“Mr. B. Keightley: That is what we believe is at the basis, but Kingsland’s difficulty is how to think intellectually of the relation between that intelligence and the physical facts that we observe.
Mme. Blavatsky: To drop entirely your scientific and your inductive methods and become not a physician but a metaphysician, that is the only thing I can tell you. Once that you become instead of a metaphysician a physician, and take it from the standpoint of physical nature and mix up orthodox science, you will never arrive at anything.
Mr. B. Keightley: I don’t think that is what Kingsland was doing.
Mme. Blavatsky: By knowing better than you do everything from the first beginning, from the first flutter of differentiation. Learn it just as I learned. I am not a scientific person at all. I am simply a metaphysician. I have been looking at it; I know it, I feel it in me, I see it before me.
I could not put it in scientific terms, because I am not scientific enough; but I say that is the easiest thing in the world to trace it if you begin by the beginning, but if you do as the men of science do, and begin by the tail, and by that which appears here on this plane of illusion, you will never arrive at anything.
Mr. Sargeant: It seems the question is very simple. If there is no correspondency between the seven hierarchies and the manifestations of these physical forces on the physical plane, then there can be no correspondency between cause and effect. We know effect proceeds from cause: and we should know that the seven manifestations on this physical plane must proceed from one of the hierarchies.
Mr. Kingsland: You can’t always trace the effect to a theological cause.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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