re: .steven hawking: i was wrong ! Thanks for the comment dlux. Quite a few years ago I was interested in Madam Blavatsky and theosophy ..... basically found it to have some similarities .... but have never understood the karmic side too well although quite positive with regard to life forms and our behaviour.
e.g. In theosophy, no thing or entity -- whether atom, human, planet, star, galaxy, or universe -- appears randomly out of nowhere. There is no absolute beginning or end to evolution, only relative starting places and stopping (or resting) places. Stars simply reembody many times during the lifetime of a galaxy.