Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00246)

stevestubbs wrote:
> Much as I wish it were not so, Blavatsky was a racist plain and 
> simple and an antiSemite. 
Certainly, she had some of the common anti-Semitic prejudices of her 
day. Interestingly enough, she contradicts those statements many times, 
as well.

> The Theosophical Society was instrumental in promoting
> the infamous PROTOCOLS and other racist propaganda. 
I would be interested in finding out more about that. Do you have a 
cite or source?

> They even use
> the swastila sas their symbol to this day and laugh with glese every 
> time they point to it. 
I have NEVER seen a Theosophist laugh with glee about the use of the 
swastika, which, by the way, is NOT the Nazi swastika.

Bart