Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00119)

Frank has written that ". . .HPB is regarded by some people as a forerunner of Hitler...."

Unfortunately, Frank does NOT explain how and why these people would come to such a conclusion. Furthermore, Frank does NOT tell us whether he is of the same opinion, i.e.,
HPB was a forerunner of Hitler. 

As far as I can tell, HPB and Hitler are at opposite ends of the spectrum!

What pray tell does Hitler have to do with HPB, the Mahatmas and Theosophy?

Personally, I regard Hitler as a FIEND. The dictionary defines a fiend as "a devil; a demon; a person of great wickedness or maliciousness." 

See HPB's article titled KARMIC VISIONS
http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/KarmicVisions.htm
where she writes:

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A hideous dream detaches itself from a group of passing visions, and alights heavily on his aching chest. The night-mare shows him men, expiring on the battle field with a curse on those who led them to their destruction. Every pang in his own wasting body brings to him in dream the recollection of pangs still worse, of pangs suffered through and for him. He sees and feels the torture of the fallen millions, who die after long hours of terrible mental and physical agony; who expire in forest and plain, in stagnant ditches by the road-side, in pools of blood under a sky made black with smoke. His eyes are once more rivetted to the torrents of blood, every drop of which represents a tear of despair, a heart-rent cry, a life-long sorrow. He hears again the thrilling sighs of desolation, and the shrill cries ringing through mount, forest and valley. He sees the old mothers who have lost the light of their souls; families, the hand that fed them. He beholds widowed young wives thrown on
the wide, cold world, and beggared orphans wailing in the streets by the thousands. He finds the young daughters of his bravest old soldiers exchanging their mourning garments for the gaudy frippery of prostitution, and the Soul-Ego shudders in the sleeping Form. . . . His heart is rent by the groans of the famished; his eyes blinded by the smoke of burning hamlets, of homes destroyed, of towns and cities in smouldering ruins. . . . 

"What have they brought thee or to thy fatherland, those bloody victories!" whispers the Soul in him. "A population clad in iron armour," it replies. "Two score millions of men dead now to all spiritual aspiration and Soul-life. A people, henceforth deaf to the peaceful voice of the honest citizen's duty, averse to a life of peace, blind to the arts and literature, indifferent to all but lucre and ambition. What is thy future Kingdom, now? A legion of war-puppets as units, a great wild beast in their collectivity. A beast that, like the sea yonder, slumbers gloomily now, but to fall with the more fury on the first enemy that is indicated to it. Indicated, by whom? It is as though a heartless, proud Fiend, assuming sudden authority, incarnate Ambition and Power, had clutched with iron hand the minds of a whole country. By what wicked enchantment has he brought the people back to those primeval days of the nation when their ancestors, the yellow-haired Suevi, and the treacherous Franks
roamed about in their warlike spirit, thirsting to kill, to decimate and subject each other? By what infernal powers has this been accomplished? Yet the transformation has been produced and it is as undeniable as the fact that alone the Fiend rejoices and boasts of the transformation effected. The whole world is hushed in breathless expectation. Not a wife or mother, but is haunted in her dreams by the black and ominous storm-cloud that overhangs the whole of Europe. The cloud is approaching. . . . . .It comes nearer and nearer Oh woe and horror! I foresee once more for earth the suffering I have already witnessed. I read the fatal destiny upon the brow of the flower of Europe's youth. . . .

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Below are some links to informative articles on Hitler and related subjects.

Adolf Hitler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

Nazism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi

Nazi Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany

Racial policy of Nazi Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_policy_of_Nazi_Germany


Holocaust
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust

Extermination camps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp

Auschwitz concentration camp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp#Criticisms

Nuremberg Trials
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials

Holocaust denial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial

Jews
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews


Anti-Semitism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semitism

Neo-Nazism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism

Daniel



Daniel H. Caldwell
BLAVATSKY STUDY CENTER/BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES
http://blavatskyarchives.com/introduction.htm

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