Truth and how we know
But how do you know that it’s true…………………………..…………………for countless generations teachers have…………………………their spiritual visions, real explorations by, and through, physical and spiritual senses untrammeled by blind flesh, were systematically checked and compared one with the other, and their nature sifted.
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All that was not corroborated by unanimous and collective experience was rejected, while that only was recorded as established truth, which, in various ages, under different climes, and throughout an untold series of incessant observations, was found to agree and receive constantly further corroboration.
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The methods used by our scholars and students of the psycho-spiritual sciences do not differ from those of students of the natural and physical sciences.
Only our fields of research are on two different planes, and our instruments are made by no human hands, for which reason perchance they are only the more reliable.
The retorts, accumulators, and microscopes of the chemist and naturalist may get out of order; the telescope and the astronomer's horological instruments may get spoiled; our recording instruments are beyond the influence of weather or the elements.
HPB, KEY 86-87
The above is written in answer to questions about truth.
Today's humans might find this peculiar because most do not know that yes there are beings who have transcended time and space and so have been able to establish the truth of things
But how do you know that it’s true…………………………..…………………for countless generations teachers have…………………………their spiritual visions, real explorations by, and through, physical and spiritual senses untrammeled by blind flesh, were systematically checked and compared one with the other, and their nature sifted.
.
All that was not corroborated by unanimous and collective experience was rejected, while that only was recorded as established truth, which, in various ages, under different climes, and throughout an untold series of incessant observations, was found to agree and receive constantly further corroboration.
.
The methods used by our scholars and students of the psycho-spiritual sciences do not differ from those of students of the natural and physical sciences.
Only our fields of research are on two different planes, and our instruments are made by no human hands, for which reason perchance they are only the more reliable.
The retorts, accumulators, and microscopes of the chemist and naturalist may get out of order; the telescope and the astronomer's horological instruments may get spoiled; our recording instruments are beyond the influence of weather or the elements.
HPB, KEY 86-87
The above is written in answer to questions about truth.
Today's humans might find this peculiar because most do not know that yes there are beings who have transcended time and space and so have been able to establish the truth of things
Absolute objective truth.
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