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The Will to Become ....................................................................... 1

The River of Life (A Poem) ........................................................... 4Facets of Inquiry ........................................................................... 5

Infinity (A Poem) ........................................................................ 12

Theosophy in Contemporary Trends ........................................... 13

Introduction............................................................................. 15

Natures Hidden ArtLactobacillicum Bulgaricum................. 17

Expanding BoundariesUnfolding Doctrinesin Cycles of Time .................................................................. 22

Right Livelihood....................................................................... 26

Contrast (A Poem) ..................................................................29

String TheoryThe Theory of Everything ........................... 30

Cosmological Patterns ............................................................. 35

Beyond Theology (A Poem) ......................................................... 40

On the Lookout ........................................................................... 41

Correlates (A Poem) ................................................................... 50

Gleanings from Historical Journals ............................................. 51

Volume 92

Winter 2003-2004

Theosophy is a student journal and reflects a variety of minds. Its

articles express a cornucopia of thought inspired primarily from a study

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THE WILL TO BECOMETHE WILL TO BECOMETHE WILL TO BECOMETHE WILL TO BECOMETHE WILL TO BECOME

Will is the manifestation or action of the real humanEgo, its central animating force. Will operating under thecondition of attention upon the chaos of its attendantworld, and co-ordinating the energies, forces andmovements of that world, converts it into a realm of form,power, and purpose, centering around the Ego.

This constitutes Personal Evolution resulting at lengthin a perfected Individuality, the creation of its own Will.

Lucifer, 1888 *

INVISIBLE Willoffspring of the Divinebrings intoexistence all that is seen and unseen, and this we havenamed God for lack of a better term. Will is a universal

and spiritual power, which is constantly present in everyportion of our universe. As a force, it is colorless, neithergood nor bad and manifests on every plane and through everykingdom of nature whether it be human, mineral, or animal.

During sustained attention the Will focuses the rays ofconsciousness, along with all their inherent dynamic force,upon a circumscribed area, physiological, mental or moral,

as the case may be. And, this is where the human work is tobe done.

Mind and Will are the tools needed to accomplish the greatwork of nature, that of refinement. In refining our own

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natures, we simultaneously refine the courser impressionspreviously imprinted upon the lower kingdoms. As westrengthen our will, we begin to find that our personal desireslessena natural result whenever we identify with the greaterpurpose of our existence. When we refer to Spiritual Will,we are not speaking of a special kind of will, since there isactually no higher or lower will, but are, in fact, referring tothe desire which lies behind its manifestation. At the Cosmiclevel, there is no difference between will and desire. Desirein its widest application is merely the creative force of theuniverse and is the agent which becomes the carrier of desire.

Desire and will are absolute creators, forming the man andhis surroundings. Since will is devoid of moral qualities, thatquality must be added by man, who can separate the wisefrom the brute. This, however, requires knowledge andconcentration. Concentrated attention is the intentness ofmental vision. Since the will is the central manifestation ofthe Real Human Ego, it must be brought into play in orderto maintain attention.

There are both internal and external factors that bear uponthe development of will power. One essential factor is theconviction that Soul Knowledge is attainable. And, that thisknowledge is gained by a continued effort to expand ourintuition. Actually, intuition existed in humankind before thedevelopment of reason, functioning, however, more asspiritual instinct. When we engage the action of this

rediscovered soul faculty, we become increasingly morecapable of verifying the ancient wisdom for ourselves. Thisis aided by the use of our human intellect. The pursuit ofknowledge, based upon intuition, in conjunction withpractical efforts to act, according to our best discernment,makes the teachings self-evident. Thus, knowledge becomes

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transformed into intent or motive. The force of this intent isat the core of what is referred to as the image making powerof mind. This is why it is said that in Cosmos desire and willare the same. It is at this level that Divine Mind imprintsDivine Intent (acquired wisdom or Buddhi) upon the canvasof life, thereby creating an unfolding (or emanative) imagefor a new period of evolution. Whenever we strive toassimilate soul wisdom, we self-consciously participate in thisprocess. In this way, we strengthen our will by making ourpersonal nature a true Egoic agent, accomplishing what isnormally done during devachanic interludes.

As our personal selves increasingly lend themselves to thebehest of the Ego, we become capable of evoking the powersof that Egoic consciousness. This is what H.P.B. referred toas WIL L-PRAYER or an internal command in The Key toTheosophy. Thus, the Ego, Our Father in Secret, is evokednot petitioned via an evolved will. She goes on to define thisWILL-PRAYER:

It is a mystery rather; an occult process by which finiteand conditioned thoughts and desires, unable to beassimilated by the absolute spirit which is unconditioned,are translated into spiritual wills and the will; such processbeing called spiritual transmutation. The intensity ofour ardent aspirat ions changes prayer into thephilosophers stone, or that which transmutes lead intopure gold. The only homogeneous essence, our will-prayer becomes the active or creative force, producingeffects according to our desire.Will-Power becomes aliving power. (The Key to Theosophy, pp. 68-9.)

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THE RIVER OF LIFETHE RIVER OF LIFETHE RIVER OF LIFETHE RIVER OF LIFETHE RIVER OF LIFE

Life is like a riverSlowly meandering to the ever-waiting ocean.

Its cargo more vast and variedThan imagination can conceive.Flowing to and from regions beyond knowing,Flowing everywhere.

Carrying a changing, ever-living load,Everlastingly in the ocean of eternity,Within an all-embracing pattern,Forever flowing.

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HHHHHOWOWOWOWOWDOESDOESDOESDOESDOESTHETHETHETHETHEINTELLECTINTELLECTINTELLECTINTELLECTINTELLECTAFFECTAFFECTAFFECTAFFECTAFFECTSPIRITUALITYSPIRITUALITYSPIRITUALITYSPIRITUALITYSPIRITUALITY?????

Like naturalists who have known that all the beauty of lifecan be seen in a single blade of grass, philosophers and

mystics have long claimed that we do not need to travel farto discover inner spirituality. In Chapter 47 of the Tao TeChing (an ancient Chinese text ascribed to Lao-Tzu, translatedhere by Stan Rosenthal): The Tao may be known andobserved without the need of travel; the way of the heavensmight be well seen without looking through a window. Thefurther one travels, the less one knows. Similarly, Tolstoy isreputed to say, The more we live by the intellect, the less we

know the meaning of life.

The question of how intellect affects spirituality is manyfaceted. Mind, or the thinking principle, is at work, but whoor what thinks? The reincarnating being, the immortal partof us, follows the path of discovery. In The Key to Theosophy(pp.183-84), H.P. Blavatsky calls the real Ego individualizedthought, that which informs the mind. What is the nature

of the intellect in this formula? Tension in the intellectualpursuit of spiritual development is not easily resolved intheosophical discussions, which in themselves can appearhighly intellectual, particularly to newcomers. In theosophicalstudy groups world round, conversation about spiritualendeavor strains under the weight of logic and analysis. Yet,

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Along these facets of inquiry, several theosophical studentsweigh the question of intellect and its effect on spirituality:

DIVINE WILLDIVINE WILLDIVINE WILLDIVINE WILLDIVINE WILL

The teachings of theosophy posit a dual universe, with aspiritual component and a material component. Because theuniverse itself is dual, everything in it is dual as wellincluding man, including mind, and including that aspect ofmind known as intellect. (The dictionary defines intellect asthe faculty of mind by which one knows or understands, asdistinguished from that by which one feels or wills. It is the

capacity for thinking and acquiring knowledge.) The dualfacets of intellect correspond to the two aspects of mind or,in Sanskrit, manaslower and higher.

In The Ocean of Theosophy (p. 54), Wm. Q. Judge explainsthe difference: Lower manas uses the human brain to reasonfrom premises to conclusions. Higher manas uses intuition,which knows and does not depend on reason. The lower

intellect is nearest to the principle of kama (desire) and, ifnot guided by the higher intellect, tends downward andbecomes cold, heartless and selfish. The higher intellect isclosest to the two highest principles in our naturebuddhi(spiritual insight) and atma (spirit itself, the deity within).

The purpose of life is to fulfill the will of the divine sparkthat shines at the center of our being. All our powers and

faculties are intended to be used for that end. The divinewill is eternally emitting the message of love and compassion.Ideally, the higher intellect receives its bidding from the spiritwithin and smoothly and efficiently conveys it to the lowerintellect, which promptly and accurately passes the messageon to the rest of the lower nature where it is translated into

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happens, the intellect enhances the flow of spirituality ontothe plane of action.

Unfortunately, in most people today that spiritual pathway

is disrupted. The higher intellect cannot convey thepromptings of the inner divinity to the lower intellect, becausethat intellect is so thoroughly engrossed in the pursuit ofsense gratification, ego aggrandizement, wealth accumulation,and all the other countless selfish desires. Exquisitely sensitiveto every noise of the material world, the lower intellect isutterly deaf to the voice of the silence within. Without thebeneficent influence of its higher guide, it transmits its fiery,

tumultuous but oh-so-paltry message of selfishness to therest of the lower nature where it takes the form of anger,greed, envy, harsh words and hurtful acts. In this case, theintellect blocks the flow of spirituality onto this plane of action.

To restore the human condition to one of harmony andbalance, a two-fold mutually supportive effort must beundertaken. The higher intellect must once again become

dominant and assume its proper role as guardian of the lowerintellect. The lower intellect must surrender its selfish willand allow itself to become subservient to the higher intellect.This is what has been fully accomplished by the great mastersof wisdom, in whom the powers of the higher and the lowerintellect have been entirely developed and, in concert, madethe happy and efficient transmitters of the divine will of thedeity that shines in their own hearts and in the hearts of all

creatures.

SPIRITUAL GROWTHSPIRITUAL GROWTHSPIRITUAL GROWTHSPIRITUAL GROWTHSPIRITUAL GROWTH

It has been said that anyone who can produce a work suchas TheSecret Doctrine must have an enormous intellect. What

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There seems to be an underlying or implied quality that issomewhat incomplete as well as nebulous in this reference.The course of evolution has placed humanity at the stagewhere manas, or mind, is incarnating but has not fully doneso at this time. The principle of mind manifests a quality orpower that is not yet complete. How then are we tounderstand the seeming contradictions that are expressedthrough the various ramifications of intellect?

In occultism, the mind is dual, with reason at the low endand illuminated expression at the highest level. This suggestsdifferent degrees of conscious awareness. We have the power

of reason because of the incarnation of mind throughevolution. The mind has the power of choice but the qualityof these choices depends on the degree of influence the moralor Buddhic nature is allowed to exercise in the process.Ignorance is better than head learning without soul wisdomto illuminate and guide it (Voice of the Silence, p. 28). Thisduality of mind is expressed further in TheSecret Doctrine(Stanza VII, ii 163):

Great intellect and too much knowledge is a two-edgedweapon in life, and instruments for evil as well as forgood. When combined with Selfishness, they will makeof the whole of Humanity a footstool for the elevation ofhim who possesses them, and a means for the attainmentof his objects; while, applied to altruistic humanitarianpurposes, they may become the means of the salvation ofmany. At all events, the absence of self-consciousness andintellect will make of man an idiot, a brute in human form.

Every soul therefore must mount the ladder of being andjourney with discrimination, from testimony to hypotheticalopinion; then by dialectic to first principles and by self-visiveenergy or divine reason to direct perception, which Patanjali

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Aphorisms of Patanjali). When direct perceptions are broughtback consciously and shared with humanity, they contributeto the realization of truth by all and a harmonious head andheart motivated by compassion is the way to this realization.

CULCULCULCULCULTIVTIVTIVTIVTIVAAAAATING GENIUSTING GENIUSTING GENIUSTING GENIUSTING GENIUS

The human intellect is a faculty that distinguishes us fromother forms of life, making it an important component ofour progress or evolution. We are thinkers and live in ourthoughts to a great extent. The human intellect is that aspectof the mind, according to theosophical teaching, that is

connected to and dependent on the body, more specificallythe brain. It is made of perceptive and retentive facultiesyet of finite memory (HPB article, Genius). It needscultivation if not to become confused and unreliable. This isin distinction to the higher mind, which does not needcultivation per se, but is illuminated by our immortal soulfrom within. We see this mind at work in the faculties wecall conscience and intuition. Direct perception of a truthwithout the use of the usual brain intellect that demandscollecting of facts, comparison, categorization, logic, etc., wesee expressed in the music of a Mozart at a young age withvirtually no prior training or even the ongoing testaments ofmany scientists whose breakthroughs in their fields first comethrough a flash of intuition while awake or in dream. It is afterthat they often spend years through the use of intellect in

experimentation and observation proving to others, accordingto scientific method, what they already know to be true.

It is through the intellect that we come into contact withthe outside world via the five senses. But how we make senseor meaning out of all this has to do with the ideas that wehold about ourselves and life in general Since all the ideas

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and conclusions based on logic, derived from surfaceexperience, or from intuitive perception reflecting theuniversal truths of lifewe need a way to discern one fromthe other. This is where a philosophy like theosophy can bea real aid to us. It becomes apparent that the intellect is anamoral faculty that is dual, like fire which can burn or warm,and can be used for good or evil purposes, aiding us in ourevolutionary journey toward light and understanding oreclipsing our spiritual faculties and blinding us to the deeperrealities of being. A true philosophy accounting for all ourinner and outer faculties is essential to our understanding of

ourselves. At its best, the intellect is the tool we use toeventually bring higher insights into the realm of worldlyknowledge bridging the gap between the spiritual andmaterial life.

In less complex and less technological times, there was notsuch an emphasis on the intellect. People were naturally morein tune with nature; they couldnt help but be more dependenton the natural cycles to give them their cues in life. But with

the highly artificial environments we have created today, wevelost the seeming necessity for this kind of knowledge andawareness. One expression of this is our preoccupation withanalysis and specialization. Our intellectual development hasits positive and negative consequences. On the one hand, wehave filled a great data bank concerning all sorts of things.Yet with all our so-called knowledge, we find the world inmoral crisis. Our intellectual evolution seems to have stuntedour moral progress. And so we see our intellectual prowessbeing applied to how we can build more destructive weaponsor how to invent more powerful chemical medicines ratherthan how to solve our problems without killing each other.Our out-of-control use of oil, electricity, chemicals of all sorts,h d h f h d h l h

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cancer rate as well as dependence on mind and mood-alteringdrugs tells the story. Also, the attempts by the advertisingindustry to psychologize us into thinking we need certainproducts to have a happy and meaningful life is a deviant

use of our powers of intellect.

The intellect is also used on behalf of a better more civilizedworld. It is the intellect that designs beautiful public spaceslike the new Disney Center for the performing arts in LosAngeles. It is intellect that tailors human and equitable publicpolicy and that creates almost everything that celebrates life.When we allow it to be informed in the spirit of the oneness

of life through the higher impulses of the heart and the visionsof the spiritualized mind (buddhi-manas) and not theconglomeration of lower impulses that clutch and claw atthe earth then the intellect is truly an instrument of spiritualprogress.

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INFINITYINFINITYINFINITYINFINITYINFINITY

Eternal Spirit dwells within Eternal Space,

And with all that inhabits that measureless place.

Of the total evolvement, most superior is man.

Between right and wrong are choices,

Make them only he can.

A creature of spirit and matter he is

With mind that can soar beyond angels,

Sink to the lowest depthsthe choice is his.

CHOOSE LIFE. Live, be merciful. Give.

Man helps throughout the eons.

From God to gods and man and nature, From themback to God again.

Following forever this eternal plan.

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THEOSOPHY INTHEOSOPHY INTHEOSOPHY INTHEOSOPHY INTHEOSOPHY INCONTEMPORARCONTEMPORARCONTEMPORARCONTEMPORARCONTEMPORARY TRENDSY TRENDSY TRENDSY TRENDSY TRENDS

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The human mind approaches meaning in many ways.Sometimes it proceeds by searching and studying nature in asystematic manner conforming to particular rules; sometimesit gathers and coordinates natural or intuited truthsintellectually; sometimes it plumbs the depths of inner reality,exploring through its mystical and transcendental capacities.In their lower expressions these threescience, philosophy,and spiritualitycan all be divisive and dogmatic; in theirpurity of expression all three can lead toward truth and havethe capacity to uncover and encourage a universal ethic.Perhaps combined, a synergy benefiting humanity may farexceed any one discipline alone. Today, as always, sciencestands on the verge of an enormous divide: whether to seeits role as an agent for the material betterment of society orfor the far-reaching betterment of humanity and all nature,

inner and outer.Sunrise magazine, 2003,

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INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION

Throughout history, timeless ideas have taken ontemporary forms that reflect the power of ideas in humanaffairs. H.P. Blavatsky was aware of the seed-like natureof spiritual knowledge, as evidenced by the followingexcerpts from her writings. Taken individually as well ascollectively, they form a powerful koan-like basis for

individual reflection, as well as an understanding ofotherwise seemingly and isolated events.

From HPBs article The Mind in Nature:

Revolutions of the physical world are, according to theancient doctrine, attended by like revolutions in the worldof intellect, for the spiritual evolution in the universe proceedsin cycles, like the physical one. Do we not see in history a

regular alternation of ebb and flow in the tide of humanprogress? Do we not see in history, and even find this withinour own experience, that the great kingdoms of the world,after reaching the culmination of their greatness, descendagain, in accordance with the same law by which theyascended? Until, having reached the lowest point, humanityreasserts itself and mounts up once more, the height of itsattainment being, by this law of ascending progression bycycles, somewhat higher than the point from which it hadbefore descended. Kingdoms and empires are under the samecyclic laws as planets, races, and everything else in Kosmos.

An age of great inspiration and unconscious productivenessis invariably followed by an age of criticism and

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critical intellect of the other. The moment is more opportunethan ever for the review of old philosophies. Archaeologists,philologists, astronomers, chemists and physicists are gettingnearer and nearer to the point where they will be forced to

consider them.

The day is approaching when the world will receive theproofs that only ancient religions were in harmony withnature, and ancient science embraced all that can be known.

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NANANANANATURES HIDDEN ARTURES HIDDEN ARTURES HIDDEN ARTURES HIDDEN ARTURES HIDDEN ARTTTTT

LACTOBACILLICUM BULGARICUMLACTOBACILLICUM BULGARICUMLACTOBACILLICUM BULGARICUMLACTOBACILLICUM BULGARICUMLACTOBACILLICUM BULGARICUM

ART by nature is forward looking, iconoclastic andvisionary. It is no wonder that most of what weconsider great art today was not accepted in its

own time. Artists seem to be ahead of the curve by at least

one generation. In our own time the borders of art, commerceand mediocre commercialism are blurred. Artist as superstarhad no place during the renaissance, the Golden age of Greeceor at the time of the creation of the epic architecture of AncientEgypt. In ancient times art addressed the spiritual side oflife, grappled with the perennial questions concerning themeaning of things and serious artists who are always in theminority do so in the present. Real art expresses and preservesthe spiritual aspirations of the human race.

What is honest, original, visionary seems to also becontroversial because it shakes up the status quo, confrontsus, makes us think, doesnt allow us to lean back on ourpreconceptions about life, and is irreverent to the entrenchedorthodoxies of the time. And this does not only apply to artbut also in the world of ideas, scientific as well as

philosophical. Not only were artists like Michelangelo,Beethoven, Monet controversial when they were current butscientists and thinkers like Copernicus, Galileo, Paracelsus,Mesmer, Bruno, faced ridicule and were often in danger oflosing their lives. We are lucky today to live, in some ways,i li h d i h id b f l d

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One of the basic tenets of Theosophy, as presented by H.P.Blavatsky, its primary modern messenger, (1841-1891) is thatthere are certain universal truths of life which are unchangingin essence but that are always being reconfigured in theirexpression Not only is change inevitable on our plane of

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concerning our purpose and goal in the evolutionary process.We tend to mistake the expression for the truth it clothes,the ritual for the reality. The greater the fluidity of expressionthe less the chance for dogmatism, fanaticism and darkness.

All the codified isms strewn across history, religious andscientific, political and philosophic, mere shells of what theyonce contained have lost touch by degrees with their originalinspiration. New eras of human history, new insights intonature and ourselves, the unlocking, layer by layer, of themysteries of matter demand changing formulations,applications and expressions of the human intellect as wellas the exercise of our moral nature in times of complexityand intensity which demand a fresh evaluation ofcircumstances, relationships and goals.

The possibility for a truly vital spiritual expression ofhumanity through the arts is like never before. With thepresent technologies, the conscious interconnections betweencountries, continents, ideas and cultures, there is anopportunity of moving in the direction of merging the

distinctive colors of the rainbow so to speak back into whitelight. Life moves from a state of homogeneity into diversityand experience back toward a state of oneness. This is a basicpattern of reality in motion the in-breathing and out-breathing of everything in the cosmos. H.P. Blavatsky statesin section six of her Key To Theosophy:

We believe in no creation, but in the periodical and

consecutive appearances of the universe from thesubjective on to the objective plane of being, at regularintervals of time, covering periods of immense duration.

Recently in Brooklyn we had the good luck to witness aperformance that is an expression of what might be calledthe art of synthesis in the arts a performance that includes a

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a mesmerizing kaleidoscope of color, sound, vision,movement and speech, blending the seven arts. Althoughthe performance is a feast for the senses, it is much more; itis based on spiritual and philosophical ideas that go far back

in time. To quote Antonia Katrandjieva, the writer, directorand choreographer ofLactobacillicum Bulgaricum:

LBB is an experimental multicultural spectacle,promoting the rich diversity of cultures and nationalidentities bubbling in the Babylonian pot of New YorkCity. The trilingual dramatic text seeks to extend beyondthe lingual barriers of our verbal communication networkand to reach a universal meaning in the context of worldglobalization.

The script is based on expressions of the WisdomTradition ranging from the Chinese I Ching (Book OfChanges), the teachings of Buddha,Agni Yoga by Helena andNicholas Roerich, Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine by H.P.Blavatsky woven through by Thracian and Slavic mythology.

Ms. Katrandjieva explains in the playbill that literallyLactobacillicum Bulgaricum is the bacteria that facilitates thefermentation of milk into yogurt; in a metaphorical sense, itis the ferment of a new human species that signifies thenatural shift from the act of being to the act of becoming.She goes on to point out that:

The performance portrays the process of convertingmilk into yogurt through the ancient Chinese philosophic

and spiritual doctrine The Book Of Changes, according towhich the world represents a repetition of events, causedby the interaction of the forces of light and darknessthrough the major stages of human evolutioncreation,preservation and destruction. Man is an intermediarybetween earth and sky, subjected to the laws of periodicity

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impermanence. The performance traces the permanentvalues in this impermanent world.

Antonia Katrandjieva is co-founder of the Overground ArtsAlliance along with her husband Swami Agung. The alliancebegan in Zurich, Switzerland in 1996 but is now based inBrooklyn, New York. It has as a kind of manifesto a statementby the Russian visionary artist Nicholas Roerich:

Art will unify all humanity. Art is an indivis ible part ofspirituality, culture and education. Art has many branches,yet all are one. Art is the manifestation of the comingsynthesis. The gates of the Sacred Source must be wide

opened for everybody and the light of art will influencenumerous hearts with new love. At first this feeling willbe unconscious but at last it will purify humanconsciousness. And how many young hearts are searchingfor something real and beautiful, so give it to them. Bringart to the people where it belongs. We should not onlyhave museums, theatres, universities, public libraries,railway stations and hospitals, but even prisons decoratedand beautified. Then we shall have no more prisons.

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EXPEXPEXPEXPEXPANDING BOUNDARIESANDING BOUNDARIESANDING BOUNDARIESANDING BOUNDARIESANDING BOUNDARIES

UNFOLDING DOCTRINES IN CYCLES OF TIMEUNFOLDING DOCTRINES IN CYCLES OF TIMEUNFOLDING DOCTRINES IN CYCLES OF TIMEUNFOLDING DOCTRINES IN CYCLES OF TIMEUNFOLDING DOCTRINES IN CYCLES OF TIME

Time is only an illusion produced by the succession ofour states of consciousness as we travel through eternalduration...The present is only a mathematical line whichdivides that part of eternal duration which we call thefuture, from that part which we call the past (SD, 37).

IN pondering theosophical doctrines one encountersideas rooted in principles that reach beyond finalboundaries. Since universal truth cannot be limited

to any final form, the path to real knowledge calls forindividual progressive awakenings with no conceivable end.For example, when people seriously contemplate the doctrineof endless cycles of time within eternal duration, the mindmoves and stretches at every turn. As the result of such mentaleffort, the necessary presence of a timeless background maygrow into a self-evident reality. Consider the following byWm. Q. Judge:

A fundamental axiom in Theosophy is that no oneshould accept as unquestionably true any statement offact, principle, or theory which he has not tested for

himself. This does not exclude a reasonable reliance upontestimony; but only that blind credulity which sometimespasses for faith. As we understand the rule, it is that weshould at all times keep a clear and distinct boundarybetween what we know, and what we only acceptprovisionally on the testimony of those who have had

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which we can see its truth. We owe it to ourselves toenlarge the sphere of clear knowledge and to push backas far as possible the boundary of opinion and hypothesis.(Judge Articles i, 209.)

Although the search for truth is an individual undertaking,one does not proceed entirely alone. For a measure of orientation,we look to the chronology of the Brahmins, which places the

progress of our fifth race humanity shortly past the mid-point ofthe present Great Age. A Great Age covers the whole ofBrahmas life, bringing together the incredible overarching spanof seven Rounds, comprising 311,040,000,000,000Earth years.To be more specific, we are currently in the fifth root Race ofthe fourth Round of the current Great Age. It should not betoo surprising, then, to find that today most people live withsensory limitations. This means that we currently endure agreat deal of unrealized potential. We remain partially blind,although this need not always be.

As suggested above, our senses (physical and spiritual alike)unveil only a portion of what may be experienced. Still there

are exceptions. The broad ranging awareness developed byAdepts allows them to perceive hidden causes as a naturalattainment of their highly developed natures. Yet, as anincarnating Host, the self-induced work and effort ofhumanity remains far from finished.

The familiar aphorism Behind Will stands Desire stronglysuggests that if we are to further develop there is an

evolutionary need for self-discipline. Under Karma, onlythose inner senses people consciously desire to possess unfoldas functioning faculties. From a state of pure potential, thespiritual will transforms into a potent force when stirred anddirected by a concentrated mind. But to discipline the mindto this degree may require many lifetimes So for most people

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the inner spiritual bond that unifies the great chain of being.The true relationship between the Microcosm (individualhuman beings) and the Macrocosm (the Universe) remainslargely unperceived and, therefore, largely unknown.

Since most people lack the necessary sensory faculties to seebeyond todays norm, a practical alternative for expandinghorizons is needed. How, for example, can people confirmtheir intuitive sense of universal brotherhood? HPB offers that:

Everything in the Universe follows analogy. As above,so below; Man is the microcosm of the Universe. Thatwhich takes place on the spiritual plane repeats itself on

the Cosmic plane. Concretion follows the lines ofabstraction; corresponding to the highest must be thelowest; the material to the spiritual. Thus, correspondingto the Sephirothal Crown (or upper triad) there are threeelemental Kingdoms, which precede the Mineral, andwhich, using the language of the Kabalists, answer in theCosmic differentiation to the worlds of Form and Matterfrom the Super Spiritual to the Archetypal (SD i, 177).

The reality of universal patterns validates analogy andcorrespondence. This method provides a practical means ofverifying intuitions and serves to strengthen metaphysicalthought. It grants people the power, which in fact they alreadypossess, to move into unperceived realms. Analogy andcorrespondence provides a path that leads from what ispresent and known to what is obscured and unknown. Usingthe mind in such a way offers a tool not limited by current

conditions or perceptions, allowing one to explore the outerreaches of both innerand outer space.

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RIGHT LIVELIHOODRIGHT LIVELIHOODRIGHT LIVELIHOODRIGHT LIVELIHOODRIGHT LIVELIHOOD

At the same time with these social or material cycles, thereare corresponding ones on a higher plane. One is quite easyto trace. It is the influence of Eastern metaphysics upon the

Western mind. This higher cycle had been revolving for manyyears among the Orientals before we came within its power.Our falling under it is due to a physical cycle as a means.

That one which is represented in the progress of trade, ofscience, of means for transportation. In this way thephilosophical system of India and Tibet has begun to affectus, and no man can calculate its course.

Wil liam Q. Judge CyclesThe Path, December, 1889

THE Buddhists have long included Right Livelihood

among their precepts for overcoming suffering andattaining enlightenment. But what does it mean to

students of Theosophy? Most of us have to live in the world,work for a living, raise families and follow the best practicaladvice we can find on an increasingly large number of issues.All sorts of questions plague us, from the abstractly metaphysicalto the drearily routine. Here are a couple of hopefulindications that true, spiritual values are finding practicalexpression in our world, and that Judges words quoted aboveare not idle fancy.

Can consumers, businesses and communities operate on ahigher level than just economic greed? BALLE: BusinessAlliance for Local Li ing Economics a Deming Washington

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Their slogan, Building Economies for the Common Good,is kept viable through workshops, a speakers bureau, aninternet-based marketplace, and an annual nationalconference. While there are literally thousands of business

alliances and promotional groups on the Internet, this is onethat seems genuine and warrants further investigation. Theiraddress is www.livingeconomies.org.

Fortune Magazine for Monday June 3, 2003, featured TheWhite Dog Caf in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as an exampleof a successful green business. Mixing shrewd businesspractices with a concern for the earth, her customers and

employees, owner Judy Wicks has taken a tiny muffin shopfrom a storefront to a five million dollar a year operation.Organically grown, local produce, wind powered electricityand public eco-tours to family farms and water-treatmentfacilities are only some of the ways the business is kept rootedin the surrounding community. Judy is also a national co-chair for BALLEE and speaks on Local Living Economies.

LOHAS, an acronym for Lifestyles of Health andSustainability, describes a growing economic phenomenonin the United States, the little-noticed grass-rootstransformation of large portions of our economy throughindividual choice of organic foods, alternative transportationand healthcare, renewable power, eco-tourism and sociallyresponsible investing. Each of these has become aneconomically significant aspect of American life, and runs

counter to what most people have come to expect. Forexample, organically grown foods have become a $16 billiondollar industry, growing 20 percent annually since 1990.Issues popular in the 1960s, such as peace, ecology andhuman rights, have taken root and evolved to becomegoverning principles for millions of people While some are

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consumer trends and buying habits revealed a strikingsincerity and willingness to support businesses, products andpublic policies that promote the environment and humanvalues over mere price and convenience. According to the

Lohas8 Forum, 32.3 percent of American adults, or 68 millionconsumers support their philosophical preferences by theirbuying habits to a significant degree. (www.lohas8.com.)

When reading about these kinds of cooperat ive andcollaborative business endeavors, one almost forgets howmuch competition is embedded in our economic systems andmodes of thought. Cycles turn, and we can scarcely imagine

that things could have ever been different.

Theosophy is a knowledge of the laws which govern the

physical, astral, psychical and intellectual constituents of natureand of man. Its principles are not for limited use. They arenot patented, copyrighted or exclusive to one field of humaninterest, or one grade of intelligence. Theosophical principlesare universals and not different from the basic principles ofthe Art of Living. When we realize the identity of Source,Law and Being under all forms, as at the root of all beings,we shall have reminded ourselves of that anciently universal

Wisdom-Religion we once knew.

Theosophy Magazine

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CONTRASTCONTRASTCONTRASTCONTRASTCONTRAST

From within the third world, a wild band,

Against cries of protest from many lands,

Destroyed an ancient statue of the wise andGentle Buddha.

His learning and spirituality they could notcomprehend,

Nor prize the basic values he proclaimed for

all men:Generosity, moral practice, patience,

Vigor, meditation, wisdom.

L.S. Shapiro

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STRING THEORSTRING THEORSTRING THEORSTRING THEORSTRING THEORYYYYYTHE THEORTHE THEORTHE THEORTHE THEORTHE THEORY OF EVERY OF EVERY OF EVERY OF EVERY OF EVERYTHINGYTHINGYTHINGYTHINGYTHING

Some years ago we remarked that the Esoteric Doctrinemay well be called the thread-doctrine, since, likeSutrtman, in the Vedanta philosophy, it passes throughand strings together all the ancient philosophical religioussystems, and reconciles and explains them all. We say

now it does more. It not only reconciles the various andapparently conflicting systems, but it checks thediscoveries of modern exact science, and shows some ofthem to be correct

H.P. Blavatsky

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LBERT Einstein considered physics to be evolvingtoward an increasing simplicity, as its rational basis

or foundation. He further asked that we admit, forthe time being, not to consider ourselves to be in possessionof this foundation, in order to remain open for ongoing freshinquiry. As to our capacity to discover this UnifyingFoundation, Einstein declared:

I answer without hesitation. We are capable and holdit true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients

dreamed.Underlying the solid material of physics is the land of the

ever elusive atom, electricity and magnetismthe causes ofphysical and solid things. Yet deeper, still we ask: What causesthe atoms to behave as they do? In Occultism Atoms are

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called Vibrations, writes HPB, in The Secret Doctrine, andalso soundcollectively. She further writes:

The waves and undulations of Science are all producedby atoms propelling their molecules into activity from

within. Atoms fill the immensity of Space, and by theircontinuous vibration are that MOTION which keeps thewheels of Life perpetually going. It is that inner workthat produces the natural phenomena called thecorrelation of Forces (SD i, p.633).

The basis of todays String Theory tends to echo the occultdoctrine referred to above. After we enter the realm of the

sub-atomic we eventually run into the String Theorywhichis no longer solid material but forces and lines ofcommunication causing all things to inter-relateto sharein each other.

The following offer some practical illustrations andthoughts, related to our plane and senses, of this occultdomain of forces.

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When a fan has no electricity flowing through the motorthe blades are still, and we can thrust our fingers throughthe open spaces between them. By turning on the switch, weadd electricity which causes the blades to rotate. This createsa moving shield now making it unsafe to thrust our fingersthrough the gap, since human flesh has a denser vibration.

Light, however, has a less substantial frequency, so we areable to look through the rotating blades. In the esotericdoctrine rotatry motion was considered to be generated bythe more divine or pure atoms forcing downwards otheratoms; the lighter ones being thrust simultaneously upward.

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and metaphysical, embracing gods or souls, in the shapeof atoms, as the causes of all the effects produced on Earth bythe secretions from the divine bodies (SD i, p. 569).

A STRING OF ACTIONA STRING OF ACTIONA STRING OF ACTIONA STRING OF ACTIONA STRING OF ACTION

To generate an action we first enter the realm of the non-physicalDesire. From there you go to the operating side,and initiate the Will, activating the brain centres which controlour muscular adjustments. This string ofmovementsvia theDesire, Will, and Thinking Principle are accomplished almostinstantaneously before any physical action is even originated.

Try singing and setting certain note sequences that youchoose? How is it done? How are the muscles that tune thevocal chords made active? Same with seeing, or hearing orfeeling, smelling, and tastingan enormous amount of innercoordination is needed, most of it is invisible and immeasurablewith our present instrumentation geared to measure effectsand not Causes.

One has to get at the basis of all this. Let us say that thesame force for living that you and I have, was once residentin an atom of stone or metal. After long aeons of time itlearned to become a plant and grow, from there to an animalbody and finally to such a refined body as will hold a humanmind. The atom never diesit is a perpetual motion machine.Why? No one can say, but this is a fact. The immortal atom iscalled in THEOSOPHY the Monad. It is the source of our

individual consciousness and its Ego reincarnatesas we do).Thats evolution in a nutshell.

The main point is that the CONSCIOUS BEINGnever dies butonly moves on from form to form and from body to body byreincarnation The great universal urge is to ever become more

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In many ways a poet or a painter deal with these ideasbetterbetter still, a philosopher. A mathematician, however,has to devise numbers to deal with abstract motion, and thecausal forces behind themwhich Einstein tried to do.

Theosophy is no more a mixture of modern science andtraditional religion than spiritual knowledge (the perceptionof eternal truths) is a compound of assertions, rituals, andexperimentation. Spiritual knowledge is comprehended andreflected by the human mind, and cannot be found in data,

procedures, or books, where at best it can only be indicatedor suggested in representative language. Moreover, it mightbe observed that the expensive lenses used by scientists toinvestigate the physical world and the fine spectacles wornby scholars in examining ancient and modern scriptures arepointed in the wrong direction, seeing effects and objectiveforms, not toward eternal truths and primal causes.

The Secret Doctrine

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COSMOLOGICAL PCOSMOLOGICAL PCOSMOLOGICAL PCOSMOLOGICAL PCOSMOLOGICAL PAAAAATTERNSTTERNSTTERNSTTERNSTTERNS

MODERN cosmologists study the heavens and recordthat every sector of the universe displaysa panorama of revolving patterns. Modern

physicists focus on tiny molecules and record that at themicroscopic level this movement appears to intensify. Sciencehas not always penetrated its field of inquiry sufficiently to

perceive things this way. Nor have scientists always agreedas they do today that appearances deceive. Research journalscontinue to publish studies from nearly every department ofnature that contain descriptions reminiscent of the revolvingcontrasts viewed in kaleidoscopes.

Beyond that, investigators are looking more carefully intohow people actually connect with the things they see. They

seek to know the unseen relationships between perceiversand the perceived. Disciplined studies reveal that perceptionsare but reflected images of ephemeral forms. A few evenwonder if human beings, who themselves evolve throughforms, can ever accurately evaluate a universe constituted ofevolving forms. This lack of a fixed perspective leadsoutspoken materialists into a box canyon. As a result, somebreak ranks, turning to examine the witness within. Thus,

after focusing on matter for over three hundred years, a growingnumber of scientists are once again evaluating the role ofconsciousness. Science, like everything else, undergoes change.

Most of those who explore the realm of consciousnessappear to do so without realizing that they are approaching

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consciousness, the source of the power that sustains all things.With this, truly spiritual perspectives would place individualsin position to evaluate the world of contrast and oppositesfrom the fixed point of unity. Still, and notwithstanding

that the spiritual soul is rooted in unity, spiritual knowledgemust be garnered in the world of contrast and opposites.Some resolve the paradoxes this presents in due course;others, remaining attached to the qualities of nature, strugglewhile chasing shifting shadows in their search for certainty.

On this, HPB points to variances in perceptual faculties:Those unable to seize the difference between the monad

the Universal Unit and the Monads or the manifested Unity,as also between the ever-hidden and the revealed LOGOS orthe Word, ought never to meddle in philosophy, let alone theEsoteric Sciences. (S.D. i, 614.) The study of transcendentalmetaphysics requires claimants to distinguish realities fromappearances. It is perhaps becoming apparent that theuniversal ideas presented by theosophy offer keys forresolving the inherent paradoxes that lurk within manifested

things. Slowly a message takes form and comes through thatan effort to see things from the universal perspective erasesthe illusion of separateness.

As truth must be consistent with truth the human mindseeks symmetry and balance naturally. Yet, in searching forbetter understanding we have only partial truths to work withas points of departure. Therefore, human evolution demandsthat people resolve paradoxes. Fortunately, inherent integritycauses the mind to stir when truths appear contradictory. Atthis juncture spiritual knowledge may enter with the light ofthe synthesizing mind.

The manifesting effects that unfold on the physical plane

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in human awareness. Hence many people remain largelyunaware of the ripple of effect as it descends from aboveand within. In keeping with the nature of mind contradictorytruths provoke it into expanding its perceptual field,

adopting more inclusive perspectives. In which case, in timethe mask of separateness may fall away.

So it is that HPB frequently positions contradictorystatements in her writings to break the one-dimensionalobjective flow imposed by the brain mind. In a section ofThe Secret Doctrine that traces the overall path taken by humanmonads, it reads:

The well-known Kabalistic aphorism runs: A stonebecomes a plant; a plant, a beast; the beast, a man; a mana spirit; and the spirit a god. The spark animates allthe kingdoms in turn before it enters into and informsdivine man, between whom and his predecessor, animalman, there is all the difference in the world (S.D. i, 246).

Then, on the next page, we read:

the Monad or Jivaper se cannot be even called spirit:it is a ray, a breath of the ABSOLUTE, or the Absolutenessrather, and the Absolute Homogeneity, having no relationswith the condit ioned and relat ive f initeness, isunconscious on our plane (S.D. i, 247).

In The Key to Theosophy, HPB offers clarity on what appearinconsistent statements. She begins by asking her readers toconsider the complexity of Manas:

It is this nature, mysterious, Protean, beyond any grasp,and almost shadowy in its correlations with the otherprinciples, that is most difficult to realize, and still moreso to explain. Manas is a principle, and yet it is anEntity and individuality or Ego. He is a God, and yet

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which he is made responsible, and for each of which hehas to suffer. All this seems as contradictory as it ispuzzling; nevertheless, there are hundreds of people, evenin Europe, who realize all this perfectly, for theycomprehend the Ego not only in its integrity but in itsmany aspects (S.D., p. 183).

Accordingly, HPB asserts:

The Monads are not discrete principles, limited orconditioned, but rays from that one universal absolutePrinciple. The entrance into a dark room through the sameaperture of one ray of sunlight following another will notconstitute two rays, but one ray intensified. It is not in

the course of natural law that man should become aperfectseptenary being, before the seventh race in the seventhRound. Yet he has all these principles latent in him fromhis birth (ii, 167).

Modern science and religion look at the same universe, yettheir assumptions of reality based upon limited perspectivescause them to describe two entirely different worlds. Thismay be explained thus:

For, both belief and unbelief embrace but one smallcorner each of the infinite horizons of spiritual andphysical manifestations; and thus both are right from theirrespective standpoints, and both are wrong in believingthat they can circumscribe the whole within their ownspecial and narrow barriers; for they can never do so(S.D. i, 287-288).

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BEYOND THEOLOGYBEYOND THEOLOGYBEYOND THEOLOGYBEYOND THEOLOGYBEYOND THEOLOGY

Those who dont feel this Lovepulling them like a river,those who dont drink dawnlike a cup of springwateror take in sunset like supper,those who dont want to change,

let them sleep.

This Love is beyond the study of theology,that old trickery and hypocrisy.If you want to improve your mind that way,

sleep on.

Ive given up on my brain.Ive torn the cloth to shredsand thrown it away.

If youre not completely naked,wrap your beautiful robe of wordsaround you,

and sleep. Rumi

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In the Introductory ofThe Secret Doctrine HPB predicts thatNo one styling himself a scholar, in whatever departmentof exact science, will be permitted to regard these teachingsseriously. They will be derided and rejected a priori in thiscentury; but only in this one. For in the twentieth century ofour era scholars will begin to recognize that The Secret Doctrinehas neither been invented nor exaggerated, but, on thecontrary, simply outlined. Early in the 20th century Albert

Einsteins theory of relativity brought the commonassumptions regarding time and space into serious question.And now these same two suspectstime and spacefindthemselves arraigned in court, being prosecuted, and judgedby a jury of theoretical scientists.

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A featured series in the Los Angeles Times (Nov. 16, 17) byscience writer K.C. Cole opens with a reminder to readersthat Scientists have been pulling the rug out from underpeoples basic beliefs for centuries. Then, with reference tothe controversial String Theory, the L.A. Times writer quotesEd d Witt f th I tit t f Ad d St d i

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Princeton saying: space and time may be doomed; andNathan Seiberg, also of the Princeton Institute, saying: I amalmost certain that space and time are illusions. These areprimitive notions that will be replaced by something more

sophisticated; and Leonard Susskind of Stanford saying: Ivebeen in physics for 35 years and this is the first time Ive feltIm involved in a scientific revolution. In the last five or sixyears, I really have the feeling were doing something as crazy,as interesting, as new as the revolution that Einstein wrought.

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Continuing, K.C. Cole comments that scientists are comingto expect a universe bizarre beyond imagining:

The impetus behind this tumult is an idea that hasbecome increasingly dominant in modern physics: stringtheory. According to string theory, the most basicingredients in the universe are no longer point-likeparticles, the familiar electrons and quarks. Instead, theyare unimaginably small vibrating strings of some

unknown fundamental stuff. String theory suggests thatdifferent configurations of strings produce differentharmonic chordsjust as a piano produces a sounddifferent from that of a flute. The vibrating string givesrise to the particles, and the way the string vibratesdetermines each particles properties. It is a concept sostrange that even theoretical physicists struggle tounderstand it. String theory offers a universe bizarrebeyond imagining: Under powerful enough magnification,

every known particle in the universe would resemble acomplex origami folded out of sheets or strings of thethree familiar spatial dimensions, plus seven extradimensions of space. (If string theory is right, eachmovement of your finger travels not only through thef ili h di i f d f i b

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also through seven curled-up dimensions.) Certainly,string theorywhich views everything in the universe asthe combined harmonies of strings vibrating in 11dimensionshas not been proved. At best, its far fromcomplete. But today its considered a profoundly

important work in progress that is almost sure to play amajor role in revamping physics.

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Physicists stumbled upon the equations almost by chance.In the early 1970s theoretical physicists didnt know what tomake of their new theory, the problems involved in unraveling

the looping threads that weave the remarkable symmetry itpredicts seemed overwhelming. People also balked at the wayits predictions reshaped their fundamental assumptions aboutspace and time, energy and matter. Nonetheless, theoreticalphysicist John Schwarz of Caltech led an effort to keep thestring theory alive. A major breakthrough followed in 1984when Schwarz was able to unify five marginally related aspectsof the theory. The Times writer, K.C. Cole, notes: From then

on he had a lot of company (and competition) from manytop physicists, attracted by string theorys newfound potential.This current matter-of-fact acceptance is amazing to Schwarzwho labored for years on the theory in near obscurity,sometimes facing outright hostility.

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Strange as it may seem no one knows exactly what it(string theory) is. It is currently being called M theory, whereM may stand for Magic, Mother, Mystery, Matrix orMembrane, all of which have been suggested. So, the Timeswriter asks, what makes it science rather than superstition

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can dance on the head of a pin? Then, K.C. Cole sets out toanswer her own question:

One answer is: string theory strikes many physicists astoo beautiful not to be true. I think it s the most fantastic

set of interconnected rules which has ever been known,said Harvard physicist Andrew Strominger. Nobody inthis field is clever enough to have invented somethinglike that.

The more compelling answer is: It works. Over the lastfew years, string theory has produced a seeminglyunending string of what physicists call string theorymiracles. Its as if some guys had set out to design a better

can opener and wound up with an interstellar space ship,said Harvard physicist Sidney Coleman, one recent convert.

Columbia University physicist Brian Greene comparesstring theory to a computer dropped into the 19th century.It does seemingly miraculous things, but no one can figureout how, for the simple reason that the essential sciencebehind it hasnt yet been invented. Todays physicists arein possession of what may well be the Holy Grail of modern

science, but they cant unleash its full predictive poweruntil they succeed in writing the full instruction manual.

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Looking to the future, K.C. Cole continues:

This year Schwarz has some high-level company atCaltech. Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced

Study at Princetonperhaps the most highly respectedfigure in string theoryis spending the year in the officeadjoining Schwarzs. Meanwhile, Wittens wife, physicistChiara Nappi, is teaching at USC. Its all part of a masterplan to link Caltech and USC in a new Center forTh ti l Ph i USC l d h t f

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a center for theoretical physicsfocusing on stringtheory, said USC string theorist Itzhak Bars.

Strange as the suggestions in string theory are toconventional thought, students ofThe Secret Doctrine have

been working with, and puzzling over, them for years.

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Brane Equals Plane?

Science writer K.C. Cole makes a valiant effort to explain

the new Brane Theory to uninitiated readers (Los AngelesTimes, August 17, 2003). She begins by saying:

What if everything we hold dear is but a thin slice ofsome larger, unreachable reality, like a flickering shadowcast on the craggy wall of a cave? What if the moon andstars, your home, your thoughts, your cat is but projectionson this wallmere suggestions of unfathomable realmsbeyond. In the last few years, a mathematically rigorousversion of Platos 2000 year old thought experiment hasbeen refashioning the way physicists think abouteverything from sub-atomic particles to the Big Bang. Theuniverse we see, according to this scenario, is stuck on athin membrane of space-time embedded in a much largercosmos. And our membrane may be only one of many, allof which may warp, wriggle, connect and collide withone another in as many as 10 dimensions. Physicists call

this new frontier the brane world.

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According to Ms. Cole, this revolution in cosmologywas set off several years ago when UC Santa Barbara

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that the minuscule strings, envisioned in the stringtheory, must be attached to a surface. He referred to thissurface as a brane, short for membrane. Afterannouncing his finding, Polchinsky is quoted as saying:

Within a week or two other physicists had done thingswith it I hadnt envisioned. It was like taking the stopperout of the dam. Things poured through. Alan Guth of theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, creator of the currentlyaccepted version of the Big Bang, said recently he felt alittle like Rip Van Winklepicking up his head from along sleep only to notice that the landscape of physics hethought he knew had suddenly, drastically, changed.Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge, among

others, envisions brane worlds bubbling up out of thevoid, giving rise to whole new universes.

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Brane universes might very well, or rather do, suggestother planes of being to students of theosophy. In Theosophyhigher planes represent finer sub-divisions of substance and

the resulting states of conscious. As the Times writercontinues, she draws upon a familiar metaphor to illustratewhat the relationship between the various brane universesmight be. Perhaps quite appropriately, our material world isdepicted as scum on the surface of water:

Essentially, a brane is a discontinuity in space-time, aboundary where things meet, like the surface of a pondwhere the water meets the sky. It is a defect in thequantum fabric, said Ruth Gregory of the University ofDurham in Britain. One side of the defect would be thevacuum of empty space. A vacuum with somewhatdifferent properties might exist on the other side. Imagineour brane as pond scuma thin film that divides the air

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above from a deep (perhaps infinitely deep) body of waterbelow. Most of what we experience is trapped in the scum.But beyond is a whole other world of currents swirlingbeneath the surface. Their motion might tug on our scum.

Wed feel it as nothing but a gentle disturbance, never

dreaming of what lurks below.

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The Times science writer makes the point that other branescould be infinitely large and yet remain invisible because oursenses correspond to the forces of nature involved with ourparticular brane. Referring to remarks attributed to Lisa

Randall of Harvard University and Raman Sundrum of JohnHopkins University, she says:

We cant see anything outside our brane, because l ightcant escape or enter it. We cant hear anything outside,because sound travels through matter and matter is stuckto our brane. There could be a big blue elephant settingnot a millimeter away in another dimension, but wewouldnt know its there because everything we use to

see is stuck to our braneConsider another embarrassingproblem that has stumped astronomers for decades. Atleast 90% of the matter in the universe is AWOL. Or moreprecisely, it is known to exist because of its gravitationalpull (without it, galaxies wouldnt hold together) but cantbe detected by any other means. The standard approachhas been to populate the universe with exotic new formsof matter, too elusive to be readily seen. If our brane is

but a small slice of a much larger cosmos, however, thedark matter might be nothing but ordinary mattertrapped on another brane. Such a shadow world, Hawkingspeculates, might contain shadow human beingswondering about the mass that seems to be their world.

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Although scientif ic thinkers do not employ the wordmetaphysics, their new theories certainly encroach on thatrealm. Things they observe cannot be otherwise explained.

The best investigators have learned to keep open minds. Forexample, in concluding her fine, informative article, K.C. Colereports the following comments:

Polchinski said, Its kind of Zen like, but in a veryprecise way. Ultimately, brane worlds will stand or fall,like all science, on the twin tests of consistency andexperiment. Whatever bizarre brane worlds may exist insome larger dimensional landscape, they cant changewhat we perceive. The stars cant slip off into hyperspace.The cat cant be disturbed from the couch. Physics has toanswer to nature as we know it. We just have to keephoping that nature will be kind, Jim Cline of McGillUniversity in Montreal said. In the end, there is alwaysthe chance that all these ideas will turn out to be too,well, off the wall. Who knows? said University ofChicago physicist Sean Carroll. But even if brane worlds

arent real, Carroll said, they wil l have taught us a usefullesson that we should have known all along, which isthat we dont have a clue to whats going on.

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CORRELACORRELACORRELACORRELACORRELATESTESTESTESTES

What we call the auspicious evidences are

solemnity, to which seasonable rain is the correlate;good order, to which seasonable sunshine is thecorrelate; wisdom, to which seasonable heat is thecorrelate; good planning, to which seasonable coldis the correlate; saintliness, to which seasonablewind is the correlate.

What we call the inauspicious evidences are

violence, to which constant rain is the correlate;arrogance, to which constant sunshine is the correlate;dissipation, to which constant heat is the correlate;rashness, to which constant cold is the correlate;stupidity, to which constant wind is the correlate.

When the seasonableness of year, month and dayis unchanging, the hundred kinds of grain therebyripen, the administration of government is therebyenlightened, talents among the common people arethereby revealed, families are thereby peaceful andhealthy.

Shu Ching

The Taoist school urged men to unity of spirit,teaching that all activities should be in harmonywith the unseen, with abundant liberality towardsall things in Nature.

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Gleanings from Historical Journals

TO WHOM THIS MATO WHOM THIS MATO WHOM THIS MATO WHOM THIS MATO WHOM THIS MAY COMEY COMEY COMEY COMEY COME

by Edward Bellamy

The American writer and social reformer, EdwardBellamy, is best known for his Utopian novel, LookingBackward, published in 1880. Bellamy was a profoundstudent of human nature. His fanciful story, To WhomThis May Come, was published in Harpers Monthly in1889, and reveals deep insight into the true nature ofthis unusual author.

In The Path magazine, Wm. Q. Judge commenting on

this story wrote:

It is, in reality, a chapter of pure Occultism in theguise of a story. It seems like a prophecy of thecondition that humanity shall attain in some of themore exalted races to be evolved on our planet at sometime in the distant future.1

IT is now about a year since I took passage at Calcutta

in the ship Adelaide for New York. We had bafflingweather till New Amsterdam Island was sighted,

where we took a new point of departure. Three days later aterrible gale struck us. Four days we flew before it, whither,

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no one knew, for neither sun, moon, nor stars were at anytime visible, and we could take no observation. Towardmidnight of the fourth day the glare of lightning revealedtheAdelaide in a hopeless position, close in upon a low-lyingshore, and driving straight toward it. All around and asternfar out to sea was such a maze of rocks and shoals that it wasa miracle we had come so far. Presently the ship struck, andalmost instantly went to pieces, so great was the violence of thesea. I gave myself up for lost, and was indeed already past theworst of drowning when I was recalled to consciousness by beingthrown with a tremendous shock upon the beach. I had juststrength enough to drag myself above the reach of the waves,

and then I fell down and knew no more.When I awoke, the storm was over. The sun, already half-

way up the sky, had dried my clothing and renewed the vigorof my bruised and aching limbs. On sea or shore I saw novestige of my ship or my companions, of whom I appearedthe sole survivor. I was not, however, alone. A group ofpersons, apparently the inhabitants of the country, stood near,observing me with looks of friendliness which at once freedme from apprehension as to my treatment at their hands.They were a white and handsome people, evidently of a highorder of civilization, though I recognized in them the traitsof no race with which I was familiar.

Seeing that it was evidently their idea of etiquette to leaveit to strangers to open conversation, I addressed them in Englishbut failed to elicit any response beyond deprecating smiles. I

then accosted them successively in the French, German,Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese tongues, but withno better results. I began to be very much puzzled as to whatcould possibly be the nationality of this race to which noone the tongues of the great seafaring nations was intelligible

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The oddest thing of all was the unbroken silence with whichthey contemplated my efforts to open communication withthem. It was as if they agreed not to give me a clew to theirlanguage by even a whisper, for while they regarded oneanother with looks of smiling intelligence, they did not onceopen their lips. But if this behavior suggested that they wereamusing themselves at my expense, that presumption wasnegated by unmistakable friendliness and sympathy whichtheir whole bearing expressed.

A most extraordinary conjecture occurred to me. Could itbe that these strange people were dumb?2 Such a freak ofnature as an entire race thus afflicted had never been heard

of, but who could say what wonders the unexplored vasts ofthe Great Southern Ocean might thus far have hid fromhuman ken? Now among the scraps of useless informationwhich lumbered my mind was an acquaintance with the deaf-and-dumb alphabet, and forthwith I began to spell out withmy fingers some of the phrases I had already uttered to solittle effect. My resort to the sign language overcame the lastremnant of gravity in the already profusely smiling group.The small boys now rolled on the ground in convulsions ofmirth, while the grave and reverend seniors, who had hithertokept them in check, were fain momentarily to avert theirfaces, and I could see their bodies shaking with laughter.The greatest clown in the world never received a moreflattering tribute to his powers to amuse than had been calledforth by mine to make myself understood. Naturally, however,

I was not flattered, but, on the contrary, entirely discomfited.Angry I could not well be, for the deprecating manner inwhich all, excepting of course the boys, yielded to theirperception of the ridiculous, and the distress they showed at

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their failure in self-control, made me seem the aggressor. Itwas as if they were very sorry for me, and ready to putthemselves wholly at my service if I would only refrain fromreducing them to a state of disability by being so exquisitelyabsurd. Certainly this evidently amiable race had a veryembarrassing way of receiving strangers.

Just at this moment, when my bewilderment was fastverging on exasperation relief came. The circle opened, anda little elderly man who had evidently come in haste,confronted me, and bowing very politely addressed me inEnglish. His voice was the most pitiable abortion of a voice Ihad ever heard. While having all defects in articulation of a

childs who is just beginning to talk it was not even a childsin strength of tone, being in fact a mere alternation of squeaksand whispers inaudible in an odd way. With some difficultyI was, however, able to follow him pretty nearly.

As the official interpreter, he said, I extend you a cordialwelcome to these islands. I was sent for as soon as you werediscovered, but being at some distance, I was unable to arrive

until this moment. I regret this, as my presence would havesaved you embarrassment. My countrymen desire me tointercede with you to pardon the wholly involuntary anduncontrollable mirth provoked by your attempts tocommunicate with them. You see, they understood youperfectly well, but could not answer you.

Merciful heavens! I exclaimed, horrified to find my

surmise correct; can it be that they are all thus afflicted? Isit possible that you are the only man among them who hasthe power of speech?

Again it appeared that, quite unintentionally, I had saidsome thing excruciatingly funny for at my speech there arose

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a sound of gentle laughter from the group, now augmentedto quite an assemblage, which drowned the splashing of thewaves on the beach at our feet. Even the interpreter smiled.

Do they think it so amusing to be dumb? I asked.

They find it very amusing, replied the interpreter, thattheir inability to speak should be regarded by any one as anaffliction, for it is by the voluntary disuse of the organs ofarticulation that they have lost the power of speech, and as aconsequence the ability even to understand speech.

But, said I, somewhat puzzled by this statement, didntyou just tell me that they understood me, though they could

not reply, and are they not laughing now at what I just said?

It is you they understood, not your words, answered theinterpreter. Our speech now is gibberish to them, asunintelligible in itself as the growling of animals; but theyknow what we are saying because they know our thoughts.You must know that these are the islands of the mind-readers.

Such were the circumstances of my introduction to thisextraordinary people. The official interpreter being chargedby virtue of his office with the first entertainment ofshipwrecked members of the talking nations, I became hisguest, and passed a number of days under his roof beforegoing out to any considerable extent among the people. Myfirst impression had been the somewhat oppressive one thatthe power to read the thoughts of others could only be

possessed by beings of a superior order to man. It was thefirst effort of the interpreter to disabuse me of this notion. Itappeared from his account that the experience of the mind-readers was a case simply of a slight acceleration from specialcauses of the course of human evolution, which in time lead

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vision on the part of all races. This rapid evolution of theseislanders was accounted for by their peculiar origin andcircumstances.

Some three centuries before Christ, one of the Parthian

kings of Persia, of the dynasty of the Arsacidae, undertook apersecution of the soothsayers and magicians in his realms.These people were credited with supernatural powers bypopular prejudice, but in fact, they were merely persons ofespecial gifts in the way of hypnotizing, mind-reading,thought-transference, and such arts, which they exercisedfor their own gain.

Too much in awe of the soothsayers to do them outrightviolence, the king resolved to banish them, and to this endput them, with their families, on ships and sent them toCeylon. When, however, the fleet was in the neighborhoodof that island, a great storm scattered it, and one of the ships,after being driven for many days before the tempest, waswrecked upon one of an archipelago of uninhabited islandsfar to the south where the survivors settled. Naturally the

posterity of parents possessed of such peculiar gifts haddeveloped extraordinary psychical powers.

Having set before them the end of evolving a new andadvanced order of humanity, they had aided the developmentof these powers by a rigid system of stirpiculture. The resultwas that after a few centuries mind-reading became so generalthat language fell into disuse as a means of communicating

ideas. For many generations the power of speech still remainedvoluntary, but gradually the vocal organs had become atrophied,and for several hundred years the power of articulation hadbeen wholly lost. Infants for a few months after birth did,indeed, still emit inarticulate cries, but at an age when in

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children of the mind-readers developed the power of directmental vision, and ceased to attempt to use the voice.

The fact that the existence of the mind-readers had neverbeen found out by the rest of the world was explained by

two considerations. In the first place, the group of islandswas small, and occupied a corner of the Indian Ocean quiteout of the ordinary track of ordinary ships. In the secondplace, the approach to the islands was rendered desperatelyperilous by terrible currents and the maze of outlying rocksand shoals that it was next to impossible for any ship to touchtheir shores save as a wreck. No ship at least had ever doneso in the two thousand years since the mind-readers own

arrival, and theAdelaide had made the one hundred and twenty-third such wreck.

Apart from motives of humanity, the mind-readers madestrenuous efforts to rescue shipwrecked persons, for fromthem alone through the interpreters could they obtaininformation of the outside world. Little enough this provedwhen, as often happened the sole survivor of a shipwreck

was some ignorant sailor, who had no news to communicatebeyond the latest varieties of forecastle blasphemy. My hostsgratefully assured me that as a person of some little educationthey considered me a veritable godsend. No less a task wasmine than to relate to them the history of the world for thepast two centuries, and often did I wish, for their sakes, thatI had made a more exact study of it.

It is solely for the purpose of communicating withshipwrecked strangers of the talking nations that the officeof the interpreters exists. When, as from time to time happens,a child is born with some powers of articulation, he is setapart and trained to talk in the interpreters college. Of course

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best interpreters suffer, renders many of the sounds oflanguage impossible for them. None, for instance, canpronounce v, f, or s, and as to the sound represented by th, itis five generations since the last interpreter lived who couldutter it. But for the occasional intermarriage of shipwreckedstrangers with the islanders it is probable that the supply ofinterpreters would have long ere this quite failed.

I imagine that the very unpleasant sensations whichfollowed the realization that I was among people who, whileinscrutable to me, knew my very thought, were very muchwhat any one would have experienced in the same case. Theywere very comparable to the panic which accidental nudity

causes a person among races whose custom it is to concealthe figure with drapery. I wanted to run away and hide myself.If I analyzed my feeling, it did not seem to arise so muchfrom the consciousness of any particularly heinous secrets,as from the knowledge of a swarm of fatuous, ill-naturedand unseemly thoughts and half-thoughts concerning thosearound me and concerning myself, which it was insufferablethat any person should peruse in however benevolent a spirit.But while my chagrin and distress on this account were atfirst intense, they were also very short-lived, for almostimmediately I discovered that the very knowledge that mymind was overlooked by others operated to check thoughtsthat might be painful to them, and that, too, without moreeffort of the will than a kindly person exerts to check theutterance of disagreeable remarks. As a very few lessons in

the elements of courtesy cures a decent person ofinconsiderate speaking, so a brief experience among themind-readers went far in my case to check inconsideratethinking. It must not be supposed, however, that courtesyamong the mind-readers prevents them from thinking

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occasions any more than the finest courtesy among the talkingraces restrains them from speaking to one another with entireplainness when it is desirable to do so. Indeed, among themind-readers, politeness never can extend to the point ofinsincerity, as among talking nations, seeing that it is alwaysone anothers real and in-most thought that they read. I maymention here, though it was not till later that I fullyunderstood why it must necessarily be so, that one need feelfar less chagrin at the complete revelation, than at the slightestbetrayal of them to one of another race. For the very reasonthat the mind-reader reads all your thoughts, particularthoughts are judged with reference to the general tenor of

thought. Your characteristic and habitual frame of mind iswhat he takes into account. No one need fear being misjudgedby a mind-reader on account of the sentiments or emotionswhich are not representative of the real character or generalattitude. Justice may indeed be said to be a necessaryconsequence of mind-reading.

As regards the interpreter himself, the instinct of courtesywas not long needed to check wanton or offensive thoughts.

In all my life before I had been very slow to form friendships,but before I had been three days in the company of thisstranger of a strange race I had become enthusiasticallydevoted to him. It was impossible not to be. The peculiar joyof friendship is the sense of being understood by our friendas we are not by others, and yet of being loved in spite of theunderstanding. Now here was one whose every word testified

to a knowledge of my secret thoughts and motives which theoldest and nearest of my former friends had never, and couldnever, have approximated. Had such a knowledge bred in himcontempt of me, I should neither have blamed him nor beenat all surprised. Judge, then, whether the cordial friendliness

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Imagine my incredulity when he informed me that ourfriendship was not based upon more than ordinary mutualsuitability of temperaments. T

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