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University Research and the Movement

Dec 05, 2006 08:00 AM
by carlosaveline


 
 
Friends, 
  
If  university researchers want to have a deeper understanding  of the theosophical movement,  so that they can better  know the subject about which they talk and write,  they probably must acknowledge in the first place that this movement works at various levels of consciousness, some of which are “a mystery”, let's say,  to conventional states of mind.  
 
This very mystery  or inner side of  the movement  creates as its counterpart dangerous occult pitfalls.  And these  have  produced  dire situations like those we see in the lives of  James Wedgwood, Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater.  

Yet opportunities and pirtfalls are just about everywhere for one who looks for the higher  knowledge. 
 
Defeats and failures may be much easier to identify than their luminous conterparts --  the higher mysteries.   But that does not mean that the authentic mysteries of  esoteric philosophy are not there, or that they cannot be grasped,  at least in part, by a truly scientific mind. On the contrary.   Manifested universe is always apparently  dual,  and the existence of  visible shadows (failures, illusions  and defeats in the movement) but reflects the presence of a strong inner light (universal wisdom and opportunities).   Shadows can only follow light. 
  
As to science  researchers, they are often are patient.  They  wait for opportunities and sometimes create them.  They do not  think that the things they don’t know  or don’t see, just because they don’t see or know them, are necessarily  false or non-existent.  Many of them (like David Bohm,  Fritjof Capra and Rupert Sheldrake in recent years)  go beyond conventional university academicism. 
 
Expanding  on a true scientific perspective, H.P.B. closes the first volume of ‘Isis Unveiled’ with these words: 
 
“The few elevated minds who (....) only disbelieve because they do not know, we would remind of that apothegm of Narada, the ancient Hindu philosopher: ‘Never use these words: I do not know this, therefore it is false. One must study to know, know to understand, understand to judge.’ ”   (p. 628, facsimile editions)
 
 
Regards,   Carlos. 
 
 


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