Theos-Talk Archives (September 1998 Message tt00029)

Martin:
>I'd like to start with SD Vol 1, Book I Part III: the Addenda to Book I
>of the SD Cosmogony. And Starting with
>I: Reasons for theses Addenda
>
>For example the quote from page 477:
>" ... but the occultist, ... declares that the daring explorer, who
>would probe the inmost secrets of Nature, must transcend the narrow
>limitations of sense, and transfer his consciousness into the region of
>noumena, and the sphere of primal causes. To effect this, he must
>develop faculties which are absolutely dormant ... in the constitution
>of the off-shoots of our present Fifth Root-race in Europe and America.
>He can in no other conceivable manner collect the facts on which to base
>his speculation...."
>
>I think we could do that, with caution,  through visualization or
>meditation on kabalistic diagrams or other means and intuitively
>formulate a vision of Nature.
>I have some experiences in it but again it is only with caution that I
>may speculate.
>Those faculties are probably higher Siddhis.

In other parts of the SD (and eleswhere) HPB refers to man having seven
senses.  The 6th is Manas, the 7th Buddhi.  So I think the dormant faculties
that need development in the West are Mind & Understanding, not the
astral counterparts of the 5 ordinary senses.  A more important key than
than putting our consciousness into the noumena is the motive -- which
must be utterly selfless.  See CW 12, 314, 315.

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