Category: The Key To Theosophy

"Mr. Old:  What gave me the opinion that the Devachan had some particular form and a place corresponding to its state was this. I think on page 235 {157}, Volume 1, where those tablets are given and the scheme of the different schools of thought in the East, it says:   Upadhi is a basis and [...]

"Mr. Burrows:  When does the memory come in of all the previous incarnations?   Mme. Blavatsky:  To have a memory you have to live. You can have the memory of what? If you have never been anything, you cannot have a memory. You must have a memory of something.   Mr. Kingsland:  Mr. Burrows asked [...]

"Mme. Blavatsky:  Atma is nothing; it is all absolute, and it cannot be said that it is this, that, or the other. It is simply that in which we are - not only that we live and breathe and have our being, but in the whole universe, and during the whole Manvantaric period.   Therefore, [...]

"Mr. B. Keightley:  I suppose you could only say it was the centre of consciousness in Akasa?   Mme. Blavatsky:  Now what has Akasa to do with it? Neither Akasa, nor ether, nor air has anything to do with it. It is simply a state of consciousness. It is a state, and not a locality. [...]

"Mr. Old:  Is there no form under which this Monad is identified?   Mme. Blavatsky:  No form at all. It has a form in your own consciousness, and everything else that sees it are forms, created by the consciousness.   Mr. B. Keightley:  Can you say that your thought is anywhere? That is the analogy. [...]

"Mr. Old:  Then come questions on Devachan. It opens up with the orthodox question:  What is Devachan - a state, a place, or both?   Mme. Blavatsky:  A state. It is no more a place than your dreams.   Mr. Old:  Has it any corresponding loka?   Mme. Blavatsky:  No, it has not. We may [...]

"Mr. B. Keightley:  The law of progress is as much a part of the law of Karma. The thing to get out of the idea of Karma is not the idea that you have to sit down and accept things as they are - though you should not resent things - but you should strive [...]

"Mr. Old:  Question 4. How far does the general belief in Karma operate towards the acceptance of fatalism?   Mme. Blavatsky:  If you are ignorant, you see fatalism.   Mrs. Besant:  But the way it comes from outsiders sometimes is, that supposing you believe in these evils, why should you go against them?   Mme. [...]

"Mr. B. Keightley:  How far is that the Karma of the reincarnating egos in those diseased and unhealthy bodies - how far does their Karma attract?   Mme. Blavatsky:  I suppose it does attract them, but sometimes it does not. It is very difficult to come and tell you of these workings of Karma.   [...]

"Mr. B. Keightley:  Can you divert Karma in the sense of changing the character of its manifestation? Can you neutralize bad Karma by subsequent action?   Mr. Old:  Can an individual take on the Karma of half a dozen people?   Mme. Blavatsky:  He cannot. No! Sir.   Mr. Kingsland:  But you can make new [...]