Download or read book Recycled Lives written by Julie Chajes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sizeable minority of people with no particular connection to Eastern religions now believe in reincarnation. The rise in popularity of this belief over the last century and a half is directly traceable to the impact of the nineteenth century's largest and most influential Western esoteric movement, the Theosophical Society. In Recycled Lives, Julie Chajes looks at the rebirth doctrines of the matriarch of Theosophy, the controversial occultist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891). Examining her teachings in detail, Chajes places them in the context of multiple dimensions of nineteenth-century intellectual and cultural life. In particular, she explores Blavatsky's readings (and misreadings) of Spiritualist currents, scientific theories, Platonism, and Hindu and Buddhist thought. These in turn are set in relief against broader nineteenth-century American and European trends. The chapters come together to reveal the contours of a modern perspective on reincarnation that is inseparable from the nineteenth-century discourses within which it emerged, and which has shaped how people in the West tend to view reincarnation today.

Download or read book Reincarnation and the Law of Karma written by William Atkinson and published by Advanced Thought Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-26 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reincarnation is the religious or philosophical concept that the soul or spirit, after biological death, begins life in a new body that may be human, animal or spiritual depending on the moral quality of the previous life's actions. This doctrine is a central tenet of several religions including Buddhism and Hinduism. It is also a common belief of various ancient and modern religions such as Spiritism, Theosophy, and Eckankar and is found in many tribal societies around the world. In this classic work on reincarnation by William Walker Atkinson, the author explores the subject from a diverse range of perspectives that are as relevant today as when they were written: THE EARLY RACES. What is Reincarnation?--Transmigration of Souls--The Something That Persists After Death--The Soul Not a Fresh Creation, but a Traveler on a Long Journey. THE EGYPTIANS, CHALDEANS, DRUIDS, ETC.. The Egyptian Idea of the Soul--Forty Centuries of Occult History--The Inner Teachings of Egypt--The Ancient Chinese Teachings and Doctrine--The Ancient Druids and Their Teachings. THE ROMANS AND GREEKS The Reasons of Rome's Backwardness in Spiritual Knowledge--Why the Greeks were Advanced--Pythagoras; Orpheus; Plato--The Various Grecian Teachings Regarding the Soul and Its Future Life--Plato's Wonderful Teachings and Philosophy. THE JEWS, ESSENES, AND EARLY CHRISTIANS The Inner Teachings of the Jewish Priests--The Jewish Rabbins and Their Secret Doctrines--The Kaballah, the Zahar, Nichema; Ronach; and Nephesh--A Mysterious Brotherhood--The Christian Inner Doctrine--The Mysteries of Jesus. THE HINDUS India the Mother of Reincarnation, Past and Present--The Aryan Teachings--The History of the Belief Among the Hindus--Fundamental Hindu Philosophy. THE MODERN WEST Reincarnation in the Modern Western World--The Revival of Interest and Its Cause--Theosophical Society--Madame Blavatsky--The Western School of Yogi Philosophy: Its Fundamental Teachings--The Spiritists, and Their Doctrine--The Teachings of the "Elect Few" in Their Secret Societies--Is Earth a Hell?--Christian Reincarnationists and Their Beliefs. BETWEEN AND BEYOND INCARNATIONS How Long Between Incarnations?--Necessity for Mental and Spiritual Digestion and Assimilation--The Advanced Teachings--Earth-bound Souls--Advanced Souls and Their Rest Period--Where Does the Soul Dwell Between Incarnations?--What Happens at Death--The Great Astral World and Its Planes and Sub-planes--Where the Soul Goes After Death and What It Does There--Rebirth and Its Laws--What is the Final State of the Soul?--The Message of the Illumined. THE JUSTICE OF REINCARNATION The Contrasting Theories of the Soul and Its Future Life--Doctrine of Reincarnation the Only Philosophical Theory that Reconciles Facts with Theory--The Law of Karma Automatic and Enforces Itself--Every One Their Own Judge and the Executor of Their Own Destiny THE ARGUMENT FOR REINCARNATION Natural Laws Universal--If the Soul is Immortal, it Must Have Always Been So--A Mortal Thing Cannot be Made Immortal Any More Than Nothing Can be Made Something--Future Life Implies Past Life--Varient Experiences Necessary for the Soul's Education--Advancement Necessary to Enjoyment of the Soul's Higher States of Being THE PROOFS OF REINCARNATION Actual Proofs of Personal Conscious Experience Demanded by Science--Such Proofs Possible and Have Occurred to Many of the Race--The Remembrance of the Details of Past Existence Common to the Race--Interesting Cases Given on Good Authority--Messages from the Past. ARGUMENTS AGAINST REINCARNATION Why Reincarnation is Opposed by Some--The Answers to the Objections--The Proof of the Existence of the Soul--Is Reincarnation Un-Christian and Derived from Pagan and Heathen Sources? THE LAW OF KARMA What Karma Means--Does Karma Punish or is it but the Workings of a Natural Law?--The Various Kinds of Karma--The Advanced Mystical Doctrine--The End is Absolute Good--There is No Devil but Fear and Unfaith.

Download or read book Reincarnation a Study of the Human Soul written by Jerome A. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reincarnation and the Law of Karma written by William Walker Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Reincarnation?-Transmigration of Souls-The Something That Persists After Death-The Soul Not a Fresh Creation, but a Traveler on a Long Journey. CHAPTER II. The Egyptians, Chaldeans, Druids, etc The Egyptian Idea of the Soul-Forty Centuries of Occult History-The Inner Teachings of Egypt-The Ancient Chinese Teachings and Doctrine-The Ancient Druids and Their Teachings. CHAPTER III. the Romans and Greeks CHAPTER IV. The Jews, Essenes, and Early Christians CHAPTER V. The Hindus CHAPTER VI. The Modern West Reincarnation in the Modern Western World-The Revival of Interest and Its Cause-Theosophical Society-Madame Blavatsky-The Western School of Yogi Philosophy: Its Fundamental Teachings-The Spiritists, and Their Doctrine-The Teachings of the "Elect Few" in Their Secret Societies-Is Earth a Hell?-Christian Reincarnationists and Their Beliefs. CHAPTER VII. Between and Beyond Incarnations CHAPTER VIII. The Justice of Reincarnation CHAPTER XII. the Law of Karma

Download or read book The Secret Doctrine on Karma and Rebirths written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reincarnation and Karma written by Rudolf Steiner and published by North Vancouver [B.C.] : Steiner Book Centre. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reincarnation written by Edward Dwight Walker and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Theories About Reincarnation and Spirits written by Helena P. Blavatsky and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Esoteric Tradition of Karma Theosophical Classics written by Helena P. Blavatsky and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-12-22 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three prominent esoteric writers explore the tradition of karma, especially as it relates to Theosophy. Included here is: Karma, Aphorisms on Karma, Karma in the Desatir, Thoughts on Karma, Men Karmic Agents, Is Karma Only Punishment?, Is Poverty Bad Karma?, Thoughts on Karma and Reincarnation, Karma-Nemesis and Elementary Lessons on Karma.

Download or read book A Study in Karma written by Annie Besant and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AMONG the many illuminating gifts to the western world, conveyed to it by the medium of the Theosophical Society, that of the knowledge of karma comes, perhaps, next in importance to that of reincarnation. It removes human thought and desire from the region of arbitrary happenings to the realm of law, and thus places man's future under his own control in proportion to the amount of his knowledge

Download or read book The Key to Theosophy written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions and answers on Theosophical ideas, such as karma, spiritualism, reincarnation, and prayer.

Download or read book Reincarnation and Karma written by Rudolf Steiner and published by Steiner Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant lectures on these spiritual concepts and their connection to Western human beings.

Download or read book Transmigration Reincarnation Gilgulim written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transmigration is the passing of lower entities, through the agency of life-atoms (skandas), to the crucible of evolution, either by “recycling” life-atoms after death, or by throwing away life-atoms during intense feeling. Metempsychosis is the progress of an animal soul to a higher stage of existence. Metangismos was the technical term for metempsychosis among the Pythagoreans. Reincarnation is the rebirth of the same Ego in successive human bodies. Metempsychosis, Setting A. A virtuous, but not entirely pure, soul withdraws to high realms of subjectivity for a period of rest before submitting to a further period of imprisonment in the flesh. Metempsychosis, Setting B. A virtuous soul, purified by “self-induced and self-devised efforts,” realises its essential unity with the Self of All, and annihilates its self-conscious materiality in favour of the true peace and justice that dwells in Unconscious Immateriality. Metempsychosis, Setting C. An irredeemably vicious soul that has been cut off from its Spiritual Master and Saviour, is downgraded to infernal worlds for punishment and terminal demise. Human souls do not enter animal bodies, for Nature will not reverse the order of her kingdoms. Only the life-atoms of a dissolved physical body do so. Reincarnation means re-infleshment. Palingenesis means re-generation. Metensomatosis means re-embodiment. The difference between reincarnation, palingenesis, and metensomatosis explained. Gilgulim, permutation, and revolution, differ from transmigration and metempsychosis. Gilgulim is the cyclic or revolving process of births, deaths, and rebirths. But Palestine is neither land nor locus, it is the Nirvana of the Buddhists.

Download or read book Rise Oh Sun Theosophy Applied to Daily Life Theosophy and Christianity Reincarnation Right Thoughts about Karma written by Mrs. Katherine August (Westcott) Tingley and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Helena Blavatsky written by Helena Blavatsky and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2004-04-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 17, rejecting nineteenth-century materialism, Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) left her native Russia and traveled through India, Tibet, Egypt, Europe, and the Americas seeking out the sources of ancient wisdom as a key to spiritual truth. In 1875 in New York, she co-founded the Theosophical Society for the study of occult traditions. Many popular ideas of rediscovered ancient wisdom, including reincarnation and karma, trace their origin to Helena Blavatsky and Theosophy. This anthology includes material on her life and travels, as well as excerpts from her major works.

Download or read book Madame Blavatsky on Karma and Reincarnation written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Key to Theosophy written by H. P. Blavatsky and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Key to Theosophy is a book by Helena Blavatsky, illuminating the tenets of theosophy. It functions as an introduction to theosophical mysticism and esoteric doctrine.