Theos-Talk Archives (May 2000 Message tt00167)

    Just a couple of comments on a couple of points in your letter:

LeonMaurer@aol.com wrote:

> To consider numbers, per se, as having any relationship to spiritual wisdom
> or consciousness -- other than as a mathematical tool for the confirmation or
> measure of the effects of fundamental universal law, is purely speculative.

    That's not as much of a problem as you might think; consider that numbers are
merely a way of looking at the universe; mathematics is an entirely artificial
discipline, which is what makes its laws fixed within any given mathematical
system (note that one cannot describe mathematics except in mathematical terms).
This does not mean that mathematics is not useful, though it can be argued that
mathematics belongs in the realm of philosophy rather than science.

> True Science (with its understanding of both the metaphysical and the
> physical forces and forms based on "the Harmony of the Spheres" in *exact*
> conformance with the fundamental principles) and fundamental theosophical
> teachings (as presented by HPB and the Masters), are one and the same.

    And scientists today are getting ever closer (albeit not close enough) to
"True Science", at least as you define it.

    Bart



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