Theos-Talk Archives (August 2002 Message tt00132)

Hi Mic,

It's been a week and I don't see any rushing to answer your thought
provoking question. I can't say that I have the answer either, but I
offer a couple of points that may evoke further comment.

1-In Cranston's HPB, the author reflects as follows on p. 531: "First of
all, she was A WOMAN, and that says a lot. She overcame the limitations
her gender imposed on her in her time, and she became a fiercely
independent, sovereign, and self-motivared person in her own right, never
relinquishing these achievements in the course of her life. In her time,
women and intellectual and spiritual callings were considered
incompatible, indeed they appeared to many like fire and water, they were
not supposed to mix. Along with a small habdful of nineteenth-century
women who became spiritual leaders, H.P. Blavatsky defied this mighty
prejudice of her age."

2-HPB's time was indeed a time when some women were beginning to assert
themselves.
She was pioneer in this, standing alongside the likes of Ellen White
(Seventh day Adventism) and Mary Baker Eddy (Christian Science)

3-This is just a feeling I have, but there seems to be a feminine element
running throughout all of HPB's work. Perhaps a man could not have
brought hinself to so completely overturn the millennia of male
orientated religion, based as it was on phallic worship. Perhaps this
could be a topic to look into and may be a key to answering your
question.

Larry


On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 15:35:55 -0700 (PDT) Mic Forster
<micforster@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> I was meditating last night about HPB the woman. Not
> HPB the Russian, HPB the theosophist, nor HPB the
> occultist, but HPB the woman. On meditating it struck
> me how peculiar it is that a woman would bring forth
> such an important piece of knowledge. Take a look at
> all the other spiritual/philosophical gurus of past
> ages and they are all men....Moses, Abraham, Jesus,
> Buddha, Mohammad, Plato, Pythagoras, etc etc. Yes you
> can say that these were men because of the age they
> lived in; women have only been given more freedom in
> the contemporary age. But HPB did not live in such a
> liberal era. Women, in our so called democracies, did
> not even have the vote. Why then, of all the people on
> Earth, did HPB bring us the Secret Doctrine? Why did
> the Mahatmas choose to communicate with her? Has the
> SD had more effect on humanity because it was
> delivered by a woman? Would we be still studying the
> SD if, say, WQJ delivered it instead of HPB?
>


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