Category: The Key To Theosophy

"Mr. B. Keightley:  Take, for instance, this question:  There is a well-known property of matter which is called chemical affinity, the combining power which varies from substance to substance; certain things you can take hold of and touch and our physical senses respond to them.  How to conceive corresponding relations of things on the next plane [...]

"Mme. Blavatsky:  Now you have got to study for yourselves. The only thing I can give you is just to put the "Key" in your hands and say: "This opens this way, and this that way", and so on. You understand that whereas one person will understand well, another will understand less.   Mrs. Gordon:  [...]

"Mr. Old:  How do you account for the association of persons on this earth plane as an apparent result of reincarnation?   Mr. B. Keightley:  Karma.   Mr. Old:  Then we may always presume that we have met before.   Mme. Blavatsky:  You may.   Mrs. Besant:  And does the mental condition influence that at [...]

"Mr. Old:  Then go on with questions on reincarnation. Can any reason be given for the necessity of reincarnation?   Mr. B. Keightley:  The first great reason is, on no other hypothesis can you account for the inequalities of life - not only of condition and of circumstances under which a man is born, but [...]

"Mr. B. Keightley:  Besides the Nirmanakayas, others escape. There are numerous cases of speedy reincarnation without Devachan.   Mme. Blavatsky:  For instance, children who died before the age of reason. Immediately they are reincarnated. Persons who did not have a glimpse of spirituality in them. It is a degree of consciousness. If he is Gautama, [...]

"Mr. Old:  Is it possible to escape Devachan, say from pure aversion to its useless inactivity?   Mme. Blavatsky:  Most assuredly. Don't desire anything and you won't have Devachan. You will have nothing to hang your consciousness on. You will be asleep and snore and have no dreams.   Mr. Old:  That is worse than [...]

"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 [...]

"Mr. Old:  What is the impulse which determines the Devachanee to incarnate?   Mme. Blavatsky:  It is Karma that makes him incarnate. He won't have more than he deserves; there is no impulse in him, but he dies out, his dream is at an end.   Mr. Old:  When a man takes a meal, he [...]

"Mr. Sneyd:  When the individuality becomes merged in Parabrahm, then in that state, why do they call it the nothing, if it is the reality?   Mr. Old:  It is not called nothing; it is no thing.   Mme. Blavatsky:  It is the All.   Mr. Sneyd:  But they only mean when they say nothing, [...]

"Mr. Old:  The next question is:  What determines the length of the Devachanic state?   Mme. Blavatsky:  Your actions.   Mr. Old:  In the previous life?   Mme. Blavatsky:  In the previous life.   Mr. Old:  It is not, the aggregate?   Mme. Blavatsky:  It is not the aggregate, unless there is some surplus that [...]