The Deathless Self


EVOLUTION as defined in the occultism of Theosophy, is a triple-faceted scheme — a blend of spirit, mind, and matter.

They are, Blavatsky wrote, “inextricably interwoven and interblended at every point.”

True and lasting self-knowledge is acquired gradually and lovingly — and largely unawares at first — through a long, but finite series of reincarnations in human form.

A major factor in our self-development lies in recognizing the continuity of life, Theosophy says — and that for the soul, there is really no such thing as death.

Self-knowledge evolves gradually out of the recognition, as the philosopher-mystic Teilhard de Chardin famously claimed, that we are “spiritual beings having a human experience,” not the other way around.

We are first and foremost spiritual beings, and humanity is our field of experience. But what happens to our human self after death? Does our consciousness die with the body?

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Love after Death

3 responses to “The Deathless Self

  1. I need to know the meaning of some words, when I look them up they aer vaig, and vailed.

    1 (not-self)
    2 (knower)
    3 (known)
    4 (doer)
    5 (thanker)

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  2. “Owing to ignorance of the rope, the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self, the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.”
    -Guru Nanak

    ‘EVOLUTION’ contains within it the word ‘love.’ Loving deeds place us on a road—the way whose sky and sunshine are of a different kind.

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