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Marina,
No it wasn't that
one, but thanks for the reference.
...Peter
Peter,
Is it the passage in Letter 8 to Prof. Corson, below?
(online on Blavatsky Archives)
Marina
- I am here in this country sent by my Lodge on behalf
of Truth in modern spiritualism, and it is my most sacred duty to unveil
what is, and expose what is not. Perhaps did I arrive here one hundred
years too soon. May be, and I am afraid it is so, that in this present
state of mental confusion, of doubt, of the endless and fruitless
conflicts between the Tyndalls and Wallaces, the issues of which are
arrested by the almighty power of the dollar, -- for people seem to care
every day less for truth and every hour more for gold, -- my feeble
protest and endeavours will be of no avail; nevertheless, I am ever ready
for the grand battle, and perfectly prepared to bear any consequencesthat
may fall to my lot.
-
-
- I pray you, do not take me to be a "blind fanatic,"
for, if I am the latter, I am not the former. When I became a
spiritualist, it was not through the agency of the ever-lying, cheating
mediums, miserable instruments of the undeveloped Spirits of the lower
Sphere, the ancient Hades. My belief is based on something older thanthe
Rochester knockings, and springs out from the same source of information
that was used by Raymond Lully, Picus della Mirandola, Cornelius Agrippa,
Robert Fludd, Henry More, et cetera, etc., all of whom have ever been
searching for a system that should disclose to them the "deepest depths"
of the Divine nature, and show them the real tie which binds all things
together. I found at last, and many years ago, the cravings of my mind
satisfied by this theosophy taught by the Angels and communicated by them
that the protoplast might know it for the aid of the human destiny. The
practical, however small knowledge of the Principle, Ain-Soph, or the
Endless and the Boundless with its ten Sephiroths or Emanations, goesmore
towards opening your eyes than all the hypothetical teachings of the
leaders of Spiritualism, let them be American or European. In my eyes,
Allan Kardec and Flammarion, Andrew Jackson Davis and Judge Edmonds, are
but schoolboys just trying to spell their A B C and sorely blundering
sometimes. The relation between the two is in just proportion what were in
the ancient ages the book called Sohar, based on the perfect
knowledge of the Kabbala handed down by oral tradition from David and
Solomon to Simon ben Jochai, the first man who dared write it down, and
the Massorah, a book based on outside, not direct tradition,and
which never vouchsafed the truth of what it taught.
I do not know why I write you all this. Perhaps it does not interest
you in the least; perhaps you will find me presumptuous, conceited,
boosting, and a bore. I must beg of you to account for it in one way at
least, viz. the great desire I have to hear responding echoes, to seek for
them whenever and wherever I can, in the only hope of being occasionally
answered. If the Doctrine of the "Aged of the Aged" of Sephira, its
first-born, the Macroprosophos, etc., is a thing you never troubled
yourself of investigating, then let it drop at once, and consigning me for
ever in the annals of your memory with the demented and crazy dreamers of
the age, believe me only
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 5:18
PM
Subject: RE: Theos-World "Stemming the
tide of materialism"
Jerry, I
do recall a passage where HPB describes why she was sent to America, but I
can't put my hands on it at the moment perhaps it might jog someone elses
memory. She says she was sent to combat to two things - on the one
hand the dangers of spiritualism, on the hand the effect the dangers ofa
materialist science. If I find the passage I'll let you know.
Have you had a look in the index to the Collected Writings, perhaps unders
"HPB", "mission", "materialism" & so on?
...Peter
-----Original
Message-----
From: Jerry Hejka-Ekins
[mailto:jjhe@netfeed.com]
Sent: 29 April 2001 03:17
To:
theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Theos-World "Stemmingthe
tide of materialism"
Jerry, HPB wrote that in one of her
messages to the American Conventions. Included in B:CW.
Frank
Thanks Frank. Ill look for it, butwas
hoping for a source that would have been more available to the
Europeans. It seems that the London members
already understood this aim by the time HPB moved to
London. But I can't find where it might have been written down for
them. Perhaps it was something they picked up at her salons.
jhe
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