[98] Dharma is a wide word, primarily meaning the essential nature of a thing; hence the laws of its being, its duty; and it includes religious rites, appropriate to those laws. This definition, as also the extracts quoted, are taken from A. Besant's translation of the Bhagavad Gîtâ.
[99] Human souls, not all of them, but only the pious ones, are daimonic and divine. Once separated from the body, and after the struggle to acquire piety, which consists in knowing God and injuring none, such a soul becomes all intelligence. The impious soul, however, remains in its own essence and punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul, it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason: divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. Hermes Trismegistus, Book I, Laclé: Hermes to his son Tat.
[100] Bodies.
[101] The physical body with its etheric "double," and life (Prâna).
[102] The kâmic body.
[103] The causal body.
[104] History. Book 2, chap. 123.
[105] The causal body.
[106] The buddhic body, which, in ordinary man, is only in an embryonic stage.
[107] Generally called Prâna, in man. Jiva is the solar life which, on being transmuted by the physical body, becomes Prâna, the human physical life. Both Jiva and Prâna differ from each other in nature and in vibration.