Helena Blavatsky and the Mahatmas on the Historicity of Jesus

NOTES ON MESSIANISM, APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION, THE TOLEDOT YESHU AND SUBVERSIVE FIXATIONS WITH CHRISTIANIZING THEOSOPHY

“I write in every letter that a divine Christ (or Christos) has never existed under a human form outside the imagination of blasphemers who have carnalized a universal and entirely impersonal principle.” (Helena P. Blavatsky, Reply to the Mistaken Conceptions of the Abbe Roca concerning my Observations on Christian Esotericism)

ACCORDING TO HELENA BLAVATSKY, in her own words, messianism is a great invented fraud (an imaginary tradition invented by Irenaeus who shields it behind blind faith), so was Eusebius and the Roman Catholic Church apostolic succession. The myth about Jesus, she thought was likely based on Yeshu ben Pandira of Lud (or Lydda) in the Sepher Toldoth Yeshu, or a man in that part of the world sometime around that time, whose name may have actually been Yeshua. Yeshu was initiated at a young age in Jewish Kabbalah, later adding to this knowledge his learning acquired in Egypt. When the persecution of King Janneus ended, he returned to Judea. His adventures are told as in the stories of many initiates, in allegorical language. Yeshu was accused by the Jews of possessing knowledge of Egyptian magic art, and was put to death by the Sanhedrin. Whatever is the case, Blavatsky’s views are, that in whatever time he existed, there was a historical initiate (see the legend of Saint Issa), but the Jesus of the Gospels was invented after the first century, and the Gospel accounts are not historical. They are mainly an allegory (see James M. Pryse’s Hellenic Restoration of the Gospels), although containing profound esoteric truths.

“Assuredly no doctrine about a personal God, a gigantic man and no more — (though a number of so-called divine beings were and are still recognized) — was ever taught by the true Magi.” (Helena Blavatsky, Zoroastrianism in the Light of Occult Philosophical)

Koothoomi in the Mahatma Letters wrote, that there was no such living man of that epoch, and that Christ is esoterically, the divine Vāc वाच्, or the Paramātman परमात्मन् (supreme Self). Philo of Alexandria never wrote about such a man as in the Gospels. The Mahatma letters explains, that Christ is a divine principle within each human being, not a historical person. It is equivalent to the regeneration or rebirth of spirit, and is the same truth (or leads to the same truth) as the Nirvana of Buddhism. It is not a space ghost or man-god. Blavatsky suggests, that without the story of the ‘son of Pandira’ בן פנדורה and disciple of the fifth President of the Sanhedrin, the whole Christian canon is false as the account of the New Testament has no record in history. This Yeshu of Lydda died from being stoned and crucified on a tree on the eve of Passover according to the Toledot Yeshu text.

H.P. BLAVATSKY does not say this tradition of the Gemara is accurate in every respect, highlighting the bias of the text, but this spiritual teacher or initiate bears some similarities to the Gospels. So, the gist is, that the Gospels are a Zodiacal allegory, and the Jesus of the many Churches and denominations is largely a distorted, fictitious copy of some actual individual.

Whether there was a historical Jesus, or Jesus is an utter mythical fiction, it is no real consequence. This sage in the literary sense, whether using the Gospels or the Toledot Yeshu acts and thinks in his story like a bodhisattva. In the Gospels, this Jesus says he was sent only to the so-called lost sheep of the house of Israel. The theosophist rejects the notion, that Jesus is some messiah for all humanity, as well as for the Jewish people. It is therefore a grave error to blame the Jews for killing Jesus, as is said. There is, as written before, nothing new Jesus teaches that was not already taught by Philo, Gautama, Sankaracharya, or from Orphism and the neo-Platonists. In Isis Unveiled, Blavatsky rejects the belief that Jesus was the messiah the Jews prophesied, as do I. The man had a mission of his own, and it is believed he failed. The Gospel Jesus teaches straight in the texts precepts of monastic Buddhism to the Jews. All his sayings are nearly verbatim repetitions of the Pythagoreans.

The exclusivist religion of the Churches is a sham, as much as the fantastical psychic Christian innovations of theosophists (such as Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater) and ex-theosophists (e.g, Alice Bailey, Rudolf Steiner and others) subconsciously ever trying to reconcile their childhood bred beliefs with Theosophy. Four Apostles or Gospels are still forced upon this character, Jesus, whose ways are yet those of a mythic demi-god, a Grecian initiate, or perfected magi.

The development of Christianity as we know it, contain parallels to the New Age movement in relation to the Theosophical movement. This is that, all the efforts of the original Theosophical movement had become usurped in the next century by the claims of individuals on the very basis of belief Theosophists were opposing. The Theosophical writings are diametrically opposite — in fact an antidote. It anticipates and exposes their fraud.

“Theosophy (…) hushes the “Lo here! and lo there!” and declares the Christ, like the kingdom of heaven, to be within. (…) With the advent of Theosophy, the Messiah-craze surely has had its day, and sees its doom.” (Helena P. Blavatsky, Modern Apostles and Pseudo-Messiahs)

She explains in her earliest major work, that “The present volumes have been written to small purpose if they have not shown that the apostolic succession is a gross and palpable fraud” (Isis Unveiled, Vol. 2, p. 544). Compare this to Charles W. Leadbeater, who wrote in Sacraments: “My clairvoyant investigation into those early periods absolutely confirms the contention of the Roman Church. They know that there has been no break in apostolic succession” (Science of the Sacraments, p. 286).

In H.P. Blavatsky asking, “In such a case, would Jesuits like to see the main leaders of a theosophical society acting under the inspiration of their own methods and piously cheating the public in the name of sacred Masters?” we can conclude, that these individuals did cheat the public and gullible members through the use of the names of Jesus, K.H., Morya and others, whom Leadbeater immortalized into a new angelic innovation similar to the function of Catholic saints. Leadbeater, a former priest of the Church of England became Annie Besant’s spiritual guide and his new psychically-inspired Christianity along with influence by orthodox Brahmin Hindu, G.N. Chakravarti and the latest addressed anti-Blavatsky attitude took hold of the Theos. Soc., splitting it in 1895.

Charles W. Leadbeater had significant influence on 20th century spiritual concepts, not Blavatsky. Biographers should therefore retire from falsely stating, that Helena P. Blavatsky was the Mother of the 20th century New Age movement. If all these 20th century groups and individuals that appropriated Theosophy actually had read H.P. Blavatsky, there’d be no New Age movement, highly characterized by high commercialization, materialism, psychism, psychological and sexual manipulation and anthropomorphism. Leadbeater’s influential innovation on 20th century alternative spiritual messianism is the Christ, World Teacher concept. In this belief, Christ was the Bodhisattva Maitreya and Jesus was overshadowed by this being. Alice Bailey had her own project with her Arcane School after leaving the Theosophical Society. Later, pleading for $30,000, Mrs. Bailey claimed, The Christ was coming, and that Jesus separately was going to Rome. Both Alice Bailey and Charles W. Leadbeater were obsessively fascinated with occult geopolitics and Masonic ceremonialism.

Besant’s administration suppressed writings and actively allowed Blavatsky’s major works to go out of print, even attempting to rewrite and edit her books to support their new theories — promoting over it their newfound revelation of the Sacrament!

Therefore, think carefully on this when understanding the aims of the Theosophical movement, despite the discontents of many within it, that wanted to maintain a Western, or Euro-centric conception of Hermeticism and Western orientation of the Theos. Soc. We cannot move on to explain the twenty-one or more founders of the Theosophical Society in-depth without addressing the constant attempts to Christianize, or overtake Theosophy with a quasi Catholic-Masonic innovation, or mockery. Theosophy was a movement aimed at a genuine, serious philosophical renaissance and ethical reform, subverted by a mocking religiousity based on an imaginary, anthropomorphized Christ and his Angels to the backdrop of rainbow palettes and commercialized products. Those who would desire this are deluded, and have the public’s lack of knowledge of this history to count on the undisturbed even unchallenged peddling of slanderous lies about the nature and purpose of Theosophy within the current of esotericisms.