A.

Confused ghosts in Hades

pp. 659-709

B.

Confused sprites in Hades

pp. 710-742

D.

Evil ghosts in Hell

pp. 756-772

p.

#

court "is in charge of the __"

"which is directly __, beneath the sea bottom."

660

1.

"length of life, and good and bad fortunes."

--

2.

"living hell"

south

3.

"black rope hell"

southeast

4.

"Samhata hell"

east

5.

"hell of wailing"

northeast

6.

"hell of great wailing"

north

7.

"hell of burning"

northwest

8.

"hell of great burning"

west

9.

"avici hell"

southwest

10.

"affairs that assign and dispatch ghosts

--

661

to the four continents for reincarnation."

[judgement based on intentions, as told to C^u Kai-ju in his dream :] " "the mirror of Hades reflects the mind. A person who does a thing knows of it himself. There, the event is lodged in his mind and recorded; so it will be reflected by the mirror. Even a man’s thoughts and desires are recorded, so that, even if he does not carry his plans out, his evil or good is revealed. Judgements in Hades are based upon what one desires to do, not upon whether one succeeds or not. ..." After he finished speaking ..., I woke up".

p. 692

"(In Tungchow, the custom of the times declared that, on the fourteenth day, in the night, the spirit returned to the corpse; so the dead’s clothing and bedding are put beside the coffin, and all members of the family are told to keep away.) ...

p. 693

"I have heard the dead are followed by a ghost attendant and that the returning spirit is followed by a guard. ..." ... [The ghost-wife said,] "Ghosts are afraid of the wind. If touched by the wind, we cannot come and go as we please but may be blown off course." ... After two months, [the ghost-wife] wept and said, "This term as a couple has come to an end. We shall be husband and wife again in 17 years.""

p.

animal

life-span

712

green man

1,000 years

snakes

"indefinite"

monkey

800 years, at which time it will transform into a yuan

yuan

500 year, at which time it will transform into a lei

lei

1,000 year

712-3

unicorn

2,000 years

713

"bright yellow horse and the lucky yellow beasts"

3,000 years

bird having "the face of a man"

1,000 years

"There was a student named Hsieh of Wu-yuan, who studied at Chang Kung Mountain. One day, he ... heard ... singing in the woods. He went to see what it was and found a beautiful girl ... about five inches high, naked ...; her whole body was white ... . ... Immediately, a large, strange bird took her and flew away."

"The essence of anything ... cannot change its real shape as reflected in a mirror. That is why Taoist of old, who went into the mountain region, all carried mirrors with them ... . It is possible to examine the shape of the creature in a mirror.

If it be a __

the mirror-reflection will be __

fairy or kindly god

human

daimon

bird or beast

"If an old demon comes, he will leave, stepping backward. One can turn his mirror and watch the back of the man {old daimon} who is leaving.

If it be a __

the mirror-reflection will include __

"god of the mountain"

his ankles

daimon

no ankles

"Pao Po Tzu said that some trees in the mountain could speak;

though it is not the tree itself that speaks but the genie of tree, who is called Yun-yang. ...

The Tartars that appear in the night

are just elves of copper and iron; and

the one who appears in Chin costumes

is a genie of a hundred-year tree, and ... he can hurt no one."

on the __ day (of cycle of 12 days)

one which calleth itself __

is a _- elf

3^rd

"Governor of the gardens and landscapes"

tigre

"Governor of the roads"

wolf

"District magistrate"

"old fox"

4^th

"old man"

rabbit

Tun-Wan-Fu

congee

Si-Wan-Mu

deer

5^th

"God of the river"

fish

"bowelless prince"

crab

6^th

"King"

snake

"God of time"

turtle

7^th

San-Kuon

horse

"fairy"

"old tree"

8^th

"Master"

sheep

"Official"

musk deer

9^th

"Gentleman"

monkey

Saint of Tsen-yan

fox

10^th

"godlike government official"

"Gold and Jade"

11^th

"Governor of houses"

mouse

"godlike man"

bat

12^th

"student"

cow

p. 762

Hell is divided "into nine circles. It was like a ... Pyramid upside down : bigger on the upper part and smaller on the lower part."

circle

its nature

1^st

"In Limbo ... lived the poets, philosophers, scientists, etc. ... . ... But they were living in palaces, and the environment was bright".

2^nd

"in the darkness, as well as in the storms and heavy rains."

3^rd

"hail and heavy snow."

pp. 762-3

4^th

"moved forward in incompatible directions; ... they collided".

p. 763

5^th

"in black dirt".

6^th

"on fire-sand".

7^th

"In the 1^st circle ... stayed in hot blood".

8^th

"The 7^th gulf ... were snakes all over their bodies".

A.

Discussions about Heaven

pp. 773-817

C.

Relationship between gods & men

pp. 855-904

p. 786

"encased the human soul successively in three bodies".

body

its nature

through __

causal

"idea"

"blissful ... ideas"

astral

"emotional"

"feelings"

material

"gross"

"senses"

[astral universe & its travelers] "The inhabitants use astral vehicles ... to travel from one planet to another ... . The astral universe ... is hundreds of times larger than the material cosmos. The entire physical creation hangs like a little solid basket under the huge balloon of the astral sphere."

[rainbow-colored features of astral worlds] "Astral luminaries resemble the aurora borealis :

the sunny astral aurora is more dazzling

than the mild-rayed moon aurora.

The astral day and night are much longer than those of earth. ...

p. 787

Unlike the variable climates and seasons of the earth, the astral spheres maintain the even temperature of an eternal spring {the temperature during spring is in India is similar to that during summer in Britain, so that a "Summerland" [as on p. 86] is indicated}, with occasional ... rain of multicolored light. Astral worlds abound with opal lakes and ... rainbow rivers."

[shapeshifting on astral worlds] "Astral persons materialize and dematerialize their forms at will. Flowers or fish or animals can metamorphose themselves, for a time, into astral men. All astral beings are free to assume any form and can easily commune together. ... Astral beings, through fiats of their cosmically attuned will, are able to materialize offspring in significantly patterned astral forms. A person ... arrives in an astral family through invitation, drawn by similar mental and spiritual tendencies."

p. 788

[astral anatomy] "The astral body is not subject to cold or heat ... . The anatomy includes an astral brain, in which the omniscient ‘thousand-petaled lotus of light’ is partially active; and six awakened centers in the sushumna or astral cerebrospinal axis. ... ... all astral beings ... possess three eyes, two of which are partly closed. The third and chief eye, vertically placed on the forehead, is open. Astral men ... can see through the ear or nose or skin, hear through the eyes or tongue, taste through the ears or skin, and so forth."

p. 789

The residents of Hiranyaloka {‘Golden-World’ = Mental Plane, occupied by beings embodied in the manas-maya-kos`a} generally remain awake in nirbikalpa ecstasy ... . ... Communication among the residents of all astral worlds is effected entirely by telepathy and astral television."

... still more unconditioned is the existence of nearly perfect beings in the causal world, whose only food is the manna of bliss."

p. 792

[expansiveness of the soul] "When the gross physical receptacle is destroyed by the hammer of death, the other two coverings – astral and causal – still remain to prevent the soul from joining the Omnipresent Life. When desirelessness is attained through wisdom, its power disintegrates the two remaining vessels. The tiny human soul emerges, free at last! one with Measureless Amplitude." {brahman ‘expansion/expansiveness’}

[how to become a causal being] "one would have to ... visualize the astral cosmos and the physical cosmos in all their vastness ... . If ... one succeeded in ... resolving the two cosmoses {kosmoi} with all their complexities ..., he would then reach the causal world ... . ... Beings in the causal world recognize one another as individualized points".

p. 793

Man undergoes countless earthly and astral and causal incarnations in order to emerge from his three bodies. When he wins this final freedom he may elect to ... enter the causal world to aid its beings to shorten their span in the causal body and thus to attain the Absolute Freedom."

(I. Cooke : The Return of A. C. Doyle ...)."

"Myers, in Human Personality and Its Survival After Death discussed the immortality of the soul but did not mention the activity of the soul after death. Thirty years after his death he published two books through the medium Miss Cummins : Road to Immortality and Beyond Human Personality. In these he narrated the activities of the spirit after death, to make up for the shortcomings of his first book. ... He divided the cosmos into ... levels :

"Johnson, a professor of physics at Melbourne University, Australia, used Myers’ classification in his book Nurslings of Immortality, but added an explanation :

(1) the plane of matter,

(1) the plane of matter is the experience of the form of matter ...;

(2) ... the intermediate plane,

(2) the intermediate plane may be explained as ... what we call the aetheric level;

(3) the plane of illusion".

(3) the plane of illusion is what is commonly called the astral plane".

Some Western scholars call them "daemons," some call them "spirit guides," and some call them "controls.""

"The Buddha told the Bhikshus that there are gods and ghosts in all trees, no matter how small. When anyone is born they are given a god or a ghost to guard them. If they die, it is because the guardian takes their spirit away."

p. 872

"I saw ... Chen Ching, who is ordered by the officials of Hades to catch the spirits of the dead while sleeping. When he brings the order to the door of the dying man, the god of the kitchen will check it. Ching cannot enter the house without permission. After it has

p. 873

been checked over thoroughly, then Ching may call the name of the dying man, and his spirit will follow him. If the dying man was a high ranking official, there is an official of Hades to take him, and Ching will only be a follower."