How Science and Occult Science Work

The Inductive recipe of Science

Science adopts the Aristotelian, inductive recipe to move from the particular to the general, rather like assembling private pieces of a jigsaw puzzle: varied observational data are collected and gradually fitted into a general picture, the latter being a mental representational model of the corporal effects observed. The mind process is predominantly intellectual, applied in a linear mode. The instruments of investigation are limited to, and conditioned by, the five corporal senses and their extensions, as telescopes and microscopes, etc. The supervene is a strict narrative of the appearances, behaviour and corporal mechanisms of the Universe-Nature in her multiple appearances. The prevailing scientific paradigm of materialism has many unsupported and unsubstantiated assumptions. corporal or mathematical modelling are central features of the scientific recipe of inquiry. This means that science itself is not about truth or knowledge, per se-rather an interpretation of the corporal world.

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The Deductive arrival of Occult Science

By contrast, Occult Science works in the Platonic tradition of engaging from the general to the particular within the Ring Pass-Not (i.e. Limiting boundaries of evolutionary growth) of every world system: the overall, grand photo is first realized in its principal nature, and the way this presents itself as particular effects then expounded. The mind process is essentially 'lateral thinking' and intuitive, applied in an all-inclusive mode. The instruments of investigation are not limited to the corporal senses. This gives profound insights into the origin, principal nature and manifestation of Nature in her true self.

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Why Many Scientists Are Also Embracing Mysticism

These days we find increasing numbers of scientists turning towards mysticism as a complement to the rational scientific method. A recite of the world-wide Directory of Members of The Scientific and medical Network will indicate this fact. Furthermore, teachers and students at the Massachusetts build of Technology have formed an alchemical society and usually study The secret Doctrine. While Millikan's tenure at Cal Tech, a copy of The secret religious doctrine lodged in the library was so much in quiz, that one had to put one's name on a long waiting list. This work is also discussed periodically at the Harvard Club in New York by several chemistry teachers, along with Mit professors.

Why then, such an upsurge in interest in mysticism and occult science? We explained above that in investigating something by the scientific method, we can recite its appearance, behaviour and characteristics by standing apart from it (the discoveries from measure physics notwithstanding). But by the occult arrival in order to understand its inner nature, we have absolutely to become the very thing we wish to investigate-or at least to partake in it. This is why the occult principles all the time operates from within to without, and prefers to explore Nature by participating with her processes, rather than interrogating her outward behaviour.

It is by virtue of such interior insights that Blavatsky was able to make prophetic remarks in The secret religious doctrine about time to come developments in natural science, for example:

The wave appeal of living particles becomes comprehensible on the principles of a spiritual One Life, of a universal Vital principle, independent of our matter, and manifesting as atomic energy only on our plane of consciousness.

The above statement displays foreknowledge about three facts that are now ordinarily appropriate by science, namely: (a) the energy within the atom; (b) the wave-like nature of particles, and the particle-like nature of waves; and (c) the vitality and 'consciousness' of particles. Blavatsky was in all probability the first someone to use the terms 'atomic energy' and the 'wave appeal of living particles', which science has discovered for itself, using its own methods of investigation.

In the field of life sciences, we find similar portentous statements, such as:

It is not against zoological and anthropological discoveries, based on the fossils of man and animal, that every mystic and believer in a divine soul inwardly revolts, but only against the uncalled-for conclusions built on preconceived theories and made to fit in with inevitable prejudices.

Driven inexorably by the pressure of their own discoveries, and increasingly inconsistent theories to inventory for them, scientists are gradually awakening to the truth of Blavatsky's assertion. This will soon become apparent.

Hence in view of the foregoing, it is not surprising that the greatest scientists, past and present, have realized the limits of the process of scientific inquiry and sensed the need for more intuitive approaches.

How Science and Occult Science Work