Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00076)

>I am not sure what you mean here. Certainly the spirit or what I like
>to call the theosophical current cannot be put into words very well
>and discussed. But the SD is largely historical, and should be
>capable of being scientifically demonstrated (actually, some of
>it already has been).
>
That is interesting.  The SD has a timeless quality about it, or is
timeless.  What do you mean by scientifically demonstrated?  If in the
normal sense, it is hard to match it up with: "Indeed it must be remembered
that all these Stanzas appeal to the inner faculties rather than to the
ordinary comprehension of the physical brain." page 21 PROEM.
"Only those who realise how far Intuition soars above the tardy processes of
ratiocinative thought can form the faintest conception of that absolute
Wisdom which transcends the ideas of Time and Space." - fn. pp. 1-2 PROEM.
The fact of its title being The SECRET Doctrine, e.g. the hidden doctrine,
the within doctrine, "spiritual" doctrine, the synthesis of, etc.

Tony