Isis Unveiled by H. P. Blavatsky, vol 1, chap 1 - 3 views
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human body was of a half-ethereal nature; and that, before the fall, mankind communed freely with the now unseen universes. But since that time matter has become the formidable barrier between us and the world of spirits.
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Anthony Santagato on 27 May 12amazing concept...the idea that as beings we may have been ghost/spirit like...more subtle in energy....now in phenomenal form or gross form we have lost ability to connect with or communicate with other spiritual entities ?
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For a man of science to refuse an opportunity to investigate any new phenomenon, whether it comes to him in the shape of a man from the moon, or a ghost from the Eddy homestead, is alike reprehensible.
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great aim was to free the soul from the fetters of sense and force it to realize its powers, must live eternally in human memory.
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Pythagoras attempted to "free the soul from the fetters of sense and force it to realize its powers..." Fetter of sense? In Buddhism it is taught that the 5 senses are hinderances to liberation of the mind from the body and lower desires. But here it may be that the word sense is used to desribe mans rationale or logic. We are always making sense of things in order to avoid mistakes that compromise our abilty to survive. Maybe Pythagoras saw the mind as a hinderance because we are then unable to realize the power of our emanating force our vital force or soul.
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The harmony and mathematical equiformity of the double evolution — spiritual and physical — are elucidated only in the universal numerals of Pythagoras, who built his system entirely upon the so-called "metrical speech" of the Hindu Vedas
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in the former, from the mystic relation of every number to everything intelligible to the human mind