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^ Brihadharany.ika-Upanishad, 6 2 14-15 Note chat in this same tradition at the same rime it is affirmed (and Buddhism will be even clearer in this affirmation) that "there is no consciousness after death" (referring ro ordinary consciousness) as in the image of a grain of salt that, cast into the water, dissolves and cannot be recovered (ibid.. 2.4.12; 4.5.13). It is necessary always to bear in mind the basic

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ideas expressed in the introduction to this part of the present work.

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^C. Puini, Taoism (Lanciano, 1922), 16 19ff.

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^Narayana-Swami, Transmutation of Man and Metals in Introduzionc alia magla, 3:176ff.

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R. Guenon, LHnmme ei son devenir scion k Vedanta (Man and His Becoming, [Paris. 1927]), 150.

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’ Symbolically, this idea is expressed in rhe rexrs by expressions such as: "The tincture does not in any

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way increase the weight of a body, because char which tints it is a spirit which has no weight ” (Livre dc Cranes, CMA. 3:67).

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^ tiium Ariadna*., chap. 51.

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^H Arnold of Villanova, ScmiLa seinicae 12.

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