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== H. P. Blavatsky == | == [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] == | ||
'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Pitris}}'''. The ancestors, or creators of mankind. They are of seven classes, three of which are incorporeal, ''arupa,'' and four corporeal. In popular theology they are said to be created from Brahmâ’s side. They are variously genealogized, but in esoteric philosophy they are as given in the ''Secret Doctrine''. In ''Isis Unveiled ''it is said of them “It is generally believed that the Hindu term means the spirits of our ancestors, of disembodied people, hence the argument of some Spiritualists that fakirs (and yogis) and other Eastern wonder‐workers, are ''mediums''. This is in more than one sense erroneous. The Pitris are not the ancestors of the present living men, but those of the human kind, or Adamic races; the spirits of human races, which on the great scale of descending evolution'' preceded '' ''our races'' of men, and they ''were'' ''physically, as well as '' ''spiritually'', ''far superior'' to our modern pigmies. In ''Mânava '' ''Dharma Shâstra'' they are called the'' Lunar Ancestors''.” The ''Secret Doctrine ''has now explained that which was cautiously put forward in the earlier Theosophical volumes. | '''{{Style S-Small capitals|Pitris}}'''. The ancestors, or creators of mankind. They are of seven classes, three of which are incorporeal, ''arupa,'' and four corporeal. In popular theology they are said to be created from Brahmâ’s side. They are variously genealogized, but in esoteric philosophy they are as given in the ''Secret Doctrine''. In ''Isis Unveiled ''it is said of them “It is generally believed that the Hindu term means the spirits of our ancestors, of disembodied people, hence the argument of some Spiritualists that fakirs (and yogis) and other Eastern wonder‐workers, are ''mediums''. This is in more than one sense erroneous. The Pitris are not the ancestors of the present living men, but those of the human kind, or Adamic races; the spirits of human races, which on the great scale of descending evolution'' preceded '' ''our races'' of men, and they ''were'' ''physically, as well as '' ''spiritually'', ''far superior'' to our modern pigmies. In ''Mânava '' ''Dharma Shâstra'' they are called the'' Lunar Ancestors''.” The ''Secret Doctrine ''has now explained that which was cautiously put forward in the earlier Theosophical volumes. | ||
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