Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00062)

IMHO what is stated here is the cure for the terrible fanaticism of 
the Middle-East and the fearful Materialism of the West:

"H. P. B.'s own individual Teacher was he whom she referred to as M.; 
but the one who used her as a vehicle was not invariably he. If you 
only knew the mysteries connected with a Messenger from the Lodge, 
you would have greater understanding, and greater pity, than even the 
splendid and loyal devotion that you at present have for your 
Teachers, has given you the vision for. There is a tragedy in the 
life of each one of your Leaders; and I think H. P. B.'s life was the 
most tragic, the most tragically tragic, of all. 

What a sublime thing it is to realize that the mighty spiritual 
influence which she brought permeated a self-ridden and wholly 
materialistic world, and wrought in it a spiritual magic which 
changed men's minds, so that now things are talked of and believed in 
which in H. P. B.'s own day would have sent those who might have 
believed in them for trial before a lunacy-commission. Think of it, 
and you will see the working of a tremendous spiritual power, 
spiritual because it is universal, which is the test of a spiritual 
energy. In the silence did it work, undermining wrong things, 
breaking the crystallized molds of men's minds, and warming their 
hearts. One indomitable human will did it. 

Now what may we not look forward to in the future? Look to the East, 
the inner East, the Mystic East, the East from which springs forth 
the spiritual daylight, flooding the minds and hearts of our fellows. 
Teach men to look eastwards, for there is the Light. "Westward the 
course of Empire takes its way," says the English poet; but traveling 
constantly westwards you finally come to the East, and out of the 
East comes the Light."