THE POLE AND THEOSOPHY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 829, 21 April 1910, Page 3

THE POLE AND THEOSOPHY.

An Americanjournal points out a curious bearing which our recently gained knowledge of the North Pole has upon the teachings of theosophy. Both Commander Peary and Dr. Cook have given out that they found no land at the North Pole. Many years ago, when the Pole was deemed inaccessable, Madame Blavatsky, the then High Priestess of the cult, now represented by Mrs Annie Besaut, was told by her invisible spirit teachers that laud existed at the top of the world. Since then this has been part of the regular teaching of theosophy. Madame Blavatsky, in her book, “The Secret Doctrine,” speaks of it thus; “ If, then, the teaching is understood correctly, the first continent which came into existence capped over the whole North Pole like one unbroken crust, and remains so to this day beyond that inlaid sea which seemed like an unreachable mirage to the few Arctic travellers who perceived it.” It is also identified by the theosophists as the Imperishable Sacred Land “ of which very little can be said except, perhaps, that the Pole star has its watchful eye upon it, from the dawn to the close of twilight of a day of Brahma.” Mrs Besaut, in the course of her lecture at Adyar in December, 1903, on the “Pedigree of Man,” makes constant reference to it. In one place she refers to it thus: “Slowly that land emerges from the swell-wave of the tepid watery globe, and like the lotus of seven leaves, their centre Mount Meru, at the Pole, seven great promotories of laud appear.” And again: “The gorgeous hues of the tropics faded away before the breath of the ice-king ; the Polar days and nights of six mouths began, and for awhile the remnants of plaksha showed but a scanty population. Beyond it, in the Polar region, smiled over the Imperishable Sacred Land.”