Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00178)

> From: "stevestubbs" <stevestubbs@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Theos-World Re: High esteem or arrogance ??
> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 02:59:52 -0000
>
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "netemara888" <netemara888@y...>
> wrote:
> > Maybe it would help you to read some of the Esoteric Psychology
> books
> > by AAB in which they describe the rays and the personalities and
> the
> > flaws associated with those rays. There is a great deal of
> discussion
> > about intellectual pride in the second ray. This is also a quality
> of
> > the mind itself.
> >
> > In other words as long as there is mind in matter there will be ego
> > and pride in some individuals. Find out about your own rays
> > personality flaws. That will be an eye opener for ya. And if you
> say
> > you have NO flaws then that too is a form of ego and arrogance.
> >
> > Some of the stupidest people I've ever met were also extremely
> > humble. You can have it, I think it is overrated.
> >
> > Netemara
>
> Very interesting comment. Thanks indeed. Actually she seems to have
> assigned intellectual pride to the third and not the second ray. I
> looked up the "rays" in the book and finally found the section you
> referenced. It should be said this is one of the books in which
> Bailey felt the need to promote her antiSemitic sentiments, which in
> itself seems to void the claim that it was written by a "Tibetan."
> It makes little sense that a monk sequestered in the mountains of
> Tibet would be obsessed with what at the time was a purely European
> system of prejudice. Anyway this is typical of the kind of internal
> evidence which seems to moot the hook's claims.
<snip>

The only reference I found in that work is as follows- afaik, this was 
published in 1942, and has the very unfortunate grammar to refer to a 
"Jewish problem". The timing for that piece of phraseology couldn't have 
been worse. Nowhere in her works that I've read is she anti-Semitic, 
although she does make some harsh claims- for instance that there is a 
strain of separativeness and aloofness that goes back to Atlantean times. 
Here's the quote you may be referring to:



Esoteric Psychology II - Chapter II - The Ray of Personality - Problems of 
Disciples and Mystics

This relegation of the psychic powers to a position below the threshold of 
consciousness is the intent of the development planned for the Aryan race.
I would like here to point out that I use the word "Aryan" in 
contradistinction to the majority of the races found in Asia. Speaking 
generally, we can today classify the races into three groups:

The many remnants of the Atlantean or fourth root-race people, plus a very 
small sprinkling of the Lemurian peoples - so small as to be negligible.
The Aryan race itself, which includes the civilization of India and all 
Latinos, Teutons, Nordics, and Anglo-Saxons, and their various off-shoots.
A group which bridges between the Oriental races and the Aryan race which we 
call the Semitic. This race is neither purely Oriental nor is it Aryan.
The Jews are a group of people in whom the principle of separation is 
pronouncedly present. For ages they have, with determination and in 
obedience to the injunctions in the Old Testament, insisted on regarding 
themselves as a people set apart. For ages they have held themselves 
separated off from all other peoples in the world. The result is that they 
are now evoking from the races among whom they are scattered a corresponding 
desire to force that very separation upon them. Under the law, we draw forth 
from others what is actually present within ourselves, and to this law, 
races and nations are no exception. Through the interrelation of Jew and 
Gentile, of Semitic and Aryan, and through the solving of [581] the Jewish 
problem will the great heresy of separateness eventually be fought out.

btw, Bailey typifies the World War- not differentiating I & II- as the 
struggle brought to the physical plane between the disciples of light and 
the brothers of the Left hand path,( embodied by the nazi rulers) and a 
great triumph for the Spiritual Ashrams. She typifies the suffering of the 
Jews as a karmic cleansing for them, and predicts great karmic retribution 
for the German people as instigators of the War(s) at some point down the 
road.
She also labels the post-war creation of the State of Israel a wrongdoing 
and a regrettable extension of the evil machinations of the War. She does 
not have kind words for the Zionist movement which brought that about, nor 
their active arm, the terrorist Stern gangs.
I don't see her as anti-Semitic from any of that- harsh, perhaps.
btw, she is certainly no fan of the nazis. Her descriptions of them, 
especially the karmic consequences for the leadership is some of the 
grimmest occult reading you'll find. Blavatsky's 8th sphere avichi is 
"where" she describes their last stop. Mr. Hitler et al have left the 
building and won't be back.

regards-

Ali

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