Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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CREATION
or a secretion of the molecules of the brain. In the main, two theories have been advanced to account for the phenomena of the psychic type. One of these is based on the fact that the law of suggestion plays the most important part in the domain of psychic phenomena, and is capable of explaining all the facts of observation, with reference to the natural powers of the soul; and the other, which in no way minimises the power of suggestion, rests on the belief that some of the observed facts cannot be explained on any other hypothesis than that of the agency of spirits.
So far as recovery of the memory of past incarnations is concerned, it is conceivable that in some cases the claim might be due to suggestion, consciously or unconsciously adopted, but it is impossible to maintain that every genuine case is always the outcome of suggestion or hallucination. Amongst the instances in which the memory of past incarnations has been claimed is that of Mlle. Hèléne Smith, who had to her credit, in addition to a control from the planet Mars, a pre-incarnation as an Indian princess, and a second as Marie Antoinette. In dealing with her case, F. W. H. Myers observes (* The Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death') :
“Pythagoras, indeed, was content with the secondary hero Euphorbus as his bygone self. But in our days Dr. Anna Kingsford and Mr. Edward Maitland must needs have been the Virgin Mary and St. John, the Divine. And Victor Hugo, who was naturally well to the front in these self-multiplications, took possession of most of the leading personages of antiquity whom he could manage to string together in chronological sequence. It is obvious that any number of reborn souls can play at this game, but where no one adduces any evidence, it seems hardly worth while to go on. Even Pythagoras