Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt00256)

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H.P.B. AND  ‘A REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE’.

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Dear Friends,

There seems to be a lot of anger against the United States of America these 
days.

In order get a broad  perspective of things, we can remember a few facts 
which reveal the  link between the theosophical movement and human 
evolution, since 1875.

1) Coincidence or not,  the end of the World War II in Europe and the 
victory of democratic countries is celebrated in the same day when the 
founder of the theosophical movement closed her incarnation. H. P. 
Blavatsky, who lived for Universal Brotherhood,  left her physical body in 
8th of May 1891, and the War ended  8th of May, 1945.

2) Harry Truman, the 33rd  president of the USA  who lead the final moments 
in the Second World War,  was born precisely  in  May 8th, 1884.

3) It is also interesting that the Theosophical Society was  founded in 1875 
in the city of  New York,  exactly seventy years before the creation of the 
United Nations in 1945.  And, of course, the U.N. Headquarters is   
established  in the very same city.

4) The U.N. Chart starts with a vigorous proclamation of the first objet of 
the theosophical moovement --   that of Universal Brotherhood.  Far from 
perfection as they are, the theosophical movement is an inner seed of 
universal brotherhood, just  as the U.N. is its outer seed.  They may need a 
few thousands of years to flourish in a beautiful way.

5) Yet even the creation of the thesophical movement in 1875 was not a 
process entirely new.  The USA, as a motherland, did  inspire the structure 
of the Theosophical Society,  and H.P.B. wrote:


“Born in the United States, the Society was constituted in the model of its 
Motherland. The latter, omitting from its Constitution the name of God lest 
it should afford a pretext one day to  make a  state religion, gives 
absolute equality to all  religions in its laws. All support and each is in 
turn protected by  the State.  The Society, modelled upont this 
Constitution, may fairly be termed ‘A Republic of Conscience’.”

So if the present policies of the U.S. government are wrong and unfair in 
many an aspect,  it may be wise to give it a few more centuries before we 
get too  angry or too frustrated.

Meanwhile, we can take care of our own, somewhat still  precarious “Republic 
of Conscience” , the theosophical movement.  Are we doing our homework in  
the best way we can? Or do we still have kings, popes and candidates to 
kings and popes in the movement?

Best  regards,    Carlos Cardoso Aveline


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(1) “The Collected Writings of H. P. Blavatsky”,  TPH, India/USA/UK, Volume 
II, page 104. The text from which comes this paragraph  is entitled “What 
Are the Theosophists?” .


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