Theos-Talk Archives (August 2002 Message tt00136)

Thanks Larry,

It is an interesting topic and should be looked into,
not just by theosophists but by historians and other
like academia.

mic


--- Larry F Kolts <llkingston2@juno.com> wrote:
> 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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