Theos-Talk Archives (November 2004 Message tt00083)

I've been speculating about the word 
"interpretations." A few 
things/categories come to mind:

1. the worded concepts/notions 
(exoterics) that "an interpretation" 
might be seen to consist of

2. whatever noumenal or "more direct" 
(re 
esoteric/occult/mystical/experiential) 
experiences there may be

3. notions about interpreting "noumenal"
re esoteric/experiential

4. Theosophy as an "interpretation"
or "exoteric version" re noumenal reality.

Seems to me that one might detect 
("interpret") an Abyss of some sort 
between noumenal ("more direct") 
experiences ("at certain 
levels/planes"...) and the various 
exoteric versions, so that while 
"reading between the lines" and 
"intuition" and "heart" might be seen as 
helpful while "studying Theosophy," say, 
(per whatever "karmic/interpretive 
tendency"), at the same time the 
"recognition" of such an Abyss would, as 
I tend to see it, logically negate 
("perspectivize/interpret," as it were) 
all "exoteric versions," in effect 
turning them into maya per karma 
regardless of whatever noumenal or 
apparently pre-interpretive promptings 
or Direct/er Reality one might 
experience or "speculate about."

As I tend to see it, noumenal (in the 
sense of 
esoteric/experiential/occult/mystical) 
r/Reality might be seen as beyond 
exoteric explanations to "interpret" in 
terms other than exoteric or 
karmic/mayavic (ie, while the latter 
might be seen to keep on fostering 
various interpretations, which, in turn, 
might be seen as fostering various 
interpretations, which, in turn, might 
be seen as fostering various 
interpretations ... and so on).

This has been an attempt to exoterize or 
denoumenalize (which, of course, isn't 
possible because of that Abyss, seems to 
me) my earlier "comment" (quotes per 
variations re "interpretions" re 
"karma/maya") when I wrote: <<I tend to 
see all explanations as linear or 
exoteric, regardless of topic. So if 
one's interpretations seem linear, eg 
... what can we say ...>>

While the "heart," for one, referred to 
in Theosophy might be seen as having a 
role in making some of such attempts at 
exoterizing "more meaningful," say, I 
suspect that the nature of that heart 
effect (like the "interpretive" nature 
of "karma") would tend to be seen, 
"interpreted," in terms of being only as 
valuable/relevant as would tend to be 
seen, "interpreted," the nature of 
"one's karma/maya." In other words, 
what can we say ...

Speculatively,
Mauri