Reincarnation / by Annie Besant.

  • Annie Besant
Date:
1892
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Credit: Reincarnation / by Annie Besant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Physical, had been going on upon our globe, a third line of evolution, which was to find its goal in man, had been proceeding in a higher sphere. This line was that of Intellectual evolution, and the subjects of the evolution are the Sons of Mind (Manasaputra), self-conscious intelligent Entitie.s, as is implied by their name. The.se are spoken of under many differ- ent name.s ; Lords of Light, Dhyan Chohans, Kumaras, Solar Pitris, Dragons of Wisdom, etc., etc., allegorical and poetical names, that become attractive arid familiar to the student in the course of his reading, but which cause much trouble and confusion to the beginner, who cannot make out whether he is dealing with»one class of beings or with a dozen. The one fact that the beginner needs to grasp is that, at a certain .stage of evolution, there entered into, incarnated in men, certain self-conscious intelligent Entities, with a long- past of intellectual evolution behind them, who found in physical man the instrument ready, and fitted, for their further evolution. The coming of these Sons of Mind is given in poetical phrase in the Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan :* The So)is of Wisdom, the Sons of Night, leady for febirth, catne dow7i. . . . The Thhd \^Race^ were ready. “/« these shall we dwell'' said the Loids of the Flame. . . . The Third Race became the Vahana [ Vehicle'] of the Lords of Wisdom. These Lords of Wisdom then are thej'^ who became the Reincarnating Egos of men: the.se are the Mind, or rather Minds, in men, the Manas, or Fifth Princi- • Secret Doctrine^ vol. II. pp. i8, 19.
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