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| source details = | | source details = No. 285, February 8, 1878, p. 67 | ||
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<center>BY PEARY CHAND MITTRA. {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|F.T.S.}}</center> | <center>BY PEARY CHAND MITTRA. {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|F.T.S.}}</center> | ||
... | {{Style S-Small capitals|The}} ''Katha Upanishad ''says: “The fathers too shalt thou behold, the heroes too who in battle died, the saints and sages glorified, the pious, bounteous, and kings of old.” Our present communication with the spirits is through the mind; the spirits by their will-force appear in their natural bodies, and different draperies, on man’s nervous system, but they are not seen in reality. It is one thing to see through the mind, another thing to see through the soul. Till the sensuous organs cease to be impressive, and until we do not live on the mind, we cannot know the revelations of the soul—the unimpassionable, immaterial principle in us, living not on matter but on God. | ||
The soul is naturally pent up by the brain or mind, but when its bondage is loosed it manifests its supremacy in dreams, somnambulism, and clairvoyance. With the view to effect this object, the Aryas used to drink somlata. Sir Humphrey Davy, after inhaling nitrous oxide, was changed into a different state. After recovery he said: “Nothing exists but thoughts; the universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures, and pains.” Till we are in a spiritual state we can have no pure cognition. The brain by itself is no power; all its high powers are derived from the soul, and such portions as are undeveloped constitute our animal nature. Particular training calls forth particular powers, but the training which aims at the extinction of our nervous force, and the consequent evolution of the psychic principle, is our best education, as it raises us above the earth, the earthly thoughts and feelings, and brings us in communion with the Soul of Souls, and the spiritual world, of which He is the perpetual sun. Marlborough said: “This little body trembles at what the Great Soul is about to perform.” Antonius said; “A'' ''soul free from the tumults of passion is an impregnable fortress, in which a man may take refuge, and defy the powers on earth.” The soul-states are progressive. The first state is tranquillity unshaken by earthly thoughts and feelings—an “impregnable fortress” against all mundane impressions, however powerfully transmitted to our brain even by spirits. The second state is utter freedom from what is ''concrete, ''to have no thoughts as to form, but to feed on essences. This is the state in which we see the spirit-land, and the spirits in reality, and the soul from the light within has no difficulty in knowing them. The mind, however elevated, is for the earth. The soul is not for the earth, but for God and His world of essences. All the empirical knowledge which we acquire here is, after all, shadowy compared with the real and eternal knowledge which we obtain from God, through our soul. | |||
Calcutta, January 11, 1878. | |||
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... | {{Style S-Small capitals|The War}}.—At the present time, not a few persons are anxious to involve England in war; among them are classes who thrive upon increased national taxation, also contractors on the look-out for profits, military men tired of an idle life, and various others, who, through certain newspapers, and by divers means, are stirring up an angry public feeling. War, especially when it is not purely defensive, is a great crime, and killing men is murder. It is to be hoped that everything possible will be done by Spiritualists, from the public platform and in private life, to prevent England being dragged into the fray, and to remove from power any Government which may involve the nation in war. | ||
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