Theos-Talk Archives (January 2002 Message tt00309)

Hi, Bill:

Gerald will have to say for sure. It should be said
that my "faith" is in a process which has worked
remarkably well in the past (look at the whole body of
scientific knowledge) and not in the specific content
of any belief system. So my "faith" is different from
that of most of the faithful. As we gradually throw
off the prejudices left over from the nineteenth
century those techniques will gradually be applied to
mysteries of a more transcendental nature. I think
this is what Blavatsky attempted to begin to do, even
though some of the conclusions she reached are subject
to reasonable question by non-Fundamentalists.

--- Bill Meredith <bilmer@surfsouth.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> ----------
> > From: Steve Stubbs <stevestubbs@yahoo.com>
> > To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: Theos-World Some Heretical Thoughts
> on a Secret Truth
> > Date: Monday, January 21, 2002 2:09 PM
> > 
> > --- Gerald Schueler <gschueler@earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> > > We can never ever KNOW anything at all. I am
> > > speaking here from the viewpoint of occult
> > > psychology. All we can ever hope to know is what
> we
> > > actually experience and what we hear from the
> > > experiences of others.
> > 
> > True, but we can make reasonable inferences about
> the
> > noumenal realities underlying those experiences. 
> The
> > problem is immensely difficult, though, and if I
> > understand your comments correctly to refer to the
> > "pathworking" stuff you mentioned in which you
> > visualize "tarot cards" and have daydreams, it is
> > quite possible that those are merely fantasies. I
> am
> > not much on faith, though. I suspect with
> empirical
> > and experimental demonstration we can go a long
> way
> > toward unraveling the most mysterious mysteries.
> > 
> > 
> Hi Steve,
> As I read your last two sentences above, I sense
> quite a bit of faith in
> man's ability to eventually unravel the most
> mysterious mysteries. I
> suspect that this particular brand of faith is not
> all that different from
> Jerry's.
> 
> Bill 
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