P.D.Ouspensky

A New Model of the Universe

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    Heaven and hell, transmigration of souls, reincarnation, the wheel of lives—all these theories contain the idea of reward or punishment.
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    The greater part of religious teachings on the future life connect it with the idea of reward or punishment
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    the other hand, echoes of esoteric teachings on life and death sometimes reached man. He could hear that the visible, earthly, observable, life of man is only a small part of the life belonging to him. And man of course understood in his own way these fragments which reached him, changed them in his own fashion, adapted them to his own level and understanding, and built out of them some theory of future existence, similar to existence on the earth.
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    Man could never reconcile himself to the idea of death as disappearance.
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    In the philosophical systems the phenomenon is only our conception of the noumenon, that is, an illusion, the real cause of which remains hidden and inaccessible to us.
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    In the scientific invisible world the causes of visible phenomena always come from the invisible world of small quantities and “ vibrations ”.
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    This idea of causes is always associated with the invisible world. In the invisible world of the religious systems, invisible forces govern people and visible phenomena.
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    n this way invisible worlds, the religious, the philosophical, and the scientific, are, after all, more closely related to one another than they would at first appear.
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    the world of things and the world of idea
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    philosophy there is the world of events and the world of causes, the world of things and the world of idea
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