Theos-Talk Archives (July 2003 Message tt00230)

Hi, Frank:

Your history lessons are interesting, but I am persistently unable to 
figure out what you are driving at with them.

Here, as syccubctly as possible, is what I was saying:

(1) If Blavatsky was suspicious of socialists it would probably be 
useful to study the series of events in the nineteenth century which 
led to the usurpation of the Romanov dynasty to see what this means. 
It is very doubtful that, as some have suggested, this had anything 
to do with the twenty first century. The events which occurred in 
the 19th century, however, should be of some interest to those who 
are interested in Blavatsky since they are indirectly referred to in 
her writing.

(2) Now that the empire which dominated the East twenty years ago is 
gone, we arguably have more to worry about from various 
manifestations of violent religious activity than from "socialism." 
Julius Caesar and his successors used to be a very real threat to the 
Persian Empire at one time just as the Persians were a threat to 
Athens and Sparta before that, but that to me is a matter of 
historical interest and not current anxiety. There are, 
unfortunately, plenty of realistic fears out there.