| “..the soul, once freed from the body, follows its earthly attractions, and is magnetically drawn into and held within the dense fogs of the material atmosphere. Then it begins to sink lower and lower, until it finds itself, when returned to consciousness, in what the ancients termed Hades. “The annihilation of such a soul is never instantaneous; it may last centuries, perhaps; for nature never proceeds by jumps and starts, and the astral soul being formed of elements, the law of evolution must bide its time. Then begins the fearful law of compensation, the Yin-youan* of the Buddhists.” ** d.) but as Life Itself is forever (cannot destroy), so despite the disintegration of these personalities in Avitchi, a fresh Cycle of becoming will again be offered [through new personality]. |
| 11.) Consequences: For the unrepentant: a.) their fate is to continuously suffer miseries and horrors in the 8th Sphere. b.) eventually annihilate (or destroy) this ‘personal individuality’ [or personality] by God Absorption. c.) “.. After the death of the depraved and the wicked, arrives the critical moment. If during life the ultimate and desperate effort of the inner-self to reunite itself with the faintly-glimmering ray of its Divine Parent is neglected; if this ray is allowed to be more and more shut out by the thickening crust of matter, .. |
| * Yin-Yang (or Feminine & Masculine) ** Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled Vol. 1 |