Boris de
Zirkoff pointed out that in Blavatsky's scrapbook (vol. VI, p.258) is pasted a brief cutting entitled “Extreme measures advocated”. Neither the source, the date, nor the author are stated, but Zirkoff considers it to be in
1878.
This document
tells about Charles Sotheran who, declaring
himself a labor Socialist, spoke at a mass meeting of strikers and urged them
to take extreme measures against the Capitalist exploiters.
To this statement Blavatsky remarked:
“A Theosophist becoming a rioter, encouraging revolution and MURDER, a
friend of Communists is no fit member of our Society.
HE HAS TO GO."
(CW I,
p.404)
Charles
Sotheran (1847-1902) was an antiques dealer, bookseller and journalist, he was
present at the founding of the Theosophical Society which took place in New
York in 1875, and Mr. Sotheran was elected librarian of this new organization.
And although
he was a relevant member, when he began to promote communism, Blavatsky did not
hesitate to expel him.
Later, when
Blavatsky was in India, in the magazine The Theosophist, October 1879,
she wrote:
«
Unconcerned about politics; hostile to the insane
dreams of Socialism and of Communism, which it abhors—as both are but disguised
conspiracies of brutal force and sluggishness against honest labor; the Society
cares but little about the outward human management of the material world. The
whole of its aspirations are directed toward the occult truths of the visible
and invisible worlds. »
(p.6-7)
~*~
We therefore see that Blavatsky felt a big rejection
of communism.
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