Theosophy - Immortality
IMMORTALITY
"...the
Spirit (the 'Father in secret' of Jesus), or Atman ... only overshadows the
mortal; that which enters into him and pervades the whole body being only its
omnipresent rays, or light, radiated through Buddhi, its vehicle and direct
emanation." (p. 101)
"Man is
a correlation of spiritual powers, as well as a correlation of chemical and
physical forces, brought into function by what we call 'principles.'" (p. 102)
"... the
spirit (Atma) never descends hypostatically into the living man, but only showers
more or less its radiance on the inner man (the psychic and spiritual compound
of the astral principles)..." (pp.102-3)
"... we
only allow the presence of the radiation of Spirit (or Atma) in the astral capsule,
and so far only as that spiritual radiancy is concerned. We say that man and
Soul have to conquer their immortality by asdcending towards the unity with
which, if successful, they will be finally linked and into which they are finally,
so to speak, absorbed." (p. 103)
"If that
union between the lower, or personal Manas, and the individual reincarnating
Ego, has not been effected during life, then the former is left to share the
fate of the lower animals, to gradually dissolve into ether, and have its personality
annihilated. But even then the Ego remains a distinct being. It (the spiritual
Ego) only loses one Devachanic state ... as that idealized Personality..." (pp.103-4)
"The whole
esotericism of the Buddhistic philosophy is based on this mysterious teaching
... An Ego who has won his immortal life as spirit will remain the same inner
self throughout all his rebirths on earth ..." (p.104-5)
"... the
Zohar teaches that the soul cannot reach the abode of bliss, unless she has
received the 'holy kiss,' or the reunion of the soul with the substance from
which she emanated - spirit. ... ' Woe to the soul which prefers to her divine
husband (spirit) the earthly wedlock with her terrestrial body,' records a text
of the Book of the Keys, a Hermetic work. Woe indeed, for nothing will remain
of that personality to be recorded on the imperishable tablets of the Ego's
memory." (p.108)
Extracted from The
Key to Theosophy by H. P. Blavatsky
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