Excerpt from Reincarnation, a Study of the Human Soul: In Its Relation to Re-Birth, Evolution, Post-Mortem States, the Compound Nature of Man, Hypnotism, Etc
Preface to the Second Edition.
The exhaustion in a few months of the first edition of this work is a most gratifying evidence of the wide interest now taken in Theosophy, but it places the writer under the necessity of issuing a second with but little advantage from adverse or friendly criticism, or from farther thought and study upon that portion of Theosophical Philosophy with which it deals. A few points will be further elucidated, and ambiguous sentences cleared up, and the endeavor made to drop something of purely technical phraseology. The body of the work, however, must remain substantially the same.
Preface.
These pages are intended to present, in as concise a form as possible, an outline of certain phenomena in nature, together with logical and philosophical deductions therefrom, which go to prove, first, the existence of a soul, and, second, the repeated incarnation of this soul in physical bodies. No phenomena will be considered except such as have been fully verified and accepted as a portion of the armamentarium of modem science. That there are vast classes of genuine phenomena not acknowledged as genuine by science is well known; and, although fully entitled to an appeal to these in support of our position, it has been thought best to pass them by, and to meet modem scientific agnosticism entirely upon the territory of its own facts. It is believed that by thus "carrying the war into Egypt" more good may be accomplished in directing attention towards the higher spiritual aspects of these phenomena than if the argument were advanced into disputed domains. This completely bars access to an immense mass of so-called spiritualistic phenomena which, while very far from establishing the fact of spirit communication in the manner claimed by spiritualists, are still of great importance as illustrating many of the lower psychic faculties of man, and his essential independence of his body in their production.
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