Theos-Talk Archives (April 1998 Message tt00281)

Jerry Schueler <gschueler@netgsi.com> writes
>Alan, I have no problem with the idea of this Earth being hell, and
>the after-life being heaven.

I said paradise, not heaven. In my theosophology (!) the term
derives from a Hebrew word relating to a garden. The same sources have
given us the word "heaven" although the original language uses the
plural, "the heavens" together (apocryphally) with a "7 heavens"
progressive mode - echoes of theosophical ideas there! (or vice versa?)

> Again, you just can't have one without
>the other--thus the necessity of reincarnation or a need to cycle
>back and forth between the two until both are transcended.

Even if you can't have one without the other, the necessity of
reincarnation does not follow. Try hell >> paradise >> next place.

Alan :-)
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