Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00411)

Thanks Dallas !


from
M. Sufilight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dallas TenBroeck" <dalval14@earthlink.net>
To: "AA-Blavatsky_Study" <Blavatsky_Study@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:52 AM
Subject: Theos-World Communicating with the Dead


Jan 26 2005

Dear Friends:

Here are some notes on this subject. Hope they will prove of help as
they give the fundamental teachings of THEOSOPHY thereon.

Best wishes,

Dallas

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MEMORY IN THE DYING

Article by H. P. Blavatsky

WE find in a very old letter from a MASTER, written years ago to a
member of the Theosophical Society, the following suggestive lines on
the mental state of a dying man:

"At the last moment, the whole life is reflected in our memory and
emerges from all the forgotten nooks and corners, picture after picture,
one event after the other. The dying brain dislodges memory with a
strong, supreme impulse; and memory restores faithfully every impression
that has been entrusted to it during the period of the brain's activity.
That impression and thought which was the strongest, naturally becomes
the most vivid, and survives, so to say, all the rest, which now vanish
and disappear for ever, but to reappear in Devachan. No man dies insane
or unconscious, as some physiologists assert. Even a madman or one in a
fit of delirium tremens will have his instant of perfect lucidity at the
moment of death, though unable to say so to those present. The man may
often appear dead. Yet from the last pulsation, and between the last
throbbing of his heart and the moment when the last spark of animal heat
leaves the body, the brain thinks and the EGO lives, in these few brief
seconds, his whole life over again. Speak in whispers, ye who assist at
a death-bed and find yourselves in the solemn presence of Death.
Especially have ye to keep quiet just after Death has laid her clammy
hand upon the body. Speak in whispers I say, lest you disturb the quiet
ripple of thought and hinder the busy work of the Past casting its
reflection upon the veil of the Future. . . ." [ M L p. 170]

The above statement has been more than once strenuously opposed by
materialists; Biology and (Scientific) Psychology, it was urged, were
both against the idea, and while the latter had no well demonstrated
data to go upon in such a hypothesis, the former dismissed the idea as
an empty "superstition." Meanwhile, even biology is bound to progress,
and this is what we learn of its latest achievements. Dr. Ferré has
communicated quite recently to the Biological Society of Paris a very
curious note on the mental state of the dying, which corroborates
marvellously the above lines. For, it is to the special phenomenon of
life-reminiscences, and that sudden re-emerging on the blank walls of
memory, from all its long neglected and forgotten "nooks and corners,"
of "picture after picture" that Dr. Ferré draws the special attention of
biologists.
We need notice but two among the numerous instances given by this
Scientist in his Rapport, to show how scientifically correct are the
teachings we receive from our Eastern Masters.

But to our second case.

Another patient, dying of pulmonary consumption and likewise reanimated
by an injection of ether, turned his head towards his wife and rapidly
said to her:

"You cannot find that pin now; all the floor has been renewed since
then." This was in reference to the loss of a scarf pin eighteen years
before, a fact so trifling that it had almost been forgotten, but which
had not failed to be revived in the last thought of the dying man, who
having expressed what he saw in words, suddenly stopped and breathed his
last. Thus any one of the thousand little daily events, and accidents of
a long life would seem capable of being recalled to the flickering
consciousness, at the supreme moment of dissolution. A long life,
perhaps, lived over again in the space of one short second! [see
Key, pp. 29, 131-37 ]






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