At the end of the twentieth century, our country experienced a series of crises, each of which can be safely called systemic. Economic upheavals, the collapse of a single state, a reassessment of historical facts, a change in attitude to religious life - this is just an incomplete list of events, like an avalanche that fell on the heads of former Soviet people who are used to living modestly but steadily.
Former atheists are at a crossroads. They could maintain their disbelief or choose between many faiths. The fashionable word "esotericism" attracted with 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 the works of Helena Roerich, and Blavatsky was adjacent to her. The Secret Doctrine has become a bestseller for a short time. Still, everything accessible only to the enlightened is so attractive, and here is the book of all books, a synthesis of all religions and science.
However, the majority of those who decided to pay a considerable amount for a weighty three-volume volume were overcome by a complex feeling consisting of shocked disappointment and boredom. Elena Blavatsky wrote heavily. The Secret Doctrine is set forth in a manner incomprehensible to a wide circle of readers. Scientists, on the other hand, were completely bored. Unified and absolute reality is still somehow familiar, in it we are all used to living for many decades. But the “rootless root” is already too much. Reincarnation, the presence of a super soul, and other attributes of Buddhism cannot be called a personal invention of the author.
It was not Blavatsky who came up with it. The Secret Doctrine, however, is replete with these concepts. Labor has nothing to do with science at all, it is based on the fact that there are certain sources of knowledge to which the extraordinary writer has joined, while others have been ordered to go to this chamber.
Mysterious fleur, which during life was surrounded by Blavatsky. The secret doctrine of countless worlds disappearing, and after re-emerging, and other cycles of the universe, claimed the role of another universal law that describes everything and everything. 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 fascination with spiritualism, tried to predict, but, obviously, to no avail. From the medium require short-term forecasts that are easy to verify. Then she switched to periods that are significantly distant in time. Today, one hundred and twenty-five years after the publication of the three-volume, 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 "attraction" to
after some fit.
So why is Blavatsky not forgotten? The Secret Doctrine, a summary of which is practically impossible to expound, and reading the entire three-volume book rarely has enough patience, has successfully taken a place on the shelves of bookcases of people claiming to belong to the intellectual elite of society. This book performs primarily a 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 not enough reasonable and justified arguments for reform actions, the same “esoteric method” used by Blavatsky is used. The Secret Doctrine remains a mystery, at least outwardly. Another thing is that sometimes the main secret lies precisely in its absence.
