Death—and After? by Annie Wood Besant
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[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 Sukhâvatî, borrowed from Tibetan Buddhism, is sometimes used instead of that of Devachan. Sukhâvatî, 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 Nirvâna, the lower to Sukhâvatî. But Eitel calls Sukhâvatî "the Nirvâna of the common people, where the saints revel in physical bliss |
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