Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00083)

Tony,
many thank for clarification. The "Secret Doctrine" can only be understood
from the inner light. You can weigh it, measure it, cook it, melt it, cut it
into pieces, but you can't grasp it with brain minded methods.

Frank

>>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).
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>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.
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>Tony
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