Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00438)

ON PSEUDO-THEOSOPHY



Article by H. P. Blavatsky

Of course the alleged "psychology" has really no existence outside the 
imagination of those who are too vain to allow any opposition to their all-wise and 
autocratic decrees on any other ground than phenomenal--nay, 
magical--interference with their will. A short analysis of the Karmic effects that would be 
produced by the exercise of such powers may prove interesting to theosophists. 

Even on the terrestrial, purely physical plane, moral irresponsibility 
ensures impunity. Parents are answerable for their children, tutors and guardians 
for their pupils and wards, and even the Supreme Courts have admitted extenuat
ing circumstances for criminals who are proved to have been led to crime bya 
will or influences stronger than their own. How much more forcibly this lawof 
simple retributive justice must act on the psychic plane; and what, therefore, 
may be the responsibility incurred by using such psychological powers, in the 
face of Karma and its punitive laws, may be easily inferred. Is it not evident 
that, if even human justice recognizes the impossibility of punishing an 
irrational idiot, a child, a minor, etc., taking into account even hereditary 
causes and bad family influences--that the divine Law of Retribution, whichwe 
call KARMA, must visit with hundredfold severity one who deprives reasonable, 
thinking men of their free will and powers of ratiocination? From the occult 
standpoint, the charge is simply one of black magic, of envoûtement. Alone a 
Dugpa, with "Avitchi" yawning at the further end of his life cycle, could risk such 
a thing. Have those so prompted to hurl the charge at the head of persons in 
their way, ever understood the whole terrible meaning implied in the 
accusation? We doubt it. No occultist, no intelligent student of the mysterious laws of 
the "night side of Nature," no one who knows anything of Karma, would ever 
suggest such an explanation. What adept or even a moderately-informed chela 
would ever risk an endless future by interfering with, and therefore takingupon 
himself, the Karmic debit of all those whom he would so psychologize as to make 
of them merely the tools of his own sweet will! 

excerpted from:
http://www.theosophy.org/tlodocs/hpb/OnPseudoTheosophy.htm








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