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Peter,
Is it the passage in Letter 8 to Prof. Corson, below? (online
on Blavatsky Archives)
Marina
- I am here in this country sent by my Lodge on behalf of
Truth in modern spiritualism, and it is my most sacred duty to unveil what
is, and expose what is not. Perhaps did I arrive here one hundred yearstoo
soon. May be, and I am afraid it is so, that in this present state of mental
confusion, of doubt, of the endless and fruitless conflicts between the
Tyndalls and Wallaces, the issues of which are arrested by the almighty
power of the dollar, -- for people seem to care every day less for truth and
every hour more for gold, -- my feeble protest and endeavours will be of no
avail; nevertheless, I am ever ready for the grand battle, and perfectly
prepared to bear any consequences that may fall to my lot.
-
-
- I pray you, do not take me to be a "blind fanatic," for,
if I am the latter, I am not the former. When I became a spiritualist, it
was not through the agency of the ever-lying, cheating mediums, miserable
instruments of the undeveloped Spirits of the lower Sphere, the ancient
Hades. My belief is based on something older than the Rochester knockings,
and springs out from the same source of information that was used by Raymond
Lully, Picus della Mirandola, Cornelius Agrippa, Robert Fludd, Henry More,
et cetera, etc., all of whom have ever been searching for a system that
should disclose to them the "deepest depths" of the Divine nature, and show
them the real tie which binds all things together. I found at last, andmany
years ago, the cravings of my mind satisfied by this theosophy taught by the
Angels and communicated by them that the protoplast might know it for the
aid of the human destiny. The practical, however small knowledge of the
Principle, Ain-Soph, or the Endless and the Boundless with its ten
Sephiroths or Emanations, goes more towards opening your eyes than all the
hypothetical teachings of the leaders of Spiritualism, let them be American
or European. In my eyes, Allan Kardec and Flammarion, Andrew Jackson Davis
and Judge Edmonds, are but schoolboys just trying to spell their A B C and
sorely blundering sometimes. The relation between the two is in just
proportion what were in the ancient ages the book called Sohar,
based on the perfect knowledge of the Kabbala handed down by oral
tradition from David and Solomon to Simon ben Jochai, the first man who
dared write it down, and the Massorah, a book based on outside, not
direct tradition, and which never vouchsafed the truth of what it taught.
I do not know why I write you all this. Perhaps it does not interestyou
in the least; perhaps you will find me presumptuous, conceited, boosting,
and a bore. I must beg of you to account for it in one way at least, viz.
the great desire I have to hear responding echoes, to seek for them whenever
and wherever I can, in the only hope of being occasionally answered. Ifthe
Doctrine of the "Aged of the Aged" of Sephira, its first-born, the
Macroprosophos, etc., is a thing you never troubled yourself of
investigating, then let it drop at once, and consigning me for ever in the
annals of your memory with the demented and crazy dreamers of the age,
believe me only
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 5:18
PM
Subject: RE: Theos-World "Stemmingthe
tide of materialism"
Jerry, I do
recall a passage where HPB describes why she was sent to America, but I can't
put my hands on it at the moment perhaps it might jog someone elses
memory. She says she was sent to combat to two things - on the one hand
the dangers of spiritualism, on the hand the effect the dangers of a
materialist science. If I find the passage I'll let you know. Have
you had a look in the index to the Collected Writings, perhaps unders "HPB",
"mission", "materialism" & so on?
...Peter
-----Original
Message-----
From: Jerry Hejka-Ekins
[mailto:jjhe@netfeed.com]
Sent: 29 April 2001 03:17
To:
theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Theos-World "Stemming the
tide of materialism"
Jerry, HPB wrote that in one of her messages
to the American Conventions. Included in B:CW.
Frank
Thanks Frank. Ill look for it, but was hoping
for a source that would have been more available to the Europeans.
It seems that the London members already understood this aim by
the time HPB moved to London. But I can't find where it might have
been written down for them. Perhaps it was something they picked up
at her salons.
jhe
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