Krishnamurti is all irrational, leaving solutions to quietude
Krishnamurti is all irrational, leaving solutions to quietude, i.e., to themselves as a part of Mother Nature.
Toynbee on the other hand believes in making and moulding opinions.
Neither believes in the blossoming and unfolding of the individual as the experimental, doubtful and bewildering work of the living God, to whom we have to lend our eyes and ears and our discriminating mind, to which end they were incubated for millions of years and brought to light about 6000 years ago, viz. at the moment when the historical continuity of consciousness became visible through the invention of script. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 596
Annie Besant (1847-1933), born Annie Woods in London, women’s rights campaigner, socialist reformist, in later years a leading member of the theosophical movement.
She settled in India, where she campaigned for Indian independence.
She adopted and raised Jiddu Krishnamurti, whom she believed to be the world-teacher.
She translated the Bhagavad Gita (1896) and wrote, amongst others, books on yoga such as The Three Paths to the Union with God (1987) and An Introduction to Yoga (1908). ~Psychology & Yoga Meditations, Vol. 6, Page 98, fn 138
And so we can draw a parallel: just as in me, a single individual, the darkness calls forth a helpful light, so it does in the psychic life of a people.
In the crowds that poured into Notre Dame, bent on destruction, dark and nameless forces were at work that swept the individual off his feet; these forces worked also upon Anquetil du Perron and provoked an answer which has come down in history and speaks to us through the mouths of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.
For he brought the Eastern mind to the West, and its influence upon us we cannot as yet measure.
Let us beware of underestimating it! So far, indeed, there is little of it to be seen on the intellectual surface: a handful of orientalists, one or two Buddhist enthusiasts, a few sombre celebrities like Madame Blavatsky and Annie Besant with her Krishnamurti.
These manifestations are like tiny scattered islands in the ocean of mankind; in reality they are the peaks of submarine mountain-ranges.
The cultural Philistines believed until recently that astrology had been disposed of long since and was something that could safely be laughed at.
But today, rising out of the social deeps, it knocks at the doors of the universities from which it was banished some three hundred years ago.
The same is true of Eastern ideas; they take root in the lower levels and slowly grow to the surface.
Where did the five or six million Swiss francs for the Anthroposophist temple at Dornach come from?
Certainly not from one individual.
Unfortunately there are no statistics to tell us the exact number of avowed Theosophists today, not to mention the unavowed.
But we can be sure there are several millions of them.
To this number we must add a few million Spiritualists of Christian or Theosophist leanings. Carl Jung, CW 10, Para 176
