Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00123)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Frank Reitemeyer" <ringding@o...> 
wrote:

> Clemens said before 215 that a woman, thinking of her own being 
must be 
> ashamed.
> 
> There was another church teacher, John Chrysostomos (in greco-
German 
> rendering), who said that women mainly exist to satisfy the 
horniness of 
> men.
> 
> Pope Pius II. (1405-1464) said: If you look at a woman, consider, 
it is the 
> devil! She is a kind of hell!
> 
> Buddhist monks is not allowed to give a woman the hand because they 
are 
> unclean.
> 
> I think that Theosophy teaches similiar in its higher teachings, 
but popular 
> Theosophy looks as is men and women are equal.
> GdeP elsewhere said (I am looking for the text I read some years 
before) - 
> perhaps in one of his circulars - as warning for future 
theosophists that 
> women may not get leaders in the TM for the next some hundreds of 
years 
> because of their lack of the divine soul and their attraction to 
the lower 
> astral world.


The words attributed by HPB to one of her Teachers (K.H.) may not 
constitute popular Theosophy but clearly present a theosophical view 
on the subject of the role of women in human evolution. They appeared 
as footnotes to Eliphas Levi's PARADOXES OF THE HIGHEST SCIENCE and 
were signed "E.O." [Eminent Occultist](H.P. Blavatsky Collected 
Writings, vol. 6, 1884, p. 258).


". . . Woman must not be looked upon as only an appanage of man, 
since she was not made for his mere benefit or pleasure any more than 
he for hers; but the two must be realized as equal powers though 
unlike individualities.

". . . Woman's mission is to become the mother of future occultists—
of those who will be born without sin. On the elevation of woman the 
world's redemption and salvation hinge. And not till woman bursts the 
bonds of her sexual slavery, to which she has ever been subjected, 
will the world obtain an inkling of what she really is and of her 
proper place in the economy of nature . . . 

". . . Then the world will have a race of Buddhas and Christs, for 
the world will have discovered that individuals have it in their own 
powers to procreate Buddha-like children or — demons. When that 
knowledge comes, all dogmatic religions and with these the demons, 
will die out." 

pedro