Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00151)

Dec 10 2003



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SCIENCE AND THEOSOPHY 

(by LEON MAURER )



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NOTE by DTB:  

This essay was written in answer to some questions on modern Science and
ancient Theosophy. Is Theosophy now out-dated?

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"HPB" had no knowledge of the empirical (material) science that, today, 
still hasn't answered any of the real "hard" questions -- such as the
true 
relationship between consciousness, mind, and matter -- that the ancient

philosophers answered thoroughly long before the SD was written.  

In fact, while modern physics has made great strides in understanding 
the mechanics of the outer physical world, they haven't the faintest
idea 
about the true nature of the inner world.  

Sure, the understanding of "how (physical) things work" has given us 
lots of mechanical tools and entertaining toys to play with, and drugs
to 
keep us alive and soothe our psyched-out minds -- but what has any of
that 
done for helping us live our lives more fully and understand ourselves
better?  

No matter how far science has progressed, they still haven't found any
of the 
answers that theosophy has given us to achieve self-realization -- which
is 
far more important than feeding our physical wants and personal
pleasures, 
or controlling our lives solely for the sake of money, power and greed.

If you dig deep enough into the metaphysical teachings in the SD, you
will 
find that everything that science has achieved, based on the theories 
of relativity and quantum physics (which were completely presaged by 
HPB) has done nothing to further our inner human development.  

In fact, the theories of relativity, photoelectrically, quanta, and even
Superstring -- with its multidimensional [3+7] hyperspaces and M-branes
[coadunate but not consubstantial spherical fields] which almost
identically emulates the "wheels within wheels" teachings in the SD --
still hasn't caught up with the deeper metaphysical teachings in the
SD... Although they are getting closer and closer. 

Unfortunately, since they still haven't found out the whys and
wherefores 
of consciousness and the root and nature of mind -- modern science is 
still far away from achieving their goal of a true "theory of
everything."  

But, eventually, when they finally realize that consciousness, along
with 
mind (as a separate entity in itself) is the fundamental cause of
everything 
and was existent long before our present material universe evolved) -- 
science will reach an understanding of the truths of metaphysics (as
clearly 
outlined in the SD) -- that is actually the way the real universe works
in 
its interdependent entirety... Not merely the way its particular and
superficial 
physical nature works. Which, after all, is only a small part of that
true 
reality... That considers consciousness and mind as separate and even
more 
important elements of our real nature. And, without which, our present 
physical world would just be a temporary and meaningless glitch in the 
vast scope of universal history.  

What good is knowing how the physical universe works, if we don't know 
ourselves? ... Or, how the conscious macrocosm (of which we are the 
analogous microcosm) involved and evolved in the first place?

So, what does physical science have to do with human evolution? Can
their 
present genetic knowledge create a better human being? Can it change 
the course of individual karma? Does it even understand karma?  

This is not to say that the investigation of the physical world isn't 
important. 

But, what has that got to do with the universal truths that theosophy
has 
already thoroughly examined and given us all the tools we need to take 
care of our individual and even (if we look deep enough into its
teachings) 
the evolution of all humanity? 

So, how does science add anything useful toward achieving those aims?  
Does having cell phones, television, and the Internet teach us anything
about 
our human nature or the nature of the eternal realities that we all are
all 
destined to face, now, and in the future?  

Why would Masters have to communicate further? -- when the whole story 
was already known to them and outlined for us in the SD? All the rest
is 
just a filling in of the details, of which physical science is just a
small 
part of the whole picture.  

Besides, what makes you think the Masters have stopped communicating?
Some theosophists, I'm sure, have found the "Master within" (as HPB said
they would if they kept following the path she laid down) and those
Masters certainly are still communicating with them. 

Those "secrets," I'm also sure, weren't meant to be given out (and
couldn't be written down, even if we wanted to.) Besides, with respect
to my ABC theory (which is a sideways look at the true "scientific"
reality) -- if I showed the proof that would make science unequivocally
accept that theory, such a proof might end up killing them... (Either
physically, or by taking away all the "need to know" that has served as
their motive to keep on living).  

One nuclear physicist (an A-bomb designer . now deceased) who 
helped with this theory and examined a proposed design of an experiment 
to prove it, said that the design, while technically feasible, could
easily 
turn into what he called a "creation bomb." (So, I've destroyed all the
plans 
for such a proof, and am content to let the physical scientists bumble
their way 
closer to the ultimate truth all by themselves.)   

No doubt there is much more knowledge to be discovered... And, I'm all 
for it to keep the scientists alive and busy. But, it would be nice if
they 
could tell us what such knowledge of the physical details has to do with
our 
own inner development? Isn't that what theosophy is all about?  


>Q. -- Since the Masters are not there to spoon feed us the knowledge of

>the Universe, we should use our tools, and our minds to try to evolve 
>further, just as evidently they did.


Yes, that's exactly what theosophy was given to us for. But, its the 
evolution of the soul as an inner process, not an outer one, that they
were teaching. 

It is the inner tools and the higher intuitive mind that they were
speaking to...  
Not, the physical instruments of our senses or our rational, lower mind.


Hasn't the whole story of universal knowledge already been thoroughly 
explained in the SD? Why would the Masters have to "spoon feed us" 
any more of it?  

So, what is it that science can do to help us evolve? All I can see
that 
it has done so far, is to give us more misery and grief by making us
wage and 
consumer slaves to feed the industries they develop, while turning us
into 
fat and effete couch potatoes, feeding our lower natures with all the
tools we 
need to destroy our ecological and biospheric balance, stressing our
lives 
still further with all the new degenerate diseases such stress of
"economic 
slavery" causes, and giving us more efficient ways to kill each other.
Even 
the food that they produce by their "scientific methods" is becoming
more and 
more devoid of essential nutrients -- not to mention the accumulated
poisons that 
science has impregnated our world (and our bodies) with in their
attempts to 
increase agricultural productivity. And, all that their scientific
medicine, 
with its money making pharmaceuticals and boutique surgeries has done,
is to 
turn what should be "Health Care" into "Sick Care." I thought the goal
of science 
and medicine was to better the welfare of mankind and prevent disease,
not 
to create more of it, Where's the evolution in that? Seems more like 
devolution to me.

When science finally admits that theosophy has the true answer to how
the 
universe really works, and their followers who believe in them change 
their minds and give up their materialism and begin searching for their 
own inner truths -- then science will have done us some good.

But, until then, science has nothing to say that is useful toward
achieving 
the real evolution of the soul -- which is what theosophy is all about. 

Sure, the world didn't end in 1891... But all of theosophy's fundamental

teachings had already been given out by then -- in the Secret Doctrine 
along with all the other writings of HPB, WQJ and the Masters.  
Besides completely presaging the scientific truth about the real nature
of 
the universe and all its parts -- this opened the first four gates on
the 
seven fold path. The rest was left up to us to attain through our own 
Master within, by means of our individual self devised and self
determined 
efforts devoted to further study, meditation and practice. 

The major problem with science today, is the more and more they try to 
reduce everything to the simplest mathematical statements related to the

physical nature of the Universe, the more and more difficult they make
it 
for anyone, including themselves, to really understand... Since, 
consciousness and Spirit must forever be left out of such equations.  

And, if science keeps on going along on its merry materialistic way
without 
accepting and incorporating in its findings the knowledge of theosophy
and 
its metaphysics related to the cyclic laws of harmony that governs both 
reincarnation and karma and how they might be mediated -- the world
might 
really end sooner than we think.  

L Maurer