The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-03-14
THE DOCTRINE Or LOVE.
Inspirations Born of
Theosophy.
The Vital Force of a
Vital Greed.
Interesting Details Offered by One
Versed i'm the Occult Theory
Food for Deep Thought.

VaS not, IheOSOphy was OLD, anu tne
Jedas sacred books hoary with age,
when the Bible was but an infant.
In the beginning we were spirit, but
Dy the fall took ON "coatS of skin,
md are now tOiiing our weary way
pack to spirit, back to the estate OF
iods from which we have fallen, on
ward and upward to be finally merged
ntO the At-one-ment with the AbsO-
ute. Man as we well know him has
seven principals, or q septenary consti-
,ution: Briefly outlined they are, first,
counting from. the lowest upward
the physical body, the shell in which
we have incased ourselves; 2nd, the /
Astral body or ETHEREAL double, which /
Is the actual man in q finer, more ten
Dus condition than the visible man, |
5d, vitality or life principle, fifty called |
which holds man together, |
and which, leaving him, he passes on |
to another plane of consciousness; the |
fth principle, kama, is the emotional, |
nervous nature, coming under the con-
troll of mind. Manas or mind is the
9TH principle, the 9th, Buddhi or spirit
ual soul, which is the entity and intel
ligence, and the 7th and last is AtIna
or pure spirit, from which we came
and to which we are going. Evolution
is the law. Humanity goes around the
earth i'll cycles returning again and
again, but at each turn of the cycle on
the point of return, it is higher than
before. Limited space prevents us
from dealing with cyclic law more full
ly, so rapidly we will take you through
reincarnatiOn Ordinarily it takes sew
eral centuries). The four lower prin-
ciples, physical, body, emotional na-
ture. astral body, and vitality, do not
re6ncarnate, their wbrk is finished
with each earth life, and at death or
soon after, disintegrate and 60 back
to the elements from which they
sprans, but the real man, mauas,
Buddhi and Atma composes the Ego
that comes again and again to earth
life. The animal man is simply an in
strument through which the spiritual
man works, therefore the reincarna-
tiOn of the machine is unnecessary
Progress is the law and man after
once having become a man, cannot be
come an animal, no more than the
lesser CAN be made to contain the
greater: Degraded as man may be-
come, he comes again as a man, but
by his present life his future life con-
ditions are more severe. One earth
life is not sufficient to become perfect.
else reincarnation would not be nee
essaFy. Personally I do not consider
.th necessity, and if We had the
itrength or purpose to live on and
work out our problems here at once
our advancement would be much more
rapid; but after sixty or seventy years
of "toil without recompenSe" we grow
md
Christians heaven, is that place
Devachan is sort of idealized contin-
uation of earth life. A dream life
where the spirit finds perfect rest
Not that sort of heaven where you
can look on the golden fences and
pearly gates down into hell and see
your dear ones being shifted about
with hot forks, or see them ON earth
being defeated in politics. but a place
where they all seem to be with you
1t is here that the spirit gathers its
experiences to itself and prepares for
incarnation.
The lower Quartenary passes into
the kamic plane, the place of desires,
where it remains until it disintegrates
800 years is generally believed to be
the period passed in Devachan, but
the nature of the person fixes this;
one spiritually minded may as a just
reward remain much longer than one
whose earthly desires are so pro-
nounced as ito draw him back to earth
ait once. The plane of Kama Loka is
nearest the earth and it is to this
place suicides and men who have been
hanged, ETC., are destined to remain,
until the time when they would nat
urally have been released from earth
life.
We have now reached the time for
reincarnajtion. The previous earth life
entirely controls the conditions of
birth in the next, and just the place we
deserve and have earned, we receive.
This explains the apparent unjust dis
tribution of wealth and happiness.
GAS man sowS, so also shall he reap,
and we are the architects of our own
fortunes; true. we may have forgot
ten our former life, and don't see the
justice of being punished for some
thing we don't know anything about
but our forgetfulness doesn't help us
a particle. In Theosophy there is no
vicarious atonement, we carve our
own destinies, save or damn ourselves
as suits our fancy. Our very thoughts
are things and as man becomes what
he worships, how mete that our ideals
should be lofty. In every human being
there is that spark of the divine, that
germ Of perfection which needs only
an opportunity to blossom forth into
the God in whose likeness and image
we were created. Step by step we
grope our way
Heaven is not reached at single
bound.
But we build the ladder by which we
From the lowly earth to the vaulted
skies;
And we mount to its summit round by
round.
o count this thing to be grandly true.
That "A noble deed is a step toward
God,
Lifting tho soul from the common sod,
To purer air and broader view.
We rise by things that are meath our
feet;
BY what We have mastered of good |
and gain
By the nride denosed and the naSsions