Addenda On Occult And Modern Science on Superphysics

Reasons for These Addenda

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Many of the doctrines contained in the 7 Stanzas and Commentaries having been studied by some Western Theosophists.

They found some of the Occult Teachings lacking scientifically.

Prof. Huxley describes Science as “organized common sense”.

Modern Physicists are Playing at Blind Man's Buff

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Occultism puts to Science the question: Is light a body, or is it not?

Occultism shows that the current, most eminent Physicists have no real knowledge on the subject.

To know what light is, and whether it is an actual substance or a mere undulation of the “ethereal medium,”

Is Gravitation a Law?

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Gravitation is the principle that all bodies attract each other with a force proportional:

directly to their masses
inversely to the squares of the distances between them

It reigns today, supreme as ever, in the alleged ethereal waves of Space.

The Theories of Rotation in Science

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Considering that “final cause is pronounced a chimera, and the First Great Cause is remanded to the sphere of the Unknown,” as a reverend gentleman justly complains, the number of hypotheses put forward, a nebula of them, is most remarkable.

The Masks of Science. Physics Or Metaphysics?

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If there is anything like progress on earth, Science will some day have to give up, nolens volens, such monstrous ideas as her physical, self-guiding laws, void of Soul and Spirit, and will then have to turn to the Occult Teachings.

Samuel Metcalfe and the Sun Force

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The wise words of several English men of Science have now to be quoted in our favour. Ostracized for “principle’s sake” by the few, they are tacitly approved of by the many.

Life, Force, or Gravity

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The imponderable fluids have had their day.

Mechanical Forces are less talked about.

Gravitation has remained, owing its life to new combinations after the old ones had nearly killed it. It may answer scientific hypotheses very well.

The Solar Theory

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A SHORT ANALYSIS OF THE COMPOUND AND SINGLE ELEMENTS OF SCIENCE AS AGAINST THE OCCULT TEACHINGS. HOW FAR THIS THEORY, AS GENERALLY ACCEPTED, IS SCIENTIFIC.

In his reply to Dr. Gull’s attack on the theory of Vitality, which is inseparably connected with the Elements of the Ancients in the Occult Philosophy, Professor Beale, the great Physiologist, has a few words as suggestive as they are beautiful:

The Coming Force. Its Possibilities And Impossibilities

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Is Force “moving Matter,” or “Matter in motion,” and a manifestation of Energy?

Or is Matter and Force are the phenomenal differentiated aspects of the one primary, undifferentiated Cosmic Substance?

The Elements and Atoms

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In Occultism, Element means Rudiment.

Ancient Thought in Modern Dress

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Modern Science is Ancient Thought distorted, and no more.

More than one F.R.S. is unconsciously approaching the derided Secret Sciences.

Modern speculations on Cosmogony and primeval matter are ancient thought, “improved” by contradictory recent theories.

Scientific and Esoteric Evidence for, and Objections to, the Modern Nebular Theory

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Of late, Esoteric Cosmogony has been frequently opposed by the phantom of this theory and its ensuing hypotheses. “Can this most scientific teaching be denied by your Adepts?” it is asked. “Not entirely,” is the reply, “but the admissions of the men of Science themselves kill it; and there remains nothing for the Adepts to deny.”

Forces—Modes of Motion or Intelligences?

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Mechanical laws will never be able to prove the homogeneity of Primeval Matter, except inferentially and as a desperate necessity, when there will remain no other issue—as in the case of Ether.

Gods, Monads and Atoms

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Some years ago we remarked that:

The Esoteric Doctrine may well be called … the “Thread Doctrine”. Like Sûtrâtmâ [in Vedânta]1050, it passes through and strings together all the ancient philosophical religious systems, and reconciles and explains them.1051

The Triangle became the Tetraktys

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On the authority of this Archaic Symbol, a male, personal God, the Creator and Father of all, becomes a third-rate emanation, the Sephira standing fourth in descent, and on the left hand of Ain Suph, in the Kabalistic Tree of Life. Hence, the Monad is degraded into a Vehicle—a “Throne”!

Gods, Monads and Atoms

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Herbert Spencer believes that “the chemical atoms are produced from the true or physical atoms by processes of evolution under conditions which chemistry has not yet been able to produce.”

Leibnitz

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Occult Science teaches that the “Mother” lies stretched in Infinity, during Pralaya, as the great Deep, the “dry Waters of Space,” according to the quaint expression in the Catechism, and becomes wet only after the separation and the moving over its face of Nârâyana, the Spirit which is invisible Flame, which never burns, but sets on fire all that it touches, and gives it life and generation.

Cyclic Evolution and Karma

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It is the spiritual evolution of the inner, immortal Man that forms the fundamental tenet of the Occult Sciences.

To realize such a process, the student has to believe in:

Cyclic Evolution and Karma

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Those who believe in Karma have to believe in Destiny, which, from birth to death, every man weaves thread by thread round himself, as a spider his web; and this Destiny is guided either by the heavenly voice of the invisible Prototype outside of us, or by our more intimate astral, or inner man, who is but too often the evil genius of the embodied entity called man.

The Zodiac and its Antiquity

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This is doubly true in regard to scientific opinions upon hypotheses offered for consideration—the prejudice and preconceptions of “authorities,” so called, often deciding upon questions of the most vital importance for history.

Summary of the Position

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It is up to the reader to decide whether my summary is favourable or not.

If there were such a thing as a void, a vacuum in Nature, one ought to find it produced, according to a physical law, in the minds of helpless admirers of the “lights” of Science, who pass their time in mutually destroying their teachings.