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The ancient doctrine of the constant, eternal change of every atom from state to state, is founded upon, or rather grows out of, another which postulates that the is no such thing as dead matter.
At every conceivable point in the universe there are lives; nowhere can be found a spot that is dead; and each life is forever hastened onward to a higher evolution.
To admit this, we must of course grant that matter is never perceived by the eye or through any instrument. It is but the phenomena of matter that we recognize through the senses, and hence, say the sages, the thing denominated ("matter") by us is an illusion. Even the protoplasm of the schools is not the original matter; it is simply another of the phenomena.
The first original matter is called by Paracelsus and others primordial matter, the nearest approach to which in the Eastern school is found in the Sanskrit word mulaprakriti. This is the root of matter, invisible, not to be weighed, or measured, or tested with any instrument of human invention. And yet it is the only real matter underlying all phenomena to which we erroneously give its name. But it is not dead, but full of the lives first referred to.

Now, bearing this in mind, we consider the vast solar system, yet vast only when not compared with the still greater aggregation of stars and planets around it. The great sidereal year covered by the sun in going through the twelve signs of the zodiac includes over 25,000 mortal years of 365 days each. While this immense circuit is being traversed, the sun drags the whole solar system with him around his own tremendous orbit, and we may imagine-for there are no observations on this point-that, while 25,000 years of travel around the zodiac have been passing, the solar system as a whole has advanced along the sun's own orbit only a little distance. But after millions of years shall have been consumed in these progresses, the sun must bring his train of planets to stellar space where they have never been before; here other conditions and combinations of matter may very well obtain-conditions and states of which our scientists have never heard, of which there has never been recorded one single phenomenon; and the difference between planetary conditions then and now will be so great that no resemblance shall be observed.

This is a branch of cyclic law with which the Eastern Sages are perfectly familiar. They have inquired into it, recorded their observations, and preserved them. Having watched the uncountable lives during cycles upon cycles past, and seen the behavior under different conditions in other stellar spaces long ago left behind, they have some basis to draw conclusions as to what will be the state of things in the ages to come.

This brings us to an interesting theory offered by Theosophy respecting life itself as exhibited by man, his death and sleep. It relates also to what is generally called "fatigue."
The most usual explanation for the phenomena of sleep is that the body becomes tired and more or less depleted of its vitality then seeks repose. This, says Theosophy, is just the opposite of truth, for, instead of suffering a loss of vitality, the body, at the conclusion of the day, has more life in it than when it was wakened. During the waking state the life-waves rush into the body with greater intensity every hour, and, we being unable to resist them any longer than the period usually observed, they overpower us and we fall asleep. While sleeping, the life waves adjust themselves to the molecules of the body; and when equilibrium is complete we again wake to continue the contest with life.
If this periodical adjustment did not occur, the life current would destroy us. Any derangement of the body that tends to inhibit this adjustment is the cause of sleeplessness and perhaps death. Finally, death of the body is due to the inequality of the contest with the life force; it at last overcomes us, and we are compelled to sink into the grave. Disease, the common property of the human race, only reduces the power of the body to adjust and resist. Children, (say the Adepts) sleep more than adults and need earlier repose, because the bodily machine, being young and tender, is easily overcome by life and made to sleep.

Adepts relate not only to the birth and death of planets in this solar system, but also to the evolution and development of man, through the various kingdoms of nature, until he reaches the most perfect condition which can be imagined. The evolution of the human being includes not only the genesis of his mortal frame, but, as well, the history of the inner man, whom they are accustomed to calling the real one.

This, then, brings us to a very interesting claim put forward for the Wisdom religion, that it pretends to throw light not only upon man's emotions and mental faculties, but also upon his pre-natal and post-mortem states, both of which are of the highest interest and importance. Such questions as, "Where have I come from?" and "What shall be my condition after death?" trouble and confuse the minds of all men, cultured and ignorant.

Priests and thinkers have, from time to time, formulated theories, more or less absurd, as to those pre-natal and post-mortem states, while Science today laughs in derision at the idea of making any inquire into the matter whatever.
Theologians have offered explanations, all of which relate only to what they suppose will happen to us after death, leaving entirely out of view and wholly un-answered the natural question,
"What were we before we were born here?" And, taking them on their own ground, they are in the most illogical position, because, having once postulated immortality for the soul-the real man-they cannot deny immortality in either direction. If man is immortal, the immortality could never have had a beginning, or else it would have an end. Hence their only escape from the dilemma is to declare that each soul is a special creation. But this doctrine of a special creation for each soul born upon earth, is not dwelt upon or expounded by the priests, inasmuch as it is deemed better to keep it discretely in the background.

The Wisdom Religion, on the other hand, remains logical from beginning to end. It declares that man is a spiritual being, and allows no break in the chain of anything once declared immortal. The Ego of each man is immortal; "always was existent, always will be, and never can be non-existent"; appearing now and again, and reappearing, clothed in bodies on each occasion different, it only appears to be mortal; it always remains the substratum and support for the personality acting upon the stage of life. And in those appearances as mortal, the questions mooted above-as to the pre-natal and post-mortem states-are of vital interest, because mans knowledge or ignorance concerning them alters man's thought and action while an actor on the stage, and it is necessary for him to know in order that he may so live as to aid in the grand upward sweep of the evolutionary wave.

Now the Adepts have for ages pursued scientific experimentation and investigation upon those lines. Seers themselves of the highest order, they have recorded not only with their own actual experiences beyond the veil of matter, on both sides, but have collected, compared, analyzed and preserved the records of experiences of the same sort by hundreds of thousands of lesser seers, their own disciples; and the process has been going on from time immemorial.
Let science laugh as it may, the Adepts are true scientists, for they take into account every factor in the question, whereas Science is limited by brain-power, by circumstance, by imperfection of instrumentation, and by a total inability to perceive anything deeper than the mere phenomena presented by matter. The records of the visions and experiences of the greater and lesser seers, through the ages, are extant today.
Of their mass, nothing has been accepted except that which has been checked and verified by millions of independent observations; and therefore the Adepts stand in the position of those who possess actual experiential knowledge of what precedes the birth of the ego in human form, and what succeeds when the "mortal coil" is cast away.
This recording of experiences still goes on; for the infinity of the changes of Nature in its evolution permits no stoppage, no "last word" no final declaration. As the earth sweeps around the sun. it not only passes through new places in orbit, but, dragged as it is by the sun through its greater orbit, involving millions of millions of years, it must in that larger circle enter upon new fields in space and unprecedented conditions. Hence the Adepts go further yet, and state that as the phenomena presented by matter today are different from those presented a million years ago, so matter will a million years from now show different phenomena still.
Indeed, if we could translate our sight to that time, far back in the past of our globe, we could see conditions and phenomena of the material world so different from those now surrounding us that it would be almost impossible to believe we had never been in such a state as that prevailing. And the changes toward the conditions that will prevail at a point equally remote in advance of us, in time, and which will be not less than those that have occurred, are in progress now. Nothing in the material world endures absolutely unchanged in itself or its conditions even for the smallest conceivable portion of time. All that is, is forever in process of becoming something else. This is not mere transcendentalism, but is an old established doctrine called, in the East "the doctrine of the constant, eternal change of atoms from one state into another."


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Theosophy is not science. Also, if you're going to quote text from somewhere, you should provide a link:

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/echoes/echoes4.htm

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Theosophy is not science.

And real men don't eat quiche..

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Also, if you're going to quote text from somewhere, you should provide a link:

No, I don't think so..


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"And real men don't eat quiche.."
Science is a mystery to some people, which is why they resort to the obscurantism of religion.

"No, I don't think so.."
Etiquette is also a mystery to some.


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Originally Posted By: TheFallibleFiend

"And real men don't eat quiche.."
Science is a mystery to some people, which is why they resort to the obscurantism of religion.

What some believe to be obscure is a label applied to everything that doesn't fit within their own interpretations of reality.
Originally Posted By: TheFallibleFiend

"No, I don't think so.."
Etiquette is also a mystery to some.

Mystery and intuition is the primary drive that inspires one to seek truth. Those that have become dependent on qualified statements by personal attachment to authority have given their sensibility away long ago, with their ability to know truth.


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Claiming to know the truth is not the same thing as actually knowing the truth. Many people claim to know mutually exclusive truths. This brings us to a fundamental difference between real and pretend science - the actual search for truth as opposed to an attempt to confirm one's obscurantist prejudices.

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Originally Posted By: TheFallibleFiend
Claiming to know the truth is not the same thing as actually knowing the truth. Many people claim to know mutually exclusive truths. This brings us to a fundamental difference between real and pretend science - the actual search for truth as opposed to an attempt to confirm one's obscurantist prejudices.

Many people claim to label science as exclusive to those ideals that can only be proven within the current technology relegated to mainstream interests.
The spiritual side of the universe and its properties exceed the current technological limits and scientists tend to call those who know and experience the spiritual, obscurantists, because the idea and experience cannot be contained within the quart jar science wants to put it in.
The individual personality sees what it can see due to the properties of individualism. Many can see the same thing and experience it differently.
What never changes within the universe and is underlying all realities of personal opinions and beliefs is absolute. That is the Science of Yoga.
So making general statements to the effects of ones personal belief lay on both sides of the tracks, and I find few willing to stretch their imagination or will beyond what they can currently taste, touch, smell and hear.

The evolution of man is destined to integrate what it does not now experience but will when his capabilities to comprehend allow. There is obviously no predetermined mechanism that subjects the human to evolve as a whole. I think most basic of comprehension is aware of this.
One is only limited by their own beliefs.


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Originally Posted By: TheFallibleFiend

Etiquette is also a mystery to some.

Those that have become dependent on qualified statements by personal attachment to authority have given their sensibility away long ago.... [/quote]
It has nothing to do with ethical imperative not to steal intellectual fruits of previous people. Everyone has right to know, who originated the claims stealed by you. You're pretending, you've something to say about subject, while you can only parotte foreign ideas. Are you coming from East Asia or some collectivistic country?

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"It has nothing to do with ethical imperative not to steal intellectual fruits of previous people. "

Is the world about to end? We actually agree on something.

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"Many people claim to label science as exclusive ..."
Namely, the actual scientists.

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Originally Posted By: Zephir

It has nothing to do with ethical imperative not to steal intellectual fruits of previous people. Everyone has right to know, who originated the claims stealed by you. You're pretending, you've something to say about subject, while you can only parotte foreign ideas. Are you coming from East Asia or some collectivistic country?


No and authority has nothing to do with previous ideas. It has to do with levels of perception that are taught from one generation to another and blind acceptance of reality without using the potential of ones own faculties.

A while back Dateline had a special on the power of Authority.

They started the show by showing an old clip from Candid Camera. In this clip the victim of the show entered an elevator with about six other people in it. The funny thing was that the other six (who worked with Candid Camera) were told to face different directions at different times.

Normally when you are in an elevator you face the door, but this group all faced the inside panel with their backs toward the door. Even though this was very odd, the victim did not want to be different so he turned with his back toward the door. Then they showed several clips of the people in the elevator and every time the group turned, the victim turned with them.

It seemed kind of funny and I'm sure the Candid Camera audience got a good laugh out of it, but the reality behind this is the scariest human trait we possess. That is, most of mankind will follow the leader or group even if it makes no sense or if it goes against every moral teaching they have ever been taught.

The second part of the feature had an experiment done with college students. Again they had an unsuspecting victim participating with a group of about a half dozen that knew what was going on. The group was shown a set of four lines and of the four there were two of equal length. They were then asked to pick the two lines that were equal. They showed the lines on TV and it was obvious which two were the correct match.

The next thing they did was to have the planted students all give the same wrong match. Then when it became the victim's turn you could tell he began to doubt what his eyes and reasoning were telling him. Some of the victims gave the right answer for a round or two but one by one each victim gave in and started giving the wrong answer as the right answer, even though he knew within himself that it was wrong.

The interesting thing about watching their faces on TV was that they all looked a little depressed when they started knowingly giving the wrong answers as right answers. It was almost like the poor kids were selling their souls.

Finally they showed the most alarming experiment of all authority which was conducted by Stanley Milgram way back in the sixties.

Milgram was curious about how a group of apparently normal people like the Germans could have participated in the Nazi atrocities which was against every moral teaching that they ever believed in. Their excuse was always the same: "I was just following orders."

Below is a description of the experiment:

When the "teacher" asked whether increased shocks should be given he/she was verbally encouraged to continue. Sixty-five percent of the "teachers" obeyed orders to punish the learner to the very end of the 450-volt scale! No subject stopped before reaching 300 volts!

At times, the worried "teachers" questioned the experimenter, asking who was responsible for any harmful effects resulting from shocking the learner at such a high level. Upon receiving the answer that the experimenter assumed full responsibility, teachers seemed to accept the response and continue shocking, even though some were obviously extremely uncomfortable in doing so.

What was interesting about watching this on Dateline was that when the subject hit the high voltage the pretended victim screamed like crazy and even said he had a bad heart and that the experiment was killing him.

The subject then turned to the authority as if asking what to do and the authority told him to continue. If the subject seemed to doubt the authority told him that he would take responsibility.

Then the subject continued to shock the supposed victim past 300 volts until he went silent. This indicated the victim was either unconscious or dead. Still the subject did not cease. He continued to increase the voltage clear up to 450 which would mean that if the victim was not dead yet this would surely kill him.

The interesting thing is that if this was a real happening, the subject would not only have killed another human being which was against every teaching that he believed in, but he would have also been brought up on murder charges. It is scary that even that possibility did not deter the subject from following authority.

The funny thing about these experiments is that the scientists predicted that only one out of a thousand would follow an authority to shock up to 450 volts, but 65% went that far and 100% of the subjects went up to 300 volts, which is still enough to kill.

Thus we have a great example of the willingness to follow blind authority no matter what the consequences.

The interesting thing is that very few people know themselves well enough to know whether or not they would administer the 300 or more volts to an innocent brother. Most would think that they would never do such a thing, but are they right? Remember, 100% of those in the experiment yielded to the authority.


People will easily accept things as scientific just as they accept what is God, in religion and spirituality. If it sounds good to them they will accept for themselves without any experience of a subject, relative truths, as fact. The world was once flat and that was the scientific belief.

To make generalizations against spiritual insights and endeavors as without merit is to deny the questioning of who we are, where we come from before physical birth and were we go afterward.
Science does not have the means to defeat the belief in God by proving God does not exist. And science has its own specializations as do the various religious affiliations.

The scientific approach to the underlying reality of matter is as old as man and tho western sciences do not accept the human experience as the means of measure, it does accept the experience of blind obedience to the approach of reality within borders. It is taught to every child in every school. The meaning of life is often bound by western sciences evolving attitude and discoveries pertaining to belief and opinions of the perceptions of man in its current state of evolution. Ego attaches itself to the idea that we are born and die and that is all there is to life.
The complexities of design within the universe that allow its unfolding is part and parcel to mans evolution physically and psychologically.
It wasn't that long ago we were burning people for being witches because they thought and acted independently of the superstitions of the day.
It would be nice if man could thru science overcome his own disparities of fear and superstition, but that would mean the loss of free will.
Consciousness creates all worlds for perception of the Self, and until one begins to discover the potential within consciousness itself, the world often becomes the authority of life.

I don't think anyone wants to believe the destructive tendencies of the world and the inability to feed and house humanity or to heal the diseases we incur is the reality of who we are. We created the world thru our beliefs, we are not a victim to it. Yet Science has not the means to discover what is in the heart of Man and why he will let his brother suffer and die.

People absorbed with identity are not infallible, and those who label themselves as an exclusive party to a process of definition, thinking that their definitions of themselves, life, and beliefs aren't subject to change, are deluded.


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The Quantum Theory as it is in spiritual science.(not exclusive to any belief, but inclusive to all of creation)

Principles of physics are involved in the study of the Quantum Theory. It is the theory of distribution of energy throughout nature. It was developed in the Berlin University as an outcome of investigation into radiation from black objects. This research resulted in the conclusion that all forms radiate a definite energy and that there is nothing in the world of form that is an inert mass. Every Form has within itself some degree of energy and this energy is a distinct emanation of the energy that fills infinite space. The amount of energy that each particular form radiates is in direct proportion to the relationship which it has with the Universal energy.

Just as a pendulum swings in a long or short arc according to the amount of force exerted to start it swinging, just so all forms retain the amount of active energy required in sending it forth. This energy is retained by the form just to the degree that it retains its relation to the energy which sent forth. If the pendulum stops, it is because the impelling force has ceased to exert influence upon it. Matter becomes less and less active as it loses some of its contact with the original impelling force which started it into motion. When the energy ceases to act within the form, the form disintegrates.

The lesson to be found in this explanation of the Quantum Theory offers unusual opportunity to impress upon the mind of the individual that fact that all of his lack is due to separating himself from the original first cause. Just as an electric motor stops when it is disconnected from an electrical current or a light goes out when the switch is turned off, so does man cease to function in just that degree when he separates himself from the spirit of God.

Metaphysically, this has much of vital importance to those of the Western world. The movement in the United States came under the depression and all that means is that there was no foundation in fact. That is, it was founded on only a half truth. There is fact as a basis for our metaphysics but that fact was overlooked and misunderstood by most of its exponents in the U.S.

When it comes to a matter of merely manipulating the world with thought, trying to demonstrate by the use of affirmation, man sooner or later exhausts his ability to achieve.
Only through deep meditation upon the oneness of all things, mans Unity with God, is his power revived so that he again returns to the position of power that is rightfully his. Man of himself can do nothing. It is the Spirit that quickens and, when his mind and nature are reanimated with the Spirit, his words and acts become alive and then only does he move with power.


The Eastern World, those of higher thought, have known the facts propounded in the Quantum Theory. They deal in brief, with one fact, that of the universality of all things and, consequently, in dealing with that one fact they have a definite basis for both science and metaphysics. The psychology of the Western world is mere childs play.
It is based to a great extent upon theory.
Whenever you deal with divisions of mental, material, and physical you are bound to base at least 75% of your calculations on theory.
Division is not Unity and Unity is not Division and the basis of all creation is that it is a unit. "I am that I am and beside me there is no other," is an eternal declaration of fact, which is the unity of all things. The direct violation of this fundamental unity is in considering the mind as having phases or faculties, when, in reality, the mind is a single unit, not only as within the individual but as existing in and of the universe. Material form is not something isolated from and independent of the universe but is one in and with the Universal substance. The physical body is not an isolated phase of the created scheme but is in and one with the Universal energy. To violate this fundamental unity is to isolate yourself in a hypnotic state where you seem to be a separate being and, therefore, you cut yourself off, devitalize yourself, and ultimately destroy your ability to further manifest in this plane. To deny the relationship of the visible with the invisible is to push yourself right out of your body into the invisible.

Eastern philosophy is not based upon theory at all. It is based upon a definite scientific fact or principle. That is the same idea that Einstein has brought out in the Quantum Theory. He has brought it out in greater evidence than has any other scientist in the Western world in his time. Many are saying that it is the gap between Science or Physics and true Religious thought.

The Easterner does not approach the matter of religious thought as theory at all. In fact, he proves that it is not theory. Thereby, he accomplishes that very fact and the possibilities involved in that fact. You do not see the Eastern philosophers pass out a theory of anything. Their basis is always in fact. It, of course, is not fact simply because they pronounce it so but because it has a scientific basis in fact. The fact was clearly revealed by Christ when he said, "I and my Father are ONE," preserving the unity of himself within the whole. That is the basis from which all successful living must evolve and it is only to the degree that this oneness is maintained by the individual that he begins to radiate the energy that sent him into being. This is the basis of the Quantum Theory as applied from the viewpoint of pure religion or pure metaphysics. And that is why the Eastern philosophers give so much attention to the Quantum Theory. They see the scientists of the world returning to the basis of their own religious thought held for thousands of years.

Einstein did not come right out and say that it is all Spirit. Consequently, it was urged that the physical or material was not a fact, but showed that it is based upon one point determination. He put it as one general Principle, co-relating all physics, as he said, under one head. That is exactly what those of higher Eastern thought had determined long ago-- that there is but ONE Principle, One scientific basis, and that basis one of Being.

It makes a vast difference to man whether he proceeds from a true or from an assumed or false hypothesis. The conclusions at which he arrives in his calculations depend upon the foundation or principle from which he moves. If that foundation is false, the conclusion must be false. As creation began in the great Universal Whole, man can find no substantial starting point for his own activities except from that same basis. One cannot adapt a principle to his own thought but he must adapt himself to the movement of principle and his thoughts must be evolved from that principle. In turn, his action must conform to that same principle and then, only, can he hope to have results forthcoming that are consistent with the fundamental nature.

Now the Western world does not go back and reason from that Principle. They work through to that Principle from the external, consequently it is not necessarily a true form of reasoning; that is, their form of reason is not truly scientific reason. All true reason works out from the Principle to its manifestation and not from the manifestation back to principle. Imagine trying to work a problem by reasoning back or trying to reason back to Principle by studying the size, shape, form and general construction of an accumulation of figures. The people of the Western world, in their attempt to solve the riddle of life, are doing that very thing. By this process they become highly mental or, as we put it, intellectual. And as we already know, their intellectual knowledge is always subject to revision for it does not prove itself. That is why one of our modern scientists has said that all written books on science prior to the last ten years should be burned. The Eastern is carried beyond the intellectual or the ordinary intellectual. Of course, true principle and reason from the basis of the One Fact is the highest form of intellect. But the hypothesis that the Eastern world takes puts it wholly on a true intellectual basis in carrying it to a clear conception.

The intellect of the Western world covers a wide range but comes to no absolute conclusion in its hypothesis or theories. All of the science of the Western world has been based upon that hypothesis or theory. The people of the Western world have progressed to the point where they know the existence of certain determining factors but they never go directly to the simple denominator of One Principle when handling fact. The Eastern philosophers have always based their premises upon one Natural Fact. And there you have the basis of the Quantum Theory. One Universal Fact from which all form emanates and operates as the animating force of the created form-the Universal distribution of energy.

These paragraphs involve the difference between true and false reason, between intelligent logic and false logic. We get our minds completely reversed when we work from the external or when we work merely for external results that we imagine will suit our own idea of things. There is an established order in the Universe and only through aligning ourselves with that natural order of things can we hope for satisfactory results.

The difference between the Adepts conception and the theory of Monism is that the latter eliminated all but the blind force of nature or creation. The spiritual scientists always considered it an active, intelligent force that knew what it was doing, an energetic force, and a force that did accomplish an intelligent creation that moved toward an intelligent purpose and that anyone who would work with the intelligence of that force could accomplish all things through it.

The force which designed and created the Universe could not be considered an unintelligent force or blind force moving without conscious direction. Electricity must be governed by intelligence in our everyday affairs, else we could not have light, heat and power resulting from it. Electricity by itself is a blind force but, subjected to the control of intelligence, it produces constructive results. So all creative force of the Universe must be subjected to the direction of intelligence, else there never could have been orderly creation.

The crux of the whole matter is therefore right knowledge. What we have called knowledge is past.
The True knowledge is outside of the senses.
The True basis of knowledge is to know the motivating force and the ends toward which it moves, as it is this motivating sense or the inward sense of the trend of the motivating force of the Universe that brought all things into existence in the beginning and will bring all things into being through that individual who senses and works in harmony with its purpose.

The True knowledge comes through samadhi or silence. It comes through an inner feeling or intuitive knowing. This is rightly what we call understanding. With all your getting, get understanding. When we obey what we inwardly feel, the accomplishment is achieved and then we have correct knowledge for it is based on the outworking of principle (the Absolute constant). This is the manner in which all true knowledge comes, not only in things spiritual, but in relation to the principles we use everyday. We discover certain principles, apply those principles, results are forthcoming, and from these results we formulate our knowledge.

When you take that knowledge completely out of the realm of hypnosis you get down to the fundamental fact or truth. Knowledge does not necessarily exist in the fundamental fact. The fact exists prior to and is greater than knowledge. Knowledge as the spiritual scientist puts it, comes directly from the expression of the fundamental fact.

Right knowledge comes through becoming so still that one feels within himself the movement of Universal Forces, "The Spirit of God." Its activity not only becomes a vitalizing influence but it awakens an understanding in the mind of man.
"The inspiration of the Almighty giveth understanding."
Just as you must first understand the operation of the principle of mathematics through quiet submission to the rule, so must you contemplate the action of Divine Principle until you understand its operations. Knowledge is the accumulation of ideas, and true knowledge would be the result of seeing the spirit of God made Manifest. Knowledge comes in the completion of a process. Understanding discerns the way towards results. (Guidance provides direction from understanding)



When the Bible says that "the flesh profiteth nothing" it does not say that the flesh is nothing. It has no reality except that which is of the Spirit which produced it. The flesh is not a producer; it does not produce anything for it is the thing produced. It is the Spirit which produces. Flesh is Spirit in form, as we put it. We do not make any distinction between flesh and Spirit or material and spiritual. Consequently it is all one and the same to the spiritual scientist and that is where we accomplish. The Word made flesh is the true spiritual form.

Faith is the active principle of the mind. The mind acting upon inner knowing or understanding ripens into knowledge or becomes absolute knowledge. Spiritual intuition is direct knowing; it is tapping the infinite consciousness directly at its source. This power of direct knowing is born in every individual. Some manifest it earlier in life, chiefly because they are less hypnotized. That is, the less one is subjected to the supposed knowledge of the race, which is really ignorance, the more readily does that one follow what he instinctively knows and feels to be true. It is within the individual always and must be brought out.

Faith is the means through which principle is discerned and applied. First, faith is resting the mind of its own activities to gain new impetus. Secondly, it is relying on that impetus until it produces results. Faith is a sort of mental transformer whereby unaccomplished things or un-manifest powers are brought to manifestation.

Jesus said, "I have nothing save that which comes in the name and through the power of Christ," putting himself in direct receptivity to spiritual intuition at all times. What Jesus did was really a lesson in how each man should proceed in every phase of life. That you might be one with the Father even as he was one with the Father, and his contact was always through the Christ, The Word of God, that is the inner fact of all men. "Christ is all and in all" and Christ is the inner reality of each individual. (Hence all are Adepts {Christed} when Self realized)

The secret of Jesus' power was in his complete reliance upon what he felt moving in his deepest nature and which he called the Father within. The law of God is written in your inward parts, and to outwardly obey what is moving within is to bring the inner capacity into outer manifestation. That which moves in the deepest side of mans nature is the inward action of the Universal Principal.

There is only one kind of intuition just as there is only one kind of physical sight. You can, through your eyes, look toward and discover anything you wish. You may look for beauty and ugliness and use the same sight. One is desirable and the other undesirable. You may train your intuition to search out the determining principle and its operations; you can train it into psychic planes and find out what is going on there; or you can train in on your neighbor and discover his secret thought and motives. Bit, intuition turned in any other direction than to discover the operations of the Principle itself is perversion of this sense back of all senses and hypnosis is the result, for it clouds the clear perception of the individual.
The only way to escape any degree of hypnosis is to train the intuition into channels of direct knowing. This is the path of light and any perversion of the intuitive sense is the path of darkness.

Intuition is only another avenue through which consciousness may be increased. Through intuition one gains the inner facts of life. Trained to the Omniscience of God or the all-enfolding intelligence (Absolute), man can understand anything or any situation from the viewpoint of absolute knowing.

The old theory of occultism that the senses must be destroyed or killed or reversed is not in accordance with teachings of the pure scientific philosophy. We say that all is Spirit, that the senses are Spirit but must be so used and their true spiritual significance preserved. They become avenues of expression of that which the intuition learns as coming from the Spirit. This direct knowing is also direct manifestation. If we would accept that fact which is revealed in Principle, that fact would be immediately manifest to us. It is just that easy. The Western intellect has simply submerged it in its complexities.

The outer senses are avenues or outlets through which we express inward knowledge to the outward world. The outer senses should not be condemned or destroyed. In doing so you would destroy your outlets into the world. See to it that the function of your whole being lines up with the innermost tendencies of your nature until you express what you are in the sight of God

When you rightly understand the nature of what you call matter as pure Spirit substance, then you can see just why this is true. The spiritual scientists say "compress the cube and you have a different substance. Expand it and you have a different substance." You do not define this as material or physical substance, as in the compression or expansion you do not change its nature, but only the relative position of the atoms. Water or ice is just as much H2O, regardless of its form, and this power of expansion and contraction is the fourth dimension of it. Likewise, the power of extending anything from one magnitude to another by the simple rearrangement of the atoms is its fourth dimension and does not change its inherent character. If all things are made of spiritual substance, there is no dividing line between what we have called Spirit and its manifestation. Only when man is under a state of hypnosis does he imagine that there is something besides the unity of all things and the oneness of all things. Through this state of hypnosis he imposes false influences into form and these distortions are the fabrications of his own ignorance.

To know the true nature of all things, not as separated or isolated divisions, but as one and the same thing in different stages of progression, is to be possessed of the power and dominion that belongs to you as a product of One First Cause(To inherit your Birthright)


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Rejection of "authority" as an excuse to use scientific terminology in non-scientific ways. Well, that's certainly never been tried before.

Blathering nonsense is easier than doing real science, and to the person who doesn't understand anything of consequence about the actual science, for example, legitimate discussions about quantum mechanics are probably indistinguishable from their own inane ramblings.

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Originally Posted By: TheFallibleFiend
Rejection of "authority" as an excuse to use scientific terminology in non-scientific ways. Well, that's certainly never been tried before.

Blathering nonsense is easier than doing real science, and to the person who doesn't understand anything of consequence about the actual science, for example, legitimate discussions about quantum mechanics are probably indistinguishable from their own inane ramblings.


Rejection of authority?... Now that's dramatic. I suppose I could expect that.
Blathering nonsense regarding boundaries of exclusivity, when detailing science and non science is easily distinguishable in regards to expanded awareness and experience of reality.

Obviously you can't force the intellect to expand beyond its boundaries.

Those with the eyes to see... and the ears to hear....


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Zephir wrote:
"You're pretending, you've something to say about subject, while you can only parotte foreign ideas. Are you coming from East Asia or some collectivistic country?"


Am I alone in finding this a very offensive statement and question?

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"Rejection of authority?... Now that's dramatic"
Apparently you do not actually read the screeds that you cut-n-paste.

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Originally Posted By: TheFallibleFiend
"Rejection of authority?... Now that's dramatic"
Apparently you do not actually read the screeds that you cut-n-paste.
I read and I comprehend what is behind the script and the direction and intention of the message.
In order to understand the attachment to authority one does not try to reject the dysfunctional behavior because that only rubs the wound. When you understand the dysfunctional tendency to believe everything you hear or read from some source that is democratically proposed as truth you give up the refined cognitive functions of intuition in the awareness of reality.
Or simply put, accepting something as truth without the extended experience, mindless interpretation and belief.
There is no thing, good or bad that is not of interpretation and belief. Separating good from evil or visa versa, perpetuates illusion and you become part of the problem you identify with.

You aren't really understanding the read....Understanding comes with evolving consciousness.
Hence the term evolution has a spiritual side in that what we see as change in the outer world is relevant, or reflected by the change that is realized in the inner awareness of self and reality.


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"You aren't really understanding the read....Understanding comes with evolving consciousness."
Yea. It's completely obvious that your, like, advanced intelligence puts you on a completely different plane of existence and consciousness.

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Originally Posted By: TheFallibleFiend
"You aren't really understanding the read....Understanding comes with evolving consciousness."
Yea. It's completely obvious that your, like, advanced intelligence puts you on a completely different plane of existence and consciousness.
Claiming to know the truth is not the same thing as actually knowing the truth. Many people claim to know mutually exclusive truths. This brings us to a fundamental difference between real and pretend knowledge - the actual search for truth as opposed to an attempt to confirm one's Ego.


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"...attempt to confirm one's Ego."
The same prodigious humility that makes you assert that you have truth is what allows you to 'write' that sentence with a straight face.

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