Editing Reincarnation (section)

====Theosophy====
{{See also|Theosophy#Reincarnation and karma}}
The [[Theosophical Society]] draws much of its inspiration from India.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Theosophical Society {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/philosophy-and-religion/other-religious-beliefs-and-general-terms/miscellaneous-religion/theosophical-society |access-date=2023-12-09 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref> In the Theosophical world-view reincarnation is the vast rhythmic process by which the soul, the part of a person which belongs to the formless non-material and timeless worlds, unfolds its spiritual powers in the world and comes to know itself.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Chajes |first=Julie |title=Reincarnation in H.P. Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine |year=2017 |pages=66–90}}</ref> It descends from sublime, free, spiritual realms and gathers experience through its effort to express itself in the world. Afterwards there is a withdrawal from the physical plane to successively higher levels of reality, in death, a purification and assimilation of the past life. Having cast off all instruments of personal experience it stands again in its spiritual and formless nature, ready to begin its next rhythmic manifestation, every lifetime bringing it closer to complete self-knowledge and self-expression.<ref name=":0" /> However, it may attract old mental, emotional, and energetic ''karma'' patterns to form the new personality.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Campbell |first=Bruce F. |title=Ancient Wisdom Revived: A History of the Theosophical Movement |publisher=Berkeley: University of California Press |year=1980 |isbn=978-0520039681}}</ref>