THE
LIFE OF
H
P Blavatsky
Funeral oration read at
HP Blavatsky's cremation
on
Composed by members of the Theosophical
Society and delivered by G R S Mead
This oration is included in
In Memory of H P Blavatsky
By
Some of her Pupils
G R S Mead was
H P Blavatsky’s personal secretary and general secretary of the European
Section of the Theosophical Society
Friends and Brother
Theosophists:
H. P. Blavatsky is dead,
but H. P. B., our teacher and friend, is alive, and will live forever in our
hearts and memories. In our present sorrow, it is this thought especially that
we should keep ever before our minds. It is true that the personality we know
as H. P. Blavatsky will be with us no longer; but it is equally true that the
grand and noble individuality, the great soul that has taught all of us men and
women to live purer and more unselfish lives, is still active.
The Theosophical
Society, which was her great work in this incarnation, still continues under
the care and direction of those great living Masters and Teachers whose
messenger she was, and whose work she will resume among us at no distant
period.
Dear as the personality
of H. P. B. is to us, to many of whom she took the place of a dearly loved and
reverenced mother, still we must remember that, as she has so often taught us,
the personality is the impermanent part of man's nature and the mere outer
dress of the real individuality.
The real HPB does not
lie here before us. The true self that inspired so many men and women in every
quarter of the earth with a noble enthusiasm for suffering humanity and the
true progress of the race, combined with a lofty ideal of individual life and
conduct, can in the mind of no Theosophist be confounded with the mere physical
instrument which served it for one brief incarnation.
Fellow Theosophists, the
duty that lies before us, her pupils and friends, is plain and simple. As we
all know so well, the one great purpose of our teacher's life in this her
present incarnation, a purpose which she pursued with such complete
unselfishness and singleness of motive, was to restore to mankind the knowledge
of those great spiritual truths we to-day call Theosophy.
Her unvarying fidelity
to her great mission, from which neither contumely nor misrepresentation ever
made her swerve, was the key-note of her strong and fearless nature. To her who
knew so well its true and inner meaning, Theosophy was an ever-present power in
her life, and she was ceaseless in her endeavours to
spread the knowledge of the living truths of which she had such full assurance,
so that by their ever-widening influence the wave of materiality in Science and
Religion might be checked, and a real and lasting spiritual foundation laid for
the true progress and brotherhood of mankind.
With such an example
before us, then, our duty as Theosophists is clear. We must continue the work
that H. P. B. has so nobly commenced, if not with her power - which to us is as
yet impossible - at least with an enthusiasm, self-sacrifice and determination
such as alone can show our gratitude to her and our appreciation of the great
task she has committed to us.
We must, therefore, each
individually take up our share of that task. Theosophy is not dead because to-day
we stand by H. P. B.'s dead body. It lives and must
live, because Truth can never die; by on us, the upholders of this Truth, must
ever rest the heaviest of all responsibilities, the effort so to shape our own
characters and lives that that truth may be thereby commended to others.
Most fortunately for all
of us, H. P. B. leaves the work on a firm foundation and fully organized. In
spite of failing health and bodily pain, our beloved leader to the very last
moments of her life continued her unceasing exertions for the cause we all love
so well. Never did she relax on instant from her vigilance over its interests,
and she repeatedly impressed upon those who surrounded her the principles and
methods by which the work was to be carried on, never contemplating for one
instant that the death of her body could be any real hindrance to the
performance of the duty which would then more than ever be incumbent on every
earnest member of the Society. This duty, which lies so clearly before us, and
of which H. P. B. has set us so striking an example, is to spread the knowledge
of Theosophy by every means in our power, especially by the influence of our
own lives.
Much as we love and reverence
our leader, our devotion to the work must not rest on the transient basis of
affection for a personality, but on the solid foundation of a conviction that
in Theosophy itself, and in it alone, are to be found those eternal spiritual
principles of right thought, right speech and right action, which are essential
to the progress and harmony of mankind.
We believe that if H. P.
B. could stand here in the body and speak to us now, this would be her message
to all members of the Theosophical Society, not simply to those who are
present, but to all who without distinction of race, creed or sex, are with us
in heart and sympathy to-day. She would tell us as she has told many of us
already, that "a clean life, an open mind, a pure heart, an eager intellect,
an unveiled spiritual perception, a brotherliness for all, a readiness to give
and receive advice and instruction, a courageous endurance of personal
injustice, a brave declaration of principles, a valient
defence of those who are unjustly attacked, and a
constant eye to the ideal of human progression and perfection which the Sacred
Science depicts - these are the golden stairs up the steps of which the learner
may climb to the Temple of Divine Wisdom." (2)
And now in silence we
leave the body of our teacher and go back to the every-day world. In our hearts
we shall ever carry with us her memory, her example, her
life. Every Theosophical truth that we utter, every Theosophical effort that we
make, is one more evidence of our love for her, and what should be greater even
than that, of our devotion to the cause for which she lived. To that cause she
was ever true, - to that truth let none of us be ever false.
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