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METEMPSYCHOSIS OR THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS THROUGH ANIMAL AND HUMAN BODIESA symbol of the passing of the ego during successive incarnations into human bodies astral and physical full of animal propensities denoted by names of animals of various kinds But know this threefold course of transmigrations that depends on the three qualities according to the particular nature of the acts and of the knowledge of each man Immovable beings insects both small and great fishes snakes and tortoises cattle and wild animals are the lowest conditions to which the quality of tamas darkness leads Laws of Manu XII 41 42 The three states or conditions of the soul lead to corresponding conditions of mind and desire in the successive reincarnations of the ego man Bad habits primitive desires delusions gross desires low appetites subservience ungoverned passions etc are the bodily conditions which ignorance tamas and sluggishness of mind and emotion lead the ego into And the souls vice is ignorance For that the soul who hath no knowledge of the things that are or knowledge of their nature or of Good is blinded by the bodys passions and tossed about This wretched soul not knowing what she is becomes the slave of bodies of strange form in sorry plight bearing the body as a load not as the ruler but the ruled Corp Herm The Key G R S Mead Thrice Greatest Hermes Vol II p 145 The impious soul remains in its own essence chastised by its own self and seeking for an earthly body where to enter if only it be human For that no other body can contain a human soul nor is it right that any human soul should fall into the body of a thing that doth possess The Key Ibid p 153 |
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