Theos-Talk Archives (November 2002 Message tt00363)

DEAR READERS, 

HERE IS MY LETTER TO BRIAN REGARDING HPB'S KIND REGARD TOWARD LESS 
ADVANCED RACES, AND MY 'BENEVOLENT' RACIST RELATIVES' SIMILAR 
PATRONIZING ATTITUDE TOWARDS THEIR SLAVES. 

----- Original Message ----- 
Subject: Re: HPB DEFENDS ABORIGENES 


THIS IS THE ARTICLE THAT I SENT TO BRIAN, IN WHICH HPB STRONGLY 
DEFENDS THE LESS ADVANCED RACES AGAINST ANY ABUSE OR CRUELTY. 



Bhakti Ananda Goswami <bhakti.eohn@verizon.net> wrote: 


THE MOTE AND THE BEAM
Article by H. P. Blavatsky
Ye blind guides, which strain
at a gnat and swallow a camel. . . .
Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, 
But considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 
--MATTHEW VII

OH the virtuous indignation, the roaring tempest raised in the tender 
souls of American and British philanthropists at the rumor that 
Russian authorities in Siberia are not as tender as they should be 
towards their political prisoners! What a hullabaloo of loud protests 
of "indignation meetings," of gigantic gatherings to denounce their 
neighbors, while they keep prudently silent about the same misdeeds 
at home. 
A monster meeting of some 250,000 men protested the other day at Hyde 
Park "in the name of civilization and humanity" against the brutal 
behavior of some unknown Russian officials and jailors. Now, one can 
readily understand and entirely appreciate the feelings of the 
masses, of the oppressed, the suffering poor and the hoi polloi in 
general. These being "sat upon" from birth to death by the high and 
the wealthy of their own land, and having all, to a man, many a sore 
place in their ..... 

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EDITED, MY COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE IS BELOW 

Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 5:08 AM
Subject: Re: HPB DEFENDS ABORIGENES, BUT IS STILL A RACIST


DEAR BRIAN,

I SEE SEVERAL THINGS RELEVANT TO THE DISCUSSION OF HER RACISM IN THIS 
LETTER.

1. HPB WAS INDIGNANT THAT PEOPLE WERE CRITICIZING RUSSIA.

2. SHE WANTED TO POINT OUT THE BRUTAL RACISM AND GENOCIDE OF THE 
ENGLISH.

3. SHE WANTED TO POINT OUT THE INCREDIBLE BRUTALITY OF THE ENGLISH 
TOWARDS WOMEN. 

4. SHE WANTED TO EMPHASIZE THE SO-CALLED 'CHRISTIANITY' OF THIS 
BRUTAL ENGLISH CHARACTER (SHE HATED CHRISTIANITY). 

5, SHE CONSIDERED THE CRUEL, OPPRESSIVE SO-CALLED 'CHRISTIAN' ENGLISH 
LESS NOBLE OF CHARACTER THAN THE HARD WORKING LESS-EVOLVED OTHER 
RACES. 

NO WHERE IS THERE ANY EVIDENCE IN THIS LETTER THAT SHE WASN'T A 
RACIST. A RACIST DOES NOT NECESSARILY WANT TO MURDER OR TORTURE 
PEOPLE THAT THEY CONSIDER RACIALLY INFERIOR. I HAVE ANCESTORS WHO 
WERE SLAVE OWNERS ON A CARIBBEAN ISLAND. THEY WERE 'GOOD PROTESTANT 
CHRISTIANS' WHO TREATED THEIR SLAVES WELL BY LOCAL STANDARDS. WERE 
THEY RACISTS ? OF COURSE. DID THEY THINK THEIR SLAVES SOMEHOW 
INFERIOR AND THUS 'NEEDING' TO BE ENSLAVED ? PROBABLY. DID THEY 
HAVE SOME KIND OF RELIGIOUS RATIONALE FOR THEIR ENSLAVEMENT OF 
BLACKS ? THEY MUST HAVE. DID THEY FEEL THAT RATIONALE WAS 
SUPPORTED BY SCIENCE ? NO DOUBT. 

WHEN A PLOT WAS DEVISED FOR THE SLAVES TO RISE UP AND MASSACRE THE 
ISLAND'S WHITE POPULATION, MY ANCESTOR'S SLAVES WARNED THEM AND 
HELPED THEM TO ESCAPE FROM THE ISLAND BEFORE THE BLOOD-BATH. THUS 
THEY SHOWED THEIR APPRECIATION FOR THE RELATIVELY KIND TREATMENT MY 
ANCESTORS HAD GIVEN THEM, BY SAVING THEIR LIVES. STILL MY ANCESTORS 
OWNED AND WORKED OTHER HUMAN BEINGS AS THOUGH THEY WERE POSSESSIONS 
OR DRAFT ANIMALS. BENEVOLENT CHATTEL SLAVERY IS STILL CHATTEL 
SLAVERY, A MONSTROUS EVIL. IS THERE ANY SUCH THING AS A 'GOOD' 
RACIST ? WHAT DID HPB IMAGINE TO BE THE PROPER PLACE OF BLACKS IN 
HER THEOSOPHICAL WORLD ORDER ? BY EVEN SUGGESTING THAT THE INFERIOR 
RACES NEEDED TO DIE OUT, FOR A NEW HIGHER WORLD ORDER TO EMERGE, SHE 
WAS SETTING THE STAGE FOR THEIR OPPRESSION AND GENOCIDE. 

JUST BECAUSE HPB WAS APPALLED AT THE CRUELTY SHOWN BLACKS DOES NOT 
MEAN SHE WASN'T A RACIST. SHE CLEARLY CONSIDERED OTHER RACES 
INFERIOR TO HER IMAGINED 'ARYANS', WITH THE NEGROES AND VEDDA OR 
AUSTRALOIDS ON THE LOWEST RUNG OF HER IMAGINED EVOLUTIONARY LADDER. 
THIS DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN SHE WANTED TO SEE THEM TORTURED OR 
EXTERMINATED. AFTER ALL, WHY SHOULD SHE NOT FEEL COMPASSION 
FOR 'NOBLE SAVAGES' AND MORE PRIMITIVE HUMANS, OR EVEN SUB-HUMANS 
BEING TORTURED AND EXTERMINATED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE 
EMPIRE OF THE BRITISH CROWN ?

SHE WAS THE AUTHOR OF A PROFOUNDLY DANGEROUS, RACIST THOUGHT SYSTEM, 
WHICH HAS BEEN ADOPTED BY RACISTS WORLD-WIDE, AND HAS CAUSED AND IS 
CAUSING UNTOLD HUMAN SUFFERING. THIS LETTER MAKES NO DIFFERENCE IN 
THAT FACT. MOST PEOPLE DON'T LIKE SEEING CRUELTY TO BEASTS OF 
BURDEN EITHER. HOWEVER, THEY DON'T CONSIDER THEIR BEASTS OF BURDEN 
TO BE HUMANS OR TO HAVE ANY INDEPENDENT RIGHTS LIKE HUMAN BEINGS. 
EXPRESSION OF COMPASSION FOR BLACKS AND RED INDIANS, DOES NOT MEAN 
THAT HPB THOUGHT OF THEM AS BEINGS ON A PAR WITH RACIAL 'ARYANS', OR 
EVEN BELIEVED IN THE FULL EMANCIPATION OF BLACKS FOR THAT MATTER. I 
KNOW IT SEEMS CONTRADICTORY TO SPEAK OF GOOD AND BAD RACISTS.....ALL 
RACISM IS EVIL, BUT NOT ALL RACISTS ARE EQUALLY AS BAD. HPB'S SENSE 
OF RACIAL SUPERIORITY DID NOT AUTOMATICALLY MEAN SHE WAS A HEARTLESS 
PERSON, OR APPROVED OF GENOCIDE AGAINST THE 'LOWER' RACES. I THINK 
THAT SHE WOULD HAVE RECOILED IN HORROR TO SEE THE EXPRESSION OF 
ARYANIST RACISM AND ANTI SEMITISM AS IT MANIFEST IN THE THIRD REICH. 
UNFORTUNATELY A PERSON CANNOT TAKE-BACK THE EVILS THAT THEY HAVE 
UNLEASHED IN THE WORLD. IN HER PROUD ARROGANCE AND DECEITFULNESS, 
SHE UNLEASHED A GREAT EVIL INTO THE WORLD, AND SHOULD BE HELD 
ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE ACT. IN FAIRNESS HOWEVER, WE MUST BE CAREFUL 
NOT TO ASCRIBE ATTITUDES AND CRIMES TO HER, FOR WHICH SHE WAS NOT 
GUILTY. 


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SHE WAS ONLY RESPONSIBLE FOR PLANTING A SEED THAT BECAME A TREE 
BEARING POISONOUS FRUIT. I AM SURE THAT SHE NEVER WOULD HAVE DONE 
IT, IF SHE COULD HAVE SEEN THE RESULT. I ASCRIBE NO ILL MOTIVE TO 
HER, AND AM SURE THAT SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS PLAYING SOME SALVIFIC ROLE 
IN THE HUMAN ADVENTURE. 

AS WITH MANY BRILLIANT PEOPLE, SHE WAS ARROGANT AND PROUD OF HER 
CONSIDERABLE GIFTS AND PERSONAL POWER. 


PAX, DAVID