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Extracts from the Vahan

TitleAuthor(s)YearVolumeIssueMonthPage
What are these animated particles dashing about in the air before me?CWLy1897---p541
Is the auric shell always an advantage or could it make one unsympathetic to others?SMSy1897---p543
(64) The Akashic Records - their location, duration, arrangement & accessBKy1897---p547
How does one date âkâshic record images?CWLy1897---p553
Might a dead person feel a sensation of burning while his body is being cremated?CWLy1897---p590
(71) What is the effect of Hashish upon (1) mental development, (2) memoryBKy1897---p596
(3) states of consciousness, (4) real progress, (5) recollection of previous lives?BKy1897---p596
In cases of so-called "spirit control", can two astral bodies occupy one physical body at the same time?AMGy1897---p607
Why should mediumship be injurious to health?CWLy1897---p608
Is there any astronomical basis for thinking an astrological conjunction will yield disastrous effects?CWLy1897---p618
Which Occult Science should we study first? None, is the answerBKy1897---p622
(76) Is the eighth sphere identical with Avîchi (Avitchi) or hell?CWLy1897---p627
(78) The Moon & Vegetation - Does the Moon influence vegetation? (see the Theosophist Oct 1888 p59)CWLy1897---p634
What conclusions did the Trinidad committee of 1888 (on the Moon & vegetation) come to?CWLy1897---p637
(84) Races - How are physical differences produced in a new root-race?CWLy1897---p671
What representatives are now left on earth of the different sub-races of the 4th root-race?CWLy1897---p673
Are there any definite characteristics by which examples of the different root-races may be distinguished?CWLy1897---p675
To what root-race & sub-race do the Japanese belong? (7th sub-race of the 4th root-race)ABy1897---p677
(85) Mânasaputras - What does this term mean? ("Son of mind")BKy1897---p682
Yes, the references in the SD to Mânasaputras are contradictory & confusingAMGy1897---p683
(86) The Planetary Chain - Why have some chains three planets on the physical while others have only one?CWLy1897---p686
Are globes B & F the astral plane, and A & G the devachanic plane? (No)CWLy1897---p688
The functions of the Three Logoi in the evolution of humanity & their correspondence to the Christian TrinityCWLy1897---p695
Reincarnation & gender - the law of sex - birth as man or womanCWLy1898---p27
(17) Karma & Liberation - all karma bindsAAWy1898---p112
Why is any karma delayed? Why do not effects immediately follow causes?AAWy1898---p113
Is it possible that we are not the cause of some of our suffering?CWLy1898---p122
The vicarious suffering of Christ - how is it to be understood?AAWy1898---p135
(21) What of the Karma of Selfishness? How is selfishness punished by karma?CWLy1898---p146
Why do our actual conditions not appear to depend on our actions in past lives?AAWy1898---p147
(23) Karma & Free-Will - What relation does free-will bear to a man's karma?AAWy1898---p153
The view of Bardaisan the Gnostic on Free-will, Fate & NatureGRSMy1898---p154
(26) Personal Questions - Annihilation seemed preferable to further sufferingAAWy1898---p166
(27) Stages of Progress - the tendency is always towards equilibriumBKy1898---p176
Can great faculty suddenly spring up between one life & the next?EG, AAWy1898---p177
(34) Thought-Forms - elemental essence - self-consciousness of elementalsCWLy1898---p236
Why did initiation into the Mysteries usually take place in a cave or subterranean building?AAWy1898---p261
(41) Speaking with Tongues - Undisciplined enthusiasm - glossolalia - 1 Corinthians 14:2GRSMy1898---p263
What is the fundamental Creed of Christendom?GRSMy1898---p286
What does theosophy teach about "the Christ spirit"?GRSMy1898---p287
What is the origin of the Catholic doctrine of the Real Presence in the bread & wine?AAWy1898---p295
What is the occult meaning of the Holy Communion & other Sacraments? Five pointsABy1898---p297
(45) King Solomon & his temple, real or mythical?GRSMy1898---p303
The allegory of the sheepfold - "all that ever came before me are thieves & robbers"GRSMy1898---p308
What interpretation does Theosophy put on the healing of the palsied man? - Mark 2:5, 10GRSMy1898---p309
Does Plato teach the theory of metempsychosis? (Phaedrus 249B)GRSMy1898---p339
Why did Plato express himself so ambiguously that even his followers were confused?GRSMy1898---p343
Pythagoras and the pairs of opposites - the union of the square & the oblongGRSMy1898---p351
(48) The Rosicrucians - historical evidence of their originsICOy1898---p356
(49) Buddha & Buddhism - Why is Buddhism spoken of by scholars as agnostic & negative?JCCy1898---p358
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