Reincarnation: A Study in Human EvolutionPascal, Théophile
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Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution
Pascal, Théophile
Reincarnation; Theosophy
[Footnote 85: These words are relative; they express differences in
the evolution of souls.]
[Footnote 86: The atmosphere of subtle physical elements radiating
round the human body and acting in a defensive _role_ by preventing
the penetration of unhealthy elements from the immediate
surroundings.]
[Footnote 87: The "material sin" of Manu.]
[Footnote 88: One, here means the "life atoms" of a man's body.]
[Footnote 89: The word is here used in a generic sense; in the present
work, it would be more precise to replace it by the word
Resurrection.]
[Footnote 90: This "triad" comprises the visible matter of the body,
the etheric substance, and the life (Prana) which the human ether
absorbs and specialises for the vitalising of the body. See _Man and
his Bodies_, by A. Besant.]
[Footnote 91: H. P. Blavatsky, _The Theosophist_, Vol. 4, pages 287,
288.]
[Footnote 92: The finer elements invisible to physical eye. Their
function is sensation, and by their association with the human mental
body incarnated in them, they give birth to the emotions and passions,
in a word, to the animal in man.]
[Footnote 93: The _Umbra_ of the Latin races.]
[Footnote 94: The _Kama Rupa_ of the Hindus.]
[Footnote 95: The purgatory of Christians, the astral plane of
theosophists, and the _Kamaloka_ of Hindus.]
[Footnote 96: By the _fire_ of purgatory, says the Catholic metaphor.]
[Footnote 97: See A. Besant's masterly work on _Reincarnation._]
[Footnote 98: Dharma is a wide word, primarily meaning the essential
nature of a thing; hence the laws of its being, its duty; and it
includes religious rites, appropriate to those laws. This definition,
as also the extracts quoted, are taken from A. Besant's translation of
the _Bhagavad Gita._]
[Footnote 99: Human souls, not all of them, but only the pious ones,
are daimonic and divine. Once separated from the body, and after the
struggle to acquire piety, which consists in knowing God and injuring
none, such a soul becomes all intelligence. The impious soul, however,
remains in its own essence and punishes itself by seeking a human body
to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul, it cannot
enter the body of an animal devoid of reason: divine law preserves the
human soul from such infamy. Hermes Trismegistus, Book I, _Lacle_:
Hermes to his son Tat.]
[Footnote 100: Bodies.]
[Footnote 101: The physical body with its etheric "double," and life
(_Prana_).]
[Footnote 102: The kamic body.]
[Footnote 103: The causal body.]
[Footnote 104: _History_. Book 2, chap. 123.]
[Footnote 105: The causal body.]
[Footnote 106: The buddhic body, which, in ordinary man, is only in an
embryonic stage.]
[Footnote 107: Generally called _Prana_, in man. _Jiva_ is the solar
life which, on being transmuted by the physical body, becomes _Prana_,
the human physical life. Both _Jiva_ and _Prana_ differ from each
other in nature and in vibration.]
[Footnote 108: The mental body.]
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