The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy — John Shaqi
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and PhilosophyBlavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Religion
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Theosophy
A certain Ray (principle) from Sanat Kumâra spiritualized (animated)
Pradyumna, the son of Krishna during the great Mahâbhârata period, while
at the same time, he, Sanat Kumâra, gave spiritual instruction to King
Dhritarâshtra. Moreover, it is to be remembered that Sanat‐Kumâra is “an
eternal youth of sixteen,” dwelling in Jana Loka, his own sphere or
spiritual state.
Even in ordinary _mediumistic_ life, so‐called, it is pretty well
ascertained that while the body is acting—even though only mechanically—or
resting in one place, its astral double may be appearing and acting
independently in another, and very often distant place. This is quite a
common occurrence in mystic life and history, and if this be so with
ecstatics, Seers and Mystics of every description, why cannot the same
thing happen on a higher and more spiritually developed plane of
existence? Admit the possibility on the lower psychic plane, then why not
on a higher plane? In the cases of higher Adeptship, when the body is
entirely at the command of the Inner Man, when the Spiritual Ego is
completely reünited with its seventh principle even during the life‐time
of the personality, and the Astral Man or personal Ego has become so
purified that he has gradually assimilated all the qualities and
attributes of the middle nature (Buddhi and Manas in their terrestrial
aspect) that personal Ego substitutes itself, so to say, for the spiritual
Higher Self, and is thenceforth capable of living an independent life on
earth; when corporeal death takes place the following mysterious event
often happens. As a Dharmakâya, a Nirvânî “without remains” entirely free
from terrestrial admixture, the Spiritual Ego cannot return to reincarnate
on earth. But in such cases, it is affirmed, the personal Ego of even a
Dharmakâya can remain in our sphere as a whole, and return to incarnation
on earth if need be. For now it can no longer be subject, like the astral
remains of any ordinary man, to gradual dissolution in the Kâma Loka (the
_limbus_ or purgatory of the Roman Catholic, and the “Summer‐land” of the
Spiritualist); it cannot die a second death, as such disintegration is
called by Proclus.(659) It has become too holy and pure, no longer by
reflected but its own natural light and spirituality, either to sleep in
the unconscious slumber of a lower Nirvânic state, or to be dissolved like
any ordinary astral shell and disappear in its entirety.
But in that condition known as the Nirmânakâya [the Nirvânî “with
remains,”] he can still help humanity.
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