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1/"*Original from i: " V ,,UU tV t UNIYER5ITV OF MICHIGAN INCARNATION AND RE-INCARNATION 47 spirits and blessed angels guided my soul’s ardent explorations, this brief summary of our pre-existent states explains all that the re-incarnationists have labored so sedulously to theorize upon. The universal and reiterated assertions of myriads of spirits in every stage of a pro¬ gressive beyond, convinced me there was NO return to mortal birth, NO retrogression in the scale of cosmic being, as a return to material incarnations undoubtedly would be, and all the demands of progress, justice, and advancement, are supplied by the opportunities offered the soul in the sphere of spiritual existence.” Note: At the time these books were written (1875-76) modern theosophists knew nothing of the Buddhistical theories they have since adopted. Our author refers to the re-incamation theory of the Spiritualists of France. Not until the Theosophical Society removed its headquarters to India did it go crazy after India’s subtle delusions. The same author concludes the chapter of his experiences in the following eloquent words; “I have stood on the threshold of glorious lands, where my eyes could perceive the radiance of celestial spheres, the memory of whose brightness will warn and beckon me upwards forever.”
2The personal experiences thus narrated correspond exactly in thenresults with those of the present writer, and also with many other true spiritually initiated Occultists with whom we are associated. Can the carefully tabulated results of all our united labors count for nought? Is it possible that the unanimous but legitimate conclusions of scores of spiritual investigators, each and all of whom were specially qualified for research by reason of their own soul development, are false and delusive? Must the result of our own personal research and actual experiences of the soul within the realm of spirit be cast away as un¬ reliable, simply, because they conflict with an old fossilized theory of some priestly metaphysicians? Not so, dear reader; not so. “Prove all things,” saith the apostle, “hold fast that which is good;” and such is our humble intention, and our advice to all students searching for truth. We repeat what we have so often said to those who have studied under our care, that re-incamation, as taught by modern writers, is nothing but a theory of the physical intellect. In other words, it is the metaphysical outcome of intellectual force destitute of spiritual in¬ tuition or truth. It is an attempt of external mind to harmonize good 48 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT
3and evil and nothing more. It contains nothing approaching to the pure intuitions of the spirit in its composition. It was formulated to deceive, by cunning priestly minds, in the first instance, and after¬ wards accepted as a divine truth by those who possess nothing but their intellects to guide them in their gropings for truth. Knowing as we do the Why and Wherefore of its present diffusion of error, we challenge all esoteric Buddhists to produce one single individual, a responsible medium who has penetrated the realms of spirit for himself, who can truthfully say that the theory agrees with the actual results of his own personal investigations. From the beginning to the end, this re¬ incarnation and Karma doctrine of Buddhism is a purely external theory which tries to explain the apparent contradictions of physical Nature; hence it is destitute of spiritual proof, or of the possibility of spiritual proof, and it is palmed off upon the mental currents of west¬ ern thought as emanating from supposed holy (?) mahatmas. But we deny in toto that such a theory is taught or ever has been taught, as a true theory, by any real adept. The magical hierophants of the Inversive Magi, are beings we consider not worthy of the name of Adept, because they are the legionaries of the Dark Satellite, and as such are only adepts so far as the mysteries of practical magic are con¬ cerned. They cannot penetrate beyond the astral zones of the cosmic and magnetic elementals, hence they know absolutely nothing of the higher states of the soul world, or of the mysteries of angelic life. They deny their very existence, and substitute a delusive Devachan, and dreamy Nirvana of nothingness in their place.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1/"*Original from i: " V ,,UU tV t UNIYER5ITV OF MICHIGAN INCARNATION AND RE-INCARNATION 47 spirits and blessed angels guided my soul’s ardent explorations, this brief summary of our pre-existent states explains all that the re-incarnationists have labored so sedulously to theorize upon. The universal and reiterated assertions of myriads of spirits in every stage of a pro¬ gressive beyond, convinced me there was NO return to mortal birth, NO retrogression in the scale of cosmic being, as a return to material incarnations undoubtedly would be, and all the demands of progress, justice, and advancement, are supplied by the opportunities offered the soul in the sphere of spiritual existence.” Note: At the time these books were written (1875-76) modern theosophists knew nothing of the Buddhistical theories they have since adopted. Our author refers to the re-incamation theory of the Spiritualists of France. Not until the Theosophical Society removed its headquarters to India did it go crazy after India’s subtle delusions. The same author concludes the chapter of his experiences in the following eloquent words; “I have stood on the threshold of glorious lands, where my eyes could perceive the radiance of celestial spheres, the memory of whose brightness will warn and beckon me upwards forever.”
2The personal experiences thus narrated correspond exactly in thenresults with those of the present writer, and also with many other true spiritually initiated Occultists with whom we are associated. Can the carefully tabulated results of all our united labors count for nought? Is it possible that the unanimous but legitimate conclusions of scores of spiritual investigators, each and all of whom were specially qualified for research by reason of their own soul development, are false and delusive? Must the result of our own personal research and actual experiences of the soul within the realm of spirit be cast away as un¬ reliable, simply, because they conflict with an old fossilized theory of some priestly metaphysicians? Not so, dear reader; not so. “Prove all things,” saith the apostle, “hold fast that which is good;” and such is our humble intention, and our advice to all students searching for truth. We repeat what we have so often said to those who have studied under our care, that re-incamation, as taught by modern writers, is nothing but a theory of the physical intellect. In other words, it is the metaphysical outcome of intellectual force destitute of spiritual in¬ tuition or truth. It is an attempt of external mind to harmonize good 48 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT
3and evil and nothing more. It contains nothing approaching to the pure intuitions of the spirit in its composition. It was formulated to deceive, by cunning priestly minds, in the first instance, and after¬ wards accepted as a divine truth by those who possess nothing but their intellects to guide them in their gropings for truth. Knowing as we do the Why and Wherefore of its present diffusion of error, we challenge all esoteric Buddhists to produce one single individual, a responsible medium who has penetrated the realms of spirit for himself, who can truthfully say that the theory agrees with the actual results of his own personal investigations. From the beginning to the end, this re¬ incarnation and Karma doctrine of Buddhism is a purely external theory which tries to explain the apparent contradictions of physical Nature; hence it is destitute of spiritual proof, or of the possibility of spiritual proof, and it is palmed off upon the mental currents of west¬ ern thought as emanating from supposed holy (?) mahatmas. But we deny in toto that such a theory is taught or ever has been taught, as a true theory, by any real adept. The magical hierophants of the Inversive Magi, are beings we consider not worthy of the name of Adept, because they are the legionaries of the Dark Satellite, and as such are only adepts so far as the mysteries of practical magic are con¬ cerned. They cannot penetrate beyond the astral zones of the cosmic and magnetic elementals, hence they know absolutely nothing of the higher states of the soul world, or of the mysteries of angelic life. They deny their very existence, and substitute a delusive Devachan, and dreamy Nirvana of nothingness in their place.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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