Gottfried de Purucker – USA
[Taken from Fundamentals of the Esoteric Philosophy , First Edition. Relevant pages are mentioned]
... if ... our thoughts are running downwards, and we wear away the ... "golden thread" which binds us to our Higher Nature, ... at last the final rupture ... comes, and the soul becomes the "lost soul" ... (167- 68)
There are two classes of this kind of soul ... first ... those ... who through native weaknesses of soul and from lack of spiritual attraction upwards, go to pieces after a certain interval of time ...
The monad of such a soul, meanwhile, there being nothing, no "aroma" of aspiration or yearning upwards .. in due course of time "reincarnates" again; and the "lost soul" episode is like a blank page in its "book of Lives."
Now the second class, and the worst by far, are those in which the soul is vitally strong. They are those who are SPIRITUALLY evil, ... beings of spiritual wickedness and iniquity. One may wonder how it can come to pass that a being which has ruptured the Golden Thread can still have spiritual qualities or parts. That is one of the dark and solemn mysteries ... (169)
Now, through many, many lives of spiritual evil- doing, these beings who have eventuated as "lost souls" have built up through the intensity of their will a bank account, so to speak, of certain forces of nature, impulses of evil, of pure matter, running hot and strong. And while I say "hot" I do not mean in the ordinary emotional sense, as when one speaks of the "heat of passion". All such passion is dead. Nay. But running hot like the fires of hell: revenge, hatred, and antagonism to anything that is highly good or nobly beautiful, and all such things. These impulses hare exist, and they have a spiritual source, for THEY ARE DEGRADED SPIRITUAL ENERGIES, spirit fallen and crystallized into matter, so to speak. ... These beings can (and do), under certain conditions, go far lower: they enter the Lower Path, and go still farther down: and if the evil be strong enough in certain rare cases, their terrible destiny is what our Teachers have called an avichi-nirvana ... aeons of unspeakable misery, self- imposed, until final dissolution ensues, -- and Nature knows them no more. (169)
... Avichi is a generalized term for places of evil realizations, but not of "punishment" in the Christian sense; where the will for evil, and the unsatisfied evil longings for pure selfishness, find their chance for expansion -- and final extinction of the entity itself. (169)
... There is no such nightmare as "eternal suffering". Those human beings who have forfeited their divine birthright, go to pieces, they lose their Personal Entity; (184)
... Even spiritual evil exists; and there are high agents of "spiritual wickedness", of which the Christian Apostle Paul has spoken, forming the opposite agencies to the high agents of good. The latter ones, agents of spiritual wickedness, are called by us the "Brothers of the Shadow", and the others are called by us the "Brothers of the Light". The Brothers of the Shadow work in and with matter, for material and selfish purposes. The Brothers of the Light work in and with Nature for spirit, for impersonal purposes. They contrast one with another.
These two bodies represent two fundamental Paths in Nature, the one the Right-Hand Path, the other the Left, and are so called in the Ancient Occultism. The Sanskrit name for one, the "Left-Hand Path", is PRATYEKA-YANA. YANA means "Path" or "Road", and also "Vehicle"; and we can translate PRATYEKA in this connection by the paraphrase "every one for himself". Our first Teacher, H. P. Blavatsky, as you will well remember, has spoken of the Pratyeka-Buddhas, high and in one sense holy beings indeed, but craving spiritual wisdom, spiritual enlightenment, for themselves alone, selfishly, in indifference to the sorrow and pain of the world, yet so pure withal that they are actually Buddhas of a kind.
The other body follow the Path which in Sanskrit is called AMRITA-YANA, the Immortal Vehicle or Path of Immortality.
The one, the former, is the path of the personality; the other, the latter, is the path of the individuality; the one is the path of matter; the other is the path of spirit; the one leads downward, the other Path loses itself in the ineffable glories of conscious immortality in "eternity." (156)
We spoke ... of there being two classes of "lost souls". That is quite correct. But we must also point out that there are likewise two sub-divisions, in the second of these two classes, and these two sub-divisions of the second class are those who fully merit the old Christian term "workers of spiritual iniquity". The first sub-division comprise those who are commonly called conscious sorcerers; and the second comprise the same type of beings but include those who have reached such a point of inner power, yea, of EVIL spiritual strength, that they are able even to defeat Nature"s call to dissolution for the entire term of the Manvantara. They merit truly the old mystic saying, "workers of spiritual evil." (185-86)
The first sub-division comprises those who are annihilated when this globe goes into its "obscuration"; but to the second subdivision belong they who are almost human incarnations of what the Tibetans called the LHAMAYIN; or sometimes they may even be overshadowed by the MAMO-CHOHANS, which preside at the Pralayas. The last, however, are not exactly "devils" or evil entities, but rather beings whose destiny it is for the time in view to carry on the work of destruction, of desolation. As regards the higher spiritual sorcerers and workers of evil, the second sub-division, their final destiny is truly terrible, for there awaits them at the close of the Manvantara the AVICHI-NIRVANA, the absolute contrast and nether pole of the Nirvana of spirit; and then a Manvantara of unparalleled misery. They are the polar opposites of the Dhyan-Chohans. Final and utter annihilation is their end. Nature is bi-polar; and as is the action, so is the reaction. (186)
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