Theos-Talk Archives (March 2003 Message tt00104)

In theos?talk@yahoogroups.com, Erica Letzerich <eletzerich@y...> 
wrote:
> I would like you to mention since when a kind and
> gentle personality is synonymous of high spiritual
> awareness and spiritual development?

If being an asshole is synonymous with spirituality, then I will opt 
for the company of unspiritual people.

> Or
> Mahatma Ghandi in his personal relationships.

As I recall, Smuts, who was an enemy of Gamdhi, expressed amazement 
at his forbearance, which is, by the way, one of the Four 
Qualifications of the sadhana catustaya, the basis for jnana yoga. A 
very difficult attribute to acquire, but that is the challenge with 
which we are presented.

Now what
> are you doing in a Theosophy list for discussions if
> you have such repulsive feelings and thoughts about
> Theosophy and specially about Madame Blavatsky?

After reading all the comments from Theosophical Nazis in which they 
insist repeatedly that Theosophy is a form of Nazism, I am beginning 
to come around to the belief that they may be right. I may have been 
guilty of willful blindness in defending Throsdophy in the past. One 
thing is sure: Theosophy seems to attract a lot of Nazis, who use 
Blavatsky's race theories as a basis. I am coming to suspect that I 
have been wrong in averting my attention from that. It is 
furthermore distubing and distasteful.

> Hitler havenĘt got a Theosophical symbol

The swastika is the Theosophical symbol, dear. Hitler reversed the 
sense of it, prsumably to turn it from a symbol of life into a symbol 
of death.

, he used an
> ancient Hindu and Greek symbol the swastika.

The swastika is not Greek.

> There is no one teaching in the whole range of
> Theosophical Literature that promotes racism

Blavatsky wrote about the genocide of the Tasmanians without one word 
of disapproval. The SD is all about inferior races and superior 
races.

> Kandinsky considered the inventor and theorist of
> abstract painting in the 20th century was also a
> Theosophist

I was unaware ofthat. I love his painting, though.

WB Yeats was kicked out by Theosopical Fundamentalists, as he relates 
in his autobiography. A book very much worth reading, by the way, if 
you have not seen it. Yeats was arguably the greatest literary 
genius of the 20th century, and his autobiography is arguably his 
best book. I highly recommend it.