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." |
(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:
- Understand we are not separate from humanity or the world.
- 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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