"Enq: You mean, then, that we have all lived on earth before, in many past incarnations, and shall go on so living? Theo: I do. The life-cycle, or rather the cycle of conscious life, begins with the separation of the mortal animal-man into sexes, and will end with the close of the last generation [...]
Category: The Key To Theosophy (1889): H. P. Blavatsky
tktt: The Doctrine is Taught in St. John’s Gospel
"Enq: But is your inference a correct one? Theo: What would you infer if the best pupils of a particular school of singing broke down from over-strained sore throats? That the method followed was a bad one. So I think the inference is equally fair with regard to Spiritualism when we see their best [...]
tktt: The Doctrine is Taught in St. John’s Gospel
"Enq: Do you mean to suggest that it is all witchcraft and nothing more? Theo: What I mean is that, whether conscious or unconscious, all this dealing with the dead is necromancy, and a most dangerous practice. For ages before Moses such raising of the dead was regarded by all the intelligent nations as [...]
tktt: The Doctrine is Taught in St. John’s Gospel
"Enq: Don't you believe in their (Spiritists; Spiritualists) phenomena at all? Theo: It is because I believe in them with too good reason, and (except some cases of deliberate fraud) know them to be as true as that you and I live, that all my being revolts against them. Once more I speak only [...]
tktt: The Doctrine is Taught in St. John’s Gospel
"Enq: You seem very bitter against Spirits. As you have given me your views and your reasons for disbelieving in the materialization of, and direct communication in seances, with the disembodied spirits - or the "spirits of the dead" - would you mind enlightening me as to one more fact? Why are some Theosophists [...]
tktt: The Doctrine is Taught in St. John’s Gospel
"Enq: But does not the author of "Isis Unveiled" stand accused of having preached against reincarnation? Theo: By those who have misunderstood what we said, yes. At the time that work was written, reincarnation was not believed in by any Spiritualists, either English or American, and what is said there on reincarnation was directed [...]
tktt: The Doctrine is Taught in St. John’s Gospel
"Theo (cont): Personal life, or perhaps rather its ideal reflection, can only be continued if sustained by the two-fold force, that is by the close union of Buddhi and Manas in every rebirth or personal life. The least deviation from harmony damages it; and when it is destroyed beyond redemption the two forces separate at [...]
tktt: The Doctrine is Taught in St. John’s Gospel
"Enq: But surely, if the Ego is held responsible for the transgressions of its personalities, it has to answer also for the loss, or rather the complete annihilation, of one of such. Theo: Not at all, unless it has done nothing to avert this dire fate. But if, all its efforts notwithstanding, its voice, [...]
tktt: The Doctrine is Taught in St. John’s Gospel
"Enq: But what proofs have you to support such an arbitrary interpretation? Theo: Universal symbology is a warrant for its correctness and that it is not arbitrary. Hermes says of "God' that he "planted the Vineyard", i.e., he created mankind. In the Kabala, it is shown that the Aged of the Aged, or [...]
tktt: The Doctrine is Taught in St. John’s Gospel
"Enq: To this the adherents to this belief might answer, that if even the orthodox dogma does promise the impenitent sinner and materialist a bad time of it in a rather too realistic Inferno, it gives them, on the other hand, a chance for repentance to the last minute. Nor do they teach annihilation, or [...]
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 