Article selection by “E. E. Θ” | Note by H.P.B.
. . . Since, therefore, it is evident that that only is eternal which is self-motive,1 who is there to deny that this is a rational attribute of souls? For everything which is set in motion by external impulse is destitute of the soul principle, whereas everything ensouled is energised by an interior and self-created motion; for this is the soul’s proper nature and power. And if it alone of all things has the attribute of self-movement, it surely is not subject to birth but is eternal. . . .
1. This is why the Absolute and the unknown deific Principle is called “Absolute Motion” in The Secret Doctrine—a “motion,” which has certainly nothing to do with, nor can it be explained by, that which is called motion on Earth.—Ed. [H.P.B.]