Reincarnation / by Annie Besant.

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

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    versal, and not differing in different persons or indi- viduals, it is really only the Thinker that can in strictness be said to reincarnate, and it is with this Thinker, as the Individual, that we are concerned. Now in this Thinker reside all the powers that we class as Mind. In it are Memory, Intuition, Will. It gathers up all the experiences of the earth-lives through which it passes, and stores these accnnuilated treasures of knowledge, to be transninted within itself, by its own divine Alchemy, into that e.s.sence of expe- rience and knowledge which is Wisdom. Even in our brief span of earth-life we distinguish between the knowledge we accpiire and the wisdom we gradu- ally alas! too rarely—distil from that knowledge. Wisdom is the fruitage of a life’s experience the crowning possession of the aged. And in nnich fuller and richer sense. Wisdom is the fruitage of many in- carnations, in which knowledge has been gained, experience garnered, patience has had her penect work, so that at length the Divine Man is the glorious product of the ceiituried evolution. In the Thinker, then, is our store of experiences, reaped in all past lives, harvested through many rebirths, a heritage into which each one shall surely come when he learns to rise above the thrall of the senses, out of the storm and stress of earthly life, to that inirer repon, to that higher plane, where our True Sell resides. What it is that does NOT Rkincakxate. We have seen, in the preceding Section, that man’s outer form, his phy.sical nature, was built up slonly, through two and a half Races, until it was ready to receive the Son of Mind.* This is the nature we • See ante, pp. i4->7-
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