Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00229)

I agree with HPB.
But that refutes not GdeP's advice that we are in a cycle - he spoke of 
several hundreds of yeasr if I remember right, but gave no definite 
figures - in which as a general rule it would be better to have a man 
(speaking of the rupa, not the spirit) as a leader in the TS. It is clear 
that the view on women as inferior began with the exoteric religions or with 
Judaism, which view on women was taken over by Christianity and Islam. 
http://www.athmaprakashini.com/women.htm:

"Paul that "I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the 
man, but to be in silence" (1 Tim. 2:12). "

Is it anti-semitism to contradtict Paul? O rmust I blind believe what such a 
prominent jewish authority (out of many) says about the incompetence of 
women to speak od spiritual things?

The old religions held women in high regards, the old heathen German 
religion for example, a view which survived in the underground Germany until 
modern times.

I have also heard that, although women can begin the occult path in a female 
body, the last and highest initiation is only possible in a male body.

Theosophist-Philosophist Hegel, whom HPB respected as the one, who gave the 
highest expression on Metaphysics, wrote that a woman can only reach the 
intellectual level of a ten years old school boy.
If Hegel is right, women lack manas or the human soul. When HPB acted as 
tulku to her Masters she set aside her manas to make room for the manas of a 
higher man.

Steiner in quoting Goethe gives another valuable hint on the woman's 
question: http://wn.rsarchive.org/SocialIssues/Woman_index.html.
Frank

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel H. Caldwell" <danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 5:05 AM
Subject: Theos-World Esotericism ignores both sexes.


H.P. Blavatsky wrote:

"Vach seems, in many an aspect, to approach the Chinese Kwan-yin, but
there is no regular worship of Vach under this name in India, as
there is of Kwan-Yin in China. No exoteric religious system has ever
adopted a female Creator, and thus woman was regarded and treated,
from the first dawn of popular religions, as inferior to man. It is
only in China and Egypt that Kwan-Yin and Isis were placed on a par
with the male gods. Esotericism ignores both sexes. Its highest Deity
is sexless as it is formless, neither Father nor Mother; and its
first manifested beings, celestial and terrestrial alike, become only
gradually androgynous and finally separate into distinct sexes."
SD, I, 135fn.