Re: Theos-World Lidofsky #2: A teacher compares George to Adolf
Mar 05, 2006 09:29 PM
by Cass Silva
Krsanna, you wrote
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?
Perhaps they didn't involve themselves because they were too busy with their personal agenda.
I read many years ago that Annie Besant was a suffrajet (could never remember correct spelling)
prior to meeting HPB.
Perhaps it is all part of a natural cycle of events that karmically
is meant to occur. I have heard it said that the black folk in America were
the rulers in Atlantis and they themselves in other lives embraced slavery
of others. Their karma now is to endure that which they
perpetuated. Could be an old wives tale though.
My understanding of the TS in Melbourne is to assist at a personal level without
getting actively involved.
Cass
krsanna <timestar@timestar.org> wrote: 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" 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 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
> >
>
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