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The
Consequences of
Ultra-Selfish
Materialism
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In This Extract from
Dialogue on the Mysteries of the Afterlife, H P Blavatsky describes what awaits
the ultra-selfish materialist, with no belief beyond the physical world, in the
After Death States;
“A selfish wicked Egoist,
one who never shed a tear for anyone but himself, thus adding entire
indifference for the whole world to his unbelief, must drop at the threshold of
death his personality forever. This personality having no tendrils of sympathy
for the world around, and hence nothing to hook on to
the string of the Sutratma, every connection between
the two is broken with last breath. There being no Devachan for
such a materialists, the Sutratma will
re-incarnate almost immediately.”
Here is a definition of Sutratman
taken from H P Blavatsky’s Theosophical Glossary;
Sûtrâtman (
H P
Blavatsky postulates that the ultra-selfish, having severed contact with their
spiritual aspect, will lose access to the After Death States which are a period
of learning and assimilation. They are therefore condemned to a cycle of
eternal recurrence with nothing learned in each life with almost no prospect of
breaking out of it. It seems that if you believe that this material world is all
there is, then that appears to become true.
H P
Blavatsky describes a less severe scenario, with some hope, for those who are
simply materialist, likening wasted lives to sleeping though stops on a railway
journey
“But those
materialists who erred in nothing but their disbelief,
will oversleep but one station. Moreover, the time will come when the
ex-material perceive himself in the Eternity and perhaps repent that he lost
even one day, or station, from the life eternal.”
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