Of course, sometimes dangerous knowledge is discovered by scientists themselves, like the secrets of nuclear energy. It has created a real threat to the safety of mankind. All these principles can be found in the literature of many religions, especially the mystical sections, e.g. Sufism, Gnosis, ancient Kabbalah, certain parts of Buddhism, Hindoeism, etc, as well in old myths. These jewels can be used to build a system of science, which is based on consciousness as primary factor. The first jewel concerns the doctrine of reincarnation or reimbodiment.
Theosophy proceeds from a spiritual point of view.
It says that consciousness is prior to form or manifestation. Consciousness imbodies itself periodically in a suitable form. Socrates talks about this in Plato's Phaedo . This doctrine really is the about the law of cycles. All processes in nature are of a cyclic nature.