Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00237)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "arielaretziel" 
<arielaretziel@y...> wrote:
> She criticises 
> Christianity a lot more than she criticises the Jews.

That is true, but violent anti-Catholic sentiment is a separate issue 
from racism. Oddly, it was the Catholic Church and not Christianity 
which she was always criticizing.

? The Chinese and 
> the Indians are not the root races that are dying out, it is the 
> Australian aborigines.

None of these people are dying out and Blavatsky said they would all 
die out.

? The TS never promoted the protocols.

Statements have been made on this list to the contrary.

> And the 
> Swastika was used by the TS long before there was ever such a thing 
> as Nazi's.

Yes, and it would seem an act of appropriuate sensitivity to drop it, 
which has not been done.

> By the way, what do you think is her racial theory? I thought you 
> were already a student of Theosophy.

Different aspects of the SD strike me as beng of very different 
quality. Her model for explaining psychical and spiritual phenomena 
seems to me to be the most valuable part, and really unrivaled to 
this day. Unfortunately it has never been explained lucidly. Each 
student is left to tease it out of the book.

Her cosmogonical hypothesis strikes me as being extremely interesting 
and possibly true but less thoroughly grounded in fact than the 
psychical-spiritual model.

Her anthropogenetic theory strikes me as the least interesting and 
the east founded in fact. In fact, it strikes me as being hardly 
more than a fantasy which is regrettably contradicted by scientific 
findings. There is some interesting stuff there, but the theory as a 
whole does not hold water, and yet it includes Noah's FlooD!

So I giver her two out of three.