[Footnote 15:  See The Seven Principles of Man, pp. 17-21.]

[Footnote 16:  Theosophist, March, 1882, p. 158, note.]

[Footnote 17:  Essays upon some Controverted Questions, p. 36.]

[Footnote 18:  Fortnightly Review, 1892, p. 176.]

[Footnote 19:  Key to Theosophy, p. 67.]

[Footnote 20:  Ibid., p. 97.]

[Footnote 21:  Key to Theosophy, p. 97]

[Footnote 22:  Ibid., p. 102.]

[Footnote 23:  June, 1882, art.  “Seeming Discrepancies.”]

[Footnote 24:  Pp. 73, 74.  Ed. 1887.]

[Footnote 25:  Theosophical Glossary, Elementaries.]

[Footnote 26:  See The Seven Principles of Man, p.p. 44-46.]

[Footnote 27:  The name Sukhavati, borrowed from Tibetan Buddhism, is sometimes used instead of that of Devachan.  Sukhavati, according to Schlagintweit, is “the abode of the blessed, into which ascend those who have accumulated much merit by the practice of virtues”, and “involves the deliverance from metempsychosis” (Buddhism in Tibet, p. 99).  According to the Prasanga school, the higher Path leads to Nirvana, the lower to Sukhavati.  But Eitel calls Sukhavati “the Nirvana of the common people, where the saints revel in physical bliss for aeons, until they reenter the circle of transmigration” (Sanskrit-Chinese Dictionary).  Eitel, however, under “Amitabha” states that the “popular mind” regards the “paradise of the West” as “the haven of final redemption from the eddies of transmigration”.  When used by one of the Teachers of the Esoteric Philosophy it covers the higher Devachanic states, but from all of these the Soul comes back to earth.]

[Footnote 28:  See Lucifer, Oct, 1892, Vol.  XI.  No. 62.]

[Footnote 29:  The Path, May, 1890.]

[Footnote 30:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 31:  “Notes on Devachan,” as cited.]

[Footnote 32:  “Notes on Devachan,” as before.  There are a variety of stages in Devachan; the Rupa Loka is an inferior stage, where the Soul is still surrounded by forms.  It has escaped from these personalities in the Tribhuvana.]

[Footnote 33:  Vishnu Purana, Bk.  I. ch. v.]

[Footnote 34:  Key to Theosophy, p. 69.  Third Edition.]

[Footnote 35:  Sixth and seventh in the older nomenclature, fifth and sixth in the later—­i.e., Manas and Buddhi.]

[Footnote 36:  Key to Theosophy, p. 99.  Third Edition.]

[Footnote 37:  Ibid., p. 100.]

[Footnote 38:  Ibid., p. 101.]

[Footnote 39:  See Manual No. 2 Re-incarnation, pp. 60, 61.  Third Edition.]

[Footnote 40:  Key to Theosophy, p. 105.  Third Edition.]

[Footnote 41:  Esoteric Buddhism, p. 197.  Eighth Edition.]

[Footnote 42:  Quoted in the Secret Doctrine, vol. ii. p. 83.  The student will do well to read, for a fair presentation of the subject, G.R.S.  Mead’s “Note on Nirvana” in Lucifer, for March, April, and May, 1893. (Re-printed in Theosophical Siftings).]