Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00723)

Thank you; I appreciate your efforts. Etzion
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From: "Zack Lansdowne" <zackl@sprynet.com>
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Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 11:22 PM
Subject: Theos-World Re: HPB and the Nazi doctrines


> Bart wrote:
> > Well, Blavatsky was long dead when the Nazi's started. Many attribute
> > the statements of Alice Bailey, who, in spite of her spiritual
> > connections, was something of a bigot (she felt Blacks were inferior,
> > Jews deserved any bad thing that happened to them because of their
> > rejection of Jesus, and that all homosexuals were inherently evil), and
> > made a number of statements supportive of the Nazi's.
> >
>
> I have the complete set of Alice Bailey's 24 books on CD-ROM, and so I
> decided to check the accuracy of Bart's claim that Alice Bailey "made a
> number of statements supportive of the Nazi's." By doing a search on the
> word "Nazi", I learned that Bailey, in her books, used this word exactly
> nine times. The paragraphs in which she used this word are as follows:
>
> 1) The dangers growing out of hate, revenge and pain. These dangers will
be
> the most difficult to avoid. A deep-seated hatred of the Nazi regime (and
of
> the German nation as endorsing that regime) is steadily rising. This is
> almost inevitable, being based on the facts of Nazi activity. The task of
> the United Nations after the war will of necessity be-among other
things-to
> protect the German people from the hate of those whom they have so
> appallingly abused. This will be no easy thing to do. Retribution and
> revenge must not be permitted, and yet at the same time a just payment for
> evil action cannot, and should not, be avoided. The law ever works, and
that
> law states that whatsoever a man or nation sows, that shall it also reap.
> Germany has sown evil broadcast throughout the civilised world, and for
some
> time to come her lot must be hard and she will have to pay in sweat and
toil
> and tears for her evil deeds. But this payment should be part of the great
> work of rehabilitation and not a vengeful exaction, and if this is borne
in
> mind, no serious mistakes will be made. The German people must work
> strenuously to put right the evil they have done, as far as in them lies,
> but the next generation-at present in the cradle or at school-must not be
> penalised. (Bailey, Externalization of the Hierarchy, pp. 370-371)
>
> 2) Sixth, after the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny, they hope to
see
> established a peace which will afford to all nations the means of dwelling
> in safety within their own boundaries, and which will afford assurance
that
> all the men in all the lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear
> and want; (Bailey, Externalization of the Hierarchy, p. 319).
>
> 3) The group of those who violently and actively and sincerely are
partisans
> of certain basic and well-known ideologies which we can roughly divide
into
> the fascist-nazi group, the democratic group and the communistic group.
> Such are the major ideas to which the leading nations of the world are
> pledged and for which they are ready to fight if need arises. (Bailey,
> Esoteric Psychology, vol. II, pp. 736-737)
>
> 4) The Mutable Cross of material change and constant movement can be
> depicted by the swastika. The man is unconscious of the nature of the four
> entering energies and interprets little in terms of the soul. The
energies
> make their impact upon him and drive him into material activity. This
Cross
> of the personality dedicates the man who is crucified thereon to material
> ends in order that he may learn eventually their divine use. It is in the
> lower aspect of this Cross that the Nazis chose this symbol as theirs;
they
> were expressing, at the close of the material cycle of human existence,
the
> false and evil use of matter, of which separativeness, cruelty and
> selfishness is the key. The misuse of substance and the prostitution of
> matter and form to evil ends is the sin against the Holy Spirit. It might
be
> said that the swastika "drives into danger dire and into evil ways, those
> whose greed is great and who see no beauty in the dawning light and who
know
> no love of human lives." To those who respond not to the lower aspects and
> effects of the whirling Cross (as it is sometimes called) "the swastika
> flings them from itself and far afield until they come to rest upon the
> Cross of chosen crucifixion," the Fixed Cross of the pledged disciple.
> (Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p. 560)
>
> 5) The thought of the children in the subjugated lands did not arrest the
> onward march of Hitler's soldiers; the sanctity of the home and the
physical
> and moral needs of small children aroused no flicker of compassion in the
> young men trained under the Nazi system of education; the relationship of
> mother and child did not enter into the calculation of the German agents
as
> they separated children from parents and set the child adrift in a world
of
> carnage or in an institutionalised establishment. The planned cruelty must
> be remedied, and it must be remedied by the men and women of goodwill and
> loving hearts. (Bailey, Externalization of the Hierarchy, p. 386)
>
> 6) At the time of the second phase of the World War, which started in
1939,
> many pacifists and well meaning, though unthinking, people among the
> students of the Arcane School and the general public, which we could
succeed
> in reaching, took the position that I had written the pamphlets and papers
> endorsing the United Nations and the need to defeat the Axis Powers, and
> that the Tibetan was not responsible for the anti-Nazi point of view of
> these articles. This, again, was not true. The pacifists took the
orthodox
> and idealistic point of view that because God is love it would be
impossible
> for Him to be anti-German or anti-Japanese. Because God is love, He had
no
> alternative, or the Hierarchy either, working under the Christ, to do
> anything else but stand firmly on the side of those who were seeking to
free
> humanity from slavery, evil, aggression and corruption. The words of the
> Christ have never been more true, "He that is not with Me is against Me."
> The Tibetan in His writings at that time took a firm and unshakable stand,
> and today (1945) in view of the unspeakable atrocities, cruelties and
> enslavement policies of the Axis nations, His position has been justified.
> (Bailey, Unfinished Autobiography, p. 169)
>
> 7) Refuse to be afraid of any results of right and positive action. Fear
> lies behind much of the dissenting attitudes today, and fear kills truth,
> hides the vision and arrests right action. The great Leader of this
> Christian era has warned us not to be afraid of those who kill the body,
but
> to fear only those who seek to kill the soul. The forces of aggression are
> slowly and ruthlessly killing out love and hope (qualities of the soul) in
> the conquered lands and in Germany. This, along with the great
humanitarian
> plea, is sufficient reason to impel all men of goodwill to take up arms on
> the side of the Forces of Light. I would commend this to your imaginative
> attention. To put it even more practically, I would ask you if you would
> care to have your children subjected to the educational processes of the
> Nazi regime-with its crushing of all humanity, its emphasis upon pride of
> race and its cult of cruelty? Can you then stand idly by or simply resort
to
> prayer and talk about the beauties of peace when the little children in
the
> appropriated lands come under the soul-killing system of Germany? Refuse,
> then, in their interests, to be afraid. (Bailey, Externalization of the
> Hierarchy, p. 245)
>
> 8) .Mass psychology and mob determinations have been exploited down the
> ages, for the unthinking and the emotional are easily swayed in any
> direction, and hitherto this has been turned to their own advantage by
those
> who do not have the best interests of humanity at heart. It has been used
> for selfish and evil ends far more often than for good. Of this tendency
the
> negative and helpless attitude of the German people under the Nazi rulers
is
> the outstanding example. (Bailey, Externalization of the Hiearchy, p. 279)
>
> 9) Attack by one party upon another party in public, national or political
> life, or of one group of thinkers (advocating their peculiar ideas) upon
> another group of thinkers with differing ideas, has long been the custom.
> In this process the more powerful obliterate the weaker, and the masses
are
> exploited and told what to do and to think, with no real effort to bring
> them into a condition of right understanding. It is the same in the
> religious field, but the religious differences of the race are of such old
> standing that there is no need to enumerate them here. Militarists and
> pacifists in their many groups, Communists and conservatives, socialists
and
> Nazis, republicans and Fascists, democrats and progressives, labour and
> capital, Catholics and Protestants, agnostics and fanatics, politicians
and
> idealists, criminals and the enforcers of the misinterpreted law, ignorant
> masses and the intelligent few, plus the class distinctions, the racial
> differences, and the religious feuds in both hemispheres, have reduced the
> world to turmoil and complete disunion and feebleness. (Bailey, Esoteric
> Psychology, vol. II, pp. 671-672)
>
>
> The above paragraphs contain all of the instances in which Alice Bailey
used
> the word "Nazi" in her 24 books. Nowhere do I see any justification for
> Bart's claim that Alice Bailey "made a number of statements supportive of
> the Nazi's."
>
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> Zack Lansdowne
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