FOOTNOTES:
[1] Book ii., from lines 666-789. The whole passage bristles with horrors.
[2] xii. 85. Trans., of Burnell and Hopkins.
[3] From the translation of Dhunjeebhoy Jamsetjee Medhora, Zoroastrian and some other Ancient Systems, xxvii.
[4] Trans., by Mirza Mohamed Hadi. The Platonist, 306.
[5] The Sacred Books of the East, iii, 109, 110.
[6] Secret Doctrine, vol. i. p. 281.
[7] See ibid., p. 283.
[8] Isis Unveiled, vol. i. p. 480.
[9] Theosophical Manuals, No. 1.
[10] The Heroic Enthusiasts, Trans., by L. Williams. part ii. pp. 22, 23.
[11] Cremation, Theosophical Siftings, vol. iii.
[12] Man: Fragments of Forgotten History, pp. 119, 120.
[13] Key to Theosophy, H.P. Blavatsky, p. 109. Third Edition.
[14] Magic, White and Black, Dr. Franz Hartmann, pp. 109, 110. Third Edition.
[15] See The Seven Principles of Man, pp. 17-21.
[16] Theosophist, March, 1882, p. 158, note.
[17] Essays upon some Controverted Questions, p. 36.
[18] Fortnightly Review, 1892, p. 176.
[19] Key to Theosophy, p. 67.
[20] Ibid., p. 97.
[21] Key to Theosophy, p. 97
[22] Ibid., p. 102.
[23] June, 1882, art. "Seeming Discrepancies."
[24] Pp. 73, 74. Ed. 1887.
[25] Theosophical Glossary, Elementaries.
[26] See The Seven Principles of Man, p.p. 44-46.
[27] The name Sukhâvatî, borrowed from Tibetan Buddhism, is sometimes used instead of that of Devachan. Sukhâvatî, according to Schlagintweit, is "the abode of the blessed, into which ascend those who have accumulated much merit by the practice of virtues", and "involves the deliverance from metempsychosis" (Buddhism in Tibet, p. 99). According to the Prasanga school, the higher Path leads to Nirvâna, the lower to Sukhâvatî. But Eitel calls Sukhâvatî "the Nirvâna of the common people, where the saints revel in physical bliss for æons, until they reënter the circle of transmigration" (Sanskrit-Chinese Dictionary). Eitel, however, under "Amitâbha" states that the "popular mind" regards the "paradise of the West" as "the haven of final redemption from the eddies of transmigration". When used by one of the Teachers of the Esoteric Philosophy it covers the higher Devachanic states, but from all of these the Soul comes back to earth.
[28] See Lucifer, Oct, 1892, Vol. XI. No. 62.
[29] The Path, May, 1890.
[30] Ibid.
[31] "Notes on Devachan," as cited.
[32] "Notes on Devachan," as before. There are a variety of stages in Devachan; the Rûpa Loka is an inferior stage, where the Soul is still surrounded by forms. It has escaped from these personalities in the Tribhuvana.
[33] Vishnu Purâna, Bk. I. ch. v.
[34] Key to Theosophy, p. 69. Third Edition.
[35] Sixth and seventh in the older nomenclature, fifth and sixth in the later—i.e., Manas and Buddhi.
[36] Key to Theosophy, p. 99. Third Edition.
[37] Ibid., p. 100.
[38] Ibid., p. 101.
[39] See Manual No. 2 Re-incarnation, pp. 60, 61. Third Edition.
[40] Key to Theosophy, p. 105. Third Edition.
[41] Esoteric Buddhism, p. 197. Eighth Edition.
[42] Quoted in the Secret Doctrine, vol ii. p. 83. The student will do well to read, for a fair presentation of the subject, G.R.S. Mead's "Note on Nirvâna" in Lucifer, for March, April, and May, 1893. (Re-printed in Theosophical Siftings).
[43] Theosophist, Sept., 1882, p. 310.
[44] See on "illusion" what was said under the heading "Devachan".
[45] Key to Theosophy, p. 102. Third Edition.
[46] Theosophist, Sept. 1881.
[47] "Notes on Devachan", Path, June, 1890, p. 80.
[48] Theosophist, June, 1882, p. 226.
[49] Summarised from article in Theosophist, Sept., 1882.
[50] Ibid., p. 309.
[51] Ibid., p. 310.
[52] Key to Theosophy, p. 151.
[53] Theosophist, Sept., 1882, p. 310.
INDEX.
- Accident, Death by, [37] .
- Appendix, [81] .
- Astral Body, [19] ,
- Fate of, [31] .
- Astral Shell or Soul, [75] .
- Avesta, quoted, [9] .
- Blavatsky, H.P., quoted, [16] , [17] , [24] , [30] , [31] , [33] , [34] , [35] , [45] , [49] , [60] , [65] , [66] , [67] , [73] , [74] , [78] .
- Book of the Dead, quoted, [8] .
- Bruno, Giordano, quoted, [21] .
- Buddhism in Tibet, quoted, [47] , (note).
- Communications between Earth and other Spheres, [70] .
- " between Earth and Soul in Etheric Body, [71] .
- " between Earth, and soul in Devachan, [72] ,
- " between Earth and soul in Kâmaloka, [72] .
- " from Adepts now living, [79] .
- " from Elementals, [78] .
- " from Elementaries, [77] .
- " from Medium's Higher Ego, [79] .
- " from Nirmânakâyas, [78] .
- " from Shells, [43] , [77] .
- Controverted Questions, Essays upon some, quoted, [28] .
- Cremation, quoted, [21] .
- Cycle of Incarnation, [52] et seq.
- Death, a Gateway, [79] .
- " Chinese Ideas of, [11] .
- " Christian Ideas of, [6] .
- " Egyptian Ideas of, [8] .
- " Theosophic Ideas of, [18] .
- Desatir, quoted, [9] .
- Devachan, [33] , [46] . et seq.
- Devachan, Passing into, of the average-living, [33] .
- Devachan, The Soul in, [72] .
- Devachanî, The, [58] et seq.
- Earth, The return to, [66] .
- Egos, Many lives of, [63] et seq.
- Elementals, [44] , [78] .
- Elementaries, [45] , [77] .
- Esoteric Buddhism, quoted, [69] .
- Etheric Double, [12] , [22] et seq., [24] , [25] , [71] et seq.
- Heroic Enthusiasts, The, quoted, [21] .
- Kâmaloka, [26] , [27] , [29] , [32] , [34] , [41] .
- Kâmaloka, The Soul in, [72] .
- Kâma Rûpa, [30] .
- Key to Theosophy, quoted, [24] , [30] , [31] , [33] , [60] , [65] , [67] , [73] , [78] .
- Magic, White and Black, quoted, [26] .
- Man: Fragments of Forgotten History, quoted, [23] .
- Man: How Made, [12] et seq.
- Mâyâ, [47] .
- Medium, Communications from Higher Egos of, [79] .
- Nirvâna, [69] .
- Ordinances of Manu, quoted, [9] .
- Paradise Lost, quoted, [7] .
- Path, quoted, [51] , [54] , [55] , [56] , [59] et seq.
- Perfect Way, quoted, [44] .
- Perishable Quaternary, [12] .
- Pishâchas, [38] .
- Prâna, [26] , [30] .
- Premature Death, [36] , [39] .
- Sanskrit-Chinese Dictionary, quoted, [47] [(Foot note 27]).
- Seven principles of Man, quoted, [26] , [45] .
- Shell, Astral Soul, or, [75] .
- Shells, The, [41] .
- Shû King, quoted, [10] .
- Soul, Growth of, in Devachan, [56] ,
- " Powers of the, [80] .
- " Relations of, with Devachanî, [74] et seq.
- " The Disembodied, [71] et seq.
- Spiritualism and Esoteric Philosophy, [15] .
- Suicides, [36] , et seq., [81] .
- Theosophical Glossary, quoted, [45] .
- Theosophical Siftings, quoted, [21] .
- Theosophist, The, quoted, [27] , [35] , [71] , [74] , [75] et seq.
- Theosophist. The, summarised, [75] , [79] , [81] .
- Unconscious co-existence of intelligent beings, [28] et seq.
- Vishnu Purâna, quoted, [57] .