HPB-SB-11-262: Difference between revisions

Buddhism in this aspect is “plainly an elaborate apparatus to nullify the action of evil Spirits by the aid of good Spirits operating at their highest potentiality, through the instrumentality of the corpse, or a portion of the corpse, of the chief aiding Spirit” What are these Spirits? “Those who have not yet attained Bodhi or Spiritual awakenment cannot be good. They are still in the domains of Kama (Death, Cupid, Appetite). It can do no good thing; more than that, it ''must ''do evil things.” The good Spirits are those of departed saints, the Buddhas, the dead prophets, whose power on earth is in inverse proportion to the length of time they have left the body. “The Spirits that have recently departed are accredited with greater power than those who may perhaps have reached remote Arupalocas, when body becomes so etherealised that individuality seems to depart.” This is precisely in accordance with the experience of to-day. The more powerful manifestations of'' ''physical force are not produced by the progressed Spirits, whose hold on earth and earthly things is slight, but by those who have probably never been fully emancipated from its fetters, and {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|11-263}}