Theos-Talk Archives (June 2000 Message tt00117)

In a message dated 06/07/00 12:12:38 AM, bartl@sprynet.com writes:

>LeonMaurer@aol.com wrote:
>> There are at least two things a true theosophist cannot be... One is a
>> worshipper of any God, figurehead or authority... Another, is a member
>> of any religion that denies the validity or the rule of karma and the
>> doctrine of reincarnation (coupled with individual, self determined 
>> choice, based on self devised study) as determiners of the fates or 
>> destinies of all sentient beings... (Thus, totally denying any sort of
>
>> personal "God" or "Savior" as intermediary.)
>
>   Actually, the Mahatmas would probably disagree with that; Koothoomi
>stated that each person should seek the truth their own religion (part
>of recognizing Anna Kingsford's election as President of the London
>Lodge in spite of her Christianity).

I doubt it... Since the Mahatmas as well as HPB said, in effect, that while 
every exoteric religion is based on some semblance of the eternal Wisdom, 
there are in each of them distortions and falsehoods that the discerning 
student must determine for himself and discard, while selecting only those 
truths that conform with the fundamental principles and their reasonable 
conclusions. 

The belief in a personal God, a vicarious atonement, and a savior are parts 
of those Christian falsehoods that have to be weeded out. Therefore, any 
theosophist can be a follower of the teachings of Christ and benefit from 
those truths without accepting any of the false theologies of the organized 
religion, or denying any of the cosmogenetic and athropogenetic truths of 
theosophy, its principles and its objects.  Yeshua (or Jesus, as Romanized) 
himself, who spoke nothing in his sermons about the false theology that the 
later Christian priests contrived for their own crafty purposes -- as a 
Hebrew Rebbe, was an esoteric Kabbalist, whose teachings, even today, are 
identical with the esoteric Brahmanic teachings that parallels and confirms 
theosophy (as presented to the West by HPB and the Mahatmas). 

Jesus spoke to and of the Godhead that the Kabbalists know of as Ein-Soph 
(equivalent to Parabrahm) -- and not to the so called Christian God, 
Jehovah... A transmogrified male aspect of the second emanation of Ein-Soph, 
Binah, the feminine aspect, representing Wisdom -- whom the Hebrews 
identified in their language with the mystical name, Yod, Hay, Voh, Hay 
(mispronounced, ye-ho-va-ah, by the later Christianized Romans, and further 
modified by its English translation in the King James bible).  It would be 
well to study what HPB had to say on this subject.

LHM
>
>> even as far out as L Ron Hubbard, and others like them -- 
>
>   Historical note: Aleister Crowley referred to L. Ron Hubbard as the
>most evil man he had ever met.

While I can't agree or disagree with Crowley on this point -- judging from 
his own record, I would take anything he says about his competitors with a 
grain of salt.  According to my information (culled by some of my military 
intelligence friends from British MI-5 records after WW II ) he was also a gre
at help to Hitler in the early 30's by giving him some useful angles on the 
use of occult mantric and mudric magic. Thanks to Crowley, Hitler's use of 
incoherent and illogical oratorical mantras, along with staged physical 
mudras, was how he mesmerized his immense Nuremberg audiences into perfectly 
synchronized, triply choreographed arm stretching and shouts of Sieg Heil ... 
BTW, the journalist/writer (I forget his name) of the History of the Third 
Reich, said he never could understand why -- without understanding anything 
that Hitler was saying -- he jumped out of his seat and reacted that way when 
he attended one of Hitler's Nuremberg pageants before the war.  Incidentally, 
referring to my remark above, Crowley is one of the "others like them" that I 
had in mind.

LHM

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