Aryan Destiny, Pride and the Judgment of God

I referred in earlier Blogs to Madame Blavatsky, a woman whose writings had great influence upon intellectuals and other leaders in Europe in the days leading up to the two great world wars—those Patrick J. Buchanan bunches together as one modern 30-year war. A couple days ago I set out on the task of reading through Blavatsky's monumental work, now available on my Kindle. I plan to share some of my discoveries in this Blog from time to time.

The question I struggle with today, however, is why Blavatsky's claims to have secret knowledge should be more creditable than the Scriptures of the Christian church. The answer to that is quite complex on the one hand, but quite simple on the other. Here's my go at it.

It all began in the 18th century, the so-called Age of Enlightenment. After bloody civil and religious wars, enlightened thinkers lifted up the powers of human reason. If we use our minds, they said, we can be free from foolish and misguided superstition, myths and legends, as well as the authoritarian rule of the church and kings. By using our minds we can discover universal beliefs about the Divinity. Aside from these, many saw no need for organized religions. This enlightened thinking guided the American and French revolutions. The language of natural law and self-determination is the language of the Enlightenment and has indeed become our American "civil religion."

With the power of reason firmly in place, 19th century scientists and inventors made tons of new discoveries about how our world works. This was the age when the professional scientist emerged. It was the century when people discovered useable electricity, steel and petroleum products. It was the age of the assembly line, tools that make tools, interchangeable machine parts, practical internal combustion engines, the lightbulb, telephone, typewriter, sewing machine, plastic surgery, morse code, rubber vulcanization, bicycles, blueprints, and on and on.

Charles Darwin portrayed as an ape

People began to believe there were no limits to what human science and rational thinking might accomplish. This idea really caught on with the publication of Charles Darwin's 1859 book On the Origin of Species. Now men had discovered that the human race is what it is because it has evolved across the millennia. Progress is inevitable.

So along comes Blavatsky and those like her, claiming to pull all this science, all this reason, all this evolution, all this enlightened thinking and all religions together in her book The Secret Doctrine and theosophy—about which I also blogged earlier. Suddenly those who read her book and the journal articles she published realized they were in the know! Hitler and his henchmen picked up on this and took the whole thing to its logical end. The Aryans, descendants of the great Lemurians, Atlanteans and the lost kingdom of Shambhala have always ruled the world. It is their destiny and the plan of the true gods. All lesser races must either be subjugated or eliminated.

Add to this the fact that Hitler and Nazism led Germany from a defeated, broken and impoverished nation to economic and political glory within less than a decade and you can begin to see why even millions of German Lutherans embraced the new religion, with its new creed and its new gods.

What so many threw aside was the following warning from the ancient book of Leviticus, given to God's people, a warning applicable to this day as well. I quote but a portion of what is written:

" 'Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God. . .

'But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, then I will do this to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and drain away your life. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.

'If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit" (Leviticus 26:1, 14-20).

In World War I the total number of casualties, both military and civilian, were about 37 million. In World War II (the second part of that 30-year war) it is estimated that over 56 million died from all nations involved.