Theos-Talk Archives (August 2000 Message tt00019)

From: dalval [mailto:dalval@nwc.net]
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 11:05 AM
To: AAA-DAL
Subject: 	HPB's Birthday: Aug 12/13 1831

Aug 10th 2000

Some statements from Theosophical sources :

About H.P.B.


        W. Q. Judge:    "In 1875, in the City of New York, I
first met H.P.B. in this life...It was her eye that attracted me,
the eye of one whom I must have known in lives long passed away.
She looked at me in recognition at that first hour, and never
since has that look changed...Not as a questioner of philosophies
did I come before her...but as one, wandering many periods
through the corridors of life, was seeking the friends who could
show where the designs for the work had been hidden.  And true to
the call she responded, revealing the plans once again, and
speaking no words to explain, simply pointed then out and went on
with the task.  It was as if but the evening before we had
parted, leaving yet to be done some detail of a task taken up
with one common end;  it was teacher and pupil, elder brother and
younger, both bent on the one single end, but she with the power
and the knowledge that belong but to lions and sages.

        Others I know have looked with suspicion on an appearance
they could not fathom, and though it is true they adduce many
proofs which hugged to the breast, would damn sages and gods, yet
it is only through blindness they failed to see the lion's
glance, the diamond heart of H.P.B...she was laying down the
lines of force all over the land...

        The explanation has been offered by some too anxious
friends that the earlier phenomena were mistakes in judgment,
attempted to be rectified in later years by confining their area
and limiting their number, but...I shall hold to her own
explanation made in advance and never changed.  That I have given
above.  For it is easier to take refuge behind a charge of bad
judgment than to understand the strange and powerful laws which
control in matters such as these.

        Amid all the turmoil of her life, above all the din
produced by those who charged her with deceit and fraud and
others who defended, while month after month, and year after
year, witnessed men and women entering the theosophical movement
only to leave it soon with malignant phrases for H.P.B., there
stands a fact we all might consider--devotion absolute to her
Master.  "It was He," she writes, "who told me to devote myself
to this, and I will never disobey and never turn back."...

        .she ever was devoted to Theosophy and the Society
organized to carry out a programme embracing the world in its
scope.  Willing in the service of the cause to offer up hope,
money, reputation, life itself, provided the Society might be
saved from every hurt, whether small or great.  And thus bound
body and soul to this entity called the T. S., bound to protect
it at all hazards, and in the face of every loss, she often
incurred the resentment of many who became her friends but would
not always care for the infant organization as she had sworn to
do.  And when they acted as it opposed to the Society, her
instant opposition seemed to them to nullify professions of
friendship.  Thus she had but few friends, for it required a keen
insight, untinged with personal feeling, to see even a small part
of the real H.P.Blavatsky...

        She worked under directors who, operating from behind the
scene, knew that the T. S. was, and was to be, the nucleus from
which help might be spread to all the people of the day, without
thanks and without acknowledgment...I asked her what was the
chance of drawing people into the Society...she said:--"When you
consider those days in 1875 and after, in which you could not
find any people interested in your thoughts, and now look at the
wide-spreading influence of theosophical ideas--however
labeled--it is not so bad.  We are not working that people may
call themselves Theosophists, but that the doctrines we cherish
may affect and leaven the whole mind of this century.  This alone
can be accomplished by a small earnest band of workers, who work
for no human reward, no earthly recognition, but who, supported
and sustained by a belief in that Universal Brotherhood of which
our Masters are a part, work steadily, faithfully, in
understanding and putting forth for consideration the doctrines
of life and duty that have come down to us from immemorial time.
Falter not so long as a few devoted ones will work to keep the
nucleus existing.  You were not directed to found and realise a
Universal Brotherhood, but to form the nucleus for one;  for it
is only when the nucleus it formed that the accumulations can
begin that will end in future years, however far, in the
formation of that body which we have in view."

        H.P.B. had a lion heart, and on the work traced out for
her she had a lion's grasp, let us...sustain ourselves in
carrying out the designs laid down on the trestle-board, by the
memory of her devotion and the consciousness that behind her task
stood, and still remain, those Elder Brothers who, above the
clatter and the din of our battle, ever see the end and direct
the forces distributed in array for the salvation of "that great
orphan--Humanity."             W. Q. Judge
   Yours till Death and After, H.P.B..."
Judge Articles, II p. 1  [ ULT Edition ]



        "...in 1875 she told me that she was then 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...Much has been said of her "phenomena," some denying
them, others alleging trick and device.  Knowing her for so many
years so well, and having seen at her hands in private the
production of more and more varied phenomena that it has been the
good fortune of all others of her friends put together to seem I
know for myself that she had control of hidden powerful laws of
nature not known to our science, and I also know that 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.

        If the world thinks that her days were spent in deluding
her followers by pretended phenomena, it is solely because her
injudicious friends, against her expressed wish, gave out
wonderful stories of her "miracles" which can not be proved to a
skeptical public and which are not the aim of the Society nor
were ever more than mere incidents in the life of H.P.Blavatsky.

        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 found a Society whose efforts--however small
itself might be--would inject into the thought of the day the
ideas, the doctrines, the nomenclature of the Wisdom Religion, so
that when the next century shall have seen its 75th years the new
messenger coming again into the world would find the Society
still at work, the ideas sown broadcast, the nomenclature ready
to give expression and body to the immutable truth, and thus to
make easy the task which for her since 1875 was so difficult and
so encompassed with obstacles in the very paucity of the
language--obstacles harder than all else to work against."
W. Q. Judge
"H.P.B.--A Lion-hearted Colleague Passes"
WQJ Articles II p. 5  [ ULT Edition ]








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