Source of knowledge

In Theosophy there are no sacred books. Revelation comes from "experts" who "are spiritually, intellectually, and physically perfect beings, the flower of man and of all evolution" (The Theosophical Movement, p. Madame Blavatsky was the first in Theosophy to receive a message from these scholars and to spread them throughout the world: "I have held to the Hindu scriptures, and in any case I have maintained that I have considered these scriptures and Hinduism to be the beginning of all scriptures and all religions" (Annie Bessant, Doyly Chronicle, April 9, 1894).

The Teachings of Theosophy

A few quotations from Theosophical works prove their non-Christian character.

God

We do not accept the idea of a personal "God" (H. P. Blavatsky, The Key to Theosophy. Point loma, SA: Aryan Theosophical Press, 1913). "We believe in a universal divine law, the root of everything, from which everything proceeds and into which everything will return at the end of the great cycle of existence" (ibid., p.

Person

Theosophists teach that man consists of seven parts: 1. body; 2. viability; 3. the astral body; 4. Animal soul; 5. the human soul; 6. spiritual soul; 7. Energy.

"Man is also considered equal to God... for you are God, and your desires are always God's; but thou hast to dig deep into thyself to find God there, and to hear His voice, which is thy voice" (Krishnamurti, "At Feet of the Master," p. 10).

A person develops individually and corporately. Salvation is attained only when one reaches the seventh stage, including movement from one body to another based on one's own efforts. This is similar to the Eastern teaching about the law of karma.

Jesus Christ

"As for Christ, the true Saviour, understood only by the initiated, he is not a man, but a DIVINE LAW in every human life" (H. P. Blavatsky, A Study of Occultism, p. 134).

Reincarnations and the afterlife

"There is no one to blame but ourselves for the conditions of our birth, our character, our capabilities, our abilities, because all this is due to the work of forces set in motion by us in this or in a previous life" (Irving S. Cooper, p. "Theosophy Simplified". p. 55).