PDF Ebook 10 Esoteric Psychology
The title of this essay indicates that it is not about a psychology in the Western sense. That kind of psychology walks the path of induction using experiment and analysis. Just as all the other Western disciplines, it can of course ascertain a lot of interesting and important facts. It can also discover much using the introspective method. Its most serious limitation, however, is its stubborn adherence to physicalist views and its refusal to consider the superphysical factors.
It is characteristic of esoterics that it preeminently applies the deductive method. Deduction alone affords axiomatic certainty. Esoterics can be deductive because it possesses factual knowledge of the factors that are required for this.
Psychology is the study of consciousness. The terms of traditional ignorance (psyche, soul, spirit, etc.) serve to occasion a confusion of ideas, and that is the reason why those terms are not used in the following. It is to be hoped that they will disappear from general usage and stay away, at least until the new concepts have been definitively fixed.
Psychology is a new science to the West. It is a heir to the anthropology of the old philosophers, a discipline that contained some scanty attempts at elucidation of what was generally regarded as inaccessible: the subjectivedomains of sense perceptions, feelings, thoughts, and the will.
Those who are ignorant of esoterics probably find it difficult to account forthe true causes of this sudden interest in human consciousness. But they can always find some obvious explanations, which may provide materials for substantiated doctoral dissertations. The thoroughness, flair, and acuity displayed in this pursuit of historical facts are admirable. We understand that it must be fascinating. It is a pity, though, that esoteric facts can never be invoked, because they are no scientific facts but “free imaginative inventions” or old superstition.
Psychology is a quite recent word. Still in the 1890-ies, the term anthropology was used. All of a sudden philosophers discovered that “consciousness” was something particular. And so it had to be given a term of its own. The Greek word for soul, psyche (connected with psychein, to breathe), was the one next at hand. Psychology became the “science of the soul”. And so we had a new discipline and knew almost everything of the phenomena pertaining to it. The esoterician finds it highly illustrative to study the psychological literature produced during the 20th century. What is worse is that we have got so many psychologists capable of judging all the phenomena of consciousness. They quite frankly assert, “this is the way it is”. And since all people are equally ignorant, nobody dares to object. Very little of what they call rational is rational. The scientific reason of our times is still part of emotionality.
It would be a good thing if the academic spirit were saturated with the understanding that you should not make statements on things of which you know nothing. Even in the learned, more than 90 per cent of what they believe they know (ascertained facts excepted) is sheer fictionalism.
Some psychologists divide consciousness into waking consciousness, subconsciousness, and superconsciousness. Those are very apposite terms for realities. The discovery has been made and so the first step has been taken on the path of painstaking research. However, physical research will never be able to give the real explanations of those realities, and the same is true of all the other explanations given of the what and why of existence.
For thousands of years, Indians have clearly asserted that physical material reality originates in superphysical material reality and that the true causes of physical events are to be sought in superphysical material energies. So far they are right. Their detailed explanations are not always exact because of their lack of knowledge of higher material worlds in the solar systems than the two ones for which they have succeeded in developing methods of objective observation. It is indisputable, however, that the knowledge they have acquired has given them a clear advantage in psychological respect. The fact that this superior knowledge does not manifest itself in that which is the pride of Occidental man and the basis of Occidental science and technology is due to their contempt for the matter aspect of existence. This condition has been caused by a multitude of different concurrent factors, too many to be enumerated here. All the historical experience from Atlantis taken apart, other experience, of greater importance, has made itself felt. The leaders have clarified convincingly and also demonstrated by experiments that anyone who gains a knowledge of the consciousness and motion aspects of existence canlargely do without a detailed knowledge of the matter aspect. Nevertheless, historians of the future will perhaps find it difficult to explain why this matter aspect has been so radically disdained. The matter aspect is certainlya necessary condition of physical existence and organic life. The popular explanation, life is suffering and the only goal to be strived for is “annihilation in nirvana”, which even Schopenhauer accepted as supreme wisdom, is insufficient. The fact that such a misconception of the meaning of life has been able to spread and gain acceptance without being contradicted demonstrates the effects of conclusions that have been drawn to far. “Abuse of knowledge leads to the loss of knowledge” is a law of life. It is therefore important not to give out such knowledge as can be abused to the downfall of entire nations. The knowledge of reality is only for those who cannot abuse power. Some of those upholding this rule overlooked the fact that there is a knowledge that is not dangerous, relatively speaking, and that it is always necessary to strike a balance between benefit and harm. Everything can be abused, but in many cases advantages can outbalance disadvantages. A consequence of the too strict enforcement of the principle of secrecy is that the Brahmins themselves since more than ten thousand years lack the key to the knowledge they possess in their symbolic writings. You can abuse the knowledge also by keeping it to yourself.
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