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582 THB SECRET DOCTRINE.
gyration through the Eternities of the Ever-Becoming; and also that
every such speck individually, and Kosmos collectively, is an aspect
and a reminder of that universal One Soul—which Philosophy refuses
to call God, thus limiting the eternal and ever-present Root and
Essence.
Why either the Ether of Space or "Nervous Ether" should "destroy
the individuality of every sense," seems incomprehensible to one acquainted
with the real nature of that "Nervous Ether" under its
Sanskrit, or rather Esoteric and Kabalistic name. Dr. Richardson
agrees that:
If we did not individually produce the medium of communication between ourselves
and the outer world, if it were produced from without and adapted to one
kind of vibration alone, there were fewer senses required than we possess: for,
taking two illustrations only—ether of light is not adapted for sound, and yet we
hear as well and see; while air, the medium of motion of sound, is not the medium
of light, and yet we see and hear.
This is not so. The opinion that Pantheism "fails to be true because
it would destroy the individuality of every individual sense" shows
that all the conclusions of the learned doctor are based on the modern
physical theories, though he would fain reform them. But he will find
it impossible to do this unless he allows the existence of spiritual
senses to replace the gradual atrophy of the physical. "We see and
hear," in accordance (of course, in Dr. Richardson's mind) with the
explanations of the phenomena of sight and hearing, afforded by that
same Materialistic Science which postulates that we cannot see and
hear otherwise. The Occultists and Mystics know better. The Vedic
A
Aryans were as familiar with the mysteries of sound and colour on the
physical plane as are our Physiologists, but they had also mastered the
secrets of both on planes inaccessible to the Materialist. They knew
of a double set of senses; spiritual and material. In a man who is
deprived of one or more senses, the remaining senses become the
more developed; for instance, the blind man will recover his sight
through the senses of touch, of hearing, etc., and he who is deaf will
be able to hear through sight, by seeing audibly the words uttered by
the lips and mouth of the speaker. But these are cases that belong to
the world of Matter still. The spiritual senses, those that act on a
higher plane of consciousness, are rejected a priori by Physiology,
because the latter is ignorant of the Sacred Science. It limits the
action of Ether to vibrations, and, dividing it from air—though air is