On May 8 of each year in the Theosophical lodges it is
customary to give a speech talking about Blavatsky, in honor of the founder of
the Theosophical Society, and on May 8, 1917, Charles W. Leadbeater surprised
the members of the Sydney Lodge by announcing that he was going to communicate them a message that Blavatsky
herself had given him.
« You are
rather fortunate people, brothers. I shall be able to open with something which
you certainly do not expect. As I was on my way across to you (on the ferry
from Neutral Bay, crossing Sydney Harbor), Madame Blavatsky herself gave me a
message to you. Now I am quite sure you did not expect that — at least, I did
not. I tried the best I could to get it down, but I am a little doubtful about
the exact wording in some places still.
. . .
So far in this life she
has not come down among us or taken any direct share in the work of The
Society, though she has often given us her advice, I am glad to say, and has
also dictated to us or written for us various teachings on different points.
But at the present moment this is what she has to say to you. So far as I know,
you are the only people in the world who are getting a message from her; you
may naturally feel yourselves honored.
She says:
“I greet you well, you who meet to celebrate my birthday in my present
body.
Mine was the rough pioneer work. I bore the brunt of the storm. Yours is the
smoother sailing of the entrance into port. Yet both were needed, and but for that clearing of the ground you could
not sow your seed so easily, you could not gather in your crops.
Now you have many lines along which you can choose your work, but none
of them would have been possible unless the parent Society had first been
firmly established. More than once I have had to shake and to sift its members
before they were ready to follow where the Bodhisattva wished to lead them,
before they had conquered all their ancient, time-honored, moss-grown
prejudices, and were prepared to open their minds to comprehend the wide ocean
of His all-embracing love.
You who live here, in the metropolis of the Southern Hemisphere, you
have a grand opportunity before you. See that you take it, that your part of this
new Sub-Race may not disappoint Him [Lord Maitreya] when He comes to rouse it
and to lead it. I watch you, as I watch my own Society. You have my earnest
goodwill and the Great Masters’ blessing in all your lines of work. Go on and
prosper, but remember that only by utter self-forgetfulness can success be
obtained.”
(And
then Leadbeater added his next comments to this message.)
There are two or three
points there quite new to me, and therefore probably new to you too. You see,
she speaks of what some people call death as her “birthday” into her present
body. That is because she stepped straight from one to the other. I remember
the other side of that, of course. She had been ill. She had been suffering
from influenza, but she was recovering. She was very distinctly getting better;
there was nothing whatever to cause the least anxiety to her friends, and
suddenly she died. Then we did not quite understand. Now we know that it was
because the boy chose that particular moment, or somebody chose it for him, to
get drowned.
So she had to rush off
and take that body, because if she had left it too long it would have been
impossible to take it. There are certain rules governing that sort of thing.
That is one point.
(Leadbeater invented the lie that
Blavatsky reincarnated immediately after dying in the body of an Indian boy.)
Shaking The Society Then
I notice that she says, “I have had to shake and to sift my Society.” Of course,
she refers to the different troubles through which The Society has passed, but
you will note she speaks as though she had engineered those things. We may be
sure that she does not speak lightly or without adequate reason. But I never
suspected her hand in that particular thing before. I suppose she must have
engineered the Coulomb business, through which I went with her, but one
certainly would not have thought it by the way she talked of it.
Also she must have been
responsible for the Judge business — not responsible in the sense that she
caused it to happen; but I suppose she took advantage of it to sift out those
who were not strong enough to bear that which lay in front of them.
(Blavatsky was very hurt by the Coulomb attacks,
so I highly doubt that she would have incited them as Leadbeater claims; and it
is completely false that Blavatsky wanted to expel William Judge from
the Theosophical Society since she always defended him, and that maneuver was
instigated by Annie Besant and Henry Olcott.)
Of course we have been
widened out. Of course our views on many points have been modified as the years
rolled on. I must say I had not myself thought of Madame Blavatsky as
intentionally, calculatingly taking a hand in all that. I do see now —it is
always the case— that I need not be at all surprised at it. She widened me out,
painfully, in exactly the same kind of way — changed the whole current and
style of my life and thought in the short space of six weeks. I suppose she has
been applying the same general plan to The Society as a whole. In the case of
The Society (it not being a coherent whole that just had to stand it) it sifted
some of the people out. Let us hope that those who remain are strong enough to
bear the obloquy which necessarily associates itself with new movements and
unpopular causes generally.
(Here Leadbeater alludes to many members who
resigned or were expelled from the Theosophical Society Adyar for disagreeing
with him and Mrs. Besant.)
Then I note that she
calls Sydney “the metropolis of the Southern Hemisphere,” which I take as a
compliment — not undeserved, however, in many ways. I know, I think, all the
cities in the Southern Hemisphere from having visited them in this incarnation,
and I should say that Rio Janeiro runs you close in some ways, but it has not
quite the beauty, and it has not the future, of course. You are the Sixth
Sub-Race, not South America. Still, I should think in its way the remark is
distinctly a compliment, and Madame Blavatsky rarely pays compliments, so you
may take the flattering unction to your souls that if you do not deserve it, at
least your city possibly does.
(This
asseveration was invented by Leadbeater to exalt the ego of his Australian
followers.)
You see, also, that she
speaks of our part of the Sub-Race not disappointing Him when He comes to rouse
it and to lead it. That is the first definite promise I have had that the
World-Teacher will visit Australia. I know that He must do so, because of
things that have been said of His going all through the world, but that is the
first direct reference to this country.
Also you see that she gives you her goodwill and the Great Masters’ blessings,
and she ends with a warning which she often gave us during that other life,
that we must forget ourselves, or we cannot do His work. That is something new
and special for yourselves. »
(Theosophy in Australia, September 1917,
p.144-150)
OBSERVATIONS
Leadbeater in his immense hypocrisy was not enough to pretend that he
was in contact with the Masters, but he also wanted to pretend to be in contact
with Blavatsky, and to do that he invented the story that she had already
reincarnated (which the master Kuthumi indicated that this is incorrect) and
that she was asking Leadbeater to deliver a message she had specially prepared
for the Sydney Lodge.
But the content of this message shows that this message is spurious because
it is false that Blavatsky wanted to expel William Judge from the Theosophical
Society, since she defended William Judge throughout her life; and of him, she
said:
-
"William Judge
has been a part of me for several eons" and "he is the link between
American thought and trans-Himalayan esoteric knowledge."
And history shows us that William Judge remained faithful to the
original theosophy, while Annie Besant instead was the one who repudiated the
teaching of the masters in order to fully embrace the pseudo-theosophy full of
errors and falsehoods that Leadbeater invented.
And it is also false that Blavatsky motivated the members of the
Sydney Lodge to work for the prompt arrival of Lord Maitreya, since Blavatsky
specified that there is still a long way to go before Maitreya appears on
Earth; and not just a few years as Leadbeater claimed.
In the Secret Doctrine she wrote:
« Maitreya is the secret name
of the Fifth
Buddha, and the Kalki
Avatar of the Brahmins — the last Messiah who will come
at the culmination of the Great Cycle [which is the fourth
round]. . . . He will appear as Maitreya Buddha, the last of
the Avatars and Buddhas, in the seventh Race. »
(DS I, p.384, 470)
~ * ~
And all this show you that
this supposed message from Blavatsky was just another ruse by Leadbeater to
continue manipulating his followers.
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