Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00655)

To the Theosophical Pundits:

I am trying to study the relationship between the five elements and 
the five senses. In Diagram V in Blavatsky: Collected Writings, 
Vol XII, pp 661. ( Apology for not knowing how to send the 
link .) Leaving out other columns, the tabulation for the senses 
and elements is as follows:  

Elements	Senses	Organs of Sensation

1.	Earth	Smell	Nose
2.	Water	Taste	Tongue
3.	Air	Sight	Eyes
4.	Fire	Touch	Organ of excretion
5.	Ether	Hearing	Ears

6.	Divine Flame Jnana	Astral Body	
and Heart

7.	Akasa	The Highest	The Light of Kundalini
Synthesis Sense

My questions are:

1.	The correspondence for Air – Sight – Eyes does not make sense 
to me. I would think Fire is closer to sight than air. Am I 
missing something?

2.	The correspondence for Fire – Touch – Organ of excretion also 
makes no sense. Why organ of excretion? Also, I would think that 
touch is closer air.

3.	And the Astral Body and Heart for the Divine Flame? Is HPB 
using the word astral in a different way?   

4.	I would think that Hearing comes before Sight, but this not how 
it is tabulated.  


I appreciate any light on this, 


barbara