Theos-Talk Archives (October 2004 Message tt00230)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Jerry Hejka-Ekins <jjhe@c...> 
wrote:


> Yet, I recall reading in the Mahatma letters a statement from KH 
that "Science is our best ally." While I concur with you 
that "academic opinion" has its shortcomings, is often flawed by 
human error, and compromised by political pressures, I also see that 
it has progressively led us to incredible insights into the nature of 
ourselves and of the universe. Even if all of those insights are 
somehow stated or encoded in the SD, the fact that we have discovered 
these things for ourselves, make those discoveries all the more 
valuable, and our understanding of them all the more genuine. 
> 
> Are we to hang onto every word written by HPB and Judge, like 
fundamentalists who endlessly quote from their "sacred books" and 
strangle the life out of them by wrapping those discourses into some 
kind of a theology? IMO, HPB met for the SD to be a springboard to 
help us into our own investigations and discoveries. I submit that 
while The Secret Doctrine is so titled, what HPB writes in that book 
is not "the Secret Doctrine." Rather, she is only hinting at and 
pointing towards it. The Secret Doctrine is not something to be 
found in books, but within, and through our own efforts. And I 
submit, that the scientific methodology we have developed, while it 
has its limits and flaws, is a useful and important tool when applied 
towards that discovery. For one thing, a methodological approach 
goes a long way to safeguard against the circular thinking and bogus 
arguments that so often appear in this and other discussion boards. 


Dear Jerry:

If the Theosophical Movement, after almost 130 years of its 
inception, can still produce students like yourself, then it is still 
alive today.

Your post is an eloquent reminder of what HPB herself taught: that a 
Theosophist is an independent thinker, with an inspiration of his own 
to solve the universal problems.

My sincere thanks for your inspiring and moving post.

Pedro