the key to theosophy…

“Mr. B. Keightley:  Then you come to the question which Mr. Burrows raised – when the Devachanee knows he is reincarnated.

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  You will see it in the Key to Theosophy. There are two moments when the reincarnating ego returns to its pristine omniscience, because, since it is Manasaputra (Meaning the son of wisdom or the universal intelligence), it is omniscient – or it is at the moment of death, just at the moment when a man dies. When he is dead, he is dead, and it is finished, and he see everything.

 
Mr. B. Keightley:  He sees the life he is going to enter into.

 
Mme. Blavatsky: He is really himself and knows everything.

 
Mr. Gardner:  Does he see his past lives?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  Most assuredly he does; it is what the Buddha saw.

 
Mr. B. Keightley:  He does not forget, but the impression is not transferred.

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  It cannot be transferred, because the instrument cannot receive it. Sometimes you have it, in moments of high vision. What is it, for instance, the states the sensitive person have? It is simply by some circumstance, some physiological cause or reason or nervous condition. The faculties that were impending the man to receive this light from his Manas, from his higher ego, are suddenly taken away.

 
Mr. B. Keightley:  Occasionally the light is reflected upon our physical brain.

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  It is like a cobweb. For a moment he says: that is what it is, because the ego is omniscience per se, not omniscience in the body. It is an extremely interesting thing, if only one could put it into language.

 
If I had your gift of speech, I can assure you I would make all London Theosophists. It is one thing to be plain, because I sit and explain, and another to say in one sweeping, magnificent phrase the whole thing. I have not got “the gift of the gab.””

 
H. P. Blavatsky