Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00506)

Wednesday, March 23, 2005, 1:48:30 PM, Konstantin wrote:

> As far I know, in the theosophical literature there are no statements
> that hierarchy of evil exists.

I've never seen its existence denied by Mahatmas. Moreover, here is
what M. wrote to A.P.Sinnett in a letter received 3rd March, 1882:

Only, look out sharp: the Dugpas and the Gelupkas are not fighting but
in Tibet alone, see their vile work in England among the "Occultists
and seers!" Hear -- your acquaintance Wallace preaching like a true
"Hierophant" of the "left hand" the marriage of "soul with the spirit"
and getting the true definition topsy-turvy seek to prove that every
practicing Hierophant must at least be spiritually married -- if for
some reasons he cannot do so physically there being otherwise a great
danger of Adulteration of God and Devil! I tell you the Shammars are
there already and their pernicious work is everywhere in our way. Do
not regard this as metaphorical but as a real fact, which may be
demonstrated to you some day.

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-47.htm


> Blavatsky denies existence of Satan and asserts that it is a
> personification of resistive force of nature.

She denied Satan as a universal antipode of the God, whose existence
she also denied. I haven't seen her denial of the legend of Lucifer
who fell because of his pride and became unworthy of his name as light
bearer. What she wrote about Lucifer was not about a single person but
about a host of beings who endowed us with intelligence. And again
this does not contradict the legend about one of those beings.