Theos-Talk Archives (May 2000 Message tt00046)

May 4th 2000



H. P. B.

WHITE LOTUS DAY 2000

Remembrance.


What then was the nature of  HPB's Mission?

The following is one person's view:


"H.P.Blavatsky was the head, front, bottom, top, outskirts, past
and future of the theosophical society...Not only was H.P.B.
predominant with us in 1875, but she is yet."  [WQJ Art II 161
"A Reminiscence"  --    THE PATH,  Feb. 1893 / Mar. 1895.]


"The aim and object of her life were to strike off the shackles
forged by priestcraft for the mind of man.  She wished all men to
know that they are God in fact, and that as men they must bear
the burden of their own sins, for no one else can do it.  Hence
she brought forward...the old Eastern doctrines of karma and
reincarnation.

Under the first, the law of justice, she said each must answer
for himself, and under the second make answer on the earth where
all his acts were done.  She also desired that science should be
brought back to the true ground where life and intelligence are
admitted to be within and acting on and through every atom in the
universe.  Hence her object was to make religion scientific and
science religious, so that the dogmatism of each might disappear.

Her life...was spent in the unremitting endeavor to draw within
the T.S. those who could work unselfishly to propagate an ethics
and philosophy tending to realize the brotherhood of man by
showing the real unity and essential non-separateness of every
being.

And her books were written with the declared object of furnishing
the material for intellectual and scientific progress on those
lines.

The theory of man's origin, powers, and destiny brought forward
by her, drawn from ancient Indian sources, places us upon a
higher pedestal than that given by either religion or science,
for it gives to each the possibility of developing the godlike
powers within and of at last becoming a co-worker with nature...

If she had not lived and done what she did humanity would not
have had the impulse and the ideas  towards the good which its
was her mission to give and to proclaim."    [WQJ Art II 35]


"...when the great leader is H.P.Blavatsky, a whole host of
principles and postulates as to certain laws of nature cluster
around her name.  For not only was she one who brought to us from
the wiser brothers of the human family a consistent philosophy of
the solar system, but in herself she illustrated practically the
existence of the supersensuous world and of the powers of the
inner and astral man...and theory or assertion touching on her
relations with the unseen and with the Masters she spoke for
inevitably opens up the discussion of some law or principle.
Many things were said about H.P.B. in her lifetime by those who
tried to understand her, some of them being silly and some
positively pernicious.  The most pernicious was that made by
[A.P.S.] in London in the lifetime of H.P.B. and before the
writing of the Secret Doctrine, that she was deserted by the
Masters and was the prey of elementals and elemental forces...if
true, then anything she might say as from the Masters which did
not agree with the opinion of the one addressed could be disposed
of as being only the vaporing of some elementals."	[WQJ Art II
13]


"That she always knew what would be done by the world in the way
of slander and abuse ... [she said in 1875]  that she was
embarking on a work that would draw upon her unmerited slander,
implacable malice, uninterrupted misunderstanding, constant work,
and no worldly reward.  Yet in the face of this her lion heart
carried her on...she never boasted of her powers, never
advertised their possession, never publicly advised anyone to
attempt their acquirement, but always turned the eyes of those
who could understand her to a life of altruism based on a
knowledge of true philosophy.

Her aim was to elevate the race.

Her method was to deal with the mind of the century as she found
it, by trying to lead it on step by step;  to seek out and
educate a few who, appreciating the majesty of the Secret Science
and devoted to "the great orphan Humanity," could carry on her
work with zeal and wisdom...[to] inject into the thought of the
day the ideas, the doctrines, the nomenclature of the Wisdom
Religion..."
 [WQJ Art II 7-8]



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