Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00872)

Dallas

Just a comment on your post to Anand
Anand as you know, is a reader of the writings of the neo-theosophers such as CWL and A. Beasant.
Like him, there are thousands.
For some it is terribly harder to read a Secret Doctrine than those little manuals from those authors, the litlle books are condensed and frequently represent partial, and when not garbled, scattered views from the original theosophy.
He seldon gives good and well based inputs and seem that he spread his words with the wind and just seem not to care about the replies.
I think that if you want really, from the deep of your heart, study and lettheosophy transform you interiorly, you must do 2 things: Study with dedication the original and most secure fountains you find and silence your mindin meditation.
The other techniques and works which come from many new theosophers of that period must be analyzed with critical and parcimonious sense for they show many half truths, and, as Osho said once, " A half-truth is worser than alie". 

Krishtar

----- Original Message ----- 
From: W.Dallas TenBroeck 
To: AA-BNStudy 
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:45 AM
Subject: Theos-World Re: Yale University appreciates Occult Chemistry



Jan 24th 2005

Re: Yale University appreciates Occult Chemistry

Dear Anand:

1 You write:

"Maha chohan had said that scientific evidence would be given to 
support Theosophy. This is perhaps that, though it will take some 
time for scientists to fully prove it in their way."

Regarding "Scientific evidence," you say was promised by the Maha Chohan - 

Do you have any references? I suppose you mean you have been looking
for such references? Where ? 


2

Instead of asking others to do your work of research into the SECRET
DOCTRINE, ISIS UNVEILED, HPB's articles, and into the MAHATMA LETTERS, for
you, why don't you provide us with some appropriate quotations? 

Why don't you do your own research? Then let us know what you have
discovered.

Perhaps you do not have access to those books and resources? They are all
available ON LINE so you and anyone who wants to "prove to themselves" the
accuracy of ORIGINAL THEOSOPHY, and the inestimable value of the Maha
Chohan's direction, can do so..


3
I have read the pages you have reprinted in the last few days and
have found little of value there. Has anyone else found anything?  

I have been looking for comments. 


4

You appear to me to be bent on trying to destroy the credibility of that
ORIGINAL THEOSOPHY which the Masters and HPB promulgated, but give no
systematic evidence of any tangible inaccuracies you may have discovered.I
wonder why?.  

You have been repeatedly told that the differences in teaching between
ORIGINAL THEOSOPHY and subsequent writings and speculations by Annie Besant,
CWL and others can be found (in part) in Margaret Thomas' book
THEOSOPHY or NEO-THEOSOPHY 

Have you carefully been through that ? What are your conclusions?

Can you provide us with detailed comments, instead of opinions without some
foundation ?

Best wishes,

Dallas

PS Please check below to see if there is anything relevant in what is
submitted for consideration.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Anand 
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 5:33 AM
To: 
Subject: Yale University appreciates Occult Chemistry



Apart from Occult Chemistry it will be interesting to see what other 
scientific evidence They give through TS. It might be that they are 
given and not being discussed.
Anand Gholap

--- Anand Gholap" wrote:
> 
> Maha chohan had said that scientific evidence would be given to 
> support Theosophy. This is perhaps that, though it will take some 
> time for scientists to fully prove it in their way.
> Anand Gholap
>   
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DTB Consider this I found in part in the 

MAHA CHOHAN'S LETTER :  

"The doctrine we promulgate being the only true one, must--supported by
such evidence as we are preparing to give--become ultimately triumphant,
like every other truth. Yet it is absolutely necessary to inculcate it
gradually; enforcing its theories (unimpeachable facts for those who know)
with direct inference, deduced from and corroborated by the evidence
furnished by modern exact science. ..  

For our doctrines to practically react on the so-called moral code, or the
ideas of truthfulness, purity, self-denial, charity, etc., we have to preach
and popularize a knowledge of Theosophy. It is not the individual and
determined purpose of attaining Nirvana-the culmination of all knowledge and
absolute wisdom, which is after all only an exalted and glorious
selfishness--but the self-sacrificing pursuit of the best means to lead on
the right path our neighbour, to cause to benefit by it as many of our
fellow-creatures as we possibly can, which constitutes the true
Theosophist. ....  

The Theosophical Society was chosen as the cornerstone, the foundation of
the future religions of humanity. To achieve the proposed object, a greater,
wiser, and especially a more benevolent intermingling of the high and the
low, the alpha and the omega of society, was determined upon. ....  

As we find the world now, whether Christian, Mussulman, or Pagan, justiceis
disregarded, and honour and mercy are both flung to the winds. In a word,
how--since the main objects of the Theosophical Society are misinterpreted
by those who are most willing to serve us personally--are we to deal with
the rest of mankind? with that curse known as the struggle for life, which
is the real and most prolific parent of most woes and sorrows, and all
crimes? 

Why has that struggle become almost the universal scheme of the universe?We
answer,--because no religion, with the exception of Buddhism, has taught a
practical contempt for this earthly life; while each of them, always with
that one solitary exception, has through its hells and damnations
inculcated the greatest dread of death. ... Teach the people to see that
life on this earth, even the happiest, is but a burden and an illusion; that
it is our own Karma [the cause producing the effect] that is our own
judge-our Saviour in future lives--and the great struggle for life will soon
lose its intensity. ... perish rather the Theosophical Society with both
its hapless Founders, than that we should permit it to become no better than
an academy of magic, and a hall of occultism! 

That we, the devoted followers of that spirit incarnate of absolute
self-sacrifice, of philanthropy, divine kindness, as of all the highest
virtues attainable on this earth of sorrow, the man of men, Gautama Buddha,
should ever allow the Theosophical Society to represent the embodiment of
selfishness, the refuge of the few with no thought in them for the many, is
a strange idea, my brothers!
     
Among the few glimpses obtained by Europeans of Tibet and its mystical
hierarchy of perfect Lamas, there was one which was correctly understood and
described. The incarnations of the Bodhisattva Padmapani or Avolokiteshvara,
of Tsong-ka-pa, and that of Amitabha, relinquished at their death the
attainment of Buddhahood--i.e., the summum bonum of bliss, and of individual
personal felicity-that they might be born again and again for the benefitof
mankind. ....  

Let us understand each other. He who does not feel competent to grasp the
noble idea sufficiently to work for it, need not undertake a task too heavy
for him. 

But there is hardly a Theosophist in the whole Society unable to effectually
help it by correcting erroneous impressions of outsiders, by himself
actually propagating this idea. 

Oh! for noble and unselfish men to help us effectually in that divine task!
All our knowledge, past and present, would not be sufficient to repay him.
     
Having explained our views and aspirations, I have but a few words more to
add. 

The true religion and philosophy offer the solution of every problem. That
the world is in such a bad condition, morally, is a conclusive evidence that
none of its religions and philosophies, those of the civilized races less
than any other, has ever possessed the truth. 

The right and logical explanations on the subject of the problems of the
great dual principles, right and wrong, good and evil, liberty and
despotism, pain and pleasure, egotism and altruism, are as impossible to
them now as they were 1880 years ago. 

They are as far from the solution as they were; but to these problems there
must be somewhere a consistent solution, and if our doctrines will show
their competence to offer it, then the world will be the first to confess
that there must be the true philosophy, the true religion, the true light,
which gives truth and nothing but the truth. "

[reprinted from LUCIFER 1896, August]  

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OCCULT OR EXACT SCIENCE? (extracts)

H. P. Blavatsky

"...Behold the sign foreseen in a brighter future; the problem that will be
the question of the forthcoming age, that every thoughtful, earnest father
will be asking himself with regard to his children's education in the XXth
century. 

And let it be stated at once, that by "Occult Science" neither the life of a
chela nor the austerities of an ascetic are here meant; but simply the study
of that which alone can furnish the key to the mysteries of nature, and
unveil the problems of the universe and of psycho-physical man--even though
one should not feel inclined to go any deeper. 

SCIENCE REDISCOVERS ANCIENT TRUTHS

Every new discovery made by modern science vindicates the truths of the
archaic philosophy. The true occultist is acquainted with no single problem
that esoteric science is unable to solve, if approached in the right
direction; the scientific bodies of the West have as yet no phenomenon of
natural science that they can fathom to its innermost depths, or explain in
all its aspects. 

Exact science fails to do so--in this cycle, for reasons that will be given
further on. Nevertheless the pride of the age, which revolts against the
intrusion into the empire of science of old--especially of
transcendental--truths, is growing every year more intolerant. Soon the
world will behold it soaring in the clouds of self-sufficiency like a new
tower of Babel, to share, perchance, the fate of the Biblical monument. 

In a recent scientific work on Anthropology, 1 one can read the following:
"It is then given to us, at last, to know (?), to grasp, to handle and
measure the forces through which it is claimed, that God proceeded.... We
have made electricity our postman, light our draughts-man, affinity our
journeyman," etc., etc. This is in a French work. 

MATTER - FORCE and SPIRIT

One who knows something of the perplexities of exact science, of the
mistakes and daily confessions of her staff, feels inclined, after reading
such pompous stuff, to exclaim with the malcontent of the Bible:.. Verily
--"the world was delivered to them that they should never know it." How
likely the scientists are to succeed in this direction may be inferred from
the fact that the great Humboldt himself could give expression to such
erroneous axioms as this one: "Science begins for man only when his mind has
mastered MATTER!" 2 The word "spirit" for "matter" might perhaps have
expressed a greater truth. But M. Renan would not have complimented the
venerable author of the Kosmos in the terms he did, had the term matter been
replaced by spirit. 

I intend to give a few illustrations to show that the knowledge of matter
alone, with the quondam "imponderable" forces -- ...is not sufficient for
the purposes of true science. 

ABNORMALITIES NEED EXPLANATION

Nor will it ever prove efficient to explain the simplest phenomenon even in
objective physical nature, let alone the abnormal cases in which
physiologists and biologists at present manifest such interest. As Father
Secchi, the famous Roman astronomer expressed it in his work, 3 "If but a
few of the new forces were proven, they would necessitate the admission in
their domain (that of forces) of agents of quite another order than thoseof
gravitation." 

"I have read a good deal about occultism and studied Kabbalistic books: I
have never understood one word in them!"--was a recent remark made by a
learned experimenter in "thought-transference," "color-sounds," and so on. 
Very likely. One has to study his letters before he can spell and read, or
understand what he reads. 

SOUNDS AND COLORS CORRELATE
1
Some forty years back, I knew a child--a little girl of seven or eight--who
very seriously frightened her parents by saying: 

"Now, mamma, I love you. You are good and kind to me to-day. Your words are
quite blue" . . . 
"What do you mean?" . . . asked the mother. 
"Your words are all blue--because they are so caressing, but when you scold
me they are red . . . so red! But it is worse when you fly in a passion with
papa for then they are orange . . . horrid . . . like that" . . . 
And the child pointed to the hearth, with a big roaring fire and huge flames
in it. The mother turned pale. 
After that the little sensitive was heard very often associating sounds with
colors. The melody played by the mother on the piano threw her into
ecstasies of delight; she saw "such beautiful rainbows," she explained, but
when her aunt played, it was "fireworks and stars," "brilliant stars
shooting pistols--and then . . . bursting" . . . 

The parents got frightened and suspected something had gone wrong with the
child's brain. The family physician was sent for. 

"Exuberance of childish fancy," he said. "Innocent hallucinations . . .
Don't let her drink tea, and make her play more with her little
brothers--fight with them, and have physical exercise...." 

And he departed. 

2

In a large Russian city, on the banks of the Volga, stands a hospital with a
lunatic asylum attached to it. There a poor woman was locked up for over
twenty years--to the day of her death in fact -- as a "harmless" though
insane patient. No other proofs of her insanity could be found on the
case-books than the fact that the splash and murmur of the river-waves
produced the finest "God's rainbows" for her; while the voice of the
superintendent caused her to see "black and crimson"-- the colors of the
Evil one. 

3

About that same period, namely in 1840, something similar to this phenomenon
was heralded by the French papers. Such an abnormal state of
feelings--physicians thought in those days--could be due but to one reason;
such impressions whenever experienced without any traceable cause, denoted
an ill-balanced mind, a weak brain--likely to lead its possessor to lunacy.
Such was the decree of science...

4

Even in that early period ... it was shown that the same phenomenon couldbe
produced by means of various narcotics and drugs. Some bolder people... made
experiments and declared the results publicly. One was Théophile Gautier,
the famous French author. 

DRUGS and ALTERED STATES

...read the charming story told by that author, in which he describes the
dreams of an opium-eater. To analyze the impressions at first hand, he took
a large dose of hashish. "My hearing," he writes, "acquired marvelous
capacities: I heard the music of the flowers; sounds,--green, red and
blue--poured into my ears in clearly perceptible waves of smell and color. A
tumbler upset, the creaking of an arm-chair, a word whispered in the lowest
tones vibrated and resounded within me like so many claps of thunder. At the
gentlest contact with objects--furniture or human body--I heard prolonged
sounds, sighs like the melodious vibrations of an Æolian harp . . ." 4 

No doubt the powers of human fancy are great; no doubt delusion and
hallucination may be generated for a shorter or a longer period in the
healthiest human brain either naturally or artificially. 

HYPNOSIS -- THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE

But natural phenomena that are not included in that "abnormal" class do
exist; and they have at last taken forcible possession even of scientific
minds. The phenomena of hypnotism, of thought-transference, of
sense-provoking, merging as they do into one another and manifesting their
occult existence in our phenomenal world, succeeded finally in arresting the
attention of some eminent scientists. 

HALLUCINATION

Under the leadership of ... Dr. Charcot, of the Salpêtriere Hospital in
Paris, several famous men of science took the phenomena in hand--in France,
Russia, England, Germany and Italy. For over fifteen years they have been
experimenting, investigating, theorizing. And what is the result? 

The sole explanation given to the public, to those who thirst to become
acquainted with the real, the intimate nature of the phenomena, with their
productive cause and genesis--is that the sensitives who manifest them are
all HYSTERICAL! ...This looks satisfactory for the present, and--quite
hopeful for the future. "Hysterical hallucination" is thus doomed to become,
as it appears, the alpha and the omega of every phenomenon. At the same time
science defines the word "hallucination" as "an error of our senses, shared
by, and imposed (by that error) upon our intelligence. " 7 

Now such hallucinations of a sensitive as are objective the apparition ofan
"astral body" for instance,--are not only perceptible by the sensitive's (or
medium's) "intelligence, "but are likewise shared by the senses of those
present. Consequently the natural inference is that all those witnesses are
also hysterical. ...

Of all the problems of medical philosophy, hallucination seems, at this
rate, the most difficult to solve, the most obstinate to get rid of. It
could hardly be otherwise, for it is one of the mysterious results of our
dual nature, the bridge thrown over the chasm that separates the world of
matter from the world of spirit. And without doubt a manifestation is quite
disconcerting to any one who witnesses it for the first time. 

POTENCY OF MAN'S SPIRIT

Proving to the materialist the creative faculty, the potency of man's
spirit, naturalizing before the churchman the "miracle," and
super-naturalizing, so to say, the simplest effects of natural causes,
hallucination cannot be accepted yet for what it really is, and could hardly
be forced upon the acceptation of either the materialist or the believing
Christian, since one is as strong in his denial as the other is in his
affirmation. "Hallucination," says an authority quoted by de Boismont, (8)
"is the reproduction of the material sign of the idea." ...

AUTOMATIC WRITING

If, admitting for argument's sake, that some of the common herd out of their
great reverence--often amounting to fetish worship--for science and
authority, do accept the dictum of the scientists that every phenomenon,
every "abnormal" manifestation, is due to the pranks of epileptic hysteria,
what shall the rest of the public do? Shall they believe that Mr. Eglinton's
self-moving slate pencil is also laboring under a fit of the same epilepsy
as its medium even though he does not touch it? 

PROPHECY AND MIRACLES

Or that the prophetic utterances of the seers, the grand inspired apostles
of all ages and religions, were simply the pathological results of hysteria?
Or again that the ''miracles'' of the Bible, those of Pythagoras, Apollonius
and others--belong to the same family of abnormal manifestations...

HALLUCINATIONS - THEIR CAUSE ?

First of all "hallucination" itself, when it is really the effect of
physiological cause, would have to be explained--but it never has been.
Taking at random some out of the hundreds of definitions ... the
theosophists would do well to keep to the old definition of hallucinations
(théophania) (10) and folly, made some two thousands of years back by Plato,
Virgilius, Hippocrates, Galen and the medical and theological schools of
old. "There are two kinds of folly, one of which is produced by the body,
the other sent to us by "the gods." 

OCCULTISM is in NATURE -- KNOWN OF OLD

About ten years ago, when ISIS UNVEILED was being written, the most
important point the work aimed at was the demonstration of the following, 

(a) the reality of the Occult in nature; 

(b) the thorough knowledge of, and familiarity with, all such occult domains
amongst "certain men," and their mastery therein; 

(c) hardly an art or science known in our age, that the Vedas have not
mentioned; and 

(d ) that hundreds of things, especially mysteries of nature,--in abscondito
as the alchemists called it,--were known to the Aryas of the pre-Mahabharata
period, which are unknown to us, the modern sages of the XIXth century. 

A new proof of it is now being given.. This special phenomenon was ...The
most interesting accounts of color-sound phenomena may, [which may] be found
in LA NATURE, (No. 626, 1885, pp. 406, et seq.) in an article contributedby
de Rochat who experimented with a ... "Mr. N. R." ...


SOUND / COLOR ASSOCIATION

"N. R." is a man of about 57 years of age, an advocate by profession, now
living in one of the country faubourgs of Paris, a passionate amateur of
natural sciences which he has studied very seriously, fond of music, though
no musician himself, a great traveler and a great linguist. N. R. had never
read ... about that peculiar phenomenon that makes certain people associate
sound with color, but was subject to it from his very boyhood. 

Sounds of every description had always generated in him the impression of
colors. Thus the articulation of the vowels produces in his brain the
following results:--The letter A--appears to him dark red; E-- white;
I--black; O--yellow; V--blue. The double-vowel letters; A i--chestnut color;
Ei--grayish white; Eu--light blue; Oi--dirty-yellow; Ou--yellowish. The
consonants are nearly all of a dark gray hue; while a vowel, or a double
vowel forming with a consonant a syllable, colors that syllable with its own
tint. Thus, ba, ca, da are all of red-gray color; bi, ci, di ash colored;
bo, co, do yellow gray, and so on. S ending a word and pronounced in a
hissing way, I, like the Spanish words los compos, imparts to the syllable
that precedes it a metallic glittering. 

The color of the word depends thus on the color of the letters that compose
it, so that to N. R. human speech appears in the shape of many colored, or
variegated ribbons coming out of persons' mouths, the colors of which are
determined by those of the vowels in the sentences, separated one from the
other by the grayish stripes of the consonants.
   
The languages receive in their turn a common coloring from those letters
that predominate in each. For instance, the German, which abounds in
consonants, forms on the whole the impression of a dark gray moss; French
appears gray, strongly meted with white; the English seems nearly black;
Spanish is very much colored especially with yellow and carmine-red tints;
Italian is yellow, merging into carmine and black, but with more delicate
and harmonious tints than the Spanish. 

A deep-toned voice impresses N. R. with a dark red color which gradually
passes into a chocolate hue; while a shrill, sonorous voice suggests the
blue color, and a voice between these two extremes changes these colors
immediately into very light yellow. 

The sounds of instruments have also their distinct and special colors: the
piano and the flute suggest tints of blue; the violin -- black; and the
guitar -- silver gray, etc. 

The names of musical notes pronounced loudly, influence N. R. in the same
manner as the words. The colors of a singing voice L and playing depend upon
the voice and its compass and altitude, E; and upon the instrument played
on. 
So it is with figures verbally pronounced; but when read mentally they
reflect for him the color of the ink they are written or printed with. The
form, therefore, has ought to do with such color phenomena. 

While these impressions do not generally take place outside of himself, but
perform, so to say, on the platform of his brain, we find other sensitive
offering far more curious phenomena than "N. R." does. 

2 IN LONDON

...we find ... a sensitive describing his impressions in this wise: "As soon
as I hear the sounds of a guitar, I see vibrating chords, surrounded by
colored vapors." The piano produces the same: "colored images begin to float
over the keys." 

One ... has always color impressions outside of himself. "Whenever I heara
chorus composed of several voices," he says, "I feel a great number of
colored points floating over the heads of the singers. I feel them, for my
eye receives no definite impression; nevertheless, I am compelled to lookat
them, and while examining them I feel perplexed, for I cannot find those
bright colored spots where I look at them, or rather feel them." 

COLORS INVOKE SOUNDS

Inversely, there are sensitive in whom the sight of colors evokes
immediately that of sounds, and others again, in whom a triple phenomenonis
produced by one special sense generating two other senses. A certain
sensitive cannot hear a brass band without a taste "like copper in the
mouth" during the performance, and seeing dark golden clouds. 

Science investigates such manifestations, recognizes their reality,
and--remains powerless to explain them. "Neurosis and hysteria" is the only
answer obtained, and the "canine hallucinations" ... have remained valid to
this day as an explanation, or a universal solvent of all such phenomena. 

But it is only natural after all, that science should be unable to account
at any rate for this particular phenomenon of light and sound, since their
theory of light itself has never been fully verified, nor made complete to
the present day.

EMPTY PHYSIOLOGICAL HYPOTHESES of SCIENCE 

...The time is not perhaps far off when they shall be compelled to change
their tactics or--confess themselves defeated by even such elementary
phenomena as described above. But ... phenomena, are fast cycling back for
their true explanation, to the archaic Vedas, and other "Sacred Books of the
East."
   
For it is an easy matter to show, that the Vedic Aryans were quite familiar
with all such mysteries of sound and color. Mental correlation of the two
senses of "sight" and "hearing" were as common a fact in their days, as that
of a man in our own seeing objective things before him with eyes wide open
at noon. 

ANCIENT CYCLES RETURN SENSITIVITY

...Everything conspires to prove it, even the study of such exact sciences
as philology and comparative mythology. From the hoary days of antiquity,
from the very dawn of the grand civilizations of those races that preceded
our Fifth Race, and the traces of which now lie buried at the very bottomof
the oceans, the fact in question was known. 

That which is now considered as an abnormal phenomenon, was in every
probability the normal state of the antediluvian Humanity. These are no vain
words, for here are two of the many proofs. 

LANGUAGE ORIGINS AS EVIDENCE

In consequence of the abundant data gleaned by linguistic research,
philologists are beginning to raise their voices and are pointing to some
very suggestive, though as yet unexplained facts. 

(1) All the words indicative of human representations and conceptions of
light and sound are found to have their derivation from the same roots .12 

(2) Mythology shows, in her turn, the evident law--the uniformity of which
precludes the possibility of chance--that led the ancient symbologists to
represent all their sun-gods and radiant deities--such as the Dawn, the Sun,
or Aurora, Phoebus, Apollo, etc. -- connected in one way or the other with
music and singing,--with sound in short, -- associated with radiancy and
color. (13) If this is as yet but an inference, there exists a still better
proof in the Vedas, for there the conceptions of the words "sound" and a
"light," "to hear" and "to see," are always associated. In Hymn X, 71, verse
4, we read :

"One--though looking, sees not the speech, and the other seeing--does not
hear it." ...

SPEECH DEVELOPMENT

Human speech, as known to us, came into being in the Root-race that preceded
ours--the Fourth or the "Atlantean"--at the very beginning of it, in
sub-race No. 1; and simultaneously with it were developed sight--as a
physical sense--while the four other senses (with the two additional--the
6th and 7th--of which science knows nothing as yet)--remained in their
latent, undeveloped state as physical senses, although fully developed as
spiritual faculties. 

HEARING

Our sense of hearing developed only in the 3rd sub-races. Thus, if human
"speech"--owing to that absence of the sense of hearing--was in the
beginning ... a mental articulation of sounds rather than anything else ...
"speech" became associated with "sight," or, in other words, people could
understand each other and talk with the help of only sight and touch. "Sound
is seen before it is heard," -- says the Book of Kiu-ti. The flash of
lightning precedes the clap of thunder. 

As ages went by mankind fell with every new generation lower and lower into
matter, the physical smothering the spiritual, until the whole set of
senses--that had formed during the first three Root races but one SENSE,
namely, SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION--finally fell asunder to form henceforth five
distinct senses.... 

A TURN TO SPIRITUALITY DEVELOPMENT

But we are in the 5th race, and we have already passed the turning or axial
point of our "sub-race cycle." [S D I 150fn]

Eventually as the current phenomena and the increase of sensitive organisms
in our age go to prove, this Humanity will be moving swiftly on the path of
pure spirituality, and will reach the apex (of our Race) at the end of the
7th sub-race... [Says a Teacher] "in the 1st half of the 3rd Round the
primordial spirituality of man was eclipsed, because over-shadowed by
nascent mentality"; Humanity was on its descending arc in the first half of
that round and in the last half on its ascending arc: i.e., "his...body
improved in texture; and he had become a more rational being though still
more an [ape-like form] than a Deva-man." ...

On the principle of that same law of correspondences,-- as shall be shown
and thoroughly explained in the forthcoming SECRET DOCTRINE --civilized
humanity will soon begin to show itself, if even less "rational" on the
worldly plane, at any rate more Deva-like ...

The men of science cannot help the world to understand the rationale of
phenomena, which for a little while longer in this cycle it will be quite
impossible for them to account for, even to themselves. 

They can neither understand nor explain it, any more than any one else can,
who has not studied occultism and the hidden laws that govern nature and
rule mankind. 

The men of science are helpless in this case, and it is unjust to charge
them with malice, or even with unwillingness -- as has been often done.
Their rationality (taken in this case in the sense of intellectuality, not
of reason) can never permit them to turn their attention to occult study.
Therefore it is useless to demand or expect from the learned men of our age
that which they are absolutely incapable of doing for us, until the next
cycle changes and transforms entirely their inner nature by "improving the
texture" of their spiritual minds. 
H. B. Blavatsky

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