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GILGOOLEM, OR REVOLUTION OF SOULS
A symbol of the cycle of periodical
re-incarnations of the spiritual monads in human bodies.
All the souls go up into the gil good-ah, i.e. revolutions or
turnings, and the children of man do not know the ways of the Holy,
and how He judges the children of man every day and in all time, and
how the Neshamoth souls go up to be judged before they come down
into this world, and how they go up to judgment after they go out
from this world. How many Gil'gool-em how many hidden doings the
Holy does with them? How many naked souls and how many naked spirits
go in that world (the other) which do not enter through the king's
pargoda (curtain)? . . . All the Neshamoth souls go out from that
great Tree, and from that mighty River which flows out from Eden,
and all the Ru'hin spirits come out from that other small tree. The
Neshamah soul comes from Above, the Rua'h spirit from Below, and
unite in one" (Zohar, II.). - MYER, Qabbalah, p. 413.
"The 'Neshamah' is the Divine Soul, atma-buddhi, in humanity. The 'Neshamoth'
are the Divine monads or egos, atma-buddhic, on the Ray from the
Supreme (the Tree of Life). These spiritual egos in human beings
outpour from the Divine life of the buddhic plane (the river of
Eden). The 'rua'h spirit from below' is the rua'h nephesh—the lower
mind or personality which unites with the Divine soul. The 'ru'hin
spirits' are the personalities from the astral evolution below (the
small tree), which provide forms for the egos and unite with them.
The judging of the souls, the children of mind (man), takes place
midway between the incarnations and karmically determines the nature
of the next descent into the material world. The lower mind does not
cognise the cycle of re-births (gil'-gool-em), for it is beyond its
purview. The soul enters the heaven-world through the higher
emotions (the king's curtain). The spiritual egos go forth from the
Divine life. The personalities arise from the astral evolution below
and unite with the former in the human mind.
"The doctrine of the pre-existence of the soul is shared by the
Gallic Druids and the Druses of the Middle Ages; it is maintained
to-day by the Zulus and the Greenlanders, by the Indians of North
America and the Dayaks of Borneo, by the Karens of Burma and the
inhabitants of Guinea; it counts among its adherents the worshippers
of Brahma and Buddha, and it attracted the sympathetic assent of a
Spinoza and a Lessing. The wide extension of this theory in space
and time is sufficient evidence of its deep roots in human thought
and sentiment." - T. GOMPERZ, Greek Thinkers, Vol. I. p. 124.
"The reincarnating Ego, or individuality, retains during the
Devachanic period merely the essence of the experience of its past
earth-life or personality, the whole physical experience involving
into a state of in potentia, or being translated into spiritual
formula. The term between two re-births is said to extend from ten
to fifteen centuries, during which time the physical consciousness
is totally inactive, having no organs to act through, and therefore
no existence." - H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Key to Theosophy, p. 132.
"Man is the thinking animal, the animal that plans and creates, and
in whom the primordial life which inhabits all living things is
pressing on and up to greater heights of aspiration and performance.
But apparently the same thing holds good as before. The life which
expresses itself as mind is still the universal life, and when the
brain perishes in which it finds its temporary home, it goes back to
where it came from, like the rest of the life of creation, and then
from the standpoint it has won incarnates itself anew for some
further and nobler effort towards self-realisation—if that be the
right word." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., God's Gift of Life
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