Theos-Talk Archives (March 2003 Message tt00087)

I think it's interesting to review some comments of
Madame Blavatsky in the Key to Theosophy:


"THEO. Allow me to add that which you seem unwilling
to express. Of course we know that with the exception
of two remnants of races — the Parsees and the Jews 
— every nation is divided, not merely against all
other nations, but even against itself. This is found
most prominently among the so-called civilized
Christian nations. Hence your wonder, and the reason
why our first object appears to you a Utopia. Is it
not so? 

ENQ. Well, yes; but what have you to say against it? 

THEO. Nothing against the fact; but much about the
necessity of removing the causes which make Universal
Brotherhood a Utopia at present. 

ENQ. What are, in your view, these causes? 

THEO. First and foremost, the natural selfishness of
human nature. This selfishness, instead of being
eradicated, is daily strengthened and stimulated into
a ferocious and irresistible feeling by the present
religious education, which tends not only to
encourage, but positively to justify it. People's
ideas about right and wrong have been entirely
perverted by the literal acceptance of the Jewish
Bible. All the unselfishness of the altruistic
teachings of Jesus has become merely a theoretical
subject for pulpit oratory; while the precepts of
practical selfishness taught in the Mosaic Bible,
against which Christ so vainly preached, have become
ingrained into the innermost life of the Western
nations. "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth"
has come to be the first maxim of your law. Now, I
state openly and fearlessly, that the perversity of
this doctrine and of so many others Theosophy alone
can eradicate. 

ENQ. How? 

THEO. Simply by demonstrating on logical,
philosophical, metaphysical, and even scientific
grounds that: — (a) All men have spiritually and
physically the same origin, which is the fundamental
teaching of Theosophy. (b) As mankind is essentially
of one and the same essence, and that essence is one 
— infinite, uncreate, and eternal, whether we call it
God or Nature — nothing, therefore, can affect one
nation or one man without affecting all other nations
and all other men. This is as certain and as obvious
as that a stone thrown into a pond will, sooner or
later, set in motion every single drop of water
therein. 

ENQ. But this is not the teaching of Christ, but
rather a pantheistic notion. 

THEO. That is where your mistake lies. It is purely
Christian, although not Judaic, and therefore,
perhaps, your Biblical nations prefer to ignore it. 

ENQ. This is a wholesale and unjust accusation. Where
are your proofs for such a statement? 

THEO. They are ready at hand. Christ is alleged to
have said: "Love each other" and "Love your enemies";
for "if ye love them (only) which love you, what
reward (or merit) have ye? Do not even the publicans*
the same? And if you salute your brethren only, what
do ye more than others? Do not even publicans so?"
These are Christ's words. But Genesis ix. 25, says
"Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be
unto his brethren." And, therefore, Christian but
Biblical people prefer the law of Moses to Christ's
law of love. They base upon the Old Testament, which
panders to all their passions, their laws of conquest,
annexation, and tyranny over races which they call
inferior. What crimes have been committed on the
strength of this infernal (if taken in its dead
letter) passage in Genesis, history alone gives us an
idea, however inadequate.† "


Erica Letzerich


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