Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00190)

Dec 11 2003

Re: 6th SENSE - PERMEABILITY --  
NORMAL CLAIRVOYANCE


HPB in the SECRET DOCTRINE gives them name "permeability" or, "normal
clairvoyance" to this developing 6th sense.

SECRET DOCTRINE I 258, 251.



On this subject Mr. Crosbie writes in ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS -- 
Ocean Class (p. 236-7)

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Q. Would "permeability" mean that any one sense could perform the
functions of all the others?

A. "Permeability" is the seeing back beyond the appearance of the thing
to the nature that caused that appearance. 
Take a stone, for example: the first thing that strikes you in a stone
is its density. For most people one stone is just like another stone.
But the mineralogist knows the differences by separation of the
particles. Chemistry goes still farther; it gets the different qualities
in the stone and shows its constituent parts-the various kinds of
elements that make it up. But all these are physical. "Permeability" not
only gives all that mineralogy and chemistry give, but discloses the
essential nature which is the basis of each physical expression. It
determines the nature of the various conscious beings that compose the
stone, and there are many such classes.

Or consider a tree, for instance: first the tree is seen with its trunk,
branches, leaves and what not; then the tree within the bark, the veins
of the tree; then the various arteries through which the sap, the blood
of the tree, flows; then the pulsation of the heart of the tree in the
root, which causes the circulation of the blood (sap) to flow, and then
the nature of the lives that cause the expression of the tree- thus
bringing gradually the sense of the feeling of the nature of the being,
which we call "tree." That is "permeability" carried to its highest
point. In its lower degrees it might stop short at any point-one might
see only a portion of these qualities.

Or consider the point of view of a speaker to an audience: those present
are all see-ers, but while they all see him, he doesn't see them all,
and for the time being he acts as a synthetic consciousness. There is
always a guiding consciousness over all the smaller lives, and the
guiding consciousness which expresses itself in that way is called
"tree,"-guiding all the leaves that express themselves in bark, sap,
root, blossoms and fruit. "The eyes of the Highest see through the eyes
of the lowest."

If the process is once carried out with the tree, to whatever extent we
may be able to carry it, the reflection of a tree upon our visual organ
will always carry with it that sense of life and being which we have
gained of it. Seeing, with us, has two aspects-one is the mere
reflection of the thing seen, with little or no sense of its nature; the
other deeper aspect,-a small, greater or full perception of the nature
of the object which causes the reflection. Every object seen presents
life and being in many phases. We ought, however, to apply our
understanding to the hearts of men. The root of all being is the same,
knowledge. Thus, in man especially, we should seek for that point where
differentiation begins and trace the inevitable out come. We can do this
best in our own hearts with what we see in others as our landmarks or
indications.
ANS TO QUEST, The OCEAN OF THEOSOPHY p. 236-7

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Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dallas TenBroeck [mailto:dalval14@earthlink.net] 
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 10:55 AM
To: 
Subject: " The sixth & seventh senses"

Dec 11 2003

Bart:

Doesn't HPB call the next sense one in which a perception of the astral
light and plane are possible?

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bart Lidofsky 
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 11:14 AM
To: 
Subject: " The sixth & seventh senses"

alden_parent wrote:

> The five senses as we all know are:
> 
> * sight
> * hearing
> * smelling
> * touch
> * taste

Don't forget proprioception! That makes six.

Bart