Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt00215)

Reading about Besant and Olcott's attacks against Judge -- in the 
name of brotherhood, mind you -- is what first interested me in 
identifying what Theosophists call brotherhood.  Besant's passive-
aggressive demure when publicly confronted with Judge's defense was 
mind blowing.  When confronted with the complete lack of evidence 
for her claims that Judge had forged letters, Besant publicly stated 
that she didn't mean forgery in the usual sense, i.e., she didn't 
mean he was forging documents per se.  She really meant forgery in a 
different sense.  Judge responded that it would be necessary to view 
the plane of causation to make that judgement call.  Besant backed 
down in public forum then reorganized her attack while 
simultaneously withholding evidence from Judge and providing it to 
others without Judge having the opportunity to see it. Besant was an 
accomplished passive-aggressive. 

What the hey do Theosophical leaders call brotherhood? I wondered.  
How did these apparent cannibals calling themselves a society of 
brotherhood deal with the Civil Rights Movement in America?  

What did the Mahatmas expect from brotherhood?  How did they define 
brotherhood when desiring to see it among Theosophists?  Why did the 
Mahatmas place brotherhood above practicing the occult?  

My conclusion, by the way, is that asking for brotherhood was the 
best thing the Mahatmas could have done.  By publicly proclaiming 
brotherhood and privately cannibalizing their brothers, the 
perpetrators of passive-aggression create their own noose in a 
karmic sense that will ultimately force them into better 
understanding of brotherhood.  It may take a while.

Krsanna

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "krsanna" <timestar@...> wrote:
>
> 1.  The example is "Hitler's Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel 
to 
> Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler" available at Amazon.com, first 
published 
> in English in 2003.  The manuscript was tied up in legal and 
> academic research for decades.  The most recent example of 
America's 
> dealings with Native Americans is the Eloise Cobell case against 
the 
> U.S. that has been in federal court for several years.  You can 
> Google "Cobell vs" to find it.  The Cobell case represents long-
> standing federal policy in dealing with Indians, that is now being 
> staunchly questioned in the courts.  In 2002, a federal judge held 
> employees of the Department of the Interior in contempt of court 
for 
> repeatedly refusing to account for their handling of Indians in 
> cases as recent as 1990.  
> 
> The behavior questioned in the Cobell case is mild compared to 
early 
> instances of genocide under the guidance of Andrew Jackson.  You 
> didn't ask me about what Andrew Jackson did, but you could start 
> with Supreme Court rulings in the early 19th century which 
declared 
> the land grab that Jackson orchestrated illegal.  Jackson had the 
> army and conducted blatant genocide to accomplish his desires, 
> knowing full well the illegality of his actions.  Things got worse 
> for Indians from that time.  
> 
> 2.  Of course I looked to find Theosophical work in the Civil 
Rights 
> Movement.  I didn't have to look far to find Gandhi's involvement 
in 
> India's independence and Nehru's assistance to Tibet.  
> 
> Krsanna Duran
> 
> 
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@> wrote:
> >
> > krsanna wrote:
> > > Amen! Americans rarely acknowledge that America was Hitler's 
> > > inspiration for confining and eliminating inferior races, and 
> that 
> > > he wrote about how well America had handled American Indians 
by 
> > > isolating them on "federal reservations," that were often as 
> cruel 
> > > as Hitler's concentration camps. 
> > 
> > 	Can you give ONE example of this?
> > 
> >  > American President Andrew Jackson
> > > pioneered biological warfare by infecting blankets with 
> smallpox, 
> > > rounding up Indian children, women and men at gunpoint in the 
> middle 
> > > of the winter and giving them the smallpox infected blankets.  
> > 
> > 	The French pioneered it during the French and Indian war. 
> Please give 
> > documentation that Andrew Jackson even used it.
> > 
> > > American Indians do not have immunity to childhood diseases 
> common 
> > > in Europe, i.e., measles and smallpox.  This lack of immunity 
is 
> > > part of American Indian genetics and America's government used 
> it to 
> > > exterminate the Indians who had legal claims to their 
> homelands.  
> > 
> > 	Can you document this, or are you making this up, as well?
> > 
> > > inferiors was still practiced in America during World War II.  
> One 
> > > of the first things I noticed about theosophical hypocracies 
was 
> > > that I have never once seen a single comment in theosophical 
> > > literature about the Civil Rights Movement that Rosa Parks 
began 
> in 
> > > 1954 when she refused to give up her seat to a White man.  
> > 
> > 	Have you looked?
> > 
> > > Why didn't an organization dedicated to brotherhood get out on 
> the 
> > > line and march with Rosa Parks?  Why didn't Theosophists write 
> about 
> > > the Civil Rights Movement to integrate America's schools, 
> > > businesses, and churches the way Gandhi worked to liberate 
India?
> > 
> > 	Because the Theosophical Society itself is enjoined from 
> getting 
> > involved in politics, although individual members are encouraged 
> to do so.
> > 
> > 	Bart
> >
>