05/08/2025
White Lotus Day 2025 - Commemorative Article
We encourage you to read the article below commemorating White Lotus Day. Write by our indomitable former Lodge president, Peggy Heubel. I hope you are able to find time to today for moments of contemplation. Let us be among those who dare—not once, not just today—but every day may we rise anew to serve the Light.
White Lotus Day Address: In Honor of H. P. Blavatsky by Peggy A. Heubel
As we approach White Lotus Day, across continents and cultures, earnest hearts will pause in reverent remembrance of one who did not simply write about Divine Wisdom—but who dared to live it, breathe it, and suffer for its awakening in others.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky passed onward on May 8, 1891. But what she gave us remains more alive than ever. She left no material estate behind, no monuments in marble. Her legacy is one of fire: the fire of Truth, blazing in the unseen worlds and made manifest through the teachings of Theosophy—the “Wisdom Religion” of all ages. Let us take a moment to honor her—not by mere sentiment—but by rededicating our lives to the very essence she gave hers to reveal.
HPB was no mere metaphysical writer or philosopher. She was a messenger in the deepest spiritual sense. Born in 1831 in what is now Ukraine, she was marked from early childhood with strange capacities, vision, and will. That will—strong, fearless, untameable—became the instrument through which ancient wisdom re-entered the modern world.
After decades of preparation as a student under the tutelage of hidden Adepts—those Mahatmas of the Trans-Himalayan Brotherhood—HPB co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. In doing so, she opened a gate long closed to the outside world, offering seekers a living path to wisdom, self-purification, and unity. Not everyone is ready to tread that path but knowledge of it will forever be available to those who seek it.
Her life was not easy. Her path was one of almost continual misunderstanding, betrayal, physical suffering, and spiritual warfare. Yet through it all, she remained resolute—not because she believed in herself—but because she served something infinitely greater: the One Life—the Divine Principle flowing through all beings.
It is not the outer rituals or commemorations that sanctify White Lotus Day. It is the inner act of rededication. HPB’s parting gift to us was not just her writings—it was her example. She showed us that Theosophy is not academic theory, but a living power. Its goal is not brilliance or intellectual knowledge, but transformation—not only of the mind, but of the heart and the life. Let us ask ourselves:
ď‚· Are we making Theosophy a living power of peace and harmony in our lives?
 Do we try to realize and live the spirit of Brotherhood—beyond personality, beyond judgment, beyond likes and dislikes?
ď‚· Have we trained ourselves to see beyond appearances, to not misjudge or misunderstand any other soul?
To call ourselves students of Theosophy is to accept a sacred inner obligation. The outer form of our lives may differ—some study the Voice of the Silence, others the Bhagavad Gita, some meditate, others serve—but the inner essence is one and the same: to spiritualize our lives by the highest principles of morality. And what is that morality? Not dogma. Not rules. But a deep perception of Unity; of moral sense rooted in the truth that all beings spring from one Source and are sustained by one Life.
We must remember: our inner work is not to be publicized to the outer world and is not self-glorification but is subtle, inward, and lifelong. To “live and work in harmonious accord” is not to suppress conflict but to rise above it; to transmute it. This was HPB’s teaching over and over. The spirit of Brotherhood—that sacred atmosphere in which spiritual truths can descend—is only possible when we consciously strive to remove the obstacles of pride, irritation, selfish motive, and opinionated judgment.
Each act of kindness, each thought of compassion, each restraint of personal will for a greater harmony—these are the true rituals of our lodges and study centers - if we dare to practice them. If we can purify our motives, uplift our thoughts, and keep our eyes fixed on the Highest within, we have already set foot on what may be called “the inner probationary path” that HPB labored to blaze. As she wrote in The Key to Theosophy, “Duty is the royal talisman; the true philosopher’s stone, the ladder that leads to the Divine.” In the final analysis, our obligation to the Theosophical Cause and to our Highest Self is the same as our obligation to All that lives—because in Truth, we and That are not two. The more deeply we understand this, the more compassion will dawn as a natural outflow, not as an effort. Selfless service will cease to feel like obligation and become a joy. And slowly, gradually, silently, the very atmosphere around us will change.
Let this day, White Lotus Day, not be one of sorrow, sadness, or of regret but of living memory—memory that empowers action, not nostalgia. HPB gave her life to the Great Work. She laid the foundation stone for a future Brotherhood of awakening souls.
Let us not wait for the world to change before we change ourselves. Let us start—where we are, as we are—with courage, humility, and unwavering resolve. Let us strive, therefore:
ď‚· To think as souls, not as personalities.
ď‚· To speak with honesty, never cruelty.
ď‚· To serve not for recognition, but because the Self in all is One.
So may the White Lotus of Wisdom bloom in the still waters of our hearts that our lives, in some small way, mirror hers. Let us remember her own words from The Voice of the Silence, which echo even now across the years:
“There is a road, steep and thorny, beset with perils of every kind—but yet a road, and it leads to the heart of the Universe. I can tell you how to find those who will show you the secret gateway... Only those who dare may cross the threshold.”
Let us be among those who dare—not once, not just today—but every day may we rise anew to serve the Light.
"Peace to all beings. Om Tat Sat.”
