Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt01407)

I'm glad you agree.

Vince

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@...> wrote:
>
> Vincent wrote:
> > I consider myself to be agnostic in the sense that I don't 
believe 
> > that the mortal psyche in it's current existential finiteness is 
> > capable of cognizing a singular cosmological supergod 
(omniscient, 
> > omnipotent, omnipresent).  This is because the human psyche 
itself 
> > must first be omniscient before it can potentially comprehend an 
> > omniscient being.  And our minds certainly are not existentially 
> > omniscient.  It'd be like trying to calculate the size and age 
of 
> > the universe, and how many square inches or molecules therein 
> > reside.  We can make wild guesses, and even adhere to them as 
> > doctrine, but our best guesses will actually be flagrantly off.
> 
> 	That seems pretty much in synch with the first fundamental 
proposition 
> of the Secret Doctrine to me.
> 
> > I'm assuming that you're referring to this statement here, 
> > apparently from one of Blavatsky's writings:
> > 
> > (a) An Omnipresent, Eternal, Boundless, and Immutable PRINCIPLE 
on 
> > which all speculation is impossible, since it transcends the 
power 
> > of human conception and could only be dwarfed by any human 
> > expression or similitude. It is beyond the range and reach of 
> > thought -- in the words of Mandukya, "unthinkable and 
unspeakable.
> 
> 	That's correct.
> 
> 	Bart
>