Category: The Key To Theosophy

"Mr. Old:  There is no individual consciousness. How do we know anything about Nirvana?   Mr. Kingsland:  Do you believe that the future Manvantara will be an improvement upon the present one, or not?   Mr. Old:  Yes! I do, because my experience has told me from what little I have seen that the law [...]

"Mr. Old:  Who was Hermes?   Mme. Blavatsky:  If you mix up the Greek gods with the philosophy, then we are lost.   Mr. Old:  I will bear it.   Mr. Kingsland:  But our brains won't.   Mme. Blavatsky:  Let us leave in quietude all these analogies.   Mr. Old:  But this is our only [...]

"Mr. Old:  There is a source of confusion to an occidental mind; just the same with your juxtaposition of the two words Jiva and Prana, which throws everybody into confusion. I mean to say, your repetition of the language.   Mr. B. Keightley:  The juxtaposition was sensed, and nobody ever took it up.   Mme. [...]

"Mr. Kingsland:  I think you might look at it in this light; by analogy, it is exactly the same as the way in which we require to postulate for the descending scale of manifestation - first the manifesting spirit, then the first Logos, and then the second. Isn't it the same?   Mr. Old:   Who [...]

"Mr. Old:  It is a contradiction between the undifferentiated Atman and Buddhi.   Mme. Blavatsky:  It is simply that Atma is beyond the seventh plane. Buddhi is one of the planes; you understand that. Therefore, if Atma, which is beyond the seventh plane, falls on the ego through seven planes, it will fall a great [...]

"Mr. B. Keightley:  To go back to what Kingsland was saying. Intuition as we know it is defined in this way: the memory, the action or the reflection on our lower plane of the hierarchies. It is not the higher aspect of the hierarchies, nor does it exhaust the Manas.   Mme. Blavatsky:  The incarnating [...]

"Mr. Old:  Then would you say that all this is written of Nirvana of Brahma, of Para-Nirvana, of Para-Brahm, is the result of experience?   Mr. Kingsland:  All that you can understand of it, that is the result of experience.   Mr. Old:  I take it as the result of intuition.   Mme. Blavatsky:  It [...]

"Mr. Kingsland:  Does Atma accumulate experiences?   Mr. Old:  No! But you have got hold of the idea that it is only accumulated experience that we know.   Mr. Kingsland:  It is only accumulated experience which is our intuition.   Mme. Blavatsky:  How can you give experience to that which is absolute? How is it [...]

"Mrs. Gordon:  I have seen it myself, among friends of my own. They had a sixth sense, as I may say. They lived in another atmosphere altogether, you see.   Mr. Kingsland:  There are a great many cases in which that is brought forward - abnormal cases, such as I have mentioned. Take the case [...]

"Mrs. Gordon:  It seems to me that the experiments that have been made in regard to hypnotism show that there is this higher consciousness which may be brought forward occasionally under exceptional circumstances - that is, with exceptional natures. It is not everyone in whom it can be developed. Don't you think so, Madame? I am [...]