Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00390)

Hi,

I found an interesting article about Bailey and
Blavatsky, I hope the link will work...

A COMPARISON BETWEEN H. P. BLAVATSKY & ALICE BAILEY
The Pseudo-Occultism of Mrs. A. Bailey
By Alice Leighton Cleather and Basil Crump

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GOD, THE LOGOS AND THE HIERARCHY

"The word "God" is constantly used, and great stress
is laid on the "Love Aspect of the Logos"; but the
references given to the Secret Doctrine contain no
such term. This sort of trick is found throughout the
book; for in nearly every instance, on looking it up,
the reference given uses different phraseology or has
no application at all. Thus, on p. 66, Fohat is stated
to be "Love-Wisdom," and a footnote refers to S.D. I,
100, 144,155, (Besant Edition), but on looking them up
one finds: p. 100 "Blazing Dragon of wisdom"; p. 144,
"Fohat, in his capacity of DIVINE LOVE (Eros) 1*, the
electric Power of affinity and sympathy"; p. 155, no
mention of Fohat, Love, or Wisdom. Next Mrs. Bailey
says Fohat is "god" and refers to S.D. I, 167, but we
there find in a footnote that what she calls "God" is
"absolute Be-Ness, 'SAT'." And if we turn to p. 376
(352 Old Edition) we read: "When the Theosophists and
Occultists say that God is no BEING, for IT is
nothing, No-Thing, they are more reverential and
religiously respectful to the Deity than those who
call God a HE, and thus make of HIM a gigantic MALE."

The question is dealt with at considerable length by
The Master K.H. in Letter X, Mahatma Letters, p. 52,
where he says "we deny God both as philosophers and as
Buddhists. We know there are planetary and other
spiritual lives, and we know there is in our system no
such thing as God, either personal or impersonal."

One may search in vain for Mrs.. Bailey's "Ray of
Love-Wisdom" in the S.D., and the references (p. 74)
given to it concerning the "Love aspect of the Logos"
contain nothing of the kind. These are only a few out
of dozens of such examples in the two volumes.

At p. 91 the "Fourth Creative Hierarchy" is "male,"
but surely creative power is male in any case. The
word "Love" is used ad nauseam throughout the work and
even the Ego is called the "Love Aspect" (147)."

Erica Letzerich



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Erica Letzerich
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"The Truth will set you free, but first will make you miserable"





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