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.Some initiations were into metempsychosis only,some were into the heaven period and others included transmigration and resurrection.There is, and has been for ages, much confusion about such terms asreincarnation, transmigration, and metempsychosis.They have been used assynonyms, but while they have been related they mark twelve different stages in thehistory of the doer and of the entities composing the body, from the time of the deathof the body until the doer returns to earth.Metempsychosis comprises certain after-death states and nothing else, namely,the states of the doer after death while it goes through its changes, struggles andpurification before its heaven period begins.Transmigration is to be understood inthree aspects: the wandering of the feelings and the desires and of the units of matterthrough different worlds and the kingdoms of nature, after death; the coming togetherof some of them and their growing into a human body after the form of the breath-form begins to glow; and the passage of the fourfold physical body from the time ofconception, through the mineral, vegetable and animal forms into the human form ofthe fetus.Re-existence, heretofore called reincarnation, is the return of the doerportion into a human body made up from elementals that composed the body in thepast life on earth.It is the doer portion that re-exists.Resurrection--incorrectly usedwith regard to the doer--is its coming into and taking on again the breath-form withthe four senses and a fourfold physical body, after which the doer re-exists.Resurrection applies: first, to the fleshly body in so far as the breath-form calls anddraws together the compositor units which made up the body in the former life; and,second, to the raising of the breath-form when it will have been regenerated andrestored to its original and perfect form in a perfect physical body.The time between re-existences varies with the needs of the doer, with the parts ithas to take in the succeeding life, with the readiness of the world to let it play thoseparts and with the coming of other doers it has to meet on earth.A doer portion maygo through all the after-death states and be reborn on earth within a few hundredyears, or not until a thousand or many thousand earthly years have elapsed.There isno fixed period, nor any average period at which a doer portion will return to earth.Within one year of earth time the doer may go through what by its feeling andmeasurement of time would be countless years or an eternity.Indeed, the period inheaven is always an eternity to the doer, because there is no beginning and no end;beginning and end are united in completeness.Here has been given an outline of the passage of a portion of the average doerthrough the after-death states.This outline is simplified.Complications, variationsand special cases have been omitted, so as not to disturb the plainness.It can becompared to a brief description of the life of man on earth; what would be true of onewould be in a measure true of all. CHAPTER VIIMENTAL DESTINYSECTION 1The mental atmosphere of the human.ll destiny begins with thinking.When the thought is developed toexteriorization, that is the physical result; from that comes a psychic result,A from that a mental result and from that a noetic result, for the human.All thisis done by his thinking around the thought.A thought as a whole is his mental destiny,and his other three kinds of destiny and their results come out of it by thinking.Thesefour kinds of destiny are the destiny of the human, not of the Triune Self.The thinkerand the knower have no destiny, because they do not create thoughts when they think.The mental destiny of a human is his predisposition to think as he does.It is thestate of the mental atmosphere of the human, (Fig.V-B).It is his mental character, hismental endowments, which are used by his feelings and desires.The active part of the mental atmosphere is represented in the human by three ofthe minds of the thinker of the Triune Self which are put at the service of the doer.There is the body-mind, with which feeling-and-desire should think to care for and tocontrol the physical body and nature.Then there is the feeling-mind, which feelingshould use to find and distinguish itself from the body, and also to give forms to thematter of nature--by thinking.And there is the desire-mind, which desire should useto control its feelings and desires, to distinguish itself as desire from the body inwhich it is, and to have union with feeling.But feeling-and-desire, the doer in thehuman, usually think with the body-mind and in the service of nature.In the run ofhuman beings the doer works chiefly with its body-mind for its feelings and desires,as a laborer, a trader, a lawyer, a manager, an accountant, an inventor, a builder.Theuse of the three minds lowers or elevates feeling-and-desire.Feeling-and-desire areconcerned with physical things; they are busy with material things; they live in them,are bound up with them and do not leave them.They are the servants of the body.Thethinking which the three minds do is that which is and makes mental destiny.Thinking is of two kinds: real thinking, which is the steady holding of theConscious Light within on the subject of the thinking, and the ordinary human thinking, which is either passive or active to the subject of thought.Passive thinking isof objects of the senses, merely listless and casual, and without effort to hold theLight.Active thinking is the effort to hold the Light.Passive thinking begets activethinking.In consequence, thoughts are conceived and issued.They are beings andhave in them something which, once they have been exteriorized, requires theirsuccessive projections until they are balanced.Thinking, and the thoughts which follow it, depend on the condition of the mentalatmosphere, which is the mental destiny of the person.The atmosphere has a moralaspect and is dominated by a ruling thought.It has mental attitudes and mental sets, acertain amount of knowledge which is based on experiences through the four senses,and warnings of conscience.In its most general aspect the atmosphere is either honestor dishonest and has accordingly a tendency to truthfulness or to lying.Theatmosphere shows what the human is responsible for.The good and evil thinking thatmen have done remains with them in their mental atmospheres until removed bythinking.Certain mental attitudes towards responsibility will raise the thinking fromservitude and interference to a mental excellence which in later lives appears as anendowment.Responsibility is connected with duty, the present duty, the doing of which leadsto the balancing of a thought.One of the objects of life is to think without creatingthoughts, that is, without being attached to the object for which the thought is created,and can be attained only when desire is self-controlled and directed by thinking.Untilthen thoughts are created, and are destiny.SECTION 2An Intelligence.The Triune Self.The three orders of Intelligences.The Light ofthe Intelligence.It is important to understand the distinction between an Intelligence and a TriuneSelf, (Fig.V-C).The Intelligence lends its Conscious Light to its Triune Self
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