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Reincarnation On Trial

Madame Blavatsky changes her opinion

 

 

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Madame Helen Blavatsky, who helped popularize reincarnational theories in the West, changed her mind. She addressed this subject, speaking through Mrs. Wickland:

"I see now that my teachings caused many to become psychic sensitives and that the theory of reincarnation causes much obsession [that is, those who die believing in reincarnation will attempt to effect such by attaching themselves to mortals]. I also taught that one should be a vegetarian, but the majority live under too great a nervous tension for this and become too sensitive."

"I have found that 'reincarnation' is possible only through obsession [confused spirits attaching themselves to mortals in an attempt to be reborn], and I have also found, to my great sorrow, that many of my followers become obsessed."

"It is dangerous to teach the theory of reincarnation because many selfish people, who come to the other side of life, look for what they consider the right place to reincarnate but they do not understand obsession and therefore disturb and obsess children. That is one reason there are so many idiot children in the asylums."

"I was a psychic when in earth life and I knew spirits could come back and control mortals. I realize now that if I had taught the philosophy of Theosophy and the truth of spirit return it would have been much better."

"We cannot progress to the higher life of understanding with a falsehood on our minds; an understanding of the truth is necessary."

 

biographical information from the internet:

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, 1831-1891, was a psychic and mystic, and a founder of Theosophy and the Theosophical Society, which were influential in certain circles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

Blavatsky was a world traveler who eventually settled in India where, with Olcott, established the headquarters of the Society in Madras...

According to her own story, as told to a later biographer, she spent the years 1848 to 1858 traveling the world. She visited Egypt, France, Canada (Quebec), England, South America, Germany, Mexico, India, Greece and especially Tibet, where she studied for some years with the ascetics, to whom she referred as Brothers...

 

 

 

The following are excerpts from "Field Guide":

 

Consult the extensive literature on alleged past lives, and a singular pattern soon emerges: most died a sudden death. An unusual statistic, it is a giveaway, indicating the restive soul whose life has been unfairly cut short; deprived of a smooth transition, the traumatized victim becomes fixated, still hovering at the edge of life, unable to move on. Some were children who died a violent death. Others died in a fire; yet others in war. Some were murdered; others perished in an accident or natural catastrophe. Reincarnationists have never been able to answer this obviously skewed statistic whose true significance only comes to light when we factor in the earthbound penchant of these unfortunate souls.

 

 

 

 

Editor's last word:

It is said, regarding the mismatched marriages of this world, that (so-called) death is the great divorcer. But all edifices built upon the sand of the Small Ego will suffer loss when the "real world" suddenly comes into view.

Madame Blavatsky was virtually worshipped as a lesser-god by her devotees - but what a rude awakening for her to find out how things really work. She's now engaged in helping the people she led astray.

Our world is led and governed by the rich and elite, the celebrities and power-brokers. Be careful to whom you pledge your loyalties. Death is the great divorcer, but also the great leveler and the great exposer.

On the Earth-plane, people can posture and strut a paper-mache respectability; but in the "real world" there will be an end to the pageantry of empty smiles cloaking rapacious hearts, the end of The Nice Young Man. What we are will be written on our faces, for all to see. And "the first shall be last" in that day, said Brother Joshua.