Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00732)

In a discussion of the development of the senses in the root races, there
are some interesting comments by HPB on page 535 of Volume I of The Secret
Doctrine. In a footnote, for instance, it says:



"The ancients divided the senses into five, simply because their teachers
(the Initiates) stopped at the HEARING, as being that sense which developed
in the PHYSICAL PLANE (got dwarfed rather, limited to this plane) only at
the beginning of the Fifth Race. (The Fourth Race already had begun to lose
the SPIRITUAL condition, so preeminently developed in the Third Race.)"



What she seems to be saying is that we have all the senses from the very
first race, but they start out as astral or non-physical senses, which goes
along with our non-physical nature in the earliest races. One by one, the
outer senses develop, the psychical or non-physical aspect being superseded
by physical perception. The main point I get out of it is that we always
have our seven senses, even though it takes a long time for them to develop
physically.



Eldon







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