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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued |Theosophists' Ideas as to the Nature of Spirits|11-282}} | {{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued |Theosophists' Ideas as to the Nature of Spirits|11-282}} | ||
. | {{Style P-No indent|gestating in the fathomless womb of the adjoining world of effects, and to disturb the shells by necromantic sorcery is at the same time to disturb the foetal spiritual Ego.}} | ||
{{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|11-285}} | We said that these shells in such cases rapidly decay, the rapidity being exactly proportional to the purity of the departed spiritual Ego, and we may add that similarly the rapidity of gestation of the new Ego is proportional to the purity of the old Ego out of which it is evolved. Happily necromancy is unknown to modern Spiritualists, so that it is next to impossible that the ''reliquiæ'' of the good and pure should ever appear in the ''séance''-room. No doubt, the ''simulacra'' of some spiritual Egos whose fate trembled in the balance, whose affinities, earthwards and heaven-wards, to use the popular phraseology, were nearly equal, who have left too much of''' '''the matter behind that has been in combination to form them, who will He long in festal bonds before being able to develop the new Egohood; no doubt, we say such ''simulacra'' may survive longer and may occasionally appear''' '''under exceptional conditions in ''seance''-rooms, with a dim-dazed consciousness of their past lives. But even this, owing to the conditions of the case, will be rare, and they''' '''will never''' '''be active or intelligent, as the stronger portions''' '''of their wills—the higher portions of then''' '''intelligence—have gone elsewhere. | ||
Nature draws no hard and fast lines, though''' '''in the balance of forces very slight differences in opposing energies may produce the most divergent results. All entities shade off from one end to the other of the chain by imperceptible degrees, and it is impossible for man to guage the exact degree of purity of the deceased at which the re-appearance voluntarily of his ''rebquiæ'' through the agency of mediumship becomes impossible, but it is absolutely true that, broadly speaking, as a law, it is only the ''reliquiæ'' of non-spiritually minded men, whose spiritual Egos have perished, that appear in ''séance''-rooms and are dignified by Spiritualists with the title of “spirits of the''' '''departed.” | |||
These shells, these animal souls, in whom still survive the major portions of the intelligence, will-power, and knowledge that they possessed when incorporated in the human combination, invigorated too by the re-assimilation with the spirit-vitalised matter that once combined with the spirit to compose their spiritual Ego, are often powerful and highly intelligent, and continue to survive for lengthened periods, their intense desire for earthly life enabling them to seize from the decaying ''simulacra'' of the good and feeble the material for prolonged existence. | |||
To these ''eidolons'' Occultists are used to give the name of elementaries, and these it is that, by the aid of the half-intelligent forces of nature which are attracted to them, perform most of the wonders of the ''seance''-rooms. If to these shells, these ''eidolons,'' which have lost their immortality {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|11-285}} | |||
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