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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FIVE SENSES

1. The First Sense ------------- Hearing gives him an idea of relative direction, and enables a man to fix his place in the scheme, and to locate himself.

1. Physical Hearing
2. Clairaudience
3. Higher Clairaudience
4. Comprehension (of four sounds)
5. Beatitude

2. The Second Sense --------- Touch gives him an idea of relative quantity and enables him to fix his relative value as regards other bodies, extraneous to himself.

1. Physical Touch
2. Psychometry
3. Planetary Psychometry
4. Healing
5. Active Service

3. The Third Sense------------Sight gives him an idea of proportion, and enables him to adjust his movements to the movements of others.

1. Physical Sight
2. Clairvoyance
3. Higher Clairvoyance
4. Divine Vision
5. Realisation

4. The Fourth Sense ---------- Taste gives him an idea of value, and enables him to fix upon that which to him appears best.

1. Physical Taste
2. Imagination
3. Discrimination
4. Intuition
5. Perfection

5. The Fifth Sense------------- Smell gives him an idea of innate quality, and enables him to find that which appeals to him as of the same quality or essence as himself.

1. Physical Smell
2. Emotional Idealism
3. Spiritual Discernment
4. Idealism
5. All Knowledge

In all these definitions it is necessary to bear in mind that the whole object of the senses is to reveal the not-self, and to enable the Self therefore to differentiate between the real and the unreal.

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