Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00491)

 --- Morten Nymann Olesen
<global-theosophy@adslhome.dk> wrote: > Hallo all of
you,

> Sorry I forgot to wrote "NOT".
> 
> My views are:
> 
> 
> Blavatsky might be helpful on this one:
> "ON PSEUDO-THEOSOPHY"

http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/OnPseudoTheosophy.htm

> If what anyone says is false, then we aught tell the
> person, what is wrong -
> and NOT go around being too sensitive and as
> Blavatsky says:
> "tremble at every opinion too boldly expressed in
> LUCIFER".
> 
> Do you not agree ?
> 
> Let us act like true theosophists and not be like a
> leaf in the wind.


Thank you for your comments, Morten. 

Since you brought up comments by HPB in "Lucifer", it
may be relevant to consider her view of the purpose
for which she started that magazine. Below is what she
wrote on the very first issue of "Lucifer" (H.P.
Blavatsky Collected Writings, vol. VIII,
September, 1887):

"Now, the first and most important, if not the sole
object of the magazine, is expressed in the line from
the 1st Epistle to the Corinthians, on its title page.
It is to bring light to “the hidden things of
darkness” (iv, 5); to show in their true aspect and
their original real meaning things and names, men and
their doings and customs; it is finally to fight
prejudice, hypocrisy and shams in every nation, in
every class of Society, as in every department of
life. The task is a laborious one but it is neither
impracticable nor useless, if even as an experiment.

Thus, for an attempt of such nature, no better title
could ever be found than the one chosen. “Lucifer” is 
the pale morning-star, the precursor of the full blaze
of the noon-day sun—the “Eosphoros” of the Greeks. It
shines timidly at dawn to gather forces and dazzle the
eye after sunset as its own brother “Hesperos”—the
radiant evening star, or the planet Venus. No fitter
symbol exists for the proposed work—that of throwing a
ray of truth on everything hidden by the darkness of
prejudice, by social or religious misconceptions;
especially by that idiotic routine in life, which,
once that a certain action, a thing, a name, has been
branded by slanderous inventions, however unjust,
makes respectable people, so-called, turn away
shiveringly, refusing to even look at it from any
other aspect than the one sanctioned by public
opinion. Such an endeavour then, to force the
weak-hearted to look truth straight in the face, is
helped most efficaciously by a title belonging to the
category of branded names."

Anti-semitism, ethnic cleansing, racism, sexual
violence, and all other forms of prejudice, are not
based on truth - the oneness of all life - and
therefore deserve and must be exposed as crimes
against humanity. These are evil ideologies; they
bewitch, condition and pervert the human mind. An
understanding of Theosophy throws light on what they
really are: "prejudice, hypocrisy and shams." 

As the Mahatma wrote (letter 88, chronological), "The
real evil proceeds from human intelligence and its
origin rests entirely with reasoning man who
dissociates himself from Nature. Humanity, then, alone
is the true source of evil. Evil is the exaggeration
of good, the progeny of human selfishness and
greediness. Think profoundly and you will find that
save death — which is no evil but a necessary law, and
accidents which will always find their reward in a
future life — the origin of every evil whether small
or great is in human action, in man whose intelligence
makes him the one free agent in Nature."

Should students of Theosophy appease evil ideologies?

Pedro








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