Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00219)

If The Mahatma Letters are anything to go by in
understanding what is really important in true
spiritual unfoldment, then one cannot fail to notice
the total absence in the Letters to references about
past incarnations of present day individuals. Also in
the entire corpus of HPB's writings there is not one
single reference nor mention to any of her supposed
past lives. 

That these two important sources of modern Theosophy
treat the subject of past lives of present day
individuals by been silent about it should make
serious students to ponder over it. The silence may
indicate two things: 1) that it is not an important
subject at all; 2) that the individual will know about
it when he/she is inwardly prepared for it.

Tradition says that the Buddha, after he attained
enlightenment, could see ALL his previous lives in
their entirety, without being in any way affected by
the vision.

Perhaps it would not be unkind to say that whenever
there is a claim about the reincarnation of a past
teacher or mystic, that claim in inherently false for
the simple reason that no real wise person would make
it. 

It is possible that only deep-seated psychological
inadequacies or some form of mental illness could
create in the mind the notion "I am so and so...". The
true Self within has no claims.

Pedro


PS Thanks for the welcome, Bart. I am glad to be here.


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