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The Soul And The Bodies
In a book dealing with the resurrection of bodies and the
reincarnations of the Soul, a chapter must be devoted to the
fundamental ...
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Proofs Of The Astral Body
Certain normal and abnormal or morbid phenomena in man have proved the
existence of this vehicle, which we will call the higher
consc...
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Manifestations Of The Higher Consciousness During The Different Kinds Of Sleep
Normal dream. During normal sleep there exists a special
consciousness which must not be confounded either with waking
consciousness ...
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Manifestation Of The Higher Consciousness In Various Cases Of Mental Faculties Lost To Normal Consciousness
A rather large number of people born blind have images in dreams, and
can see with the higher consciousness, when placed in a state of...
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Manifestations Of The Higher Consciousness Under The Form Of Memory
The memory that is lost by the brain is preserved in its entirety by
the finer vehicle.
A musician, a friend of Hervey's, once hear...
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Manifestations Of The Higher Consciousness In Phenomena Of Double Consciousness
The "strata of memory" met with in many cases also prove the existence
of the second vehicle of consciousness which we are trying to
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Manifestations Of The Higher Consciousness Indicating Not Only That It Extends Farther Than Normal Consciousness
The Soul functioning in the finer body sees the physical body in a
state of coma. Dr. Abercrombie relates the case of a child aged fou...
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Manifestation Of The Higher Consciousness In The Phenomena Of Possession And Materialisation
In these strange phenomena, not only manifestations of the higher
consciousness, analogous with or similar to those just cited, have
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Manifestations Of The Higher Consciousness In Apparitions
A final group of phenomena to which I wish to call attention is the
one which goes under the name of apparitions. A considerable numbe...
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Reincarnation And The Moral Law
The Goodness, justice, and Omnipotence of God are the guarantees of
Providence.
It is absolutely impossible that the faintest bre...
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Why Does Pain Exist?
To admit, as do certain ignorant fatalists, that the Universe was
created by the stroke of some magic wand, and that each planet,
kin...
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The Problem Of The Inequality Of Conditions
If suffering in general is the child of Necessity--since it is born of
multiplicity and the limitation of the Infinite, without which ...
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Objection
An apparently serious objection to the doctrine of Rebirth is
constantly being made. It is unjust and useless, people say, to be
puni...
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The Law Of Causality (karma)
Karma is the Law of the Universe, the expression of divine Will. Its
seemingly essential attributes are Justice and Love; it neither
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Reincarnation And Science
The secret of the Universe lies in observation; it is for man to
develop his senses and patiently to search into the hidden things of
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The Evolutionary Series
If we look attentively at the totality of beings we perceive a
progressive series of forms expressing a parallel series of qualities
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The Cyclic Process Of Evolution
Another fact strikes the observer: the cyclic march of evolution.
After action comes reaction; after activity, rest; after winter,
su...
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Progress
The observer of Nature makes a third discovery. Every fresh cycle of
life is characterised by an advance on the preceding cycle; every...
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The Goal Of Evolution
The Formation of Centres of Consciousness that become "Egos."
Through innumerable wanderings this general progress traces a clear,
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A Few Deductions
The Germ.
From the facts established in the course of this comprehensive view of
the Universe, we are enabled to draw important ded...
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The Problem Of Human Heredity
If materialism were the whole truth, it ought to explain the whole of
heredity; instead of that it clashes with almost all the problem...
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Objection
Reincarnation is not necessary, it has been alleged; the soul's
evolution is continued after death in the invisible worlds in finer
b...
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Reincarnation And The Religious And Philosophic Consensus Of The Ages
In the rapid review we are now about to make of the religion and
philosophy of the past, we shall find that, under many and divers
na...
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India
Northern India was the cradle of the present race--the fifth--the Eden
of our humanity, our physical, moral, mental, and spiritual
mo...
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Resurrection
The human body is a species of polyp colony, a kind of coral island
like those that emerge above the waves of the Pacific, by reason o...
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Metempsychosis
After the disintegration of the body, the kamic[92] elements continue
for some time, us a "shade"[93] or a "phantom,"[94] in the finer...
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Reincarnation
The process of disintegration[97] which, after disincarnation,
destroys the physical, astral, and mental bodies of the man leaves
the...
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Egypt
If we pass from India to Egypt, the land of mystery, we again find the
world-wide doctrine of palingenesis hidden beneath the same vei...
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Chaldaea
It is said that the Magi taught the immortality of the soul and its
reincarnations, but that they considerably limited the number of
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The Celts
Sacerdotal India--and perhaps also Atlantis--in early times sent
pioneers into the West to spread religious teachings amongst their
e...
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Ancient Greece (magna Graecia)
In Greece, the doctrine of Rebirths is met with in the Orphic
tradition, continued by Pythagoras and Plato. Up to the present time,
t...
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Old Testament
H. P. Blavatsky tells us that the Old Testament is not a homogeneous
composition; that Genesis alone is of immense antiquity; that it ...
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The Kabala
Contact with the Babylonians, during the Captivity, brought about a
rapid development in the Hebrews, who were at that time far more
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Rome
Although Rome, above all else, was a warlike republic, and religion
principally a State cult, that allowed but slight opportunity for ...
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New Testament
The New Testament is far more explicit than the Old, even though
we find the teachings of reincarnation indicated in only a vague,
in...
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Neoplatonism
The great philosophic body that formed a bridge, as it were, between
the Old World and the New was the famous School of Alexandria, fo...
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The Early Christian Church
The documents to which we have access, dealing with the philosophical
and religious history of Christianity in the first few centuries...
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Islamism
It has been said that the Arabs believed in Reincarnation before
Mohammed forbade it. Some, however, think that the Koran was written
...
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The Doctrine Of Rebirth In Modern Philosophy
In antiquity, science and philosophy were scarcely anything else than
parts of religion[223]; the most eminent scientists and the grea...
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Objection
Reincarnation and Forgetfulness of the Past.
Sceptics are ever bringing forward against reincarnation the absence
of all memory of ...
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The Early Races
By "Reincarnation" we mean the repeated incarnation, or embodiment in
flesh, of the soul or immaterial part of man's nature. The ter...
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The Egyptians Chaldeans Druids Etc
After considering the existence of the doctrines of Reincarnation among
the primitive peoples, and its traditional existence among t...
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The Romans And Greeks
One unfamiliar with the subject would naturally expect to find the
Ancient Romans well advanced along the lines of philosophy, relig...
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The Jews Essenes And Early Christians
The early Jewish people had an Inner Teaching which embraced certain
ideas concerning Reincarnation, although the masses of the peop...
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The Hindus
While Reincarnation has been believed and taught in nearly every nation,
and among all races, in former or present times, still we a...
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The Modern West
In the modern thought of the Western world, we find Reincarnation
attracting much attention. The Western philosophies for the past h...
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Between And Beyond Incarnations
One of the first questions usually asked by students of the subject of
Reincarnation is: "Where does the soul dwell between incarnat...
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The Justice Of Reincarnation
There are three views entertained by men who believe in the existence of
the soul--there are many shades of belief and opinion on th...
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The Argument For Reincarnation
In addition to the consideration of Justice, there are many other
advantages claimed by the advocates of Reincarnation which are wor...
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The Proofs Of Reincarnation
To many minds the "proof" of a doctrine is its reasonableness and its
adaptability as an answer to existing problems. And, according...
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Arguments Against Reincarnation
The honest consideration of any subject necessitates the examination of
"the other side of the case," as well as the affirmative sid...
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The Law Of Karma
"Karma" is a term in general use among the Hindus, and the Western
believers in Reincarnation, the meaning of which is susceptible o...
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