Theos-Talk Archives (January 2000 Message tt00070)

Wow, this is one scary passage...I wonder if I am one
of these Vourdalaks.  I wonder about my sister, who I
love so much, and friends, are we all just going to
disappear?  Victims to our own nearsighted lifestyles.

God (and I mean that loosely), this universe is
ruthless.  Karma knows no mercy.

--- Peter Merriott <caduceus@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> Hello Dorothy,
> 
> Here is the passage from ISIS below.  It seems to
> support much of what you
> say.  The last sentence suggests to me that there
> are more soul-less people
> in the world than we might want to acknowledge.
> 
> The passage begining, "Such a catastrophe may happen
> long years before final
> seperation of the life rinciple from the body..."
> suggests to me that the
> Individual may have gained at least some small
> amount of experience in the
> begining of life to take into Devachan, but at some
> stage it has become
> totally preoccupied with 'material' concerns to the
> total exclusion of its
> higher nature.  Thus at some point in that
> individual's life the 'higher
> nature' has quit the vehicle of that particular
> personality/body, "some
> years before" the actual physical death of the body
> and seperation of the
> life principle.  As I understand it, the Spiritual
> Soul, that which
> reincarnated does not die.  As Dallas points out,
> this is 'immortal'.
> "Soul death" is when the Spiritual Soul quits the
> body-personality during
> 'life'.  The personal soul, Kama-Manas, if it does
> nothing to redeem the
> situation is eventually annihilated.  HPB has more
> to say on this in other
> parts of her writings.  If I come across them I'll
> post them here.
> 
> ...Peter
> 
> FROM ISIS UNVEILED...
> 
> "When man leads a naturally pure, virtuous life,
> there is none whatever;
> except delay in the world of spirits, until he finds
> himself sufficiently
> purified to receive it from his Spiritual "Lord,"
> one of the mighty Host.
> But if otherwise, the "soul," as a half animal
> principle, becomes paralyzed,
> and grows unconscious of its subjective half -- the
> Lord -- and in
> proportion to the sensuous development of the brain
> and nerves, sooner or
> later, it finally loses sight of its divine mission
> on earth. Like the
> Vourdalak, or Vampire, of the Servian tale, the
> brain feeds and lives and
> grows in strength and power at the expense of its
> spiritual parent. Then the
> already half-unconscious soul, now fully intoxicated
> by the fumes of earthly
> life, becomes senseless, beyond hope of redemption.
> It is powerless to
> discern the splendor of its higher spirit, to hear
> the warning voice of its
> "guardian Angel," and its "God." It aims but at the
> development and fuller
> comprehension of natural, earthly life; and thus,
> can discover but the
> mysteries of physical nature. Its grief and fear,
> hope and joy, are all
> closely blended with its terrestrial existence. It
> ignores all that cannot
> be demonstrated by either its organs of action, or
> sensation. It begins by
> becoming virtually dead; it dies at last completely.
> It is annihilated. Such
> a catastrophe may often happen long years before the
> final separation of the
> life-principle from the body. When death arrives,
> its iron and clammy grasp
> finds work with life as usual; but there is no more
> a soul to liberate. The
> whole essence of the latter has been already
> absorbed by the vital system of
> the physical man. Grim death frees but a spiritual
> corpse; at best an idiot.
> Unable either to soar higher or awaken from
> lethargy, it is soon dissolved
> in the elements of the terrestrial atmosphere.
> 
> "Seers, righteous men, who had attained to the
> highest science of the inner
> man and the knowledge of truth, have, like Marcus
> Antoninus, received
> instructions "from the gods," in sleep and
> otherwise. Helped by the purer
> spirits, those that dwell in "regions of eternal
> bliss," they have watched
> the process and warned mankind repeatedly.
> Skepticism may sneer; faith,
> based on knowledge and spiritual science, believes
> and affirms.
> 
> "Our present cycle is preeminently one of such
> soul-deaths. We elbow
> soulless men and women at every step in life."
> 
>  (ISIS UNVEILED II: 368-369)
> 
> 
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