Category: The Key To Theosophy (1889): H. P. Blavatsky

"Enq:  Do you really teach, as you are accused of doing by some Spiritualists and French Spiritists, the annihilation of every personality?   Theo:  We do not. But as this question of the duality - the individuality of the Divine Ego, and the personality of the human animal - involves that of the possibility of [...]

"Let us take a cursory view of these seven aspects by drawing two tables. Now what does Plato teach? He speaks of the interior man as constituted of two parts - one immutable and always the same, formed of the same substance as Deity, and the other mortal and corruptible. These "two parts" are found [...]

"Enq:  Is it what we call Spirit and Soul, and the man of flesh?   Theo:  It is not. That is the old Platonic division. Plato was an Initiate, and therefore could not go into forbidden details; but he who is acquainted with the archaic doctrine finds the seven in Plato's various combinations of Soul [...]

"Enq:  What do you mean by a different set of senses? Is there anything on our human plane that you could bring as an illustration of what you say, just to give a clearer idea of what you may mean by this variety of senses, spaces, and respective perceptions?   Theo:  None; except, perhaps, that [...]

"Enq:  I understand that you describe our earth as forming part of a chain of earths?   Theo:  We do. But the other six "earths" or globes, are not on the same plane of objectivity as our earth is; therefore we cannot see them.   Enq:  Is that on account of the great distance?   [...]

"Enq:  But what are your data for this assertion?   Theo:  What science in general will never accept as proof - the cumulative testimony of an endless series of Seers who have testified to this fact.   Their spiritual visions, real explorations by, and through, physical and spiritual senses untrammelled by blind flesh, were systematically [...]

"Enq:  What do you mean by sui generis?   Theo:  I mean that, though the fundamental law and the universal working of laws of Nature are uniform, still our Solar system (like every other such system in the millions of others in Cosmos) and even our Earth, has its own programme of manifestations differing from [...]

"Enq:  But who is it that creates each time the Universe?   Theo:  No one creates it. Science would call the process evolution; the pre-Christian philosophers and the Orientalists called it emanation: we, Occultists and Theosophists, see in it the only universal and eternal reality casting a periodical reflection of itself on the infinite Spacial [...]

"Enq:  Having told me what God, the Soul and Man are not, in your views, can you inform me what they are, according to your teachings?   Theo:  In their origin and in eternity the three, like the universe and all therein, are one with the absolute Unity, the unknowable deific essence I spoke about [...]

"Enq:  This refers to Gautama, but in what way does it touch the Gospels?   Theo:  Read history and think over it. At the time the events narrated in the Gospels are alleged to have happened, there was a similar intellectual fermentation taking place in the whole civilized world, only with opposite results in the [...]