Theos-Talk Archives (November 1999 Message tt00052)

At 04:13 PM 11/16/1999 EST, LeonMaurer@aol.com wrote:
>What do we imagine "first hand feedback" to be?  Even the Adepts had to hear 
>the teaching from someone else... Who got it, second hand, from someone 
>else... Ad infinitum.  

You have well articulated the facts and the situation everyone is in. Even
the  highest Adepts say from time to time "Thus I have Heard". Something to
ponder.

>
>  Consequently, knit picking about their usefulness for further 
>study, or as anything more than confirmation of the Masters teachings, are
of 
>no real value unless such considerations add to a better understanding of
the 
>doctrine transmitted to us by them through HPB.  At the same time, the 
>difficulty of trying to transmit such complex, multidimensional concepts
that 
>require the use of right brain nonlinear visualization, using a linear, left 
>brain oriented language as limited as English, should be carefully
evaluated. 

It looks like we sometimes assume many things dealing with
multi-dimensional "worlds" and issues can be somehow brought down to three
dimensional world with all the limitations. Intution can be the only tool
which may help us go to the multi-dimensional world and understand some of
the concepts that HPB presented to the world.

mkr

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