Rudolf Steiner to solve the problem that:
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On the one hand, he claimed to be in contact with
Master Kuthumi who sent him very Christian telepathy messages,
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And on the other hand, he repudiated the Eastern esoteric
teachings, which Blavatsky claimed to have been transmitted by Master Kuthumi
and Master Morya.
To resolve this contradiction Steiner developed the idea that there
really existed two "Masters Kuthumi":
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One was the real Master Kuthumi who was in contact with
him,
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And the other was a fake Master Kuthumi who was the
one who had been in contact and had manipulating Blavatsky.
The “real” Master Kuthumi had supposedly had Western esoteric interests
at heart and was one of Blavatsky’s early inspirers. But due to her
uncontrolled mediumistic nature she came in contact during her early days in
the USA with an impostor, who she failed to recognize as an impostor.
In 1916, Rudolf Steiner explained that:
« Blavatsky’s original leader wanted to pilot her
into safe waters [of Occidental esotericism] generally speaking, when another
leader appeared on the scene who was far from what Blavatsky used to call a
Mahatma, someone completely different. »
The idea that Steiner initially presented in regard to this purported
occult interloper was that he was named John King and was a disembodied sea
pirate who had been famous in the 17th century.
In a lecture of 11th October 1915, Steiner tells those in attendances
that:
« It is this John King who, by means of the
precipitation process, produced the letters for Sinnett’s books, both the first
book The Occult World and the second Esoteric Buddhism. »
Blavatsky was apparently powerless to resist and, according to Steiner, from 1874 onwards was under the
guidance and control of this false Kuthumi, namely John King.
Why would a deceased pirate want to
do such a thing?
One might not unreasonably ask.
As ever, Steiner is ready to tell us:
« Then – in a certain sense under the mask of a
previous individuality – a person entered the spiritual horizon of Blavatsky
who was actually the carrier of what certain ones wanted to be introduced into
the world from India … under the mask of the Mahatma Kuthumi You probably know
that Olcott has written a great deal about this Mahatma Kuthumi, including the
fact that in 1874 this Mahatma Kuthumi gave his opinion about the individuality
which resided in him.
He said that in fact his name was John King and that he had possessed
the personality of a pirate who had been famous in the 17th century. Further,
Col. Olcott expressed himself in a curious manner about this John King. He says
that probably one has not at all to deal with the pirate’s spirit, but with the
creation of an Order which exists as a visible Order amidst physical humanity,
while for results it is dependent on the invisible. »
The actual facts of the matter are that (1) Olcott did not write
a great deal about the Master Kuthumi, (2) He never wrote anything at all about
the Master identifying himself in any way with John King or a pirate, and (3)
Nothing to this effect, nor even similar to it, can be found in any of Col.
Olcott’s books.
So once again we are faced with the uncomfortable and unfortunate fact
that Steiner was either completely unstable and out of control psychologically
or a deliberate liar, perhaps being himself the one with highly suspect aims
and possibly sinister inspiring forces.
He later went on to add more detail to this fiction.
This Adept-impersonating pirate was in fact…”a Russian spy.” Yes, just
as previous opponents and enemies of Blavatsky and the genuine Theosophical
Cause had accused her of being a Russian spy, always without any
evidence or proof, Steiner accused her unseen inspirer of being a
Russian spy! From his 9th December 1916 lecture:
« After a Mahatma who was referred to by the
letters Kuthumi had for some time exerted a favorable influence on her, this
Mahatma, through a number of machinations, was replaced by a spy in the service
of a certain body. This spy had deserted occult fraternities where he had been
initiated into high degrees, so that he was able to remain in the background as
a Mahatma in order to attain through Blavatsky results which he wished to
attain. »
Many Anthroposophists continue to believe and promulgate such notions,
accepting Steiner’s every proclamation as gospel.
Another idea they keep alive is that of Blavatsky’s supposed “occult
imprisonment” or “occult captivity.” She “had already been used as a puppet by
diverse powers which influenced her,” he states, when “in 1879 at a meeting of
occultists from various countries” it was decided upon that now she had
relocated to India she should be put into a state of occult imprisonment,
“achieved by a certain form of ceremonial magic,” essentially disabling her own
soul and rendering her an inwardly paralyzed slave to be used by devious
Eastern occultists for their own aims and ends.
Is it any wonder that few
Anthroposophists hold Blavatsky in high regard after being fed all this
nonsense?
From where did Steiner get these
ideas about the Mahatmic imposter and so on?
He told his listeners that “there appeared – according to well informed
occultists – under the mask of the Kuthumi personality, one who was in the
service of the Russians and who consciously tried to unite the capacities of Blavatsky’s
soul with English occultism.”
Who were these “well informed occultists”
who stated such things?
Were they figments of Steiner’s own
imagination or unscrupulous living men – Jesuits, perchance?
Who wished to use him as a
tool for blackening the name and image of Blavatsky, the Masters, and
Theosophy?
We can only speculate and speculation is rarely of much value. It is of
equally little value to try to deduce why this Russian spy/disembodied pirate
who had the task of forcing Blavatsky to promulgate Indian and Eastern
esotericism wished to inwardly unite her with English occultism. But as
the reader may be starting to see, there is very little in Steiner’s world that
makes much sense.
(Source:
https://blavatskytheosophy.com/rudolf-steiners-lies-about-h-p-blavatsky-and-the-mahatmas/)
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