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door Herman » 26 nov 2005 11:30
Het is mij duidelijk geworden dat Jessy al heel lang vastgeroest zit aan de boeken van Alice Bailey en haar visie wat betreft het daarin voorkomende antisemitisme niet wil veranderen. Sommige theosofen hebben dat wél gedaan. Dit is weer een bewijs hoe een dogmatisch geloof in boeken een wig tussen mensen kan drijven. Jessy wil niet eens meer de citaten lezen. Als je op een zoekmachine 'Alice Bailey antisemitism' intikt, springen de artikelen je gewoonweg tegemoet. Bailey's antisemitisme is zeker subtieler, maar het is er wel en in het kader van een door haar gepropageerde wereldleer vind ik dat verwerpelijk.
Het heeft daarom geen zin om verder te discussiëren. Dit was een zijstraatje, want het het betrof eigenlijk de nieuwe film van Ronald Jan Heijn, die sterk tegen het gedachtengoed van de traditionele theosofie aanleunt.
Hier nog eens 12 Bailey-citaten over joden, met titel- en paginavermelding:
1. "I would point out that the fourth energy, focused in the Jewish problem, is definitely producing cleavage as a part of the divine plan. The Jews are instruments in the working out of the Plan for the production of certain synthesis and to bring humanity to certain realisations and decisions …… it expresses the present situation in the interim period between the old Piscean age which is passing and the new Aquarian age which is coming in ….. I wonder whether you can grasp the implications of this paragraph. When the mind aspect (the third aspect of the personality) is more fully developed, then the focus of the effort of the Dark Forces will change and the problem of the Jews will disappear." (The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, blz. 87)
2. "Down the ages, the Jew has been wandering, producing much of beauty in the world and giving to humanity many of its greatest men, but he has (at the same time) been hated and persecuted, betrayed and hounded. He embodies in himself, symbolically, the history of humanity. The ancient tendency of the Jews is to grasp and hold, and also to preserve their racial and national integrity, are their outstanding national characteristics. They cannot be absorbed, and yet no nation in the world.... had advanced so far that all its foremost people stood upon the path of discipleship." (Esoteric Psychology 1, blz. 399.)
3. "The Jews hang on to a religion which is basically obsolete. I asked myself a few days ago what part of the Old Testament was worth preserving. Much of it is dreadful, cruel and only because the literature is found in the Bible does it pass the post-office regulations. I decided that the ten commandments must be preserved, one or two of the Bible stories such as the love of David and Jonathan, the 23rd Psalm and the 91st Psalm with a few others and about four chapters in the Book of Isaiah. All the rest was largely useless or undesirable, and much that was left fed pride and nationalism of the people. That which stands between the orthodox Jew and the mass of the Gentiles are his religious taboos, for the Jewish faith is largely a religion of "Thou shalt not." That which conditions Gentile thinking concerning the unorthodox and younger Jew is his materialism, of which Shylock is the symbol.
“As I write these words I am conscious of their inadequacy and lack of complete fairness and yet from the standpoint of a broad generalisation, they are absolutely true - although from the standpoint of an individual Jew they are in many, many cases grossly unfair. There is much in the Jew and the German which is alike. The German regards himself as a member of the 'super race' whilst the orthodox Jew regards himself as the Chosen People. The German emphasises 'racial purity' and so have the Jews down the ages. The Jew never seems to assimilate." (The Unfinished Autobiography, blz. 120-121)
4. "The Jews are a group of people in whom the principle of separation is pronouncedly present. For ages they have, with determination and in obedience to the injunctions in the Old Testament, insisted on regarding themselves as a people set apart. For ages they have held themselves separated off from all other peoples in the world. The result is that they are now evoking from the races among whom they are scattered a corresponding desire to force that very separation upon them." (Esoteric Psychology 2, blz. 580)
5. "These factors demonstrate the complexity of the problem from the Jewish angle and its irritating and frictional nature to the Gentile. This irritating factor is something which the Jew seldom if ever recognises. The Gentile today neither remembers nor cares that the Jews were instrumental in having Christ put to death (according to The New Testament); he is more apt to remember that Christ was a Jew and to wonder why the Jew was not the first to claim and love Him. He remembers far more acutely Jewish business methods, the fact that the Jew, if orthodox, regards Gentile food as impure for him and that the Jew considers his citizenship as secondary to his racial obligations. He regards the Jew as a follower of an obsolete religion; he intensely dislikes the cruel and jealous Jehovah of the Jews and looks upon The Old Testament as the history of a cruel and aggressive people - apart from the Psalms of David, which all men love.
“These are the points to which the Jew at no time seems to pay attention and yet it is these things in their aggregate which have set the Jew apart from the world in which he wants to live and be happy and in which he is the victim of an inheritance which could with profit be modernised. Nowhere is the emergence of a new world religion more greatly needed than in the case of the Jew in the modern world." (Problems of Humanity, blz. 100-101)
6. "The great experiences upon the various mountain tops as related in the Bible have all to do with Capricorn. Moses, the Lawgiver on Mount Sinai, is Saturn in Capricorn imposing the law of karma upon the people. A clue to the significance of the Jewish people as 'a karmic clearing house.' The Mount of Transfiguration in the New Testament is Venus in Capricorn when love and mind and will meet in the person of Christ, and 'He was transfigured' before all men. At the same time, He received the vision of the Father and of what He had to do as He 'went up to Jerusalem,' the place of death and likewise the city of peace. This Jerusalem is Pisces. In Aquarius, Christ put his disciples in touch with the 'man, bearing a pitcher of water,' Aquarius, and in the upper room introduced them to union and unity under the symbolism of the communion feast. For that feast, humanity is today preparing, as we saw when studying the last constellation. The astrological significance of the New Testament is as yet little understood. Christ was born in Capricorn, fulfilled the law under Saturn, initiated the era of intelligent brotherhood under Venus and is the perfect example of the Capricornian initiate who becomes the World Server in Aquarius, and the world Saviour in Pisces, thus completing the round of the Zodiac and able to say triumphantly in Pisces 'It is finished.' "(Esoteric Astrology, blz. 167-168)
7. "The Jewish problem will not be solved by taking possession of Palestine, by plaint demand and by financial manipulations. That would be but the prolongation of ancient wrong and material possessiveness. The problem will be solved by the willingness of the Jew to conform to the civilisation, the cultural background and the standards of living of the nation to which - by the fact of birth and education - he is related and with which he should assimilate. It will come by the relinquishment of pride of race and the concept of selectivity; it will come by renouncing dogmas and customs which are intrinsically obsolete and which create points of constant irritation to the matrix within which the Jew finds himself; it will come when selfishness in business relations and the pronounced manipulative tendencies of the Hebrew people are exchanged for more selfless and honest forms of activity. The Jewish problem will be solved by intermarriage." (Esoteric Healing, blz. 266-267)
8. "Four problems will be solved in the next two centuries:
1. The problem of territorial possessions …..
2. The problem of sex …..
3. The problem of death ….
4. The problem of the Jews which is symbolically the problem of humanity as a whole…..The Jew made this mistake and, as an Oriental race, the Jews have failed to hold before the Orient the divine nature of mankind as a whole, for all are equally divine and all are the Lord's elect. Calvin and all who followed his lead made the same mistake and instead of holding before the people of the Occident the realisation that those who recognised their essential divinity did so symbolically on behalf of all the developing, incarnating sons of God, they regarded themselves as the Chosen People and all who did not think as they did are regarded as lost. When the Jew and the narrow-minded religious devotees recognise their identity with all other people and express this identity through right relationship, we shall see a very different world. The world problem is essentially a religious problem and behind all strife in every department of world thought today is to be found the religious element." (The Destiny of the Nations, blz. 34-35)
9. "The Jews, by their illegal and terroristic activities; have laid a foundation of great difficulty for those who are seeking to promote world peace. As a Jewish member of my Ashram pointed out (and I commend him on his soul vision), the Jews have partially again opened the door to the Forces of Evil, which worked originally through Hitler and his evil gang. The 'sealing' of that door had not been successfully accomplished, and it is the part of wisdom to discover this in time. These Forces of Evil work through a triangle of evil, one point of which is to be found in the Zionist Movement in the United States, another in central Europe, and a third in Palestine. Palestine is no longer a Holy Land and should not be so regarded." (The Rays and the Initiations, blz. 429-430)
10. "The Jews are governed by the third Ray of Active Intelligence, the energy which permeates and controls matter or substance. They were also, during the years immediately following the war, under the control of a glamour imposed by the Zionist Dictators, who were attempting (somewhat unsuccessfully) to be to the Jewish people what Stalin and his group, and Hitler and his gang, have been to their people. They worked through the same methods - terrorising, withholding information, browbeating their opponents, making false claims and bribing and corrupting. They were and are a minority, but a powerful minority because of their great wealth and their being in positions of power. They are claiming a land to which they have no possible right and which the Jews have ignored for two thousand years. Their attitude is perhaps the culminating aggressive action of the age and marks a climaxing point; it has produced a serious world tension, but out of this good may come and a 'point of emergence for mankind' be reached." (The Rays and the Initiations, blz. 634)
11. "The Messiah ... will be one of Christ's senior disciples, but it will not be, as originally intended, the Christ. Symbolically, the Jews represent (from the point of view of the Hierarchy) that from which all Masters of Wisdom and Lords of Compassion emerge: materialism, cruelty and a spiritual conservatism, so that today they live in Old Testament times and are under the domination of the separative, selfish, lower concrete mind.
“But their opportunity will come again, and they may change when the fires of suffering at last succeed in purifying them and burning away their ancient crystallisation, thus liberating them to the extent that they can recognise their Messiah, Who will not, however, be the world Messiah." (The Rays and the Initiations, pblz. 705-706)
12. "Both the Germans and the Jews merit our impersonal love, particularly as they are both guilty (if I may use such a term) of the same basic errors and faults. The German is powerfully race conscious; so is the Jew. The German is separative in his attitude to the world; so is the Jew. The German insists on racial purity, a thing upon which the Jew has insisted for centuries. A small group of Germans are anti-Christian; so are an equally small number of Jews. I could continue piling up these resemblances but the above will suffice. Therefore, your dislike of one group is not more warranted than your refusal to recognise any justification for the activities and attitudes of the other." (Glamour. A World Problem, blz. 147)
Wenn die Löwen reden könnten hätten sie uns nichts zu sagen - Wittgenstein
