched to periods significantly separated in time. Today, one hundred and twenty-five years after the publication of the three-volume book, it can be assumed that its prophecies did not come true, or they were made in an extremely vague form, and some historical facts allow for “pulling”
So why is Blavatsky not forgotten?The “secret doctrine”, a brief content of which is almost impossible to state, and it’s rare to have enough patience to read the entire three-volume book, successfully took place on the shelves of bookcases for people who claim to belong to the intellectual elite of society. This book performs a mainly decorative function. But sometimes quotes from it are still used. They sometimes try to "improve" Orthodoxy, making it "more tolerant" and "more convenient."
Since there are reasonable and reasonable arguments forthere are not enough reform actions, the same “esoteric method” used by Blavatsky is used. The “secret doctrine” remains secret, at least outwardly. Another thing is that sometimes the main secret lies precisely in its absence.
