The following are some quotable passages from book ‘Why I became A Theosophist’, I am interested in her use of the term ‘vibration’ in relation to thought. As Vibration is so intrinsic with sound. Except for atomic types of vibration like light particles. Hearing besant use the terminology Audition and ‘Clairaudience’ is fascinating also. It seems Besant’s interest in philosophy comes from a Science/Philosophy angle. It’s interesting how little she is concerned with belief systems of Theosophy but more following her nature of discovery… I think from these texts she is very driven by discovery. Perhaps that is what is so charming about her work, that it acts like a sort of playful creative science, where you don’t have to worry about results. Your imagination is allowed to bend theories and variables to your will and in a sense this makes it a form of creative fiction within the style of an academic paper. Whilst it is most likely unfathomable, that is kind of the point of it. Why study this world when you can invent a better one?… To me it feels like there is a certain impatience to Besant, she seems to have academic prowess and has strived to work out answers as to why we are here but she can’t wait for Science to confirm these hypothesise. Postulating theories on Thoughtforms, Chemistry, Telekinesis, Evolution. Esoteric thought allowed her to cross disciplines and follow her interests and theosophy allowed her to go wild with her imagination….
In an ancient occult treatise, however, we read of a “colorless spiritual fluid” “which exists everywhere and forms the first foundation on which our solar system is built. Outside the latter, it is found in its pristine purity only between the stars [suns] of the universe…. As its substance is of a different kind from that known on earth, the inhabitants of the latter, seeing through it, believe, in their illusion and ignorance, that it is empty space. There is not one finger’s breadth of void space in the whole boundless universe.”[21] “The mother-substance” is said, in this treatise, to produce this æther of space as its seventh grade of density, and all objective suns are said to have this for their “substance.”
21 is ‘The Secret Doctrine’ by Helena Blavatsky