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of manifestations differing from the respective programs of all others. We
speak of the inhabitants of other planets and imagine that if they are men,
i.e., thinking entities, they must be as we are. The fancy of poets and
painters and sculptors never fails to represent even the angels as a
beautiful copy of man-plus wings. We say that all this is an error and a
delusion; because, if on this little earth alone one finds such a diversity
in its flora, fauna, and mankind-from the seaweed to the cedar of Lebanon,
from the jellyfish to the elephant, from the Bushman and negro to the Apollo
Belvedere-alter the conditions cosmic and planetary, and there must be as a
result quite a different flora, fauna, and mankind. The same laws will
fashion quite a different set of things and beings even on this our plane,
including in it all our planets. How much more different then must be
external nature in other Solar systems, and how foolish is it to judge of
other stars and worlds and human beings by our own, as physical science
does!
Q. But what are your data for this assertion?
A. What science in general will never accept as proof-the cumulative
testimony of an endless series of Seers who have testified to this fact.
Their spiritual visions, real explorations by, and through, physical and
spiritual senses untrammeled by blind flesh, were systematically checked and
compared one with the other, and their nature sifted. All that was not
corroborated by unanimous and collective experience was rejected, while that
only was recorded as established truth which, in various ages, under
different climes, and throughout an untold series of incessant observations,
was found to agree and receive constantly further corroboration. The methods
used by our scholars and students of the psycho-spiritual sciences do not
differ from those of students of the natural and physical sciences, as you
may see. Only our fields of research are on two different planes, and our
instruments are made by no human hands, for which reason perchance they are
only the more reliable. The retorts, accumulators, and microscopes of the
chemist and naturalist may get out of order; the telescope and the
astronomer's horological instruments may get spoiled; our recording
instruments are beyond the influence of weather or the elements.
Q. And therefore you have implicit faith in them?
A. Faith is a word not to be found in theosophical dictionaries: we say
knowledge based, on observation and experience. There is this difference,
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however, that while the observation and experience of physical science lead
the Scientists to about as many "working" hypotheses as there are minds to
evolve them, our knowledge consents to add to its lore only those facts
which have become undeniable, and which are fully and absolutely
demonstrated. We have no two beliefs or hypotheses on the same subject.
Q. Is it on such data that you came to accept the strange theories we find
in Esoteric Buddhism?
A. Just so. These theories may be slightly incorrect in their minor details,
and even faulty in their exposition by lay students; they are facts in
nature, nevertheless, and come nearer the truth than any scientific
hypothesis.
-oOo-
On The Septenary Constitution of Our Planet
Q. I understand that you describe our earth as forming part of a chain of
earths?
A. We do. But the other six "earths" or globes, are not on the same plane of
objectivity as our earth is; therefore we cannot see them.
Q. Is that on account of the great distance?
A. Not at all, for we see with our naked eye planets and even stars at
immeasurably greater distances; but it is owing to those six globes being
outside our physical means of perception, or plane of being. It is not only
that their material density, weight, or fabric are entirely different from
those of our earth and the other known planets; but they are (to us) on an
entirely different layer of space, so to speak; a layer not to be perceived
or felt by our physical senses. And when I say "layer," please do not allow
your fancy to suggest to you layers like strata or beds laid one over the
other, for this would only lead to another absurd misconception. What I mean [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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