Theosophy Watch

The atheist gang are having a cosmic fit about all things godly. (More Atheists Shout It From the Rooftops, NY Times, April 26, 2009.) They’ve had it up to the collar with religion.

Ironically, it turns out, Atheism’s god-of-matter also works in very mysterious ways.

Quantum Design

“Until a century or so ago, nobody had any idea that there even was such a thing as quantum physics. But while humans operated for millennia in quantum darkness, it seems that plants, bacteria and birds may have been in the know all along.”

Nobody had any idea, that is except Blavatsky and her occult Teachers. They proposed, long ago, that “The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.”

They patiently defended the occult teaching, that

“… there is design in the action of the seemingly blindest forces.”

With Mandelbrot’s discovery of the mathematics in design, the fractal, we begin to understand a little more of what Blavatsky meant.

Fractal Zoom

Chaos and Cosmos

Today, orderly design and optimal functionality of systems appear to reveal themselves at micro rather than macro levels. At the borderline where matter (as science knows it) disappears, in homeopathic medicines for example, patterns of energy rule the roost.

Perhaps because our workaday sensory world is just too big, noisy and confusing, we are unable to recognize an implicate order.

At the sub-atomic levels, both order and randomness subsist as one system. This phenomenon resembles  Mandelbrot’s fractal geometry. Holographic, and infinitely complex, every part of a fractal is a reduced copy of the whole.

The architecture of natural objects including clouds, mountain ranges, lightning bolts, coastlines, snow flakes, ferns, pine cones, butterfly wings, seashells—and the holonomic model of the brain—are all built upon this framework.

Arthur Clarke – Fractals: The Colors Of Infinity

Summoning to this theme the law of Analogy, which Blavatsky calls “the first key to the world-problem”— she goes on to picture the existence of forms as great chain “whose links are all connected.”  And these links, she says, “have to be studied co-ordinately in their occult relations to each other.”

“Every one of the higher, as of the lower worlds, is interblended with our own objective world,” The Secret Doctrine postulates, and “it is no metaphysical figure of speech, but a sober fact in Nature, however incomprehensible to our senses.”

Summoning to this theme the law of Analogy, which Blavatsky calls “the first key to the world-problem”— she goes on to picture the existence of forms as great chain “whose links are all connected.”  And these links, she says,

“… have to be studied co-ordinately in their occult relations to each other.”

“Every one of the higher, as of the lower worlds, is interblended with our own objective world,” The Secret Doctrine postulates, therefore …

“… it is no metaphysical figure of speech, but a sober fact in Nature, however incomprehensible to our senses.”

Because of the eye-popping aura patterns revealed by technician Semyon Kirlian, and the vibrant fractal forms of Benoît Mandelbrot, the hidden energy designs of nature become patently obvious to our senses.

Mandelbrot’s pictorial geometry is still being analyzed by awed mathematicians, and was popularized by futurist Arthur C. Clarke. Clip #2 from Clarke’s acclaimed television series is shown here:

The Colors Of Infinity-2

Inseparable Bedfellows

It doesn’t require any leap to understand why science and religion are compelled to join hands. They co-exist, because of the inseparability of energy (spirit or consciousness) and matter. Einstein affirmed this, (after reading The Secret Doctrine.)

All systems, small and large, are “inextricably interwoven and interblended at every point,” (SD1:181), said Helena Blavatsky over a century ago.  And further (SD 1:640): “It is a fundamental principle of the Occult philosophy,

“… this same homogeneity of matter and immutability of natural laws, which are so much insisted upon by materialism — but that unity rests upon the inseparability of Spirit from matter — and, if the two are once divorced, the whole Kosmos would fall back into chaos and non-being.”

The Colors Of Infinity-3

Can Science and Religion Really Co-exist?

“Loretta Haskell, a board member of the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry, is also a church musician,” reports Laurie Goodstein, in the New York Times: April 26, 2009. “I am not one of the humanists who feels that religion is a bad thing,” she said.

That would be welcome music to the ears of Helena Blavatsky, writer of The Secret Doctrine—which was boldly subtitled by her, “The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy.”

Ancient metaphysical postulates of Theosophy have now begun to visibly flower. For over one-hundred years, untold numbers of trailblazing researchers, thinkers, writers and reformers to the present day, have led to a rekindling of the torch of Truth.

Preeminent among the torch-bearers are organizations like The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS).

Thanks to such fearless investigators, and to the multitudes of enthusiastic Theosophical students world-wide, the seeds of the perennial wisdom— sown long ago—have become, quoting from Dean Radin of IONS:

“… the paradigm-shattering roots of an emerging, 21st century worldview.”

Consciousness > Matter-Energy

“Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is connected to numerous other points in the mental network.”

-Peter Russell

All this points back to a “multi-verse,” first described in The Secret Doctrine, where the all the forms of existence are

“… in co-adunition but not in consubstantiality.”

And, “…our planes of consciousness,” differ only in degree but not in kind, and are “on the same layer of differentiated matter.” This is also rapidly becoming today’s enlightened worldview.

“Consciousness is primary,” Dean Radin writes in Shift (No. 21)…

“… and matter and energy are emergent properties of consciousness.”

Beethoven: Für Elise

It is because of this worldview, because the entire universe—our Earth, cosmos, and everything in it, ourselves included— is  implicate consciousness — that our spiritual evolution is not only possible, but expected.

“Our DEITY is neither in a paradise, nor in a particular tree, building, or mountain: it is everywhere, in every atom of the visible as of the invisible Cosmos, in, over, and around every invisible atom and divisible molecule—for IT is the mysterious power of evolution and involution, the omnipresent, omnipotent, and even omniscient creative potentiality.”

-H. P. Blavatsky, Key to Theosophy