[45] Vide Transactions of the London Lodge of the Theos. Soc., No. 7, Oct., 1885.
[46] The “reincarnating Ego,” or “Human Soul,” as he called it, the Causal Body with the Hindus.
[47] The length of this “transfer” depends, however, on the degree of spirituality in the ex-personality of the disembodied Ego. For those whose lives were very spiritual this transfer, though gradual, is very rapid. The time becomes longer with the materialistically inclined.
[48] “Shifting of Metaphysical terms” applies here only to the shifting of their translated equivalents from the Eastern expressions; for to this day there never existed any such terms in English, every Theosophist having to coin his own terms to render his thought. It is nigh time then to settle on some definite nomenclature.
[49] Being of “an asbestos-like nature,” according to the eloquent and fiery expression of a modern English Tertullian.
[50] During the Mysteries, it is the Hierophant, the “Father,” who planted the Vine. Every symbol has Seven Keys to it. The discloser of the Pleroma was always called “Father.”
[51] Zohar XL., 10.
[52] Codex Nazarœus, Vol. III., pp. 60, 61.
[53] Ibid., Vol. II., p. 281.
[54] Second Sight, “Introduction.”