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Cap.

PP.

One

Multiple-Plane Kosmos

I.

Two Kinds of Kosmos

1-128

II.

Multiple Levels of Human

129-253

III.

Return to Reality

254-397

Two

Transmigration in Six Ways

IV.

Transmigration

398-508

V.

Death

509-658

VI.

Ghost, Sprites, & Daimones

659-772

VII.

Ascension of Good Ghosts

773-904

B.

Sayings about two kinds of kosmos

pp. 25-56

C.

Absolute & relative kosmos

pp. 57-98

D.

Circulation between the two kosmoi

pp. 98-128

Conan Doyle "said that ... after death, he found that Summerland is only the highest sphere of the plane of desire {Kama-loka}; for above it were the mental plane and the celestial {i.e., causal} plane."

{" "Summerland" was earlier described by Andrew Jackson Davis; it is the translation of a term from traditional Cymry literature.}

p. 112

[out-of-body experience consisting of journey to another world] "I ... slept as if meditating. My soul soared upward through the roof ... with great speed. Two young boys

p. 113

in the clouds rushed towards me and yelled, "Follow us!" ... . Mountains and valleys, cities and villages, building and streams, were ... tiny ... to my eyes. ... Soon, we reached a place, and the boys said, "stop". ... I saw ... streams, each over a hundred in width and embanked with marble. ... There were bridges with golden railings across the stream. ... The boys ran fast. ... I asked who they were, and what the place was. They said they were boys serving Ling-ho ... . ... One body ... led me over twenty buildings, all shining in gold. And, covered with glorious flowers, was a person, like my brother Chung-Lang ... . ... He said, "This place is a boundary of the West paradise. ... It is also called Negligent country. ... When the time is right, ... one will soon be promoted to the pure land." He said "... I have written a General Discussion

p. 114

of the West Paradise ... . Therefore, I may fly freely ... . ..." He pulled me upward for thousands and thousands of miles ... to another place. In this place, there was no demarcation between sun light and moon light or between day and night. The glazed ground was quartered by golden ropes ... . Numberless trees of sandalwood were lined up in precious colors at regular intervals. Light was seen and heard underneath the precious pond. The bottom was bedded with golden sand in which there were lotus flowers of various colors. ... Sacred music floated out from the buildings. ... The buildings were all in the clouds when we glanced upward to the great void. ... "Beyond this is the residence of Dharmakaya Mahasattva. ... Beyond that is the residence of absolute enlightened –ones ... ." ...

p. 115

All of a sudden, he disappeared in great void. I tried to walk on the pond, felt myself sinking and was suddenly awakened from my dream".

[the 4 gem-enclosures] "O S`ariputra, that world Sukhavati ... in enclosed on every side ... with the four gems, viz. gold, silver, beryl, and crystal. ...

[the 7 jewel-trees] And on every side of these lotus-lakes gem-trees are growing, ... with the seven gems, viz. gold, silver, beryl, crystal, red pearls, diamonds, and corals as the seventh."

A.

Sayings about multiple levels of human soul-body

pp. 129-146

C.

Return to reality

pp. 179-253

bliss.

ananda-maya atman (‘bliss-dependent self’).

"William James thought that consciousness exists everywhere like a "Mother sea." The brain is like a transformer, which changes limitless consciousness into limited consciousness ... . ... . ... when the brain dies, the soul can maintain its life; in this way the soul proves its immortality (W. James : Human Immortality, 1898).

Bergson, the great French philosopher, believed that the cerebrum is like a canal which leads the soul to Earth and make it adopt the Earth’s needs ... (W. H. E. Tenhaeff : Hellsehen und Telepathie, 1966). ...

F. W. H. Myers of England illustrated elaborately in his main work, Human Personality, that the waking consciousness only occupies a very small part of the soul."

"Kilner has used his "heaven eyes" screen to observe hypnosis, and he has found that ... one’s inner aura would disappear completely, leaving only a piece of blank space about two inches wide. The outer aura would withdraw and become dark. Within this blank space, there would be present a cord of light about three inches wide".

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[transcendent power obtained by means of yoga]

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1.

"One can become the smallest body at will;

2.

One can become the biggest body at will;

3.

walk on the water;

4.

One can make the body as heavy as a mountain ...;

5.

... One can touch the sun {this is an instance of this in the Sat-dharma Pun.d.arika Sutra} and moon while standing on the ground. ...;

6.

enter into the body of another ...;

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7.

make man, woman, and spirit obey;

8.

... one can make the dead live again. ... One is able to move his soul into the corpse of another;

9.

One is able to die at the time one desires;

10.

One is able to see gods and angels; ...

14.

One is able to foretell the future;

15.

One can change iron into gold;

16.

One can change the body into multiple bodies; ...

19.

One is able to know the affairs of former reincarnations of oneself;

20.

One is able to know the stars and planets {by remote viewing?}; ...

25.

One is able to leave the ground and ascend into the air;

26.

One is able to know the place of precious things."

[circumstances of a disincarnate soul’s entering the prospective mother’s womb for redincarnation]

when the aithereal body is __

attraction is directed toward __

and resistance against __

"If the ethereal body does not generate such passion or resistance, it is impossible for it to enter the womb."

male

mother

father

female

father

mother

those with __

imcumbent action

no virtue or merits

be "forced by awful powers to enter the hut, or to hide beneath a wall, or to enter the mountain, forest or cave."

great virtue or merits

"ascends the tower or pagoda, or enters a hall to sit on a couch.

Because of what he has seen, he enters the mother’s womb."

"Governor Hu Pao-chuan of Honan Province ... had been able to see ghosts since his youth. ... he could still remember things of his former life. ... He said there were ghosts everywhere, on the streets and in the halls. Only inside the imperial palace there were none."

"The most __ god

was __ ."

respected

the great emperor of the Tai-san ... .

wonderful

General Kin. His body shown with a golden splendor, and ten thousand golden rays came out from the holes of his hair.

ugly

the ‘god of narrow face’. The height {stature} of his body was three feet and had a face four feet long. The width was five or six inches."

"he passed by the shrine of ... the ghost of the ox head. He trod on its horn, and the ghost followed him to his home. It pushed against his bed with its horns, and the bed rocked without stopping."

"In America, the most famous record of "thought transmission" is from Sinclair’s Mental Radio (U. Sinclair : Mental Radio, 1959). Mrs. Sinclair’s mental soul was so sensitive that ... she could tell, paint or write what things, paintings, sentences or words her husband had thought of."

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divination

its explanation

225-6

41^st

[225] "Attempt to find the lost nests"

[226] "checkers and stars"

226

42^nd

... the water but are not fishes."

"Golden mother and tree father"

43^rd

They stop on the east"

"The golden bird hides itself in the ocean"

44^th

"The golden mean of Yin and Yang"

"Crops are reaped"

227

45^th

United together to be one"

"Ninety-nine years"

46^th

"The man of eight feet {in stature} with a beard"

"This genius ... from Kiangsu or Chekiang"

47^th

"People read books in peace"

"Most ministers are elders"

48^th

"No origin, no end; Thousands of billions of years"

When one begins to act {meditate), it {the meditation} opens a little hole on the causal soul-body, so that it can see the light of the absolute cosmos; this light is the "genuine light" ... genuine knowledge."

Because the causal soul is the master of one’s lives ..., the spirit biographies of each life are collected here. It is like a file on every man, and so Buddhists call it "the stored consciousness {alaya-vijn~ana}."

"The medium D. D. Home" : "When he was invited by Napoleon III to perform in the Grand Hall of the Imperial Palace in Paris, he sat in a chair and ascended into the air near the ceiling. He flew front and rear, and left and right, for more than ten minutes."

He was able to see the essence of all things, their ... origins and present existences. ... He was able to speak several languages he had never studied".