Brian and Path,
I have been doing more research into this entire question. Fortunately, a fellow theosophist has explained the story to me, and I thought I would share it. But first, I need to cover a little bit of basic Theosophical theory.
According to Theosophy, humans on this planet will be born into a total of seven successive races. (Theosophy technically calls them root-races.) There is a bit of overlap in the existence of each race, but not a lot. All of present humanity is part of the fifth race. The Atlanteans were the fourth race, and they disappeared about 11,000 years ago. Our present-day fifth race is called the Aryan race.
We now come to the important part for our particular discussion, which is the beginning of the Aryan race. This occurred about three-quarters of the way through the total time period of the Atlantean race. In the beginning, the Aryans began as one small tribe in one small valley. According to Theosophy, this single tribe eventually expanded until it became all of the humanity of today.
The crux of the issue is the relationship of the original Semites to this first tribe. Theosophy says this first Aryan tribe was the Semites. This brings us to the issue of being chosen. I previously and mistakenly said that Yahweh was/is the patron saint of the Jews. My Theosophical friend has corrected me, and told me this: From the many tribes that were available at the time, the Semites were chosen to be the prototype from which the fifth race was to be created. My mistake was I said their Semitic “guardian angel” chose them and I was wrong. The entire fifth race also has its own “guardian angel,” who is the semi-divine being who did the choosing, and he chose the Semites. The Semites were then put on a special track, developed, and from them sprang the entire fifth-race humanity of today.
Now for the problem. The fifth-race’s “guardian angel” commanded them to “separate” (from the Atlanteans), and they did. But according to Theosophy, they took a dogmatic approach to such “separating,” and orthodox believers in Judaism began maintaining a self-imposed exclusiveness of their Religion. Their belief is that that they are special and must separate themselves from the rest of humanity, This was the major source of friction between the Semites and the other Aryans. “... The Creation is ONE” and organized teaching of separateness is erroneous, thus inferior. According to Theosophy, the early Jews needed to blend into the just-starting Aryan race, and they did not. This has continued down through the centuries into the terrible situation as it is today.
This discussion has been valuable to me, because I now see that Yahweh is the "patron saint" of the entire fifthe race, not just the Jews, which makes sense from both a Jewish and Theosophical viewpoint. I also now see that the Jews literally were chosen from various tribes to create the fifth race, which also fits both a Jewish and Theosophical viewpoint. I am glad to have learned this, and thank everyone for helping me to understand this point.
As a side note, everyone is familiar with casts in the modern-day country of India. It has been said that casts were commanded by the fifth-race “guardian angel” because intermarriage of the fifth-race people with the fourth-race people was threatening to wipe out the newly started fifth-race, so casts were instituted to preserve the integrity of the burgeoning fifth-race. Sadly, the need for casts in India disappeared many thousands of years ago, but casts are still a large part of Indian society. (This also points to the idea that the Jewish and Hindu religions sprang from the same source, a key Theosophical teaching.)
The purpose of Theosophy is to bring people together, not to separate them, and certainly not to give one ethnic group excuses to discriminate against another. Theosophy merely relates the story of why and how the Jews came to have a sense of separateness that persisted after it was necessary, and to explain the hatred the Jews have experienced ever since, at the hands of fellow Aryans. (As you can see, Theosophy claims that Jews are very much Aryans, a very non-Nazi idea.) Theosophy hopes to show the commonality of all humanity, the need for the removal of separateness, which will eventually take us back to the ONE together, arm in arm. This is all a case of mistaken separateness, which can be called the single most important concept within Theosophy.
On a different topic, yes, it is true that Blavatsky spoke very disparagingly about Jews. I feel that she was wrong in using such contemptuous words. But I feel that her anger was directed at the earliest Jewish leaders, not at the Jews people, ancient or modern. Theosophy is devoted to bringing Jews together with all other humans, not discriminating against them. I also feel that if Blavatsky had done a better job of explaining all of this, no one would have accused Theosophy of being a racist philosophy. I can now see clearly why Theosophy is seen as a racist philosophy, I can see how this developed along a clear line of thought, and how it is all a misunderstanding
I have personally seen the hatred that exists towards Jews. One of my best friends is a flaming Jew-hater. I personally see no reason for this, and I see the Jewish people as a nice people. I certainly have no reason to hate them. Yes, I did watch Fiddle on the Roof a few days ago, and the Jews in the movie came across as very nice people. One of the strange things about the rampant hatred of Jewish people in today’s world is the fact that it is unexplained. Theosophy offers an explanation, and a way to solve the problem.
The issue has been raised again and again ad nauseum that Theosophy provided the Nazis the philosophy it needed to claim that Jews are inferior. I put much of the blame on Blavatsky for her very poor choice of words. I would like to apologize to all Jews on behalf of Blavatsky for her poor choice of words. But I do not think we can blame Theosophy for the things the Nazis did to the Jews. A poor choice of words does not justify murder.
Brian, should you ever really feel like reading The Secret Doctrine, let me know, as I have written a study guide for it.
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