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That there may be, and are affirmed to be, intermediate stages, states,
or discrete degrees, will, of course, be understood. The aim of this
paper has been to call attention to the abstract condition of the
immortalized consciousness; negatively it is true, but it is on this
very account more suggestive of practical applications. The connection
of the Theosophical Society with the Spiritualist movement is so
intimately sympathetic, that I hope one of these may he pointed out
without offence. It is that immortality cannot be phenomenally
demonstrated. What I have called psychic survival can be, and probably
is. But immortality is the attainment of a state, and that state the
very negation of phenomenal existence. Another consequence refers to
the direction our culture should take. We have to compose ourselves to
death. Nothing less. We are each of us a complex of desires, passions,
interests, modes of thinking and feeling, opinions, prejudices, judgment
of others, likings and dislikings, affections, aims public and private.
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