Madame Blavatsky on the New Year's Morrow

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Blavatsky Speaks Series · 12 pages

The companion piece to the French New Year article, written for Lucifer in the same month, and it takes the same occasion in a more serious direction. A happy new year to all seems easy enough to say, she begins, and everyone expects some such greeting — but whether the wish is likely to be realised even in a few cases is harder to decide. What follows is a short statement of the doctrine of will that runs through the whole library.

Every man or woman, on this account, is endowed to some degree with a magnetic potentiality which, helped by a sincere and indomitable will, is the most effective magic lever nature has placed in human hands — for woe as much as for weal. The practical instruction drawn from it is unexpectedly gentle: theosophists should use that will to send a sincere greeting to every living creature under the sun, enemies and relentless traducers included, and should try to feel especially kindly and forgiving toward their persecutors, honest or dishonest — lest some of them unconsciously send an evil-eye greeting instead of a blessing. She anticipates the mockery this will draw, quotes it in advance, and answers that it is not a new superstition but a very old one. Bulwer-Lytton stands at the head: the veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of Mercy.

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