Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00452)

Frank, by quoting a statement about Shaw, are you 
somehow suggesting that Hitler and the Nazis and 
Hitler's own allies in Italy and Japan have been SADLY 
misunderstood? That in fact they were not "blood-thirsty"??

Frank, since you say you are a follower
of Madame Blavatsky' teachings, please tell us what
H.P. Blavatsky meant when she wrote the following
in an article aptly titled KARMIC VISIONS:

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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. . . .

Bold added.
Quoted from:
http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/KarmicVisions.htm

Daniel