Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00201)

Dallas answers:

Re "Normal Clairvoyance or Permeability" [S D I 251]
"6th Sense"

Dear Bart:


I arbitrarily placed # 6 on this, assuming it was the next in line.

(Note: this would link a controlled and directed view of the astral
world to our perceptions , once that we have learned how to mentally
distinguish between the true, noble and altruistic aspects of the
psychic, and that which is not.)


Incidentally: I believe that INTUITION ( Buddhi Manas made active and
able to contact the Universal and Timeless Akasa ) is probably the 7th
sense. I believe that MAHATMA LETTERS has something to say on this, but
I can't recall where just now.

Best wishes,

Dallas

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Some further quotations may be found useful.


"Through the means of the Astral Light and the help of Elementals the
various material elements may be drawn down and precipitated from the
atmosphere..."	Epitome, p. 20


"...an Initiate...is able to precipitate out of the viewless air the
carbon which we know is in it, forming the carbon into sentences upon
the paper, it is through this knowledge of the occult higher chemistry,
and the use of a trained and powerful image-making faculty which every
man possesses..."	Ocean, p. 12


Rationale and Instruments - Will and Imagination


"Power over mind, matter, space, and time depends on several things and
positions. Needed for this are: Imagination raised to its highest
limit, desire combined with will that wavers not, and a knowledge of the
occult chemistry of nature. All must be present or there is no result."
WQJ Articles I. 453


"The instruments are in the body and brain of man. In the view of the
Lodge, "the human brain is an exhaustless generator of force," and a
complete knowledge of the inner chemical and dynamic laws of nature,
together with a trained mind, give the possessor the power to operate
the laws to which I have referred. This will be man's possession in the
future...A knowledge of the law when added to faith gives power over
matter, mind, space, and time...the trained Adept can produce before the
eye, objective to the touch, material which was not visible before, and
in any desired shape...it is simply evolution in your very presence.... 

This, then, naturally leads to the proposition that the human Will is
all powerful and the Imagination is a most useful faculty with a dynamic
force. The Imagination is the picture-making power of the human mind.
In the ordinary average human person it has not enough training or force
to be more than a sort of dream, but it may be trained. When it is
trained it is the Constructor in the Human Workshop...

This faculty used, or rather suffered to act, in an unregulated mode has
given the West no other idea than that covered by "fancy."...it may be
pushed to a greater limit, which, when reached, causes the Imagination
to evolve in the Astral substance an actual image or form which may then
be used in the same way as an iron molder uses a mold or sand for the
molten iron. It is therefore the King faculty, inasmuch as the Will
cannot do its work if the Imagination be at all weak or untrained...."
Ocean pp. 138-9


Authentication

"I must give you some explanation of this mode of precipitation.The
image of the geometrical or other figure which the active brain has
impressed upon it, is gradually imprinted upon the recipient brain.Two
factors are needed to produce a perfect and instantaneous mental
telegraphy--close concentration of the operator, and complete receptive
passivity in the "reader" subject.The "reader" does not see the image as
in the "telegrapher's" brain, but as arising in his own.

In a case such as mine, the chela had.to pick up what he could from the
current I was sending him, and.patch the broken bits together as best he
might.if the mental picture received be feeble his visible reproduction
of it must correspond. And the more so in proportion to the closeness
of attention he gives. He might.be employed by his "Master" as a sort
of psychic printing machine producing lithographed or psyhographed
impressions of what the operator had in mind; his nervous-system, the
machine, his nerve-aura the printing fluid, the colours drawn from that
exhaustless store-house of pigments.the Akasa. But the medium and the
chela are diametrically dissimilar and the latter acts consciously,
except under exceptional circumstances during development."
MAHATMA LETTERS p. 423-4


"Mr. Sinnett sought for an explanation of the process and elicited from
the revered Mahatma...:

".impressed, or precipitated, and then all mistakes corrected...[ M L p.
19 ] I have to think it over, to photograph every word and sentence
carefully in my brain before it can be repeated by precipitation. As
the fixing upon chemically prepared surfaces of the images formed by the
camera requires a previous arrangement within the focus of the object to
be represented, for, otherwise--as often found in bad photographs--the
legs of the sitter might appear out of all proportion with the head, and
so on--some have to first arrange our sentences and impress every letter
to appear on paper in our minds before it becomes fit to be read..."
MAHATMA LETTERS p. 22


"Those having a superficial knowledge of the science of mesmerism know
how the thoughts of the mesmerizer, though silently formulated in his
mind are instantly transferred to that of the subject. It is not
necessary for the operator...to be present near the subject to produce
the above result...The work of writing the letters in question is
carried on by a sort of psychological telegraphy; the Mahatmas very
rarely write their letters in the ordinary way. [see M L p. 460 ] An
electromagnetic connection, so to say, exists on the psychological plane
between a Mahatma and his chelas, one of whom acts as his amanuensis. [
see M L p. 480 ] When a Master wants a letter to be written in this
way, he draws the attention of the chela, whom he selects for the
task...The thoughts arising in the mind of the Mahatma are then clothed
in word, pronounced mentally, and forced along the astral currents he
sends towards the pupil to impinge on the brain of the latter. Thence
they are borne by the nerve-currents to the palms of his hands and the
tips of his fingers, which rest on a piece of magnetically prepared
paper. As the thought-waves are thus impressed on the tissue, materials
are drawn to it from the ocean of akas, (permeating every atom of the
sensuous universe) by an occult process...and permanent marks are
left...things: (1) The force and the clearness with which the thoughts
are propelled and (2) the freedom of the receiving brain from
disturbance of every description...To turn to the sources of error in
the precipitation. Remembering the circumstances under which blunders
arise in telegrams, we see that if a Mahatma somehow becomes exhausted [
see M L p. 422 ] or allows his thoughts to wander off during the
process, or fails to command the requisite intensity in the astral
currents along which his thoughts are projected, or the distracted
attention of the pupil produces disturbances [see M L p. 423 ] in his
brain and nerve-centers, the success of the process is very much
interfered with."	HPB "PRECIPITATION" HPB Articles II 505-7 

[ see also: ML pp. 420-427 - on composition, and
precipitation ]



Can the Personal Self decide on Authenticity ?


"You and the Theosophists have come to the conclusion that in every case
where a message was found couched in words or sentiments unworthy of
Mahatmas it was produced either by elementals or my own falsification.
[ see M L p. 307, 419, 422, 431, 460 ] Believing the latter, no honest
man or woman ought for one moment to permit me, such a fraud, to remain
any longer in the Society...to kick me out--if you really think so. [do
you] credit the idea that They [the Masters] should permit or even know
of it and still use me ! Why, if They are the exalted beings you
rightly suppose Them to be, how could They permit or tolerate for one
moment such a deception and fraud?...little you do know the occult laws
I see...Before you volunteer to serve the Masters you should learn Their
philosophy, for otherwise you shall always sin grievously, though
unconsciously and involuntarily, against Them and those who serve Them,
soul and body and spirit."	HPB ART II 509-510

[ HPB gives then, some examples of the occult difficulties under
which she labored in this matter HPB Art II 509-513.]


"The outer senses cannot give a safe final judgment upon a precipitated
message, they can only settle such physical questions as how it came,
through whom, the credibility of the person, and whether any deception
on the objective plane has been practiced. The inner senses, including
the great combining faculty or power of intuition, are the final
judges...if one hitherto supposed to be in communication with the White
Adepts comes to us and says "Here is a message from one of Those," then
if we have not independent power in ourselves of deciding the question
on inner knowledge, the next step is either to believe the report or
disbelieve it...[HPB] put it tersely in this way" "If you think no
Mahatma wrote the theories I have given of man and nature and if you do
not believe my report, then you have to conclude that I did it all."
The latter conclusion would lead to the position that her acts,
phenomena, and writings put her in the position usually accorded by us
to a Mahatma. As to the letters or messages of a personal nature, each
one had and has to decide for himself whether or not to follow the
advice given..."	WQJ ARTICLES I pp. 450-1


			
Law Rules all Precipitations


"There is no exemption from law in favor of the Adepts, and the images
they make or cause to be made in astral ether remain as the property of
the race; indeed in their case, as they have a sharp and vivid power of
engraving, so to say, in the astral light, all the images made there by
them are deeper (450) and more long lasting than those cut by the
ordinary and weak thoughts and acts of our undeveloped humanity.

The best rule for those who happen to think that they are in
communication with Adepts through written messages is to avoid those
that contradict what the Adepts have said before; that give the lie to
their system of philosophy; that, as has happened, pretend that H.P.B.
was mistaken in her life for what she said and is now sorry. All such,
whether done with intention or without it, are merely bombians in vacuo,
sound that has no significance, a confusion of between words and
knowledge delusive and vain altogether...This leads to the proposition
that :

Precipitation of a message is not per se evidence that it is from one of
our White Adepts of the Great Lodge."	WQJ ART. I p. 449-50


		

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bart L
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 7:56 PM
To: 
Subject: Re The sixth & seventh senses"

Dallas TenBroeck wrote:

> Dec 11 2003
> 
> Re: 6th SENSE - PERMEABILITY --  
> NORMAL CLAIRVOYANCE

Where does she mention the number 6 in relation to this sense?

Bart