Re: BEE COLONY -- TRY ANTS
May 05, 2004 04:56 AM
by christinaleestemaker
-Do you mean NAGA's?-
Christina.
- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Dallas TenBroeck" <dalval14@e...>
wrote:
> Tuesday, May 04, 2004
>
> RE: BEE COLONY -- TRY ANTS
>
> Hi T:
>
> Bee colony?
>
> Excellent analogy, but read this: some other ideas that are
> similar
>
> -------------------------
>
> "Every plane has its own denseness of substance or matter, its
> own colors, sounds, dimensions of space, etc., which are quite
> unknown to us on this plane; and as we have on earth intermediary
> beings, the ant for instance, a kind of transitional entity
> between two planes, so on the plane above us there are creatures
> endowed with senses and faculties unknown to the inhabitants of
> that plane. " Trans, p, 121
>
>
> :"Q. Does not the perceptive power of the ant-for instance, the
> way in which its perceptive faculties differ from our perceptive
> powers of color-simply depend upon physiological conditions?
>
> A. The ant can certainly appreciate the sounds that we do, and it
> can also appreciate sounds that we can never hear, therefore
> evidently, physiology has nothing whatever to do with the matter.
> The ant and ourselves possess different degrees of perception. We
> are on a higher scale of evolution than the ant, but,
> comparatively speaking, we are the ants to the plane above."
> Transactions, p 122
>
>
> "...[there is an] animal consciousness of a superior kind, such
> as is found in the ant and the beaver, ..." S D II P.
120
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Dallas
>
> PS
>
> Did you ever read Maeterlink on "The Life Of The Ant?" Also, he
> wrote on the "Life Of The Bee," and the Termite.
>
>
> ======================================
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: T
> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 8:18 PM
> To: Dallas
> Subject: RE: Senses of superior animals
>
>
> Dallas,
>
> Here's another thought which might be useful for
> looking into sum species identification - those
> interesting variences (hard/soft many/one(parentals))?
>
> Is that like a bee colony?
>
> T
>
>
>
>
>
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