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| [6] The Chaldean “resurrection in life eternal” borrowed by the Xtians means resurrection in Nirvâna.
| [6] The Chaldean “resurrection in life eternal” borrowed by the Xtians means resurrection in Nirvâna.
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Into Cosmic matter, when they necessarily lose their self-consciousness or individuality, [7] or are annihilated, as the Eastern Kabalists say.—Ed. Theosophist.}}
Into Cosmic matter, when they necessarily lose their self-consciousness or individuality, [7] or are annihilated, as the Eastern Kabalists say.—Ed. Theosophist.}}
| [7] Their Monad 6th and 7th Principles.</ref>}}
| [7] Their Monad 6th and 7th Principles.
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{{Style P-No indent|Our souls are as it were a music, of which our bodies are the instruments. The music exists without the instruments, but it cannot make itself heard without a material intermediary;}}
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Evocations of the dead are but condensations of memory, the imaginary coloration of the shades. To evoke those who are no longer there, is but to cause their types to re-issue from the imagination of nature.<ref>5</ref>}}
Evocations of the dead are but condensations of memory, the imaginary coloration of the shades. To evoke those who are no longer there, is but to cause their types to re-issue from the imagination of nature.<ref>To ardently desire to see a dead person is to evoke the image of that person, to call it forth from the astral light or ether wherein rest photographed the images of the Past. That is what is being partially done in the seance rooms. The Spiritualists are unconscious NECROMANCERS. — Ed. Theosophist.</ref>}}
| [9] Karma.
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{{Style P-No indent|To be in direct communication with the imagination of nature, one must be either asleep, intoxicated, in an ecstasy, cataleptic, or mad.}}
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{{Style P-No indent|[10]The eternal memory preserves only the imperishable; all that passes in Time belongs of right to oblivion.The preservation of corpses is a violation of the laws of nature; it is an outrage on the modesty of death, which hides the works of destruction, as we should hide those of reproduction. Preserving corpses is to create phantoms in the imagination of the earth;<ref>To intensify these images in the astral or sidereal light. —Ed. Theosophist.</ref>}}
| [10] And to be in direct communication with the intelligence of Nature one must become an Adept.


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{{Style P-No indent|[11] the spectres of the nightmare, of hallucination, and fear, are but the wandering photographs of preserved corpses.}}
| [11] We never bury our dead. They are burnt or left above the earth.


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It is these preserved or imperfectly destroyed corpses, which spread, amid the living, plague, cholera, contagious diseases, sadness, scepticism and disgust of life.<ref>People begin intuitionally to realize the great truth, and societies for burning bodies and crematories are now started in many places in Europe.—Ed. Theosophist.</ref> Death is exhaled by death. The cemetaries poison the atmosphere of towns, and the miasma of corpses blight the children even in the bosoms of their mothers.
Near Jerusalem in the Valley of Gehenna a perpetual fire was maintained for the combustion of filth and the carcasses of animals, and it is to this eternal fire that Jesus}}
| [12] Their reflections in the astral light.
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