“Mr. Sargeant: What about Peter the Hermit (Late eleventh century priest who instigated the People’s Crusade that traveled from Germany to Jerusalem), whose fierce preaching stirred up the whole of Europe? Was he a Theosophist?
Mme. Blavatsky: Not a bit of it. He was an anti-Theosophist. He forced people to make fools of themselves and led them to death, and made them ridiculous to posterity. He represented to them the goose as the Holy Ghost.
Mr. Sargeant: And yet with the views these people came back with from the Holy Land, Christianity became something grand. Our ancestors never knew the principle of toleration on the battlefield until Saladin taught them. (Twelfth century Sultan of Egypt who led the Muslim resistance to the Crusades. He gained a lasting reputation as a chivalrous knight for his treatment of prisoners.)
Mme. Blavatsky: There was more Theosophy in Saladin than there ever was in Peter the Hermit. Perhaps you will say Louis XI was also a Theosophist. You are a paradoxalist.
Mr. Kingsland: It is a universalist. But then you must make a distinction in terms.
Mr. Sargeant: There is no distinction in spirit.
Mr. B. Keightley: But you see, we are not in the spirit, but in the flesh.
Mr. Sargeant: The great error of today is that man imagines he is a body possessed of a spirit, instead of a spirit possessed of a body.
Mme. Blavatsky: My dear Sargeant, you would appear to me the embodiment of wisdom, if you spoke in a way that I could hear.
Mr. Sargeant: If it is that I speak low, it is because of those internal breathings.
Mme. Blavatsky: You are a humbug! Perhaps he will say there is real Theosophy in humbug.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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