ADEPTS AND POLITICS
The communication in your December number from Chhabigram
Dolatram, headed as above, is a piece of special pleading, directed
against the adepts, and flowing from as source not friendly to
either the cause of Theosophy or to the Masters. Personally,
I do not believe Mr. Dolatram wrote the article; he simply allowed
his name to be appended to it. It is, to my thinking, the emanation
of a European Christian and royalist mind.
It is quite true, as you say, in your comment that I referred
in my article to adepts in general. But my own unsupported
opinion was and is that the American revolution was a just one,
started to accomplish a beneficial end, and that the Hindu or
Tibetan Mahatmas would not be disgraced by any connection with
it, notwithstanding the royalist and anti-republican feelings
of the real authors of Mr. Dolatram's paper. That revolution
was not degraded, in the American side, by the shedding of blood
except in lawful battle for human rights.
Allow me to point to a historical fact in connection with
the Count St. Germain, which will shed some light on the question
of what, if any, connection do some adepts have with justifiable
revolutions.
One of the well-known generals who fought with Washington,
in the Continental army against the British, was General Fred.
Wm. Von Stueben, a Prussian. In 1777 he was in Paris, and at
the same time the Count St. Germain was Minister of War there.
They were well acquainted with each other, and the Count induced
Von Steuben to come over to America and offer his sword to Genl.
Washington. He did so, was gladly received, and did splendid
service in the cause of liberty. Everybody knows that St. Germain
was an Adept, and the fact above detailed is set forth
in many publications and letters of authentic force.
Mr. Dolatram picks up the expression "brother Franklin."
I never heard, nor ever said, that Franklin was a Theosophist.
He was a Freemason, and therefore a "brother," so was
Washington and Jefferson. A sincere mason will be a just man
who reveres liberty and abhors a tyrant.
As Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita of himself, we may hear
the Adept saying: "I am manifested in every age for the
purpose of restoring duty and destroying evil doing."
EX ASIATIC
Theosophist, June, 1884
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