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Homage to Madame Blavatsky - Mother of the New
Age
July 2004
Introduction
My twenty-five year long process of
awakening has been an awkward and often painful experience. At
times the pull from Home, from the non-physical side, has been
overwhelmingly strong and made it difficult to endure living in
the dense three-dimensional world. It seems my emotional scars
need to be healed and cleared forever in order to overcome what I
call "my church mouse level". However, moving forward
is the only option as I morph from the chrysalis into the
butterfly state. My long-term lesson has been that instead of
pushing myself I have to allow the birthing of my new Self.
I feel vulnerable when interacting
in the Old World because I know that I still get easily
disconnected. That is why going out among people is becoming less
and less desirable, since it involves being confronted with the
harshness of people in their struggle for survival, to stand the
horrendous noise level, to eat the lower quality food, etc. Yet I
know that I am on my journey of becoming all that I can be, on my
path to self-mastery as a deliberate creator on Earth.
Energy Gate Opening - January 22, 2003
Ever since I set higher standards
for the quality of my life it has become difficult to endure the
pollution of the back country culture of
"Offroading-Gunshooting-Boomboxing". I had thrown a
temper tantrum on the day five new neighbors on offroad vehicles
started racing up and down the easement dirt road, 50 feet
distant from our trailer home. The noise pollution plus the dust
were so horrendous that I felt threatened in my very existence.
It was impossible to block it out and concentrate on anything. I
ran to the fence and waved my arms asking them to stop. I angrily
expressed that this is a residential area and that I live here
for the quiet and that the park is 4 miles from here, where they
can go and ride their offroad vehicles. Back in the house I began
raging and wanting to leave, because I couldn't stand any longer
the thought of having to live among barbarians for evermore. I
somehow cornered myself into a crisis situation and collapsed
into a minor nervous breakdown. My husband helped me throughout
the day to realign my energies and re-gain my balance. He said
that all my behavior reminds him of Madame Blavatsky and that he
really thinks that I am Madame Blavatsky. "And I think you
are Moses", I replied. He sometimes does call me "Madame
Blavatsky" and I in return brush it off by calling him
"Moses".
Suddenly I felt overcome with the
familiar body sensations that indicate non-physical presences
standing behind me. I got flooded with insights regarding Madame
Blavatsky. In an instant I knew that I have been aware of her and
her likeness since my early twenties, yet I never read her works
of Theosophy. Instead I studied the Anthroposophy movement of
Rudolf Steiner who had created his own offspring of Theosophy. In
Steiner's biography I saw the picture of Madame Blavatsky, and I
remembered that I felt uncomfortable looking at these piercing
eyes.
Simultaneously it came to my mind
that in my mid-thirties I once almost bought from a friend "The
Secret Doctrine".
I also remembered that I had long
ago read a book written by a psychiatrist whose wife channeled
the deceased. In one chapter she described a brief contact with
Madame Blavatsky who wanted to convey the message that things
were not at all the way she had described in her books and
basically cancelled the value of her own teachings. How strange
that I suddenly recalled this supposed Blavatsky message, yet I
didn't recall anything else from that book, nor its title and
author. I realized that by just thinking of Madame Blavatsky I
instantly could recall the image of her likeness with the
piercing eyes which I saw only once 35 years ago.
Body sensations washed in waves
over me again. Suddenly I remembered the scene in which my mother
"broke my will", when I was two years old. Back in
Germany after World War II the level of mass consciousness was
such that a well-behaved child was not allowed to have a will of
its own. My parents undoubtedly wanted to be good parents and my
mother proudly told at family reunions the story of how she broke
my will, for I was the most rebellious of her five children. She
then described the incident that happened when I was a little
over two years old and when I was especially stubborn. She said
that she got enough of it and grabbed me by my upper arms and
lifted me up and stumped me with my behind on the table,
vocalizing her anger that she had enough of a naughty child, once
and for all. I was so staggered from the impact that I stopped
crying and breathing.
I suddenly knew that this was the
moment where I had to decide whether to remain in the body or to
reemerge into the non-physical. I was weaned from diapers before
I was one year old, so there was probably no diaper that could
have softened the impact of the stumping on the table. My
tailbone did not get broken, but my lower first and second chakra
or energy centers must have been compressed und pushed back and
to some degree got shut down. At this moment my Inner Being must
have concluded that I should stay in this body and be able to
handle the impact.
From this point on I became an
obedient and willing girl. I learned from the incident not to
mess with my mother and not to have a will of my own.
However, while I was recalling this
early childhood trauma, I did not feel any phantom pain, but I
was aware that a massive healing and shifting on all levels was
happening at the very moment. My husband watched while I was
expressing to him what was going through my mind and what I felt
in my body. The situation did not feel stressful. I was calm yet
alert; and I knew that all I had to do was to remain with my feet
firmly on the ground and breathe consciously.
From my now-viewpoint I can
understand that my mother needed to tone me down to the energy
level comfortable to her. She told me that my birth was the most
painful of her five children and that I was born 'looking red
like a lobster', which to me indicates a discord or friction
between the two different energies of mother and child.
The early breaking-of-my-will
incident caused me to suffer from about a thousand insecurities
throughout my life. Although I had left my parent's home at age
nineteen, throughout most of my adult life I hated my mother and
blamed her for all of my life's hardship. From age thirty-five on
I read self-help books and looked for therapeutic help.
Altogether I had about 220 therapy sessions in trying to regain
my balance.
Today I know that I blamed my
mother out of practiced human habit, for it simply felt better
having an outside person to blame for my feeling of
powerlessness. - - I want to mention here that today I have a
beautiful relationship with my 83-year old mother in Germany. We
talk over the phone and I love sending her flowers and gifts from
America. She is even willing to try out the innovative products
which I had sent her. (smile)
Who Was Madame Blavatsky?
After receiving the insights about
Madame Blavatsky I spent the following weeks surfing the Internet
for information regarding Madame Blavatsky and Theosophy. What a
lightsurfer adventure it was! The more I looked the more showed
up. I think most of her works can be read on the Internet. What I
learned online within a month I could never have acquired six
years ago without the Internet. I even downloaded the image of
Madame Blavatsky's seal.
For those readers who are not
familiar with Madame Blavatsky and her teaching let me sum up and
share what I learned and gathered online from different sources:
Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
was born in 1831 as a Russian noble woman; she died in 1891 in
London.
She gathered, documented, and
collected the sacred and holy scriptures from around the world,
adding up to 14 volumes. Her main works are "Isis Unveiled",
published 1877, and "The Secret Doctrine", published in
1888.
She named her teachings
"Theosophy", which can be translated into "divine
wisdom" or "godly teaching".
In 1875 she founded the
Theosophical Society in New York.
Madame Blavatsky herself claimed
that she was selected as a messenger from the fraternity
representing the "Sons of the Fire-Mist", an ancient
society of adepts who hold the knowledge of the divine wisdom
religion of planet Earth and humanity. Madame Blavatsky stated,
"My Master El Morya and the Master Koot Hoomi …from them
we have derived all the Theosophical truths". There is an
amazing picture in the Blavatsky-Archive's picture gallery
showing Madame Blavatsky with Kuthumi (Koot Hoomi), El Moraya (El
Morya), and St. Germain.
By the end of her life she had
encircled the globe seven times in her mission as a Lightbringer.
In her travels, it said, "she contacted oriental masters and
rescued ancient wisdom from centuries of slumber."
The following summary I took from
the website of the Theosophical Society, Theosophical.org; quote:
"The three objects of the Theosophical
Society are:
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To form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity
without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color.
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To encourage the comparative study of religion, philosophy
and science.
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To investigate the unexplained laws of nature and the
powers latent in Humanity."
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(End of quotation.)
The following text is lifted from
the website Blavatsky.net, quote:
"Checklist of Some Principles
of Theosophy"
Some of its principles are:
Everything in the
universe originates from one boundless, eternal, unknowable
source. After a period of manifested existence the universe
returns to that source. The universe itself is an organic whole,
alive, intelligent, conscious, and divine.
The laws of
nature are the result of intelligent forces.
The law of karma
holds throughout the universe. It operates at all levels,
ensuring justice, harmony, and balance.
We reincarnate
into successive lives. Once we have reached the human level we
do not regress back into animal forms.
The law of karma
acts over our successive lives to ensure justice. (We don't get
away with it.) We are the cause of every joy and pain in our own
life.
A law of cycles
provides fundamental structure at all levels. Two examples are
our pattern of reincarnation, and the continuing "lives"
of the universe as it appears, then returns to its source."
Analogy and
correspondence provide fundamental structure for the universe.
This is a broad statement of the Hermetic axiom - "As
above, so below.
Evolution applies
on a grand scale to all of life.
Soul gets
involved in this world of matter. It experiences and learns.
Soul then works its way back in a long pilgrimage to its primal
source. This again follows a cyclic pattern.
This evolution
achieves experience, self-awareness, and ever increasing
perfection. Evolution occurs on the physical, mental, and
spiritual planes.
"Survival of
the fittest" along with gradual accumulation of small
beneficial changes does not explain the "origin of the
species". The origin of the species is due to intelligent
design.
Humanity has
experienced significant evolution in long periods on the
continents (not islands) of Atlantis and Lemuria.
There is a seven
fold constitution of man ranging from the physical plane to the
purely spiritual plane.
Thoughts are
tangible objects on higher planes. Every thought and action has
its effect on us and on our surroundings and has a karmic
consequence.
The three higher
planes of this constitution form the "higher self" and
that is what reincarnates from life to life and accumulates the
experience, the lessons, the virtues. The lower planes form the
"lower self" and are the vehicle used by the higher
self while it is living in this active testing ground of
incarnate life.
At the moment of
death we have a review of our life just past - as we cast off
this physical frame. After a short period, that varies greatly
between individuals, we cast off other lower aspects of our
constitution and the reincarnating self begins a long period of
merciful, earned, rest before the next birth.
Often during this
life, our spiritual nature is obscured in our self-centered
daily lives as we cater to our immediate needs and desires. But
the spiritual self is always there to guide us if we seek it
with strong earnest desire.
We can strive to
reach our higher self by: - Listening to our still small voice
of conscience. - Noting the dreams from the higher self. -
Developing our intuition. - Meditating. - Studying principles of
the Wisdom Religion. - Aligning ourselves with Nature. -
Engaging in action for the greater good. - Carefully reading the
events of our daily life.
Brotherhood is a
fact in nature. We are ONE at the highest spiritual component of
our nature. We are sparks from one flame. We are the fingers on
one hand. We are ONE at other levels as well.
We should:
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Understand we are not separate from humanity or the world.
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Emphasize brotherhood, altruism, and compassion in our daily
lives.
- Strive to know our higher self.
- As a guiding
rule - act for and as the Self of All.
The religions of
the world are branches on the tree whose trunk is the one
ancient - once universal - wisdom religion. The religions are
the tributaries of one great river. (But they borrow from each
other to make the actual details much more complex.)
Mythology often
transmits some of this knowledge in symbolic form.
Periodically,
great teachers come amongst us to help us in this evolutionary
path. They may create another branch on the tree.
Humanity's potential is infinite and every
being has a contribution to make toward a grander world. We are
all in it together. We are one."
(End of quotation.)
Dear Reader, after this extensive
checklist let me add only three quotes about the person Madame
Blavatsky and her influence as seen by others:
Quote 1: (Blavatsky.net. - article
excerpt by Henry T. Edge)
"In the 19th century,
imperialism had reached its height. Western nations were so
convinced of the superiority of the white races that they had no
compunction about exploiting their colonies. In this environment,
Madame Blavatsky taught the first principle of occultism - the
brotherhood of all humanity, the unity of all races. … She
presented ideas and concepts that unified science, religion and
philosophy-ideas showing a spiritual purpose and design behind
the facts of science, as well as giving spiritual depth to
religion and philosophy." (End of quotation)
Quote 2: (Theosociety.org - "H.P.
Blavatsky and the Theosophical Movement" by Charles J. Ryan)
"…HPB saw that the essential
truths in all the great religions had been deeply honeycombed
with error, and that for this reason religion had become an
element of contention and division in the world. A return to an
understanding of the ancient wisdom-religion - Theosophy - the
spiritual center from which the rival faiths all diverged, is the
only way to produce harmony among their followers, and thereby to
take an immense step toward universal brotherhood. - In the words
of G. De Purecker: "She saw how humanity had been drifting
through the ages unaware of its birthright and unconscious of its
dignity, how the indefiniteness of modern ideas had confused the
minds of the people and engendered everywhere uncertainty and
helpless doubt… and she left for posterity a body of teachings
with power in them to change the whole world, and as it were to
raise from the dead the Immortal Part of man." (End of
quotation)
Quote 3: (Theosociety.org - article excerpt by
Charles Johnston)
"She was the most perfect
aristocrat I have ever known. There was something in her
personality, her bearing, the light and power of her eyes, which
spoke of a wider and deeper life, not needing lesser miracles to
testify to it, because in itself miraculous. That was the
greatest thing about her, and it was always there; this sense of
a bigger world, of deeper powers, of unseen might; to those in
harmony with her potent genius, this came as a revelation and
incentive to follow the path she pointed out. To those who could
not see with her eyes, who could not raise themselves in some
measure to her vision, this quality came as a challenge, an
irritant, a discordant and subversive force, leading them at last
to an attitude of fierce hostility and denunciation. When the
last word is said, she was greater than any of her works, more
full of living power than even her marvelous writings. It was the
intimate and direct sense of her genius, the strong ray and
vibration of that genius itself, which worked her greatest
achievements and won her greatest triumphs. Most perfect work of
all, her will carried with it a sense and conviction of
immortality. Her mere presence testified to the vigor of the
soul."
(End of quotation)
I also learned that by the time of
her death in 1891 Madame Blavatsky had worldwide 100,000
followers of her Theosophy movement. She was seen as The Light
Bringer to the western world. Her admirers named her the Sphinx
of the 19th century and for contemporaries she is the Mother of
the New Age.
Also I remember reading that it was
through Madame Blavatsky's teaching of Theosophy that Gandhi was
induced to study his own heritage and that Albert Einstein kept
"The Secret Doctrine' on his desk.
The Practical Applications - Walking the Talk
Madame Blavatsky stated in "The
Secret Doctrine", "The conditions of evolution are
within and not without, and by fortune are independent of
circumstances and conditions of earthly life. That is why all
shall awaken at some point, climbing and conquering peak after
peak, and cooperating with nature by accomplishing the true
purpose of life."
We are now living in this time
where 'all shall awaken'. As the Explorer Race we have come far
indeed. The Earth has been mapped, cities and nations built. We
have acquired a highly evolved technology and are exploring outer
space. Over the last few years the human family has become a
global village where information can be spread around the globe
within minutes.
Obviously the era of discovering
our planet Earth required a human species with a frontier spirit,
that is, with male attributes such as aggression, assertion,
physical strength, and a desire for conquering. Subsequently, all
cultures of our civilization evolved as systems of patriarchy,
and our history is the story of change through violence and war.
Dear Reader, in switching back to
the present, if you follow the political events on television,
notice that in the centers of upheaval the female half of the
population is excluded from public rights; in the worst areas of
violence the females live under blankets, which they call burkas.
Notice also that today - 130 years after the founding of the
Theosophical Society - our male world leaders choose to focus on
separation, not on the ideal of a Brotherhood of Man. It may soon
become apparent to many that the cause for the global War on
Terrorism is the imbalance of male and female energies on Earth.
The human family will come to the realization that it is our
male-logical, left-brain thinking that created the great crevasse
between the human intellect and the human heart which we are
facing.
However, taking on a broadened
perspective enables us humans to perceive the returning of the
female energy. As we all transition through the Shift of the Ages
it will bring the necessary upgrading of consciousness to
re-balance the energies on Earth. While standing at the
crossroads it would serve us well to take inventory about what of
the Old World is worth taking with us for the new beginning in
the New Millennium.
Madame Blavatsky was a forerunner,
seen as the single Light Bringer of her time. At this crucial
time of the Shift we are many Bringers of the Light, this time we
call ourselves Lightworkers, for it is us who chose to hold the
Light and usher our brothers & sisters through the coming
changes. By now there are hundreds of thousands of Lightworkers
transmitting messages from our non-physical friends and
counterparts; the Ascended Masters are now interacting with
thousands.
The seeds of theosophical ideas
have flowered abundantly throughout the New Age movement.
Individually and globally, we the global Lightworker community
have come far in our journey to enlightenment. We are celebrating
great diversity among us, yet the essence is always the same, our
concern is for the upliftment of humanity. We see ourselves as
spiritual beings having human experiences on Earth. We now know
that we are the creators of our own reality and that we have the
power of the Universe at our fingertips.
Some of us focus on new languaging;
for example, instead of 'Karma' we use "Law of Attraction",
since the word Karma often has attached the judgment of good &
bad.
We now meet in global online peace
meditations; we created the Universal Crystal Grid or Christ
Consciousness Grid; we have Master Healers who are specialists in
DNA activation; without spaceships we interact with E.T.s.
On a personal level the Shift of
the Ages can be understood as the shift from the doing-state to
the being-state.
We all are learning to claim our
mastership as divine creators on Earth.
From the New Millennium Viewpoint
Dear Reader, let me briefly touch
on the three main subjects of Theosophy:
Brotherhood of Man
The 130-year old New Age Movement
towards awakening and enlightenment needs to integrate a new
language of energy awareness. As humans we use thoughts, words
and script to contour and guide the energies towards our creative
endeavors. For example, with globally fifty million awakened and
awakening Lightworkers, most of them in women's bodies, the axiom
'Brotherhood of Man' requires adding the "Sisterhood of
Women", in order to balance the energies as the first step
to greater awareness. Our present time is all about the influx of
feminine energy on planet Earth and its overall integration.
As a person Madame Blavatsky must
also be seen as a citizen of her time. As a Russian noble woman
she was born to be a leader; she inherited power, influence, and
resources. She certainly embodied the big exception in her role
as a woman in society; she obviously claimed for herself the
privileges of a wealthy male, subsequently doors opened wherever
she went. Being an occultist it was not her mission to question
the gender roles. The emancipation movement was perused by the
suffragettes as a political issue around that same time.
It is only now that the Divine
Feminine comes back into balance on Earth; her return will bring
the gift of spiritual enhancement for the entire human family.
The ongoing influx of female energy will lead us into the era of
peace and community building. Instead of "Brotherhood of
Man" we are speaking of reaching Unity Consciousness, for we
now know in our hearts that we are all one, spaceship Earth and
we are one.
The human family now has the gift
of the Internet, this marvelous tool for global communication, a
tool Madame Blavatsky could not even have dreamt of 130 years
ago.
For us the Lightworkers the time
has come to put things into practice, to walk the talk by openly
living in new ways, as examples for others. This is known as the
process of spreading the great grassroots movement. The 21st
century will mark the shift from outside exploration to inner
exploration. The time to develop the divine powers latent in man
has come.
Science - Philosophy - Religion
At the time of the founding of the
Theosophical Society modern science was in its infant stages; in
1879 the light bulb was just invented. Meanwhile our high
technology has reached the level of genetic engineering; we are
creating clones with potential for good or bad…
However, a New Science has emerged
which focuses on the interconnectedness of all life and the
bridging of the physical and non-physical realms. Their
scientists learned to access the non-physical worlds and to
retrieve new information, leading to new inventions towards human
"Self-Sufficiency". The keyword for the future is
"Self-empowerment and empowering others" and will be
reflected in all areas of life.
The churches' work of promoting the
charities serves to bridge the gap between "Haves and Don't
Haves"; it is the Old-World method of soothing the suffering
of the exploited masses who live the lives of economic slaves.
In this century the different
religions, science, and philosophy will be able to find bridges
for a new understanding and cooperation.
The shortage mentality on Earth is
a result of the Old-World-thinking of running out of resources,
meant to manipulate the masses. As more and more people awaken to
the awareness that they are conscious Creators on Earth we will
be able to change the habit of lack-full thinking. We will spread
the image where we all go to the "Niagara Falls of
Abundance" with our buckets instead of teaspoons. (smile)
Connection with Nature
Since the sixties co-creation with
Nature has been practiced and taught in the spiritual Findhorn
Community in Scotland. The subject has been taken to the next
level and elevated to the "Co-Creative Science" by
Machaelle Small Wright of Perelandra-Ltd.com. It is about
bringing humans and the forces of Nature together to consciously
co-create. This area of inner exploration and further expansion
of consciousness is the next adventure before me. In other words,
the searching for our human connection with Nature will be the
topic of my upcoming "Open Letter to Sheldon Adelson".
The Religions
Madame Blavatsky spoke of the
organized "Churchianity" and called the church
institution "a wealthy and domineering colossus." "No
religion higher than truth", she proclaimed. As was then,
today's church fathers still control the masses through the guise
of religion. In their efforts to maintain the status quo they
preach that the truth has been set in stone thousands of years
ago. That is why the church is still mostly about moral judgments
of right & wrong. I watch on TV that the churches in America
as a Christian-dominated country are being haunted by their own
dogmas, shaken by sexual scandals.
On the other hand, I learned that
out of the contrast provided by the Christian fundamentalists,
the wonderful "What Would Jesus Do" - Movement has
emerged, declaring Jesus as the authority of their lives, but no
church dogma. As an observer I have to say that the people in old
Europe are more liberated than Americans in their relation to the
religions. Since medieval times the church is known for
"preaching water and drinking wine", that is why many
choose not to put their lives into a religious framework.
Conclusion
I learned from my online study that
practical theosophy can be explained as "a way of life, a
standard of thought and action, a position assumed and retained
throughout life." Being a self-made person I have been
following my own, yet similar path of awakening to my potential.
The driving force of my life has been my desire to be of value to
my brothers & sisters. As I said before, I have chosen two
contributions to the great paradigm shift on Earth: 1) My
handbook "Who Wants To Be A Lightworker" for the
spreading of a new career as a "Lightworker for America"
and 2) the initiation of a Heaven-on-Earth Community called The
Isle of Light Jacumba. In my chapter "Open Letter to the
Local Community" I lined out the framework for this model
community with its specific orientation. I think my guidelines
are in resonance with what Madame Blavatsky presented 130 years
ago in her teachings of Theosophy.
I am grateful for the opportunity
of gaining an overview of Madame Blavatsky and her teachings of
Theosophy through the WorldWideWeb. My admiration for her is
tremendous, in fact, Madame Blavatsky has become one of my role
models. It was a pleasure to tune into such glorious high-level
information over several weeks, and it brought me much clarity
for my own projects.
For years I have been receiving
insights that my family of origin is that of the Promethean
Spirit and that I am part of the continuation or perpetuation of
this particular stream of consciousness. At this crucial time of
the Shift we are many avatars and prophets of the Promethean
Spirit walking the Earth. We are here to usher our brothers &
sisters through the coming major changes. It is my present state
of comprehension that the 'Sons of the Fire-Mist' were the
avatars and prophets of the Promethean Spirit, and so was Madame
Blavatsky, the Light Bringer. What I have in common with Madame
Blavatsky, the Russian noble woman, is that I do have an inner
knowing of the Russian soul, but I have no way yet of expressing
it outwardly.
With my Homage to Madame Blavatsky
I want to contribute to the revival of the ancient principles of
Theosophy. My campaign for the elevation of the Lightworker
status into a new occupation on Earth will serve the same goal of
creating a better future for the human family.
Being the type of the lone servant,
it will suit me best to follow the statement I read on the
"United Lodge of Theosophists" website, which says,
"The true Theosophist belongs to no cult or sect, yet
belongs to each and all."
In Service,
KarinLLightworker
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