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A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga

William Walker Atkinson

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1. "THE ASCENT OF MAN.", para. 52. Let us study well the story of Physical Evolution, but let us not lose ourselves in i
2. "THE NINTH LESSON", para. 1. THE NINTH LESSON
3. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 1. METEMPSYCHOSIS. As we have said in our last lesson, while the Yogi Teachings throw an
4. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 5. We have seen that preceding Spiritual Evolution, there was a Spiritual Involution. Th
5. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 8. Then began the Great Evolution. But, as we have told you, the Upward movement was dis
6. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 11. While to many the idea of Metempsychosis may seem new and unfamiliar, still it is one
7. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 15. "It would be curious if we should find science and philosophy taking up again the old
8. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 19. "When Christianity first swept over Europe, the inner thought of its leaders was deep
9. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 20. And in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century, and this the early part of the Twen
10. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 22. The doctrine of Metempsychosis, or Re-incarnation, together with its accompanying doc
11. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 23. This view of life gives to the one who holds to it, an entirely different mental atti
12. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 24. Many writers on the subject of Metempsychosis have devoted much time, labor and argum
13. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 25. Many people have had "peculiar experiences" that are accountable only upon the hypoth
14. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 26. Writers, poets, and others who carry messages to the world, have testified to these t
15. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 27. Bulwer speaks of "that strange kind of inner and spiritual memory which so often reca
16. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 29. We have recently heard of a similar case, told by an old lady who formerly lived in t
17. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 30. A correspondent of an English magazine writes as follows: "A gentleman of high intell
18. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 32. We have recently met two people in America who had very vivid memories of incidents i
19. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 34. A writer in a Western journal gives the following story of a Southern woman. "When I
20. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 36. While comparatively few among the Western races are able to remember more than fragme
21. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 38. Another startling evidence of the proof of Metempsychosis is afforded us in the cases
22. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 40. Then take the cases of children at school. Children of even the same family manifest
23. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 42. The progress of the belief in Metempsychosis however has been greatly retarded by the
24. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 43. And more than this, when Man reaches a certain stage, the process of Metempsychosis n
25. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 45. Concluding this lesson, we would quote two selections from the American poet, Whitman
26. "METEMPSYCHOSIS.", para. 56. And this quotation from the American poet N.P. Willis: "But what a mystery this errin
27. "THE TENTH LESSON", para. 1. THE TENTH LESSON
28. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 1. SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION. One of the things that repel many persons who have had their att
29. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 4. The atom, although it possesses life and a certain degree of mind, and acts as an ind
30. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 6. The plants and the lower forms of animal life are not permanent individual souls, but
31. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 9. The lower animals are of course conscious of the bodies, and their wants, feelings, e
32. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 10. In the above illustration, the principal point is that the horse does not "know himse
33. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 14. After a time the number of advancing souls which had outstripped their fellows in pro
34. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 17. The Yogi Teachings give us but little information regarding the people of the First a
35. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 20. The Yogi traditions hold that just prior to the great cataclysm which destroyed the r
36. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 22. The civilization of Atlantis was remarkable, and its people attained heights which se
37. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 23. And, so the decline of Atlantis began. But the end did not come at once, or suddenly,
38. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 25. But before we begin a consideration of the Fifth Cycle, let us consider for a moment
39. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 28. In order to understand the advance of each race it must be remembered that the more a
40. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 30. Dr. Draper writes as follows: "We are, as we often say, the creatures of circumstance
41. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 30. resses him forward through a definite career, the stages of which are absolutely inva
42. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 33. These advanced races were old souls—advanced souls—the progressed and developed souls
43. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 36. As we have said in other places, one of the greatest difficulties in the way of the s
44. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 38. For instance, if one is bound by the inordinate desire for material wealth, the Law o
45. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 40. Those individuals of a race who have outstripped their fellows in spiritual unfoldmen
46. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 42. The Yogi Philosophy teaches that Man will live forever, ascending from higher to high
47. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 43. The Soul is working steadily upward, from higher to higher, from gross to finer forms
48. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 45. In closing this lesson, let us quote from a previous writing from the same pen that w
49. "SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.", para. 47. And again from the same source: "But beyond your plane, and beyond mine, are plane af
50. "THE ELEVENTH LESSON.", para. 1. THE ELEVENTH LESSON.
51. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 1. THE LAW OF KARMA. "Karma" is a Sanscrit term for that great Law known to Western thin
52. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 4. The Yogi Teachings relating to the Law of Karma do not teach us that Sin is an offens
53. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 6. And thus it is with the human soul passing on from one life to another. It learns new
54. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 8. We are profiting to-day by the lessons of our past lives. If we have learned them wel
55. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 9. It is hard for us to fully realize that we are what we are because of our past experi
56. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 11. Many object to the teachings of the Law of Karma by saying that the experiences of ea
57. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 12. And this same rule applies to the characteristics brought over from past incarnations
58. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 13. Many are the reunions of people who have been related to each other in previous lives
59. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 15. In the Fourteen Lessons we quoted from Mr. Berry Benson, a writer in the Century Maga
60. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 19. "This is what I have read in the faces of men and women, in the book of the world, an
61. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 21. Under the Law of Karma every action, yea, every thought as well, has its Karmic effec
62. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 22. The Yogis teach that there are two great principles at work in the matter of Karmic L
63. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 23. The desires and characteristics brought over from the past lives, of course, seek ful
64. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 24. Our relationship to others in past lives has its effect upon the working of the Law o
65. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 25. Karma is the companion law to Metempsychosis. The two are inextricably connected, and
66. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 27. Those who are suffering, and who see no cause for their pain, are apt to complain and
67. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 29. (2) The Karma which we are now acquiring and storing up by reason of our actions, dee
68. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 32. The Karma of a nation is made up of the collective Karma of the individuals composing
69. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 33. The following quotation from The Secret Doctrine, that remarkable piece of occult lit
70. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 35. 'Virtue in distress and vice in triumph Makes atheists of Mankind,' it is only becaus
71. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 40. "What hath been bringeth what shall be, and is, Worse—better—last for first and first
72. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 51. "That which ye sow ye reap. See yonder fields! The sesamum was sesamum, the corn Was
73. "THE LAW OF KARMA.", para. 61. "This is the doctrine of the Karma. Learn! Only when all the dross of sin is quit, On
74. "THE TWELFTH LESSON.", para. 1. THE TWELFTH LESSON.
75. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 1. OCCULT MISCELLANY. In this, the last lesson of this series, we wish to call your atte
76. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 3. QUESTION 1: "Are there any Brotherhoods of Advanced Occultists in existence, in harmo
77. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 4. of all of these various fragmentary teachings. And they recognize the fact that one m
78. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 4. ccult maxim: "When the Pupil is ready, the Master appears"—and so it is with the Brot
79. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 5. QUESTION II: "Are there any exalted human beings called Masters, or Adepts, or are th
80. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 7. Then again, these Masters have no desire to "work miracles" which would only cause th
81. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 8. The Masters or Adepts are human beings who have passed from lower to higher planes of
82. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 9. These great Masters are above all petty sectarian distinctions. They may have ascende
83. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 10. The state of Adeptship is reached only after a long and arduous apprenticeship extend
84. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 11. QUESTION III: "Does the Yogi Philosophy teach that there is a place corresponding to
85. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 14. On the lower planes of the Astral World there are to be found the earth-bound souls w
86. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 14. nd join the larger sizes, if force be imparted to them. Just so in the Astral World,
87. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 16. As we have said, the soul awakens on the plane to which it is suited. It finds itself
88. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 17. The Yogi teachings inform us that the lower planes of the Astral World are inhabited
89. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 18. Souls on the higher planes are not bound by these earthly and material attractions, a
90. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 19. On some of the planes of the Astral world the souls dwelling there do not seem to rea
91. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 21. It will be seen from what has been written by us here and elsewhere that there are pl
92. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 21. apparently experiences ages of this torment, yet, in reality, there is but the passag
93. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 23. QUESTION IV: "Is Nirvana a state of the total extinction of consciousness; and is it
94. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 25. QUESTION V: "What is that which Occultists call 'an Astral Shell,' or similar name? I
95. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 26. ANSWER: When the soul passes out from the body at the moment of death it carries with
96. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 26. h, however, really comes from the mind of the medium. At some seances these re-vitali
97. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 30. The second phase of Cyclic Time is called by man by the name "a Month," by which is m
98. "OCCULT MISCELLANY.", para. 33. You will notice that each of these great Cycles has its "Day" period and its "Night"
99. "CONCLUSION.", para. 1. CONCLUSION. And now, dear students, we have reached the end of this series of lessons
100. ""MYSTIC CHRISTIANITY."", para. 1. "MYSTIC CHRISTIANITY." We have here to make an announcement that will please our read