The facts contained in this book are by no means presented as revelation, nor does the author claim to be a patron and revealer of the occult science which is now being openly presented for the first time in the history of the world, for what is contained in this book is scattered in thousands of volumes which include the books of the great Asian religions and the beginning of the religions of Europe and hidden under canons or symbols and hitherto unnoticed because of this veil. What we are now attempting to do is to collect the older data and make them homogeneous and coherent.
But it may be preferable to declare unequivocally that these teachings contained in these volumes, in a very fragmentary and incomplete form, do not belong exclusively to the Hindu, Zoroastrian, or Chaldean religions, nor even to Egyptian, Buddhist, or Muslim religions, or even to Judaism or Christianity.
The Secret Doctrine is the essence of all of them, and the various religious systems that have sprung from it are called to delve into their original element from which every secret and every doctrine has developed, and has become more expansive and material.