Chapter 3

[Footnote 13: "Omnes illae unus homo fuerunt." _De Peccat. merit. et remiss._, Book 1, chap. 10, No. 11.

Theologians pass over St. Augustine's adoption of this theory, giving one to understand that he abandoned his error shortly before his death. (_Dictionnaire de Théol._, by Abbé Berger; volume viii., article x., "_Traduciens._")]

[Footnote 14: See also, on this subject, his letter to Sixtus, before the latter became Pope. Chap. vii., No. 31, and chap. vi., No. 27.]

[Footnote 15: The movements of "creation" and "absorption," which are called in Hindu symbolism the outbreathing and the inbreathing of Brahmâ.]

[Footnote 16: Creation.]

[Footnote 17: After violet and red there stretches quite another spectrum, invisible to the human eye; it is because violet is at the beginning of our known spectrum, that one might think it was not the neutral point thereof.]

[Footnote 18: The soul believes itself distinct from the All, because it is subjected to the illusion engendered by its body.]

[Footnote 19: Without the aid of the eyes, walking is impossible to those suffering from plantar anæsthesia.]

[Footnote 20: Pleasure, like every other form of sensation, produces the same results, though perhaps with less force.]

[Footnote 21: A magnetic effect or an emotion. All travellers who have escaped from the attacks of wild beasts mention this effect of inhibition, manifested by the absence of fear and pain at the moment of attack.]

[Footnote 22: Primordial matter which has not yet entered into any combination and is not differentiated.]

[Footnote 23: A soul.]

[Footnote 24: In these cases, the soul.]

[Footnote 25: The personalities or new bodies created by the soul, on each return to earth.]

[Footnote 26: That is to say, the seventh incarnation.]

[Footnote 27: Waking consciousness.]

[Footnote 28: See _Karma_, by A. Besant.]

[Footnote 29: Those who have studied thought know that it is capable of being incorporated in diverse states of astral and mental matter.]

[Footnote 30: If the divine law allows it.]

[Footnote 31: If the divine law has not allowed the action to take place.]

[Footnote 32: Man, after death, loses in succession his astral and mental bodies.]

[Footnote 33: _La Théosophie en quelques chapitres_, by the author, pages 31 to 34.]

[Footnote 34: "Hatred is destroyed only by love," said the Buddha. "Return good for evil," said Jesus.]

[Footnote 35: It is this that causes the universal force of opposition--_the Enemy_ or _demon_--to become evil only when ignorance or the human will make use of it to oppose evolution: apart from such cases, it is only the second pillar necessary for the support of the Temple, the stepping-stone of the good.]

[Footnote 36: Perhaps this is only an apparent delay, for, on every plane, force is correlative, and knowledge is the fruit of many different kinds of energy. The only real cases in which there is delay of individual evolution are probably those in which _evil is done in return for evil_. Of course, we are speaking in relative terms and from a relative standpoint.]

[Footnote 37: When human evolution is completed, man passes the "strait gate" leading to superhuman evolution, to the spiritual life, which develops the next higher principle, _Buddhi_; this is _the Path_. Human evolution develops the mental principle, _Manas_; Super-human evolution develops the spiritual body, _Buddhi._]

[Footnote 38: Here we are dealing with faults of a more or less venial nature.]

[Footnote 39: For ever, in this case, for the soul is above these residues, and, so to speak, has given them no vitality for ages past.]

[Footnote 40: In completion of this chapter on the Law of Causality, we refer the reader to A. Besant's book: _Karma._]