[Footnote 1: Book ii., from lines 666-789. The whole passage bristles
with horrors.]
[Footnote 2: xii. 85. Trans., of Burnell and Hopkins.]
[Footnote 3: From the translation of Dhunjeebhoy Jamsetjee Medhora,
_Zoroastrian and some other Ancient Systems_, xxvii.]
[Footnote 4: Trans., by Mirza Mohamed Hadi. _The Platonist_, 306.]
[Footnote 5: _The Sacred Books of the East_, iii, 109, 110.]
[Footnote 6: _Secret Doctrine_, vol. i. p. 281.]
[Footnote 7: See _ibid._, p. 283.]
[Footnote 8: _Isis Unveiled_, vol. i. p. 480.]
[Footnote 9: Theosophical Manuals, No. 1.]
[Footnote 10: _The Heroic Enthusiasts_, Trans., by L. Williams. part ii.
pp. 22, 23.]
[Footnote 11: _Cremation_, Theosophical Siftings, vol. iii.]
[Footnote 12: _Man: Fragments of Forgotten History_, pp. 119, 120.]
[Footnote 13: _Key to Theosophy_, H.P. Blavatsky, p. 109. Third
Edition.]
[Footnote 14: _Magic, White and Black_, Dr. Franz Hartmann, pp. 109,
110. Third Edition.]
[Footnote 15: See _The Seven Principles of Man_, pp. 17-21.]
[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
for æons, until they reënter the circle of transmigration"
(_Sanskrit-Chinese Dictionary_). Eitel, however, under "Amitâbha"
states that the "popular mind" regards the "paradise of the West" as
"the haven of final redemption from the eddies of transmigration".
When used by one of the Teachers of the Esoteric Philosophy it covers
the higher Devachanic states, but from all of these the Soul comes
back to earth.]
[Footnote 28: See _Lucifer_, Oct, 1892, Vol. XI. No. 62.]
[Footnote 29: _The Path_, May, 1890.]
[Footnote 30: _Ibid._]
[Footnote 31: "Notes on Devachan," as cited.]
[Footnote 32: "Notes on Devachan," as before. There are a variety of
stages in Devachan; the Rûpa Loka is an inferior stage, where the Soul
is still surrounded by forms. It has escaped from these personalities
in the Tribhuvana.]
[Footnote 33: _Vishnu Purâna_, Bk. I. ch. v.]
[Footnote 34: _Key to Theosophy_, p. 69. Third Edition.]
[Footnote 35: Sixth and seventh in the older nomenclature, fifth and
sixth in the later--_i.e._, Manas and Buddhi.]
[Footnote 36: _Key to Theosophy_, p. 99. Third Edition.]
[Footnote 37: _Ibid._, p. 100.]
[Footnote 38: _Ibid._, p. 101.]
[Footnote 39: See Manual No. 2 _Re-incarnation_, pp. 60, 61. Third
Edition.]
[Footnote 40: _Key to Theosophy_, p. 105. Third Edition.]
[Footnote 41: _Esoteric Buddhism_, p. 197. Eighth
Edition.]
[Footnote 42: Quoted in the _Secret Doctrine_, vol. ii. p. 83. The
student will do well to read, for a fair presentation of the subject,
G.R.S. Mead's "Note on Nirvâna" in _Lucifer_, for March, April, and
May, 1893. (Re-printed in _Theosophical Siftings_).]
[Footnote 43: _Theosophist_, Sept., 1882, p. 310.]
[Footnote 44: See on "illusion" what was said under the heading
"Devachan".]
[Footnote 45: _Key to Theosophy_, p. 102. Third Edition.]
[Footnote 46: _Theosophist_, Sept. 1881.]
[Footnote 47: "Notes on Devachan", _Path_, June, 1890, p. 80.]
[Footnote 48: _Theosophist_, June, 1882, p. 226.]
[Footnote 49: Summarised from article in _Theosophist_, Sept., 1882.]
[Footnote 50: _Ibid._, p. 309.]
[Footnote 51: _Ibid._, p. 310.]
[Footnote 52: _Key to Theosophy,_ p. 151.]
[Footnote 53: _Theosophist_, Sept., 1882, p. 310.]
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