The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and PhilosophyBlavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Religion
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Theosophy
Says Éliphas Lévi, the Kabalist: Say the Theosophists:
KABALISTIC PNEUMATICS. ESOTERIC PNEUMATICS.
1. The Soul (or Ego) is a 1. The same; for it is
clothed light; and this light is Âtmâ‐Buddhi‐Manas.
triple.
2. Neshamah—pure Spirit. 2. The same(391).
3. Ruach—the Soul or Spirit. 3. Spiritual Soul.
4. Nephesh—Plastic 4. Mediator between Spirit and
Mediator.(392) Man, the Seat of Reason, the
Mind, in man.
5. The garment of the Soul is 5. Correct.
the rind [body] of the Image
[Astral Soul].
6. The Image is double, because 6. Too uselessly apocalyptic.
it reflects the good and the Why not say that the Astral
bad. reflects the good as well as the
bad man; man, who is ever
tending to the upper Triad, or
else disappears with the
Quaternary.
7. [Image—Body.] 7. The Earthly Image.
OCCULT PNEUMATICS. OCCULT PNEUMATICS.
(As given by Éliphas Lévi.) (As given by the Occultists.)
1. Nephesh is immortal, because 1. Manas is immortal, because
it renews its life by the after every new incarnation it
destruction of forms. [But adds to Âtmâ‐Buddhi something of
Nephesh, the “Breath of Life,” itself; and thus, assimilating
is a misnomer, and a useless itself to the Monad, shares its
puzzle to the student.] immortality.
2. Ruach progresses by the 2. Buddhi becomes conscious by
evolution of ideas (!?). the accretions it gets from
Manas, on the death of man after
every new incarnation.
3. Neshamah is progressive, 3. Âtmâ neither progresses,
without oblivion and forgets, nor remembers. It does
destruction. not belong to this plane; it is
but the Ray of Light eternal
which shines upon, and through,
the darkness of matter—when the
latter is willing.
4. The Soul has three dwellings. 4. The Soul—collectively, as the
Upper Triad—_lives_ on three
planes, besides its fourth, the
terrestrial sphere; and it _is_
eternally on the highest of the
three.
5. These dwellings are: the 5. These dwellings are: Earth
Plane of Mortals; the Superior for the physical man, or Animal
Eden; and the Inferior Eden. Soul; Kâma Loka (Hades, the
Limbo) for the disembodied man,
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