Madame Blavatsky and the swastika

[DEVARAKONDA VENKATA NARAYANA SARMA]

The spokes of Nazi swastika point in opposite direction
to the swastika of Indians. I heard some people remark
that this the reason why Hitler was defeated. Thank god
Hitler reversed the direction!

regards,

sarma.

At 07:59 AM 12/22/98 +0000, you wrote:
>>Madame Blavatsky -- the latter of whom
>>even
>>used
>>the swastika in her seal for the Theosophical Society
>
>This is pretty silly. The Nazis used both the cr oss and the svastika; that
>does not make either of them racist symbols. The svastika has been used as
>some kind of religious symbol rather widely in the Buddhist world and is of
>course a rather old auspicious (and religious?) symbol in South Asia.
>
>More generally, one should not confuse the ideas of the 1920s and 1939s
>with those of a half century earlier in an entirely different context.
>
>L.S.Cousins
>
>MANCHESTER, UK
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>CURRENT EMAIL ADDRESS:
>Email: L.S.Cousins at nessie.mcc.ac.uk
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