THE UNITED LODGE OF THEOSOPHISTS ON VACCINATION

“It becomes highly important, therefore, to regard dispassionately whatever evidence may be available. The issue is vital – to the individual, to the race – and cannot be settled to any lasting good while there exists a partisan spirit on either side.” (“Immunization: A Questionable Practice,” from an earlier version of the “Health and Therapy” pamphlet titled “The Laws of Healing: Physical and Metaphysical”)

“It is hard for the medically and technically ignorant public to believe that the medical profession in general could defend immunization by inoculation and vacccination if it were “a grotesque superstition” or an “amazing empirical stunt” as it has been called by the eminent Dr. Charles Creighton and Mr. George Bernard Shaw. The average person “guesses” that “scientific opinion” is more reliable than the views of a minority called “anti’s,” however honest and intelligent these may be. He passively accedes to vaccination and accepts it on medical authority without taking the trouble to look into the matter for or against, and this in spite of the fact that he knows that the remedies of one generation of doctors often become the laughing-stock of the next. But vaccination and inoculation are no longer merely medical questions; they have increasing political and social significance which involves individual liberty and national health. The more deeply the history and the results of vaccination are enquired into, the more evident it becomes that the practice has been accepted on – to paraphrase Lucretia Mott – the truth of authority and not on the authority of Truth. When men of the highest mental calibre are forced, after investigation, to conclude that “the penal enforcement of vaccination is a crime” – all conscientious laymen should at least read both sides. . . .

“As to the theory of immunisation, it has a great initial appeal; if its hypothetical basis is accepted its elements are very simple and lend themselves to the kind of logic understood by the average person. Neither its study nor its application requires much imagination or analytical thought, and, the practice being endorsed by the medical profession, the anomalies in statistics dealing with it are discounted.

“Further, while many physicians – undoubtedly ignorant of the facts – are sincere in their belief in vaccination and are not solely influenced by the desire for personal profit, it is significant that agitation in favour of compulsory vaccination emanates chiefly from those who administer or manufacture vaccines. It may be doubted if the anti-vaccination publications are read by many doctors or laymen not already questioning the practice; and the general press is usually closed to reports that go against the consensus of orthodox medical opinion. . . .

“Actually, however, the medical profession has two opinions on the subject of vaccination, not one. The majority are still for it, but that does not make them right; and it is well to note that most “anti’s” were once in favour of, and turned against vaccination after some tragic experiences in the practice which led them to study both sides of the question. Also it should be known that many doctors in favour of vaccination are not in favour of compulsory vaccination, which is the great danger of the present.

“But it is as illogical as it is wrong for those who believe in the theory to try to make it compulsory for those who do not. Consider: The vaccinated, being “protected,” should have no fear of the “unprotected”! And, on the other hand, the less it protects the more infamous [i.e. seriously shameful and disgraceful] is compulsion! Against the great gains to be obtained by the disestablishment and disendowment of the practice there is only a business loss to count. The people’s health, the pocket-book of the tax-payer, individual integrity and liberty, the principles of democratic government and scientific freedom, will all gain. On the other hand, as explained by the Citizens Medical Reference Bureau, Pamphlet VI, a federal system of medical indoctrination would provide the machinery for controlling the minds and bodies of the people. . . .

“And there is ample evidence to prove that sanitation and not vaccination has been the real means of doing away with smallpox as well as cholera and other filth diseases in many places. The Principles of Theosophy stand against dirt, against vaccination and against compulsion.” (“The Case Against Vaccination,” “The Theosophical Movement” June 1946)

“Theosophy is the one school of education in natural law, and those who study and practice it are on the right road physically as well as in all other departments of their being. These do not seek “immunization” from anything, but they know that obedience to the laws of health must render them free from new causation of disease, must enable them to find and give proper alleviation in all cases of karmic ill effects of old causes set up.”

“The most dangerous man in the world is the ignorant philanthropist who mistakes his good intentions for Wisdom. He will breed a world of parasites to the degree of his efforts, because he believes with all his heart in the miracle idea – that he can localize, immunize, prevent, cure, the world evils by short-cuts and substitutions.” (“Immunization,” “Theosophy” April 1928)

“For many years this journal and Theosophical Free Tracts [i.e. a tract/pamphlet distribution service set up by the United Lodge of Theosophists in India under B. P. Wadia’s guidance] have warned against vaccination and inoculations, two well-known after effects of which are encephalitis (a dread brain disease) and post vaccinal myelitis (a disease of the central nervous sytem causing paralysis). Both of these are virus diseases, and there seems to be very little “mystery” involved, for viruses are forced into the body with each vaccination! . . .

“One of the most shocking developments of the craze for so-called immunization is the fact that misleading propaganda can stampede adults into making millions of children undergo unproven, useless and dangerous vaccinations and injections. . . . Bitter and terrible is the price being paid by some American parents for their careless, blind and unwarranted faith in medical, health or government “authorities” and their propaganda. How many children will have to be crippled or killed before we learn to stop being blind followers of the blind? Before we learn that health is not gained by injecting disease and filth into our bodies?” (“The Superstition Called Vaccination,” “The Theosophical Movement” June 1955)

“Another point, which only the knowledge of the universality of the law of periodicity makes comprehensible is the cyclic course of diseases, which no less than the life of every creature and every civilization, gradually increase to their culminating point and then become less virulent, decline and disappear, the latter process often hastened by proper sanitation. Certain diseases, like yellow fever, seem to have largely spent their force; others, like cancer and cardiac disturbances, to be on their upswing. It is a fallacy rooted in the materialism of our times that a state of health can be won for the race by physical means, however scientific. Physical sanitation and individual obedience to the laws of physical health are worth more as disease preventives than all the sera ever prepared, but even such commendable measures leave the roots of disease untouched unless there is concurrent effort to purify the psychic nature.” (“The Vaccination Superstition,” “The Theosophical Movement” January 1938)

“In The Theosophist of January 1883 (Vol. IV, p. 92) H.P.B. printed a letter on the subject of compulsory vaccination, one which “deeply concerns the people of India,” though “almost outside our limits,” The Theosophist having to war “upon another and even worse form of innoculation – the empoisoning of the Hindu mind with the views of modern scepticism.” There is no doubt, however, of her attitude towards vaccination, against which Theosophy firmly stands for cogent reasons that have been discussed many times in this magazine. It condemns the vivisection of animals, in the words of H.P.B., as “Sorcery, pure and simple”; and the production of vaccine involves inflicting suffering upon the animal kingdom. It recognizes also that the violent mixing of alien strains of life is against nature and can result only in evil. Vaccination stands condemned because it is cruel, ineffective, dirty, dangerous and unnecessary, sanitation and cleanliness being far better and surer means of prevention of smallpox.” (“The Theosophical Movement” June 1961, editorial comment)

“Shall our children be immunized? By all means. Let us endeavor with all our power to immunize them forever against the possibility that their view-point of Life may become so perverted that they will, in a frenzy of fear over “effects not yet come,” offer their life-blood as a breeding ground for untold hosts of animal lives.” (“Should Our Children Be Immunized?”, “Theosophy” November 1930)

“Reliable anti-vaccination literature available to the public is the work of a few thoughtful physicians and lay writers. The situation is complicated by literature written and sponsored by individuals affected by unreasoning emotion; such literature often abounds with epithets, with misquotations and often misrepresentations, with unjustified imputations against the motives of respected medical men and investigators. While material of this sort may at times serves a purpose in blocking dictatorial legislation, for the most part it does more harm than good by rousing prejudice – both ways – and generally confusing the issue.

“The purpose of this pamphlet is purely educative. Theosophists have no desire that vaccination be prohibited. Those who are sincere in believing in immunization have a right to be vaccinated and to subject their children to this treatment. There is, however, no valid reason for making this practice compulsory. Some states have delegated to the boards of health under their jurisdiction the power to exclude unvaccinated children from public school attendance. Occasionally laws requiring school attendance place parents in the position of being unable to follow their convictions in this matter without violating the law. Both the army and the navy require enlisted men to be vaccinated and to be immunized in other ways. Many large corporations press their employees to be vaccinated, which often amounts to compulsion. In view of the admittedly unknown hazards of the practice, Theosophists hold that the just course for legislatures is to establish unequivocally the right of self-determination.”  (“Immunization: Some Basic Questions” in the pamphlet “Health and Therapy: Problems and Decisions” published by Theosophy Company, in print and available from the United Lodge of Theosophists around the world)
David Pratt, who we understand to be a member of “The Theosophical Society – Pasadena” has condensed some important information about vaccination into some of his articles. Many of his articles are of interest and well worth reading, although we do not feel able to actively endorse many of them, due to frequent inclusion of quotes and statements from G. de Purucker, who developed a version of “Theosophy” which in numerous important respects seriously contradicted the Theosophy of H. P. Blavatsky and her Adept-Teachers, the Mahatmas. Anyone wanting to know more details about this can find relevant articles listed under the heading “H. P. BLAVATSKY AND THEOSOPHY” on the Articles page of this site.

In his online review of the 2015 edition of the book “Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History” by Dr Suzanne Humphries (a respected mainstream doctor whose viewpoint changed over time from pro-vaccination to anti-vaccination) and Roman Bystrianyk, David Pratt writes:

“As Humphries and Bystrianyk document in great detail, the rapidly growing industrial towns and cities in the 19th century were characterized by appalling living and working conditions: overcrowded, ill-ventilated, vermin-infested slums, streets full of rotting human and animal waste, overflowing cesspools, water-supply and air pollution, rotten and contaminated food, malnutrition, grinding poverty, and long hours of arduous labour in mines, factories and sweatshops. . . .

“The abject and unhygienic conditions in the 19th century provided a breeding ground for diseases like cholera, dysentery, typhoid fever, typhus fever, yellow fever, puerperal fever, tuberculosis (‘consumption’), pneumonia, influenza, scarlet fever, smallpox, measles, diphtheria and whooping cough (pertussis). Periodic epidemics and pandemics swept across the globe and killed millions. While the poverty-stricken masses were the worst affected, no class was spared. Even those who escaped death from disease or disability at an early age often only lived into their thirties or forties.

“Deaths from these diseases plummeted before the arrival of antibiotics and vaccines; for many of them a vaccine was never developed. The drop in mortality was mainly due to prolonged efforts by social reformers, physicians and policymakers to improve waste disposal, water quality, food quality and hygiene, tighten up labour laws, promote education, and so on. Various technological advances played a role – such as electricity, refrigeration, flush toilets, water purification, and pasteurization. Improving the quality of the water supply virtually eliminated waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid and dysentery. As Dr Thurman Rice put it: ‘It is not strange that health improves when the population gives up using diluted sewage as the principal beverage’ (p. 167). This revolution in sanitation and public health began in the mid-1800s and continued into the early 1900s. The threat of death from all infectious diseases had faded into insignificance by the mid-1900s.

“The authors write: “There are numerous reputable sources that clearly demonstrate how improved living conditions, more nutritious food, better obstetric care, and other non-vaccine elements were responsible for the decline in infectious disease death rates. Despite this clear evidence, today’s vaccine proponents continuously and falsely claim that vaccines are the principal reason for the increase in life expectancy we enjoy today.” (p. 57)

“In the United States, starting from 1900, the measles mortality rate had declined by more than 98% before the introduction of a vaccine, and whooping cough mortality had declined by more than 90% and diphtheria mortality by 98% before the DTP (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis) vaccine was introduced. As the graph below shows, by the time vaccines arrived on the scene, deaths from whooping cough in England and Wales had declined by more than 99% and deaths from measles by nearly 100%.

“The authors comment: “Unfortunately, the flawed belief that vaccines and other medical advances were responsible for this amazing decline has dictated how infectious diseases are treated today. Instead of an emphasis on hygiene, nutrition, and appropriate vitamin supplementation, immune system support, and natural remedies, the emphasis is always on costly antibiotics, vaccinations, and other medical procedures. . . .””

The conclusion to Pratt’s article “Vaccination and Homeopathy” explains:

“Vaccination is mega-business. The pharmaceutical industry is thoroughly entangled with the medical establishment, resulting in conflicts of interest and the dissemination of one-sided, pro-vaccine propaganda.

“Vaccines may sometimes provide protection against certain diseases, but their effectiveness has been exaggerated. Artificial stimulation of antibody production is no guarantee of immunity; outbreaks of diseases can occur in those fully vaccinated against them. Vaccination played at best a minor role in the decline in killer infectious diseases.

“Contracting relatively harmless diseases as a child usually provides lifelong immunity and can help the immune system to mature. Since vaccine-induced immunity decreases over time, mass vaccination results in more people catching the diseases in question at a later age, when complications may be more serious.

“Vaccines are toxic and far less safe than commonly claimed. Serious short-term effects have been played down, and long-term health consequences have not been properly researched. The growing dependency on vaccines appears to have contributed to the rise in autoimmune diseases.

“Vaccines have caused widespread harm, suffering and death in developing countries, as malnourished children are most vulnerable to adverse reactions. [NOTE: This important fact is extremely little known and barely mentioned but can be extensively verified through online research.] More dangerous vaccines no longer used in developed countries are still used on a mass scale in the third world. The biggest killers in the third world are malnutrition, lack of clean drinking water, and poor sanitation.”

Some of the shocking, disturbing, and at times ethically questionable, ingredients contained in certain vaccines received by the vast majority of children are discussed by David Pratt in his review of Janine Roberts’ 2009 book “Fear of the Invisible” and are worth reading.
Aluminium and Mercury are two of the vaccine ingredients most frequently warned about by “anti-vaxxers.”

Pratt explains: “Mercury (thimerosal) is added to some vaccines as a preservative, and aluminium is added as an adjuvant to enhance the immune response. Both metals are toxic and mercury is associated with brain diseases. The US Environmental Protection Agency’s safety standard for mercury is 0.1 microgram per kilogram of body weight per day, or 7 micrograms for a 70 kg adult. Yet in 2003, it was estimated that fully vaccinated children receive as much as 237.5 micrograms of mercury from vaccines in doses of up to 25 micrograms each. Mercury is now being reduced in or eliminated from vaccines, but is still used in the tetanus and flu vaccines (to save money), and is still present in trace amounts in many vaccines.”

Some point out that Thimerosal, also known as Thiomersal, is ethyl mercury rather than methyl mercury and is thus perfectly safe, non-toxic, and does not cause adverse reactions. But why then is it being phased out of so many vaccines if it is indeed safe, healthy, and harmless?!? Why not continue using it as before? A culture of denial and obscurantism prevails.

If it is doubted that mercury is still used in some vaccines here in the West, one can again easily look it up online and will find official governmental health agencies readily confirming these ingredients and their amounts but without mentioning anything about potential risk and danger. What H. P. Blavatsky wrote about the medical use of mercury is highly relevant here:

“We are fully prepared to oppose the statements . . . that it is mercury or quicksilver which the Yogis and the alchemists used. . . . Paracelsus, the alchemists, and other mystics, meant by mercurius vitae, the living spirit of silver, the aura of silver, not the argent vive [i.e. an alchemical term for mercury/quicksilver]; and this aura is certainly not the mercury known to our physicians and druggists. There can be no doubt that the imputation that Paracelsus introduced mercury into medical practice is utterly incorrect. No mercury, whether prepared by a mediaeval fire-philosopher or a modern self-styled physician, can or ever did restore the body to perfect health. Only an unmitigated charlatan ever will use such a drug.” (“Isis Unveiled” Vol. 2, p. 621)

Much more could be said and much more has been said in books, articles, reports, and testimonies, besides the many social media posts, YouTube videos, and so forth, now being increasingly censored and shut down by authorities and increasingly attacked, abused, and harassed, by poorly informed citizens who in most cases have never even bothered to watch “Vaxxed” or anything similar.

Most feel no desire or need to, for instead of being genuinely open-minded and inquisitive, they read online articles with “thought police” style titles such as “We Watched ‘Vaxxed’ So You Don’t Have To” which brush over the main and most compelling features of the film whilst repeatedly telling the reader that it is full of groundless “conspiracy theories” and not worth watching or bothering with.

But it would be mistaken to assume that it is mainly hippies or people on the fringes of society who form the “anti-vaxx” crowd. They are from all walks of life, all backgrounds, all races, all economic levels, all educational and career backgrounds, and include a growing number of famous people and celebrities, such as Robert De Niro, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (nephew of John F. Kennedy), Jim Carrey, Charlie Sheen, Jenny McCarthy, Alicia Silverstone, Toni Braxton, Selma Blair, Kat Von D, Novak Djokovic, Elle Macpherson, Jessica Biel, and presumably her husband Justin Timberlake.

Most, if not all, were originally pro-vaccine but eventually changed their mind after investigating the matter and deciding to not bow in unquestioning obedience before the dictates and claims of the medical and pharmaceutical industry.

Everyone should make up their own mind, without fear or shame, and as the vaccination question comes increasingly to the fore and debates and censorship intensify, everyone will soon find that they have to do so.