Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

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direction, the animal can detect. the appr·nat!h of the huntt>r
when be is hundreds of yards away.
All these things suggest practin, Wt• learn a lt>ss•m
from the animal wm·ltl, we will tnrn onr thought. t•unsciunsness
in the direction of these senses, watch th~m. anti keep them
thoroughly alive and in constant use; for use ill the only
method by which man becomes expert in any depar·tnumt of life.
In the realm of mind and of ~pirit ever·y sense is brought to
so greatly transl~end those known in tht> physi~al ctms~ion~nP.ss,
that those who are dealing with the rntlinwntary prineiples of
soul and spiritual st•ience speak of the sixth anti even of the
seventh Mt'nst:; hut in reality tlwre is no ~uch thing, unles~.
perchance, it he the sense hy whieh the Monl knows the thoughts
of another·. \Vhen Wt~ consider the st•nses in the light of f:w~
presented by nature, there is r·eally but one sense; altlumgh
the body has tive methods m· organs by which eonsciousness is
obtained of different elements. In the spi•·it realm all sen11e is
l'~>ntralizetl in the one faeulty or t•apadty of knowing. This