Theos-Talk Archives (September 1998 Message tt00030)

About the
> >" ...must transcend the narrow limitations of sense, and transfer his consciousness into the region of noumena, and the sphere of primal causes..."

Do you think that people like Einstein, and other scientist who are able
to intuitively perceive 'reality' or fact or Laws of Nature, and who are
mainly theorists are unconsciously doing what HPB wrote in the SD?

And as Nicholas said: "The 6th is Manas, the 7th Buddhi.  So I think the
dormant faculties...."
 Do you think they are awake somehow in those scientists?


Martin Leiderman

Nicholas Weeks wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> <> Nicholas Weeks <> am455@lafn.org <> Los Angeles
>         "Men must learn to love the truth before they thoroughly believe it."
>                 Blavatsky
>
>