Author: win r

"Theo (cont):  This is Nirvanic bliss, and no Theosophist could describe in plainer though esoteric language the mental joys of Devachan, where every man has his paradise around him, erected by his consciousness. But you must be aware of the general error into which too many even of our Theosophist fall.   Do not imagine [...]

"Theo (cont):  Plutarch divides the latter into three groups, and makes of the body a compound of physical frame, astral shadow, and breath, or the triple lower part, which "from earth was taken and to earth returns"; of the middle principle and the instinctual soul, the second part, derived from and through and ever influenced by [...]

"Enq:  We have magnificent Greek and Latin, Sanskrit and Hebrew scholars. How is it that we find nothing in their translations that would afford us a clue to what you say?   Theo:  Because your translators, their great learning notwithstanding, have made of the philosophers, the Greeks especially, misty instead of mystic writers. Take as [...]

"Enq:  Still you can hardly escape the charge of having invented a new division of man's spiritual and psychic constituents; for no philosopher speaks of them, though you believe that Plato does.   Theo:  And I support the view. Besides Plato, there is Pythagoras, who also followed the same idea. "Plato and Pythagoras", says Plutarch, [...]