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RE: Theos-World "Stemming the tide of materialism"

Apr 30, 2001 03:36 AM
by Peter Merriott


Marina,
 
No it wasn't that one, but thanks for the reference.
 
...Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Marina Sisson [mailto:msisson@zaz.com.br]
Sent: 29 April 2001 22:20
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Theos-World "Stemming the tide of materialism"

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 years too 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 consequencesthat 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 thanthe 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, and many 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, goesmore 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 interest you 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. If the 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 "Stemming the 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 ofa 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 "Stemmingthe 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, butwas 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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