Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00304)

Brigette writes;
In the Secret Doctrine itself we read that, "the Jews are an 
artificial Aryan race"(The Secret Doctrine, II, p. 471) and "the Jews 
have a religion of hate and malice toward everyone and everything 
outside itself," (The Secret Doctrine, II p. 471). Nevertheless one 
cannot say that anti-Semiticism was the major topic for Blavatsky. 
That remarks like the ones above can take on a dynamic of there own 
is exemplified by the writings of a student of Theosophy, Alice 
Bailey/Master DK, "Today the law [of racial karma] is working, and 
the Jews are paying the price, factually and symbolically. They have 
never yet faced candidly and honestly (as a race) the problem of WHY 
[her emphasis] the many nations, from the time of the Egyptians, have 
neither liked nor wanted them.... Yet there must be some reason, 
inherent in the people themselves, when the reaction is so general 
and universal. The evil karma of the Jew today is intended to end his 
isolation, to bring him to the point of ...renouncing a nationality 
that has a tendency to be somewhat parasitic within the boundaries of 
other nations." (Esoteric Healing, p. 263ff). And The "Masters" then 
met to decide the fate of these rebellious disciples who refused to 
enter the "Path." Since they "loved the possessions of the world more 
than they loved the service of light," they were cursed to "know no 
peace." (Esoteric Psychology I, p. 397) 
David Irving parroted these very sentiments in an interview with The 
Guardian (March 19, 2000) during his landmark lawsuit against Deborah 
Lipstadt: "Jews should not be asking who pulled the trigger, but why? 
When the Nazis asked the Slovaks, the Hungarians, the Czechs, and 
others to give over their Jews, everyone did so gladly. Why did the 
Americans and Roosevelt refuse to let the [Holocaust refugee ship] 
St. Louis dock? What is it about these people that no one wanted 
them?" He also names various Jewish bodies as "some of the 
traditional enemies of truth," and although he never elaborates 
which "tradition" he embraces for his "truth", he identifies 
the "Jewish problem" with a word high on Bailey's (and Blavatsky's) 
list of Jewish racial traits: "Greed."
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No less a master than Jesus seems to have been aware of the overall race 
traits of the Jews of that day.In the Gospel of Thomas he uses the Jews in a 
parable.

His Disciples said:
"Who are you to say that to us?"
He replied:
You do not understand
Who I am, from what I say.
You have become like the Jews.
They love the Tree and hate the Fruit.
You love the Fruit and hate the Tree.

H.P.B. merely gave further explanations as to the traits of those of that day 
that were antithetical to the idea of true Universal Brotherhood and how it 
had all continued on into her day and was a prophetic precursor of the future 
intense suffering of that race ie; WW1 and 2 and Jesus shows the necessary 
balance required in treading the Spiritual path but is not ignorant of those 
things that stood as an abomination in the face of the Real.
In Theosophy , we are told to work on our tendencies and traits and that 
family , friends, neighbors and the world all play a part in that great work.
Why is it any different for any race ?
Isn't it truly the "Larger Circle" that becomes essential?
When we are small, so Theosophy states, we will whither and die but when we 
are large spirited we shall reach out to all.
And we remember that; He who loves himself lives in Hell, He who loves 
another lives on Earth, and He who loves all others lives in Heaven , but He 
who loves the Supreme for the sake of the Supreme has achieved the Highest 
Love of all.

There seemed to have been many pointers as to a change in heart and direction 
for those of that race and others in that day.
Jesus , once again points out that:

Whatever you hear,
With one ear and the other,
Preach from the housetops.
Nobody lights a lamp in order
To place it under a bushel
Or to hide it in some secret place.
Set it upon a lampstand,
So that all who enter and depart
May see its light.