Selection from a talk by Jerome A. Anderson | Note by H.P.B.
. . . As to eternal life, Theosophy did not promise it to man, as such. The spiritual monad in man was given individual persistence only during one manvantara, or cycle of material existence.1
1. This sentence must not be misunderstood as it is reported a little too vaguely. The “Spiritual Monad” is eternal because uncreate, but its “individual persistence”—in human form and bodies of this terrestrial chain or during the life-cycle, lasts only “one manvantara.” This does not prevent the same Spiritual Monad starting at the end of Mahapralaya (the Grand Age of Rest) unto another higher and more perfect “life-cycle” with the fruit of the accumulated experiences of all the personalities the “individual” Ego (manas) had informed.—[H.P.B.]