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Re: Blavatsky, Satan and evil.

Apr 14, 1997 12:05 PM
by Titus Roth


Bart Lidofsky <bartl@sprynet.com> wrote:

> However, she [HPB] uses Satan in two ways. One is as a Promethean figure
> (one who defies the powers that be to aid humanity at a high personal cost).
> She also uses Satanism as meaning (probably deriving from Eliphas Levi, and
> certainly the way modern occultists interpret it) the rejection of the
> spiritual in favor of the material (note that this is the modern
> interpretation of the Devil card in Tarot, as well).

The latter makes sense. "The love of money is the root to all evil."


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