ABSTRACT
The Secret Doctrine is often obscure to impenetrability, it is badly and ungrammatically written, the phrases cited in classical and oriental languages are frequently wrong, errors of fact occur on almost every page. In addition to the faults The Secret Doctrine contains a very large number of unacknowledged extracts, often lengthy, taken from a considerable number of works, many of them themselves worthless. Pilgrims say that the subterranean galleries and halls under it contain a collection of books, the number of which, according to the accounts given, is too large to find room even in the British Museum.” The British Museum Library, it may be interjected, occupies some fifty miles of shelving. The symbols are explained at some length, the “Book” is summarized, and a translation of selected portions is then given.
