The following speech was given by Robert Crosbie, the
founder of the United Lodge of Theosophists, during the White Lotus Day, which
is when Blavatsky's remembrance is commemorated.
Fellow-Students of Theosophy:
Those who have made a study of the Theosophical philosophy, and are at
all acquainted with the Secret Doctrine regarding Nature and Man, will
understand why the Being who brought Theosophy to the Western World is so often
spoken of among us. There is something more than respect for a person,
something more than reverence for a Personage, behind this commemoration. No
Entity having her knowledge could appear among us except under Law, nor unless
that entity had previously acquired that knowledge in the orderly course of
spiritual, mental, and moral evolution.
We have read and studied and spoken of Evolution time and again. We know
that evolution rules in every department of Life, in every class of being; that
all Beings above man must at some period have passed through our stage; that
all beings below man will some day arrive at the human stage. This law of all
evolution being applied in the light of Spiritual Identity and Brotherhood,
must lead us to recognize that there are Beings above us, Beings who once were
men, who return at cyclic intervals when Their aid is needed in the world, when
everything is in a transition state, to give further light and guidance to
mankind, so that we may more conscientiously and responsibly pursue our own
task of progression and in turn help on the evolution of all Nature below the
estate of man.
That such Beings do appear in the world is testified to by tradition, by
all religions, by historical records, by great Teachings and by great examples
of the noblest Altruism. All the story of the Past shows that at different
periods of the world's history there has come among men in human guise some
Being who was hailed by some of his own time and accredited by succeeding
generations with being a Divine Incarnation. Such great Beings have been the
Founders of all the world's great religions.
In our Christian religion we have such an example. It is written of
Jesus that he "became in all things like unto us" – in order, we may
well believe, to make possible the transmission to those to whom he came of
that portion of the "ancient, secret, constant and eternal Doctrine” Most
necessary for their well being. And in all ages, before and since the time of
Jesus, such Beings have come among men, sometimes in lowly guise, sometimes in
high estate, but all and always to inculcate once more the doctrine that man is
Divine in essence, and that to realize his divinity he must think and act as a
divine being; for it is by our thinking and acting that we produce the causes
that bring to pass the effects, divine or infernal, that we experience.
We have been accused of following a person because we speak so much of H.P.
Blavatsky as we knew her. That is not, with us, the following of a person; it
is the recognition of a great Fact in Nature, and that fact has to have a name.
The fact is valuable, because it points to the Source of the Message. Many
others have sprung up since she passed from among us, who have taken to
themselves the credit of her message, who have used and misused what she
brought to them, and have sought to elevate themselves by virtue of its
delivery. So it is essential that the one who brought the message of Theosophy
should be recognized, should be known, by all Theosophists, should be presented
to all those who would study Theosophy, for in no other way can the truth of
that Message be obtained, undiverted and uncorrupted.
We are to consider and present the idea of a Being far, far above
anything we can truly imagine, one with knowledge and power we cannot conceive
of - a perfected Being - leaving those fields that were earned, in order to
come among us, to come “among” us in a body like ours, in a body of this race,
that the ancient Wisdom might once more be presented to us in terms of our own
understanding even in a language which is not the language of metaphysics, but
a language which has grown up among a fighting and a trading people from which
the terms are absent fitly and fully to present the many grades and degrees of
consciousness, feeling and perception we need to understand.
We all know that H.P. Blavatsky was born in Russia in August, 1831; that
she came of a noble family; that she married at an early age General Blavatsky;
that it was never a marriage in fact and that she left home and friends and place
and disappeared for some ten years. During those ten years she was in many
lands but for the greater portion of that time she was in that quarter of the
globe where she was in touch with those Masters of whom she spoke. During those
ten years she served in many ways - that body served, for it was not the Entity
- served as a soldier in Garibaldi's Army of Liberation. After Mentana that
body was picked up for dead, but came back to life and was nursed to strength
again. Then she returned home with a fearful wound in her side, which never
fully healed. From the time of her return it was noted and commented on by
relatives and friends that the character and nature of Helena Blavatsky had
been completely changed.
There is a reason for that - an Occult reason, the knowledge of which is
absent from our race. Most of us are subject to birth from necessity - Karma;
that is, our thought and action in the past have been such as to bring us into
a certain family, into a certain race, at a certain time and in a certain way
under certain conditions and circumstances. Such births as ours are under Law;
we are thus reaping what we have sown. But in the case of those Beings of whom
we have been speaking, They do not always come to earth and enter into a body
by our road of birth. Truly They come under Law, as do we all, but They know
the Law and all its modes and processes, and They come by choice through that
mode which best serves the occasion of Their coming. They may take a body which
the Ego, or natural tenant, is leaving, and by agreement made on higher plans
than those we know; such an abandoned body is used by that higher Entity for
the purpose of His work in the world.
There have been two such occasions within our time. H.P. Blavatsky was
one. The tenant occupying that body really left it when it was wounded unto
death on the field of battle, and another Entity by agreement took it. That
incoming Entity was one of “Those who know,” one of Those who had reached
perfection, and who used that body for the purposes of the work of the great
Lodge of Masters in the world. William Q. Judge was another. In that case the
body was that of a child of seven or eight who was dying, who was pronounced
dead by the physician in attendance. After a time the body showed signs of returning
life, and recovered, but the nature of the child was different from what it had
been before. To the parents it was still the same child. They saw the same body
and thought it was the same Identity or Entity, but they soon saw the great
change in the character, in the nature, in the tendencies.
Now these two cases point to something worth our utmost attention to try
to understand: the occult laws governing Nature visible and invisible. They are
all outlined in the last chapter of the second volume of Isis Unveiled ,
where this very mode of superhuman "birth" is broadly hinted at and
illustrated: the Fact that a Being of higher knowledge and attainment can, by
choice or by agreement enter a body, borrow a body, when the former tenant is
leaving it.
These two Beings did not come into human life through the door of birth
as we all have; they entered in with knowledge, and immediately on entering
began to train those borrowed bodies to respond to their own attainments and
requirements.
Many have heard of the great powers HPB possessed, and many during her
life-time were witness to phenomenal exercise of those powers. William Q. Judge
had the same powers. HPB's powers were heralded abroad by those who saw their
exhibitions and believed them, as well as by those who heard of them and
disbelieved. Those possessed by William Q. Judge were not so heralded; in fact,
so far as was in his power he sedulously concealed the spreading abroad of the
knowledge that he had them.
Now, I may be excused if I speak a few words personally of him in
particular, the misunderstood and misrepresented Colleague of HPB.
I met William Q. Judge in 1886 and at that first meeting I found
something I had never felt before - the confidence, the realization of the
power and knowledge of that Being - and never was I mistaken in it. Never was
he false, never did he lack or fail in a single instance in the expression or
the use of that power and knowledge. Always he sought to rouse in those with
whom he talked about the idea of the inner immortal nature of every man; I have
always sought to implant in their minds the desire and aspiration to realize
their own Divinity. And to those whom he trusted he showed again and again
great control over the powers of nature. Always, in such cases, he showed those
powers, not to gratify curiosity, not to display his knowledge, but always in
illustration of the workings of some great law in nature. In Theosophy there is
no such thing as miracle. All those occurrences that seem to us incredible or
miraculous are brought about by a knowledge of the higher and finer laws of
nature.
You will remember that H.P. Blavatsky and William Q. Judge were only the
names attached to those bodies. Their students have more often called them
“HPB” and “WQJ,” for by those initials they recognize or indicate the Entities
that used those bodies, not the bodies themselves.
Those who were close to them - close in loyalty and trust and devotion
to the Cause They served - were able, at least to some extent, to perceive the
wonderful Natures masked in those personalities; the divine compassion that
dwelt in them; the gentleness, the self-sacrificing nature that desires nothing
for itself, but desires only to help mankind on its rough and thorny path to
perfection. Those who could see could perceive that higher, finer, better
Nature in these two Beings, could feel a response in their own inner natures.
For there was something in the very contact and connection with those Beings
that, as it were, burned into the very soul and aroused the highest and noblest
of which the man might be capable. Yet withal, there was a simplicity there, a
modesty there, that would disarm most people, that turned aside the
self-seekers and the contentious.
So, if we look upon HPB and WQJ as something more than ordinary men, as
Beings of power and knowledge, who had to step down to communicate with us in
our paucity of ideas, in order to enable us to grasp at least a small part of
the great message of Theosophy, then it is that it will be understood why we
speak of Them in terms of the greatest love and the highest reverence. No one
who ever sought Them as a Friend but found –and will find Their help– no matter
how many weaknesses, no matter how small the ideas of the inquirer. Always that
assistance and guidance was given and will be found that enables the earnest
seeker to grasp something of the great Truths about the Soul of Man that was
and is the Message that They brought.
(Source:
www.blavatskytheosophy.com/in-memory-of-h-p-blavatsky)
OBSERVATIONS
Blavatsky was undoubtedly a very outstanding person in various aspects,
but I would not put her on the same level as Jesus, who is considered one of
the greatest masters there has ever been, while instead Blavatsky was only an
advanced disciple of the masters.
And I also do not consider that Blavatsky's soul has been replaced by
another entity after she was seriously injured during the Battle of Mentana,
because Blavatsky subsequently continued to have a difficult character, which
does not match the personality of a high being.
Also, it makes no sense that her teachers have made her travel around
the world for her development in the Occultism, only so that after her soul was
replaced by another being within her body. And we must also consider that
Blavatsky was a very compulsive smoker all her life, which denotes the
continuity of her inner personality and the inability she had to master that
addiction.
As for William Judge, he himself implied that he was an Oriental who
took the body of an Irish boy when the child had died; which may be true, but
even though he concealed the powers he had, I highly doubt that his powers were
on the same level as the powers that Blavatsky possessed, because the
initiations that William Judge underwent were much later than Blavatsky.
I believe that Robert Crosbie, although he does not want to admit it, is
idolizing Helena Blavatsky and William Judge, because although the beings that
inhabited those bodies had great qualities, they also had defects; and this was
indicated by people who lived with them (Isabelle Olcott, Franz Hartmann, James
Morgan Pryse, etc.), and even the masters Kuthumi and Morya also affirmed it in
the Mahatma Letters.
But as Morya himself pointed out: "despite all their flaws, they
were the best agents that we found after much searching and that we had at that
time to carry out that mission." (ML 44, p.263)
So I do agree that we have to admire them, appreciate them and thank
them for all the work and sacrifice that Blavatsky and William Judge did, but
instead I do not agree to revere them, overestimate them and not want to see
their flaws, as Robert Crosbie is doing.
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