f Forgotten History_, pp. 119, 120.]
[Footnote 13: _Key to Theosophy_, H.P. Blavatsky, p. 109. Third
Edition.]
[Footnote 14: _Magic, White and Black_, Dr. Franz Hartmann, pp. 109,
110. Third Edition.]
[Footnote 15: See _The Seven Principles of Man_, pp. 17-21.]
[Footnote 16: _Theosophist_, March, 1882, p. 158, note.]
[Footnote 17: _Essays upon some Controverted Questions_, p. 36.]
[Footnote 18: _Fortnightly Review_, 1892, p. 176.]
[Footnote 19: _Key to Theosophy_, p. 67.]
[Footnote 20: _Ibid._, p. 97.]
[Footnote 21: _Key to Theosophy_, p. 97]
[Footnote 22: _Ibid._, p. 102.]
[Footnote 23: June, 1882, art. "Seeming Discrepancies."]
[Footnote 24: Pp. 73, 74. Ed. 1887.]
[Footnote 25: _Theosophical Glossary_, Elementaries.]
[Footnote 26: See _The Seven Principles of Man_, p.p. 44-46.]
[Footnote 27: The name Sukhavati, borrowed from Tibetan Buddhism, is
sometimes used instead of that of Devachan. Sukhavati, according to
Schlagintweit, is "the abode of the blessed, into which ascend those
who have accumulated much merit by the practice of virtues", and
"involves the deliverance from metempsychosis" (_Buddhism in Tibet_,
p. 99). According to the Prasanga school, the higher Path leads to
Nirvana, the lower to Sukhavati. But Eitel calls Sukhavati "the
Nirvana of the common people, where the saints revel in physical bliss
for aeons, until they reenter the circle of transmigration"
(_Sanskrit-Chinese Dictionary_). Eitel, however, under "Amitabha"
states that the "popular mind" regards the "paradise of the West" as
"the haven of final redemption from the eddies of transmigration".
When used by one of the Teachers of the Esoteric Philosophy it covers
the higher Devachanic states, but from all of these the Soul comes
back to earth.]
[Footnote 28: See _Lucifer_, Oct, 1892, Vol. XI. No. 62.]
[Footnote 29: _The Path_, May, 1890.]
[Footnote 30: _Ibid._]
[Footnote 31: "Notes on Devachan," as cited.]
[Footnote 32: "Notes on Devachan," as before. There are a variety of
stages in Devachan; the Rupa Loka is an inferior stage, where the Soul
is still surrounded by forms. It has escaped from these personalities
in the Tribhuvana.]
[Footnote 33: _Vishnu Purana_, Bk. I. ch. v.]
[Footnote 34: _Key to Theosophy_, p. 69. Third Edition.]
[Footnote 35: Sixth and seventh in the older nomenclature, fifth and
sixth in the later--_i.e._, Manas and Buddhi.]
[Footnote 36: _Key to Theosophy_, p. 99. Third
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