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Hutcheson Had A Sense for Buddhic or Moral Perception Carlos Cardoso Aveline 00000000000000000000000000000000000000 The following note was first published in the October 2012 edition of The Aquarian Theosophist , with no indication as to its author. 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Francis Hutcheson (1694-1744)

Is impersonal truth beautiful? And - can there really be a moral and abstract b eauty? Modern esoteric philosophy says that Life unfolds in seven main levels of reality. Being part of a septenary Life, human perceptions of Truth, Beauty, and Goodnes s must be septenary, too. In theosophy, therefore, it can be said that there is beauty at the moral and ethical levels of life, and British philosopher Francis Hutcheson had a similar view of things. Hutcheson lived more than one century before Helena Blavatsky. According to both authors, human beings have more than five senses. They are endowed with an inne r sense for ethics which allows them to see moral beauty in a number of situations , as in universal ideas, altruistic feelings, sincere words and noble actions. T hey can sense moral ugliness, too. Hutcheson s viewpoint corresponds in Theosophy to a buddhic sense of what is right and wrong. Seen from an occult perspective, goodness, truth, and beauty are thr ee words to describe the same fact. Even when it reveals ugly situations, truth in itself and respect for truth are good and beautiful at an essential level. Hu man beings naturally search for ethical balance and symmetry in every aspect of life: they tend to do so even when truthfulness puts them face to face with inte nse ugliness. One should remember that symmetry includes contrast. Individuals who preserve and enhance contact with their own higher conscience kn ow that the right vision of human failures is inseparable from that wider persp ective which includes the possibility for future self-correction and self-redemp tion. Every failure brings with it the seeds of its own healing. For truth-seeke rs, blind idealizations have no value. On the other hand, there is nothing more beautiful than truth unconditionally accepted. Once the search for truth is acknowledged as fundamentally inseparable from the search for beauty and goodness, it can only follow that no falsehood or hypocris y will be accepted as good, or beautiful. The result is that sincerity tends to expand and to become a strongly natural or instinctive feature in human characte r.

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