The seven principles of man / By Annie Besant.

  • Annie Besant
Date:
1892
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Credit: The seven principles of man / By Annie Besant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to dwell therein. The Manasaputra (the sons of Mind), spiritual entities, lofty intelligences, at this point came to this earth, and took up their abode in the human Quaternary, in the mindless men. ‘This was the incarnation of the Manasaputra, who became the tenants of the human frames as then evolved on earth, and these same Manasaputra, reincarnating age after age, are the Reincarnating Egos, the Manas in us, the persistent Individual, the Fifth Principle in man. The multiplicity of names given to this Principle has probably tended to increase the confusion sur- rounding it inthe minds of many commencing stu- dents of Theosophy. JA/anasaputra is what we may call the historical name, the name that suggests their entrance into Humanity at a certain point of evolu- tion; JZanas is the ordinary name, descriptive of the nature of the Principle thus designated; the /zdz- vidual or the “J,” or go, recalls the fact that this Principle is permanent, does not die, is the individua- lising Principle, separating itself in Thought from all that is not itself, the Szdzect in Western terminology as opposed to the Odject; the Higher Ego puts it into contrast with the Personal Ego of which something is to be presently said; the Aeincarnating Ego lays stress on the fact that it-is. the Principle thatwe. incarnates continually, and so unites in its own ex- perience all the lives passed through on earth. There are various other names, but they will not be met with in elementary treatises. The above are those most often encountered, and there is no real difficulty about them, but when they are used interchangeably, without explanation, the unhappy student is apt to tear his hair in anguish, wondering how many Prin-
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