Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00494)

It's obvious that students of Theosophy they have to be the first do 
not promote racism and intolerance and also evil ideologies, 
otherwise they know nothing about theosophy. 

But to be against evil ideologies having emotional reactions, does 
not help as well. The mind has many traps and the biggest challenge 
of a theosophist is to find a way to promote the principles of 
truth, that are essential esoteric without to be intolerant. 

Is that possible?

Erica Letzerich


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Pedro Oliveira <prmoliveira@y...> 
wrote:
> --- Morten Nymann Olesen
> <global-theosophy@a...> 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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