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"The three foundations of science are: complete transmigration through every state of being, the memory of the details of each transmigration, the power to pa.s.s again at will through any state, to acquire experience and judgment, (_a_) This comes to pa.s.s in the circle of Gwynvyd." _Triad_ 36.
(_a_) The liberated being has power to call up the past, to tune his consciousness with that of every being, to feel everything that being feels, to be that being.]
[Footnote 125: In the poem _Cad-G.o.dden_, quoted by Pezzani in _La Pluralite des Existences de l'ame_, p. 93. Taliesin is a generic name indicating a function rather than the name of an individual.]
[Footnote 126: _Gallic War_ (Book 2, chap. 6). Valerius Maximus relates that these nations lent one another money which was to be paid back in the other world, and that at Ma.r.s.eilles a sweet-tasted poison was given to anyone who, wis.h.i.+ng to commit suicide, offered the judges satisfactory reasons for leaving his body.]
[Footnote 127: _The Mystery of the Ages_, by the d.u.c.h.esse de Pomar.]
[Footnote 128: In _Theologia_ or the _Seven Adyta._]
[Footnote 129: The "Cycle of Necessity" extends from the time when the soul begins to evolve to the moment when it attains to liberation.]
[Footnote 130: _Life of Pythagoras._ Book 8, chap. 14.]
[Footnote 131: Ovid's _Metamorphoses_. Book 15.]
[Footnote 132: All that remained of the s.h.i.+eld was the carved ivory ornamentation, the iron had been eaten away by rust.]
[Footnote 133: Philostratus, _Life of Apollonius of Tyana._]
[Footnote 134: Philostratus, _Life of Apollonius of Tyana._]
[Footnote 135: Marinas, _Vita Procli._]
[Footnote 136: The Ego, the human soul properly so-called, what Egypt named the liberated intelligence which resumes its sheath of light, and again becomes a "daimon" (_Maspero_). In antiquity the name of daimon was given to the human soul or to higher intelligences.]
[Footnote 137: _Hades_; the Purgatory of Catholics; the _Kamaloka_ of Hindus.]
[Footnote 138: Allusion to the struggle which separates the mental from the astral body in Purgatory.]
[Footnote 139: _Kamaloka_; Purgatory.]
[Footnote 140: The subterranean h.e.l.l, the lowest world in Purgatory.]
[Footnote 141: Plato's _Laws_, Book 10.]
[Footnote 142: Plato's _Republic_, Book 10.]
[Footnote 143: They are in the causal body.]
[Footnote 144: _Phaedo._]
[Footnote 145: These considerations are taken from the writings of H.
P. Blavatsky, and are also confirmed by modern criticism of biblical texts.]
[Footnote 146: Maimonides. Quoted in _The Perfect Way_, by A.
Kingsford and E. Maitland.]
[Footnote 147: _Galatians_, chap. 4, verses 24, 25.]
[Footnote 148: _Starli_, part 4, p. 5.]
[Footnote 149: _Deuteronomy_, chap. 24, verses 1 to 4.]
[Footnote 150: _Deuteronomy_, chap. 17, verse 17.]
[Footnote 151: _Exodus_, chap. 21, verses 2 to 11.]
[Footnote 152: _Exodus_, chap. 21, verses 23, 24, 25.]
[Footnote 153: _Genesis_, chap. 9, verses 5, 6; also _Leviticus_, chap. 7.]
[Footnote 154: _Exodus_, chapters 6, 12, 14, 22, 32,]
[Footnote 155: _Ecclesiastes_, chap. 3, verses 18, 19, 20, 22.]
[Footnote 156: The souls of a race in its maturity are of a more advanced type than those of its infancy or old age.]
[Footnote 157: The Kabala is the secret teaching of the Jews; in it lie hidden doctrines that are too profound to be taught in public.]
[Footnote 158: _Zohar_, 2, 99, quoted in Myer's _Qabbalah_, p. 198.]
[Footnote 159: Evolution develops the soul, enabling it to reach its goal: the divine state.]
[Footnote 160: The force of evolution comes from G.o.d and ceases only when the soul is fully developed, and has reached the "promised land"
at the end of its pilgrimage: the divine state.]
[Footnote 161: Franck, _La Kabbale_, p. 244, etc.]
[Footnote 162: _The Hidden Wisdom of Christ_, 1864, vol. 1, p. 39.]
[Footnote 163: _De Bell. jud._ 2, 11.]
[Footnote 164: One of the lowest sub-planes of _Kamaloka_ (Purgatory).]
[Footnote 165: The Christian Heaven (_Devachan_ of theosophy).]
[Footnote 166: The earth, which is above when compared with Tartarus, but not so in relation to the Elysian Fields; versification imposes such strict limits on expression, that it must have the benefit of poetic licence.]
[Footnote 167: Freret, _Examen crit. des apologistes de la relig.
chret._, pages 12 and 13, Paris, 1823.]
[Footnote 168: Faustus.]
[Footnote 169: And yet the _Gospel of Saint John_ denies this (chap.
1, v. 21). The contradictions in the gospels are so numerous that they alone have created thousands of infidels.]
[Footnote 170: s...o...b..rg expresses himself as follows on this matter: "This question was evidently based on the opinion that the disciples of Jesus had formed, that this man, whose punishment dated from his very birth, had sinned in a previous life." (_Histoire de N. S.
