... it is in the evolutionary process the ever present and growing force which makes evolution possible: it is the evolving element. This automatically raises the question of reincarnation or rebirth. Reincarnation is for many Westerners a stumbling block in their approach of Eastern spirituality because the concept has been stigmatized as heresy by Christian orthodoxy and Western thought is permeated ...
... for the filming of Kim , dart around on the set shouting: “I want to come back as a snake!” did not reduce the confusion. Sri Aurobindo gives this rationale for reincarnation: “All the secret of the circumstances of rebirth [i.e. reincarnation, not metempsychosis] centres around the one capital need of the soul, the need of growth [in life after life], the need of experience; that governs the line of... mortal body. Death effects no change in the spirit, and it was with such spirits that a contact could be established from our material world of mortals. The reason that he refused to believe in reincarnation may have been that he understood it as metempsychosis, an aimless transmigration of the soul in bodies of animals as well as humans. The misunderstandings in connection with this topic are endless... listening to it, does not satisfy them any longer. Their living spirit demands more nourishment than that.” 37 During the same period, and often closely connected with spiritism, there was “the rebirth of magic,” 38 with authors like Éliphas Lévi and Papus who are still being reprinted; there was an expansion of the masonic movement, which is a form of structured and hierarchized occultism; a ...
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