Religious Conversion Means Absolute Perversion

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Black versus White Magic Series · 11 pages

Eleven pages against the practice of conversion, written from India where Blavatsky had watched a good deal of it. Christianity is described as the official creed of the masculine social energy of the generation, and she is under no illusion about the means it would use if it could: it would still be spread at the sword's point, she writes, and by the persuasiveness of tyranny and torture, as in the good old days.

One passage does more than the polemic, because it explains the disproportion readers of this series will have noticed. It is not, she writes, that Christian dogmatism is more hateful to her than any other form of obstructiveness — it is that it happens to enjoy a wider power to prevent man's moral development and to crush truth. Whether or not one accepts the judgment, it is a candid account of why one religion receives most of the fire in a body of work that professes to treat all traditions as streams from one source.

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