[27] Waking consciousness.
[28] See Karma, by A. Besant.
[29] Those who have studied thought know that it is capable of being incorporated in diverse states of astral and mental matter.
[30] If the divine law allows it.
[31] If the divine law has not allowed the action to take place.
[32] Man, after death, loses in succession his astral and mental bodies.
[33] La Théosophie en quelques chapitres, by the author, pages 31 to 34.
[34] "Hatred is destroyed only by love," said the Buddha. "Return good for evil," said Jesus.
[35] It is this that causes the universal force of opposition—the Enemy or demon—to become evil only when ignorance or the human will make use of it to oppose evolution: apart from such cases, it is only the second pillar necessary for the support of the Temple, the stepping-stone of the good.
[36] Perhaps this is only an apparent delay, for, on every plane, force is correlative, and knowledge is the fruit of many different kinds of energy. The only real cases in which there is delay of individual evolution are probably those in which evil is done in return for evil. Of course, we are speaking in relative terms and from a relative standpoint.