Theos-Talk Archives (January 2000 Message tt00063)

In The Key To Theosophy, HPB calls 'most modern cities'
"Necropoloses," cities of 'the soulless.'

At 11:40 AM 01/25/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> In a message dated 01/25/00 8:46:20 AM Eastern
> Standard Time, 
> theo73@webtv.net writes:
>
> << If a person is steeped in materialism &  gives no
> thought to the spirit
>  within, we could say the Spirit is shut out.  He then
> withdraws to its
>  own plane, and becomes unreachable.
>  If  this materialism is continued thru many lives
>  It is possible a person may lose his 
>  Spiritual Soul 
>  
>   >>
> Dorothy,
>
> Not according to anything I have seen in the last 40 years of
> Theosophical 
> study. The spiritual component of the human organism is the permanent,
> undying part that endures through this Manvantara. With the sole
> exception of 
> certain sustained incarnational black magic activity, the soul is the
> enduring quality of a particular incarnation and always present and 
> available. The fact that given personalities spend huge portions of a
> lifetime outward-turned does disconnect him for the Spiritual self.
> In terms of cosmic justice and evolution, that is what Karma and 
> Reincarnation is for. 
>
> Louis 
>
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