Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00004)

Dear Friends, 

 
We as planetary citizens live special moments these years.

Higher and lower tides of human ethics have a significant degree of 
influence on the fate of civilizations.  

That  becomes most clear when we see the Puranic Prophecy as 
registered by  H.P.B. in the pages  of  "The Secret Doctrine": 

"There will be contemporary monarchs, reigning over the earth –  
kings of churlish spirit, violent temper, and ever addicted to 
falsehood and wickedness.  They will inflict death on women, 
children, and cows (...)  they will be of  unlimited power,  their 
lives will be short, their desires insatiable.  (...)  Property 
alone will confer rank ; wealth will be the only source of devotion; 
passion will be the only bond of union between the sexes; falsehood 
will be the only means of success in litigation, and women will be  
objects merely of sensual gratification... until the human race 
approaches its annihilation (pralaya)  ..... When the close of the 
of the Kali age shall be nigh, a portion of that divine being  which 
exists, of its own spiritual nature . . .  shall descend on 
Earth . . . (Kalki avatar) (.....)  He will re-establish 
righteousness on earth and the minds of those who live at the end 
of  Kali Yuga shall be awakened  and become as pellucid as crystal."

Again, we can't refer these words automatically to some far-distant 
future –  because we know that  greater cycles are anticipated by 
minor cycles. 

Immediately below this transcription of the puranic prophecy, HPB 
wrote, not without an irony: 

"Whether right or wrong with regard to the latter prophecy, the 
blessings of Kali Yuga are well described, and fit in admirably even 
with that which one sees and hears in Europe and other civilized and 
Christian lands in full XIXth, and at the dawn of XXth century of 
our great era of ENLIGHTENMENT." (1) 

Since inner and outer events are always connected,  it becomes 
easier for us to understand some aspects of  the karmic and ethical 
responsibility belonging to the theosophical movement – and to each 
of its members –  as to the fate of  our present civilization.  HPB 
didn't refuse to write about that. In more than one  text, she 
acknowledged the existence of a direct link between the level of  
loyalty to Truth in the theosophical movement  – and the destiny of 
mankind in the years after her lifetime. 

Regards, Carlos. 
 
NOTE: 

(1) "The Secret Doctrine", H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophy Co., Los 
Angeles, 1982, volume I, pp. 377-378.