Ok, so now for the more complex stuff… Logos in Theosophical Thinking, ordered thought, perception and reason, is impersonal, universal. You share in it as a process, just like breathing air is something you share in common with the rest of life around you but it is not your own creation. It is the seat or foundation of creation itself like a vast field expressing the observer effect rather than the chemical product of simple brains.

I wish everyone shared in reason. It seems so few do.

I feel I understand “fields” better than gods. That may be more of a match to modern theories of consciousness as well.

If this were true, then why doesn’t everyone agree on things? If it all comes from the same place? Well, this is where we touch on references to the Mythic. Because the majority of people are distracted, enamoured more of their senses and biological experiences, busy putting the cart before the horse…

A sort of addiction, perhaps? Or a fixation.

Basically confused people?

It would be the equivalent of developing an obsession with watching something specific, like specifically green paint dry, dismissing red paint as irrelevant.

Seems like a way to give one’s beliefs more authority. Well, that’s the mythic element.

“Fetish”?

To theosophical thinking, the mythic is not a secondary order, an obtuse effort to make sense of things, it’s the primary order which we only begin seeing when our Understanding is well developed enough.

I could imagine them thinking something like, “These just aren’t my beliefs. These are divinely inspired. So you can’t argue with them.” Oh no, actually quite the opposite. They look for points of agreement in nature and society, in the cultures around them. If a theosophical thinker failed to find evidence for their beliefs in the world around them, evidence independent of their own convictions, then their philosophy would state that they were wrong. Not right and everyone else wrong.

If anything, that solipsism is more in evidence in the practice of seeking personal salvation through faith and obedience. They lay claim to authority just because they feel it is true. The primacy of the mythic in theosophical thinking might parallel modern mathematics, algorithms and mimetic theory. Just stating that the creative constructive process of emergent order takes place there, on that level, rather than in the domain of obvious physical manifestation. The modern faith of scientism that is so widely held relies heavily on this notion, that their mathematical abstraction reflect something more salient in nature than simple observation reveals.

Paranormal investigation? Well, if the investigations are not physical, are they paranormal? Physic research is not physical. When they speak of seeing quarks the assertion is not literal, it’s actually not possible.

Quarks are smaller than photons. Quarks are a mathematical construct they assert because they assume some mass must be influencing the behaviour of the matter they are observing.

So the word “see” is a metaphor.

They use to assert that photons could not interact with each other. It was supposedly a trait they had that distinguished them from other matter. It’s also been proven to be untrue, and with the discovery of element 117, their understanding of nuclear stability is even being stretched. There may be whole domains of matter and energy interaction unaccounted for because we weren’t looking beyond the gap.

They’re ghosts but ghosts sanctioned by science? Scientific spectres? Basically, yes.

The final principle would be access

So, in effect, other worlds? Yes, and with the maturation of full divine understanding, not only do you begin to perceive the primacy of the mythic aspect of the world, but you can have the ability to access it. It works through a change in context. Assessments and decision making start being based on those patterns, and the outcome of this follows the rules of the divine more than the peripheral disordered state of the material world.

So, there IS hope! Yes, but not a hope based on good fortune or divine brown nosing, but one that acknowledges those references to understanding and seeking more literally in the bible than they are taken today.

Sounds a bit like magick. It could be seen as a sort of hermetic theurgy. Hermeticism is a form of theurgy itself from one point of view. Divine magick.

Does the Theosophical Society fit into this picture? Only loosely. Similarly to the modern druid orders in how they relate to the original tradition of druidism.

Ah, a romanticization of an old system. I would say the spirit of these truths is there, or at least can be.

And Ramakrishna? Perhaps closer.

Maybe one day we could look more deeply into “ontology” as a metaphysical principle. Indeed, there are actually some traditions of magick that revolve around ontological understanding.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~