… how few Westerners grasp malaria’s devastation …. ‘Catch As Catch Can’, Los Angeles Times Book Review (12/5/02), review by Dr Claire Panosian Dunavan of The Fever Trail by Mark Honigsbaum (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002).
… so man is continually peopling his current space with a world of his own. A. P. Sinnett, The Occult World (Kessinger Publishing, 1981).
Aorist: Denotes past action without indicating completion, continuation.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
Many times man lives and dies,
Between his two eternities
That of race and that of soul.
W. B. Yeats, ‘Under Ben Bulben’.
… sooner or later every action brings its retribution, in this existence or in one to come. National Geographic (3/1/32), quoted by Ruth White, Karma & Reincarnation (Weiser Books, 2001).
I have been part of it always and there is maybe no escape, forgetting and returning life after life like an insect in the grass. W. B. Yeats.
It turns out that something that never was and never will be is all that we have. Amos Oz, The Same Sea, trans. Nicholas de Lange and the author (Harcourt, 1999).
Just as everything is always something else … it may also throw some light on the procreative god. Harry Mulisch, ‘The Procedure,’ trans. Paul Vincent (Viking, 2001).
The Pestle of the moon
That pounds up all anew
Brings me to birth again—
To find what once I had,
And know what once I have known.
W. B. Yeats, ‘On Woman.’
The individual’s choice of a future earthly body is limited, however …. T. C. Lethbridge, Witches (Lyle Stuart, 1969), quoted by Ruth White, Karma & Reincarnation (Weiser Books, 2001).
The doctrine of karma or transmigration …’ ibid.