Blavatsky in
section 8 of her book The Key to
Theosophy specified:
« The term between two rebirths is
said to extend from ten to fifteen centuries. »
(p.132)
This is in
accordance with what Master Kuthumi taught, only in this sentence Blavatsky
failed to specify that this corresponds to the bulk of the human population,
but that there are also cases where humans take less time to reincarnate and
also there are cases where humans take longer time to reincarnate. However,
this Blavatsky did point out on other occasions.
William
Judge commented that in one of the conversations he had with Blavatsky, he
addressed this issue and when asked if we all stay 1500 years in Devachan as
many believe because Mr. Sinnett's book, she replied:
« Well, Judge, you must know
well that under the philosophy we don’t all stay there so long. It varies with
the character of each. A thoroughly material thinker will emerge sooner than one
who is a spiritual philosopher and good. Besides, recoiled that all workers for
the Lodge, no matter of what degree, are helped out of Devachan if they
themselves permit it. Your own idea which you have stated, that 1500 years had
not elapsed since you went into Devachan, is correct, and that I tell is what
Master himself tells me. »
(Path,
April 1894, p.18)
And also
Blavatsky pointed out in several of her works particular cases of humans who
reincarnate quickly.
In Isis Unveiled she wrote:
« In cases of abortion,
of infants dying before a certain age, and of congenital and incurable idiocy,
nature's original design to produce a perfect human being, has been
interrupted. Therefore, while the gross matter of each of these several
entities is suffered to disperse itself at death, through the vast realm of
being, the immortal spirit and astral monad of the individual —the latter
having been set apart to animate a frame and the former to shed its divine light
on the corporeal organization— must try a second time to carry out the purpose
of the creative intelligence.
If reason has been so far
developed as to become active and discriminative, there is no reincarnation on this
earth, for the three parts of the triune man have been united together, and he
is capable of running the race. But when the new being has not passed beyond
the condition of monad, or when, as in the idiot, the trinity has not been
completed, the immortal spark which illuminates it, has to reenter on the
earthly plane as it was frustrated in its first attempt. Otherwise, the mortal
or astral, and the immortal or divine, souls, could not progress in unison and
pass onward to the sphere above. Spirit follows a line parallel with that of
matter; and the spiritual evolution goes hand in hand with the physical. »
(I,
p.351)
This,
Blavatsky also pointed out in several of her articles, which I do not
transcribe because there she says the same thing only in a more summarized way,
however I leave the references in the Collected
Writings for those who want to read them: vol. I, p.297-98, 363-64 (367-68); IV,
p.549; V, p.16-17 (45); VII, p.178, 181-82.
And in The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky pointed
out a particular additional situation:
« Hence, remembering that, save in the case of young children, and of
individuals whose lives were violently cut off by some accident, no Spiritual
Entity can re-incarnate before a period of many centuries has elapsed. »
(II,
p.303)
OBSERVATIONS
In the case
of young children who die prematurely, William Judge explained that they did
not have the time to accumulate the psychic energy that a human generates when
experiencing life on Earth and which allows to prolong their
stay in Devachan. And that is why the souls of
these children are quickly reincarnated; and something similar but more extreme
happens with the fetus that is already developed but dies from an abortion.
In the case
of an individual who suffers from congenital and incurable idiocy, something
similar happens because although that person lives for many years, he do not
have a true interaction with life because his mental illness prevents him
from becoming aware of what he is experiencing. And that is why when he dies,
he will also have very little of psychic energy which allows him to prolong his
stay in "Heaven", and therefore, like small children, he will quickly
reincarnate again.
In the case
of people who lose their lives due to an accident, their interval to
reincarnate depends on several factors: how old they were, how spiritual they
were, what they still had to accomplish in his life, etc. And in general we can say that the younger the person dies, the less he
will have accumulated psychic impulses and therefore the sooner he will
reincarnate again.
But it also
depends on each person because, for example, if a person spent his life living
automatically, working mechanically and spending all his free time passively
watching television. Well, that person will accumulate little psychic energy. On
the other hand, another person who has experienced a lot, learned a lot and has
developed a lot, then even if he has lived less, he will have accumulated much
more of that psychic energy.
And it also
depends on how well the person can overcome the emotional shock caused by the
accident that took his life. For example someone who died in a spectacular
plane crash, if that person does not have developed a spirituality, then there
are strong possibilities that he will remain on the astral plane as a lost soul
until the end of what would normally have been his earth life. And that state
of torment can use up much of the psychic energy that this person had
accumulated during his physical life. And therefore when he reaches Devachan, he
will have already lost a lot of that energy and therefore he will remain there
for a very short time before reincarnating again.
And
something similar happens with people who commit suicide, and the matter is
even more drastic with very bad people who have separated from their soul,
because these individuals when their period in the astral plane end, they
quickly reincarnate again without don't even go to Devachan.
And there are some tragic cases where people are
separated from their souls as well, but not because they are bad but because they
have descended too much into vice or madness, and something similar happens to
these individuals, and when they are reborn, they become more and more abject
soulless beings.
This case of
the soulless, Blavatsky also pointed out to her students at her Esoteric
School:
« It is difficult to see why this teaching should have been preserved
until now with such secrecy, when, by spreading it among people, at any rate
among those who believe in reincarnation, so much good might be done. But so it
was, and I had no right to question the wisdom of the prohibition, but have
given it hitherto, as it was given to myself, under pledge not to reveal it to
the world at large. But now I have permission to give it to all, revealing its
tenets first to the Esotericists; and then when they have assimilated them
thoroughly, it will be their duty to teach others this special tenet of the
“second death,” and warn all the Theosophists of its dangers.
And
therefore now I am going to detail what happens with soulless men, that is,
with those individuals who have degraded and perverted so much that they have
separated from their spiritual soul, and therefore have become
"soulless" beings. This mystery will now be explained.
The
Antahkarana that is the connection that unites the person with his superior
triad has been cut, and that person becomes from that moment on a separate
entity, which will live for a long or short period (depending on his karma) as
a soulless creature, that is, as an individual who is no longer enlightened by
his spiritual soul.
Expelled forever from the consciousness of the
Individuality (the reincarnating Ego), the physical atoms and psychic vibrations
of the now separate personality are immediately reincarnated on the same earth,
only in a lower and still more abject creature, a human being only in form,
doomed to Karmic torments during the whole of its new life. Moreover, if it
persists in its criminal or debauched course, it will suffer a long series of
such immediate reincarnations. »
(CW
XII, p.628-635)
The masters
explained that they are going to try to reconsider this soulless person to
reconnect with his superior triad, but if the person persists in continuing to
sink into darkness, then he will end up being destroyed and that is the true death,
whereas physical death is only a temporary death after which you are reborn in
another physical body.
_ _ _
But not only
soulless people or people who have little developed their psychic
energy reincarnate quickly, but also very spiritually developed humans
sometimes do it when the need requires it.
For example,
in ancient times when there were few adepts, it happened that a great initiate
who was at the head of a spiritual Order, when he died if there was no one who
could replace him, then this initiate quickly reincarnated so that his
congregation would not disappear. And William Judge mentions also on some
occasions the adepts make their disciples reincarnate quickly to accelerate
their evolution, but these are very special cases.
And William
Judge also pointed out that extremely materialistic people tend to reincarnate
more quickly, not as fast as the cases I pointed out above, but much sooner
than the general average.
So, as you
can see, there are many cases of people who reincarnate before the general
average that Blavatsky pointed out.
And there is
also the reverse situation of people taking much longer before reincarnating
again.
For example,
Master Pasteur explained that those humans who reached a very high level of
development during the Atlantean civilization (whether at a scientific,
artistic, or academic level, etc.) and they did not have a strong negative
karma to pay off. Those humans reincarnated again until there was again a
civilization advanced enough on earth so that they could continue to develop in
this civilization, because if they had reincarnated earlier in the time of savagery
that arose after the decline of Atlantis, then his reincarnation would have
been detrimental rather than beneficial to them.
But Pasteur
also explained that there are periods where humanity falls into states of
barbarism and darkness, and then advanced souls agree to reincarnate in those
dark periods to help humanity rise again.
And Master
Kuthumi specified that positive karma is also another important factor and
therefore the more positive karma a person has generated, the longer he will
stay in Devachan. And Master Kuthumi explained that there have been humans who
did such an enormous amount of good for others, that they generated a
monumental amount of positive karma and consequently their stay in Heavenly
Paradise will be several millennia (and even more) before having to reincarnate
again.
So as you
can see, there are many different possibilities.
CONCLUSION
Blavatsky revealed some information on this subject,
but in order to have a broader view it is also necessary to read what the other
theosophical instructors and bona fide teachers said on this subject.
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