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... | ''To the Editor of The World.'' | ||
{{Style S-Small capitals|Sir}}: In my benighted country such a thing as an | |||
“interview” is unknown. Had I been aware of its dangers, I would have | |||
tried to use magic enough to impress my words upon the intelligent young | |||
gentleman who called upon me yesterday in your behalf. | |||
As it is, I find in his “report” a little error that is calculated to | |||
give my very esteemed antagonists the theologians a poor opinion of my | |||
Biblical scholarship. He makes me put into the mouth of Jehovah the | |||
injunction, “Fear the gods.” What I did say was that in ''Exodus'', | |||
xxii., 28, Jehovah commands, “Thou shalt not revile the gods;” and that, | |||
attempting to break its force, some commentators interpret the word to | |||
mean the “rulers.” | |||
As I have had the opportunity of knowing many rulers, in many different | |||
countries, and never knew one to be “a god,” I made so bold as to | |||
express my wonder at such an elastic interpretation. | |||
The theologians do not imitate the moderation of the “Lord God,” but | |||
“revile the gods” of other people without stint, especially the “gods” | |||
(spirits) of the Spiritualists. As none of these writers have thought of | |||
availing themselves of this weapon of defense, I thought it no more than | |||
fair to introduce it in my “Veil of Isis” for their benefit as well as | |||
that of the “heathen” to whom you are so kindly sending missionaries to | |||
convert them. Hoping that I am not trespassing upon the hospitality of | |||
your columns in asking the insertion of these few facts, I am, sir, your | |||
obedient servant, {{Style S-Small capitals|H. P. Blavatsky}}, a | |||
benighted Buddhist, and the Corresponding Secretary of the Theosophical | |||
Society. | |||
New York, January 23. | |||