C O N C E R N I N G O C C U L T P O W E R S
In the broad sense, the 'occult' means all that is hidden to the given level of consciousness which is taken as the base of reference. Thus to the simple consciousness of the animal, the egoistic consciousness, which underlies our familiar culture and civilization is occult. A few of the higher animals, such as dogs, do show signs indicating adumbrations of values characteristic of egoistic consciousness, and thus they are reaching to the morning twilight of the latter level. They occupy a position similar to that of a partial initiation into an occult domain. They are instances of devoted aspiration on the part of the less evolved consciousness, and the induction from it of the superior consciousness.
Within the egoistic field, there is a relatively wide range, from those individuals who have just sufficiently established their base here to be called men - such as the Bushmen of Australia - up to the highest evolved consciousness which yet falls short of the higher Awakened Consciousness. In a secondary sense we may say that the higher cultures are occult for primitive man. . . But when the term occult is applied in this connection, it is not employed in the strict sense, for the latter implies a radical shift of base.
With reference to the preponderant portion of humanity, the Occult means that consciousness which is realized when the Awakening has come. None of the knowledge which is the common possession of this higher level can be understood by the purely egoistic man. . . Even though a man is functioning on both levels, he cannot effect a really correct cross-translation in his own consciousness. He is, in a sense both the circle and the square. . . but neither domain is any longer occult in the strict sense, however much remains occult in the sense of not having yet been mastered. . .
(Franklin Merrell-Wolff; Pathways Through to Space)
The Etherians attach many relationships to their senses, which is probably as difficult for us to understand or imagine as, for example, what kind of consciousness the bee has in the use of its phenomenal eye sight. . . Besides the five senses known to us, there are seven others used in Etheria. What they are, how they function, and to what purpose, I have been unable to explain to anyone. I know, but I cannot explain, because we have no standards of ideas or objects that I can use for comparison. These twelve sense principles are connected with twelve vibrations in twelve zones of thought or substance, and there are 12 Gods on Authorities who are somewhat like our planetary Logoi. In other systems there may be as many as 48 or 148 vibrations, senses, and Gods. . .
(Gerald Light)
- Merrell-Wolfe, Franklin. Pathways Through to Space. New York City: Rich. R. Smith, 1944. Print. <http://amzn.to/Oyhu4Z>