“Mme. Blavatsky: Shall I tell you a mistake, gentlemen, that you fall into? It is because you take independently all these causes that you want to call intelligent, that you take them one by one, instead of taking the whole. You cannot come and take this affinity. Let us take the Fohatic hierarchies, which are all for the electrical phenomena.
You must take them in conjunction with all others, and take them as a whole; because, you see, science is perfectly right from its physical standpoint to say that they are blind forces of nature, because science does not see farther than its nose, and it does not permit itself to go farther than its plane of physical manifestations.
But, if we go from the beginning, and if we imagine to ourselves this one life, this eternal, omnipresent homogeneity, that which underlies every phenomenon in nature – which underlies nature itself – which I won’t call spirit, because it is far more than spirit (Spirit is something definite, in our language it has no name; it can have only existence in our perception, and then only when we are perfectly divorced from matter) – but you have to take the whole thing and then proceed from the universals to the particulars. Otherwise you cannot grasp the thing. It is impossible.
You have to skip many things, or to embrace it in a general sense, and then begin it in the first manifestation that you can; otherwise, you cannot make to yourself a clear representation. To me it is as clear and intelligible as can be. It may be because I am an innocent fool, but it has never presented to me any difficulty.
Mr. Sargeant: Is it because ladies and gentlemen must first seek the kingdom of heaven?
Mme. Blavatsky: I don’t know, but it is quite on a different plane.
Mr. Sargeant: That would be from universal to particulars.
Mme. Blavatsky: If there is anything like a middle heaven, then it must be in the clouds, represented by those seraphs with the golden harps. That is what I understand by the kingdom of heaven.
Mr. Sargeant: Unfortunately, that, in twelve hours time will be the kingdom of hell, because it will be below.
Mr. Old: It is not general law that causes do proceed into effects that we wish to know.
Mr. Sargeant: Call it a fortuitous combination of circumstances.
Mr. B. Keightley: What Old was after was that here are a lot of effects; well, when we talk about the higher intellectual hierarchies, they are only represented to us by words, at the present moment.
Mme. Blavatsky: They cannot be represented by words, they must be represented by the feeling of intuition. If they are represented by words, you have nothing, you have a flapdoodle. You have to represent them to yourselves in your intellectual perception, in your spiritual perception. It is impossible.
It is with your higher self that you must understand, and not with your brains and intellectual perceptions, which are all sensuous perceptions, and will not help you.
You have to reach to that point when you feel yourself one with the whole, and perfectly inseparable from it – from the one and the eternal, which has no end and no beginning. Otherwise, it is impossible.
Mrs. Gordon: The higher consciousness.
Mme. Blavatsky: Well, the higher consciousness. Maybe I speak to you in Greek and Hebrew, but to me it is perfectly clear, and I don’t know how to explain it better.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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