In Helena P. Blavatsky’s article on Psychic and Noetic Action - Part I, she distinguishes between motivational inspiration that comes only humans, from the plane of the soul, versus actions that are more simply byproducts of the thrust of our personalities. Though late 1800’s scientists dismissed free will as nonexistent, one by one, their methods of analysis and faulty logic is exposed. With the finite perception of scientists’ overemphasis on gross matter toppled, she broadens the view, to reveal an understanding of our dual nature and how this affects what is in our minds.

Coming soon is Part II of this article, delving more deeply into how this dual nature, which is unique to mankind, guides our actions.

The Secret Doctrine’s author and founder of Theosophy, Madame Helena P. Blavatsky, addressed her scientific contemporaries as not brilliant conveyers of newly discovered truths, but as fallible men, whose inquiries into the very subjects of the day they popularized, as being too shallow to accurately inform their public. At the time of her writings in the 1860s, scientific discoveries were propelling the industrial age and Western medicine forward, but in the subtle subjects such as psychology, understanding the precursors to thought entering the human mind and how to discern wisdom from falsehood, the coarseness of their mentalities impeded accuracy. She sites materialism, complete rejection of the soul and our Higher Self and more, as their fateful impediments, yet manages to she brightens the path to informed discernment for her readers.

Cycles take place at all levels; cosmic, planetary, racial, national, etc. H.P Blavatsky said it best, when she described their significance, “The ancients divided time into endless cycles, wheels within wheels, all such periods being of various durations, and each marking the beginning or the end of some event either cosmic, mundane, physical or metaphysical.” Explore your place in the universe, with this episode.