Theos-Talk Archives (December 1999 Message tt00037)

In a message dated 12/25/99 12:21:13 PM, James L. Rodak writes:

>>     One aspect of Theosophy that has held my interest from the very 
beginning
>is the language set forth in the Third Object, in particular the words
>". . . unexplained laws of Nature . . .".  I have often wondered: Exactly
>what did Blavatsky, Olcott, Judge and the other founding members of the
>Society have in mind (and how they intended the words to be interpreted
>by the membership) when they chose those words as part of the language
>for the Third Object (originally the only Object with slightly different
>language)? 
>>  
>>     To me, the words "unexplained laws" appear to be a contradiction
>in terms.  And the words "laws of Nature": what, specifically, were the
>"laws of Nature" they were referring to and wanted to investigate: Karma?
>Reincarnation? Clairvoyance?  In my perusal of the limited theosophical
>materials I have had access to, I have yet to come across a full, clear
>explanation of this matter.  

Your question is an excellent one.  But, there are no "contradiction in 
terms" in anything HPB ever said or wrote.  Can you Imagine that, at the time 
HPB composed the three objects, some of the "unexplained laws of nature" were 
radioactivity, relativity, photoelectricity, quantum dynamics, DNA genetic 
coding, quantum indeterminacy, etc., later discovered and expanded by such 
20th century Promethium's of science as Curie, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, 
among many others?  Could it be that this object and the way it was worded 
was what inspired all of them?  Check out where Einstein's theory might have 
come from, at: 
http://users.aol.com/unIwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/einstein.html  

I wouldn't be at all surprised, if all the major breakthroughs of science in 
the 20th century were inspired by the third object of the theosophical 
movement. It might even be possible that it will also inspire even newer 
paradigms of science in the 21st century... That is -- should my theory of 
ABC, based on the teachings in the Secret Doctrine, be correct, and provided 
that scientific experimentation can be devised that can explain how the 
energies of consciousness empower all the formations of matter as well as 
their energetic expression..  Such discoveries of these "unexplained laws of 
nature" will eventually, give us a new source of free energy that will 
forever end pollution of the Earth's atmosphere, as well as make possible 
faster than light travel, utilization of psychic energy for purposes of 
healing, realignment of the Earths energy fields, etc., etc.

Not only did HPB presage all these 20th century seminal breakthroughs in 
understanding the formerly unexplained "laws of nature," but she made sure 
that the search for such truths would be the final and conclusive object of 
the theosophical movement... All the other objects were the necessary 
preliminary preparation and foundation for the proper and beneficent use of 
these discoveries.  Could it be that the culmination of the implied search 
for explanation of the laws of nature in the third object -- leading to a 
final, all encompassing scientific (and technological) breakthrough, perhaps, 
as forseen by my ABC theory -- would be the means to achieve the final goal 
that the movement was designed to reach?  The real question, then, is; How 
could the salvation of the human race and the catching up of a million years 
of lost evolution (since the catastrophic failure of the Atlantians) depend 
upon discoveries of the "laws of nature" and an understanding of the 
"psychical powers latent in man"?  

Could it be that it might require the combined psychic energies of a large 
group of knowledgeable, concerned and cooperative human beings (referring to 
the first  object), focussed through new technological mechanisms, perhaps, 
based on a the new scientific paradigms (referring to the second object; the 
Internet is one example with is technology based on the laws of cycles) -- to 
reverse the disharmonious energy fields that are leading this world to its 
inevitable catastrophic collapse?  A collapse that could be far greater 
(possibly due to our rapidly approaching overpopulation) than that of 
Atlantis.  

Is it not our accumulated materialistic, ecologically unconcerned, and 
separatist thoughts and actions over the past hundred years that have led us 
to this sorry state?  Isn't that similar to what the Bible said (referring to 
the second object) was the cause of the great flood that wiped out the 
Atlantians?  If not, then how else do we explain the purpose of HPB's 
prodigious work to present theosophy and establish the TM (as well as present 
the three objects) when she did?  She, and the Nasters behind her were the 
masterminds behind all the theosophical truths presented as well as 
formulating the plan of the Movement and its objects -- not Olcott, nor Judge 
-- who were simply HPB's students -- like us. :-) 

Could the solution to the problem of how we are to reverse the negative 
energies that are leading to the possible demise of the whole human race be 
the "New Message" of this final cycle of the Theosophical Movement that all 
theosophists are waiting for?  There's much food for thought in these 
questions.  The worrying about the meaning of words is the least of our 
concerns, don't you think?  

I would be interested in hearing the comments of all thoughtful members of 
this forum.

Leon Maurer
http://www.tellworld.com/Astro.Biological.Coenergetics/

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