Isis Unveiled, Vol. 1: A Master Key to Mysteries of Ancient and Modern, Science and Theology (Classic Reprint)

By H. p. Blavatsky (R eprint from The Path, November, 1886) Over and over again the abstruse and mooted question of Rebirth orR eincarnation has crept out during the first ten years of the Theosophical Societ.vs existence. It has been alleged on prima facie evidence that a notable discrepancy was found between the statements made in I nsU nveiled, Vol. I, 351-2, and later teachings from the same pen and under the inspiration of the same master. In I sis, it was held, reincarnation is denied. An occasional return only of depraved spirits is allowed. Exclusive of that rare and doubtful possibility, l8is allows only three cases abortion, very early death, and idiocy in which reincarnation on this earth occurs (C. C. Min Light, 1882) The charge was answered then and there as every one who will turn toT heT heosaphisl of A ugust, 1882, can see for himself. Nevertheless, the answer either failed to satisfy some readers or passed unnoticed. Leaving aside the strangeness of the assertion that reincarnation t. e., the serial and periodical rebirth of every individual monad from pralaya to pralara is denied, in the face of the fact that the doctrine is part and parcel and one of the fundamental features of HindO ism and Buddhism, the charge amounted virtually to this: the writer of the present, a professed admirer and student of HindO philosophy, and as professed a follower of Buddhism years before I sis was written, by rejecting reincarnation must necessarily rejectK arma likewise! For the latter is the very comerstone of Esoteric philosophy andE astern religions; it is the grand and one pillar on ukieh hangs the whole philosophy of rebirths, and, once the latter is denied, the whole doctrine of Karma falls into meaningless verbiage. Nevertheless the opponents, without stopping to think of the evident discrepancy between charge and fact, accused aB uddhist by profess
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