The Key to Theosophy: Being a Clear Exposition, in the Form of Question and Answer, of the Ethics, Science and Philosophy for the Study of Which the Theosophical Society Has Been FoundedBlavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
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The Key to Theosophy: Being a Clear Exposition, in the Form of Question and Answer, of the Ethics, Science and Philosophy for the Study of Which the Theosophical Society Has Been Founded
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Theosophy
THEO. Of course there are; but they have never been recognised by your
scientific modern psychologists. To what do you attribute
intuition, the “voice of the conscience,” premonitions,
vague undefined reminiscences, etc., etc., if not to such
communications? Would that the majority of educated men, at least,
had the fine spiritual perceptions of Coleridge, who shows how
intuitional he is in some of his comments. Hear what he says with
respect to the probability that “all thoughts are in themselves
imperishable.” “If the intelligent faculty (sudden ‘revivals’
of memory) should be rendered more comprehensive, it would
require only a different and appropriate organization, the _body
celestial_ instead of the _body terrestrial_, to bring before
every human soul _the collective experience of its whole past
existence_ (_existences_, rather).” And this _body celestial_ is
our Manasic EGO.
ON THE REWARD AND PUNISHMENT OF THE EGO.
ENQ. I have heard you say that the _Ego_, whatever the life of the
person he incarnated in may have been on Earth, is never visited
with _post-mortem_ punishment.
THEO. Never, save in very exceptional and rare cases of which we will
not speak here, as the nature of the “punishment” in no way
approaches any of your theological conceptions of damnation.
ENQ. But if it is punished in this life for the misdeeds committed in a
previous one, then it is this Ego that ought to be rewarded also,
whether here, or when disincarnated.
THEO. And so it is. If we do not admit of any punishment outside of
this earth, it is because the only state the Spiritual Self knows
of, hereafter, is that of unalloyed bliss.
ENQ. What do you mean?
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