The Secret Doctrine, Volume II. Anthropogenesis

Chapter 240

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It is not clear why Bhûtas should be rendered by the Orientalists as “evil spirits” in the Purânas. In the Vishnu Purâna (I. v, Wilson’s Trans., Fitzedward Hall’s note, i. 83) the Shloka simply says: “Fiends, frightful from being monkey-coloured and carnivorous”; and the word in India now means “ghosts,” ethereal or astral phantoms, while in Esoteric Teaching it means elementary substances, something made of attenuated, non-compound essence, and, specifically, the astral Double of any man or animal. In this case these primitive men are the Doubles of the first ethereal Dhyânîs or Pitris.

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