"I and the Father are One," said Jesus. The student asks why the individual should not therefore know the One as oneself? The saying of Jesus presuppposes duality and difference, which explains why the awareness such a student seeks does not exist; it can come only after all duality disappears--even that mystical monism which seems to have transcended duality but has not really. The theosophy of The Secret Doctrine does not reach the height of the doctrine of Nonduality. That is quite all right because it purported to be only a "fragment" of the truth. H.P.Blavatsky wrote that the Causeless Cause, as she termed it, the Absolute, was unknowable and that seekers could reach only to the Logos. Dr. Brunton does not teach that. If all else but the Absolute is illusory (including the Logos) then the path is not worthwhile because truth is unattainable. This philosophy says that Truth is attainable and the so-called Absolute can be realized by man. Some theosophic studies will help in the understanding of the teachings of this path, while others will bring the student's mind into direct conflict with them. He will have to decide for himself whether to give his loyalty to the one or the other, but this doctrine cannot be mixed with any other save at the risk of diluting its truth. This path is based solely on the appeal to reason, never to belief, whereas there are many items of theosophy which no one can prove.
-- Notebooks Category 28: The Alone > Chapter 2 : Our Relation To the Absolute > # 83
