Reincarnation, A Study Of The Human Soul In Its Relation To Re-Birth, Evolution, Post-Mortem States, The Compound Nature Of Man, Hypnotism, Etc | by Jerome A. Anderson
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 modern 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 modern scientific agnosticism entirely upon the territory of its own facts...
| Title | Reincarnation, A Study Of The Human Soul In Its Relation To Re-Birth, Evolution, Post-Mortem States, The Compound Nature Of Man, Hypnotism, Etc |
| Author | Jerome A. Anderson |
| Publisher | The Lotus Publishing Company |
| Year | 1896 |
| Copyright | 1892, Jerome A. Anderson |
| Amazon | Reincarnation; a study of the human soul in its relation to re-birth, evolution, post-mortem states |
" It is decisive of the question whether the Soul exists if among the activities and emotional states of our being there are to be found such as do not belong to our bodies." - Aristotle.
Fourth Edition
Dedicated to
H.P.R. By A Grateful Student.
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 se...
- 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...
- Introduction. The Nature And Origin Of The Soul
- Recognizing that the finite can never contain nor comprehend the Infinite, and that behind all finite manifestation there is necessarily an Infinite, CAUSELESS CAUSE, upon which speculation, for the r...
- Chapter I. The Physiological Evidence Of The Existence Of The Soul
- A STUDY of the Soul, or of those phenomena of consciousness usually classed under this head, must logically be prefaced by proof that a soul really exists. Some doubt arises as to whether this can b...
- The Physiological Evidence Of The Existence Of The Soul. Part 2
- The break between physical motion and conscious sensation, if there really be one, is between the sentient atom and the physical molecule. And Prof. Ladd is therefore quite correct in insisting that: ...
- The Physiological Evidence Of The Existence Of The Soul. Part 3
- In the case of man, too, the mechanism does not express the entire powers of its inner mover, which of itself quite disproves the materialistic theory, however much we might otherwise be inclined to a...
- The Physiological Evidence Of The Existence Of The Soul. Part 4
- Again, memory proves a unit center because each soul remembers its own experiences only. It cannot encroach upon those of another, which would be the case if there were any general remembrance possibl...
- The Physiological Evidence Of The Existence Of The Soul. Part 5
- Sensations and ideas are themselves only phenomena, and not entities. It is impossible therefore, for a sensation to be the subject of its own states; there is absolutely required an entity for this p...
- The Physiological Evidence Of The Existence Of The Soul. Part 6
- Again, if consciousness were a transmutation, in some inconceivable manner, of molecular into psychic activities within the brain, then there ought to be both a specialization of nerve substance and a...
- The Physiological Evidence Of The Existence Of The Soul. Part 7
- To have a variety of changing states attributed to it as the subject of them all - this is to demonstrate in consciousness a claim to real being. Unchanging rigidity, the permanence of the mathematic...
- Chapter II. The Psychological Evidence Of The Existence Of The Soul
- IN the preceding chapter attention has been paid to the evi- dences of a soul in the psycho-physiology of the waking state, or that of normal consciousness. No reference was had to the large and ferti...
- The Psychological Evidence Of The Existence Of The Soul. Part 2
- No building was ever yet constructed whose model or design was not previously present in the consciousness of its architect; and no biological process ever took place which was not previously present ...
- The Psychological Evidence Of The Existence Of The Soul. Part 3
- Proceeding, next, more directly to the examination of the dreaming and other abnormal states of consciousness, we note, as a basic parallel, that the projection of images during sleep is exactly equiv...
- The Psychological Evidence Of The Existence Of The Soul. Part 4
- Of the nature of dreams are the cases of partial drowning, where the whole life of the individual passes in review, to its most minute detail, during the brief interval in which the higher consciousne...
- The Psychological Evidence Of The Existence Of The Soul. Part 5
- Meanwhile, it is plainly seen that the soul is conscious on lower planes by self- prescribing, etc., and, in varying degree, upon higher ones by clairvoyance and prophetic vision. When man's consciou...
- Chapter III. The Evolution Of The Soul
- A Study of the evolution * of the human soul implies and necessitates a primary examination of the processes of evolution generally. Man is but a factor in nature - a part of the finite expression of ...
- The Evolution Of The Soul. Part 2
- To the above, we have to add the unavoidable deduction that there can not be opposing factors in the universe, whether existing as force, matter, or consciousness; because these would be either equal,...
- The Evolution Of The Soul. Part 3
- We know matter in three states - solid, liquid, and gaseous; and the experiments of Prof. Crooke prove a fourth state - that of radiant matter - as demonstrable to our senses. If beyond this fourth,...
- The Evolution Of The Soul. Part 4
- Causeless Cause, Omnipresent and Eternal, and having the Substance, Force, and Conscious Aspects to which reference has already been had, and upon the correlations and permutations of which all evolut...
- The Evolution Of The Soul. Part 5
- Man can, also, take matter and transform it into any shape, or transport it to any place, if he keep within the same bounds, or his possible as distinguished from his impossible. In like manner, these...
- The Evolution Of The Soul. Part 6
- Having this conception of what is to be, They may be said to have foreknowledge of it; but it is similar to the foreknowledge of the architect of the structure he proposes to erect. This ideal plan, f...
- Chapter IV. The Individualization Of The Soul
- CONSIDERING Consciousness, then, as an essential aspect of the Causeless Cause, we have to postulate it as inhering potentially in every stratum or possible subdivision of the Substance-Aspect of the ...
- The Individualization Of The Soul. Continued
- For man has become a self- conscious factor in that great scheme of evolution which has for its basis Divine compassion. Recognizing, then, the dual aspect of that which we term cvolution, but which ...
- Chapter V. Reincarnation - Philosophic And Logical Evidence
- THE preceding chapters having, it is believed, established the fact that man has a center of consciousness, or soul, quite independent of the body for its existence, or conscious functions - except as...
- Reincarnation - Philosophic And Logical Evidence. Part 2
- First, then, as to the object of life. Except we deny any aim at all in Nature's processes which have led up to man, it is evident that in man the one paramount object is to gain knowledge and wisdom ...
- Reincarnation - Philosophic And Logical Evidence. Part 3
- The same fatal defects apply to the materialistic theory of the non-existence of a soul independently of the body. For admitting that experience and wisdom might be transmitted to the race as its heri...
- Reincarnation - Philosophic And Logical Evidence. Part 4
- The acid poured freely into a vessel containing a solution of a hundred alkaline bases will with unerring certainty combine with that, and with that only, for which it has the greatest affinity. How m...
- Chapter VI. Reincarnation - The Scientific Evidence
- BUT ASIDE from all philosophic necessities or hypotheses, if Reincarnation be true, we shall find evidence of it in nature, for natura non saltet. At the outset of this portion of our inquiry, we see ...
- Reincarnation - The Scientific Evidence. Part 2
- It is easy to see that all evolutionary failure possible would be the failing by any entity to assimilate or make its own the Divine Essence of the Logos or Regent, in charge of any particular stage...
- Reincarnation - The Scientific Evidence. Part 3
- Indeed, it would seem reasonable to suppose that it is only by clinging to some portion of the material form that specific reproduction would be most practicable here; for vegetable, like mineral, con...
- Reincarnation - The Scientific Evidence. Part 4
- In describing pupa life after the formation of the pupa case, the author continues: In all insects which undergo complete metamorphosis this is the period of quiescence and entire abstinence. Many s...
- Chapter VII. The Composite Nature Of - The Soul
- THUS FAR, in our study, we have spoken of that which reincar - nates man under the generic term of Soul. It now becomes necessary to use a more specific expression, in order that we may determine just...
- The Composite Nature Of - The Soul. Part 2
- But given a Linga Sharira, having within it centers of sensation for the reception and transmutation of molecular vibrations, which centers respond and yield to the will, then a stronger will can inte...
- The Composite Nature Of - The Soul. Part 3
- Similarly, upon the death of the body, the cell-forms disintegrate, and the entities ensouled by them become frozen, or latent. Their Great Pralaya has struck; their Prana rebecomes Jiva; their mat...
- Chapter VIII. The Reincarnating Ego
- WE have now reached a point where we may perhaps profitably study the nature and function of man's Fifth Principle, omitted in the general review because its importancerequired more extended and caref...
- The Reincarnating Ego. Part 2
- Being a Ray from the Absolute, emanating, as it must, from that Causeless Cause lying hidden behind all manifestation, the Higher Ego possesses the creative and ideative functions involved in its own ...
- The Reincarnating Ego. Part 3
- At conception, there is an actual fusion of cells from the father with others from the mother, thus forming one cell - the type of all life. This cell divides, and subdivides, almost infinitely, for o...
- The Reincarnating Ego. Part 4
- For this portion of the Higher Manas actually refracted or incarnated in matter is ourself - the I am myself of our earthly life. Could it remain simply a portion of the Higher, its functions and fat...
- The Reincarnating Ego. Part 5
- Its feeling of I am myself is thus an illusion of an illusion, if we may be allowed the expression, for the feeling of I am myself, which we experience in our waking state, real as it seems, is ent...
- Chapter IX. The Personality
- A LTHOUGH considered at some length in the preceding chapter, the lower self, or the man of earthly sorrows, woes, ambitions, appetites and desires, which all of us are while encased in these material...
- The Personality. Part 2
- Within this human-animal reside all sensuous passions, desires, and appetites; all those qualities of rage, greed, cunning, and hosts of others, which the Hindoo philosophers class as rajas and t...
- The Personality. Part 3
- There is yet one aspect of the Personality which must be considered before we can fully, or even partially, grasp its entire functions and potencies. This is the possibility of its complete separation...
- Chapter X. Post - Mortem States Of Consciousness
- SINCE a recognition of the truth of the continuous evolution of the soul by means of Reincarnation precludes all such puerile and childish conceptions of Post-mortem states as the Christian's heaven...
- Post - Mortem States Of Consciousness. Part 2
- It must not be understood from the above that the Higher Ego ever gets into a passion, or in any similar emotional state, itself. All these passional activities belong to the consciousness of the vari...
- Post - Mortem States Of Consciousness. Part 3
- If, now, the devachanic accretions preponderate, it floats to this zone, and remains until it has received its reward for, or rather exhausted the effects of, the altruistic and elevating thoughts and...
- Post - Mortem States Of Consciousness. Part 4
- In a similar way his lower Principles, or vehicles, simply relate him to matter, clothe him with a coat of skin, by means of which he is brought into sensuous contact with material things. The Ego,...
- Post - Mortem States Of Consciousness. Part 5
- The devachanic consciousness is also most lucidly explained by another Master * of Eastern Wisdom. He writes: Devachan is not, cannot be, monotonous; for this would be contrary to all analogies and ...
- Post - Mortem States Of Consciousness. Part 6
- It is in this - during such a condition of complete Maya - that the souls or Astral Egos of pure, loving sensitives, laboring under the same delusion, think their loved ones come down to them on earth...
- Post - Mortem States Of Consciousness. Part 7
- Being allied to evil while in the body, he remains an evil force without the body until dissolution overtakes him for the second and last time. For immortality to be assured, the attraction from the ...
- Post - Mortem States Of Consciousness. Part 8
- Returning to the question of annihilation in Nirvana, Madame Blavatsky, in the Secret Doctrine, says: To see in Nirvana annihilation amounts to saying of a man plunged in sound, dreamless sleep - on...
- Chapter XI. Hypnotism And The Human Soul
- THE relation of the soul to the body can, in certain aspects, be made clearer by a study of the phenomena of Hypnotism than, perhaps, by any other method. Most, if not all, of these can only be explai...
- Hypnotism And The Human Soul. Part 2
- This brings us to the standpoint from which we have to examine hypnotism and all psychic or mental phenomena. Will, as one aspect, function, or power of Consciousness, is struggling to evolve its pote...
- Hypnotism And The Human Soul. Part 3
- In fact, as the number of these apparently separate persons exhumed out of one body by hypnosis seemed practically unlimited, the deduction fairly followed that as consciousness could be thus split in...
- Hypnotism And The Human Soul. Part 4
- Rigidity, or tetanus of the muscles, also occurs, and a thousand and one other phenomena over which scientists have been so puzzled, not having the key. This key is, that every one of these acts, from...
- Hypnotism And The Human Soul. Part 5
- The phenomena of Mesmerism, or, more properly, Magnetism, are of a nature we might anticipate from the close union of the soul with the source of all its powers, the Higher Ego. They are prophetic, in...
- Hypnotism And The Human Soul. Part 6
- Inquiry revealed the startling fact that at the very hour in which it did so the magnetizer had died. Quite as suggestive is the case, vouched for by several hypno- tizers, where the sleeping subject...
- Hypnotism And The Human Soul. Part 7
- For, although the dropping of his vicious habits will add nothing to his good Karma (which it would had his efforts to reform been personal, of his own free will, and necessitating a great mental and ...
- Chapter XII. Objections To Reincarnation
- THE chief objection to reincarnation is that we do not remem- ber our past lives, as we ought to do if our I am I is a permanent center of consciousness, and merely passes from body to body upon the...
- Objections To Reincarnation. Continued
- And yet the fact does not disturb us at all. We know that we are the result of this experience we have come through; that our identity is the same with that of the infant, the school boy, the youth, t...
- Chapter XIII. Karma
- KARMA is the law of cause and effect, acting upon all planes. It is entirely impersonal in this action; and yet it acts wisely, intelligently, and equitably, although the source of this intelligence a...
- Karma. Part 2
- Bereft of intelligence, and depending upon brute force alone, of how much avail would be the strength of one man against the united sinews of his race, his nation, or even against his community? In ex...
- Karma. Part 3
- It will be at once evident that, holding as it does to the absolute sway of cause and effect upon every plane of the universe, physical, mental and spiritual, Theosophy stands in irreconcilable antago...
- Karma. Part 4
- This is not the ravings of some hypochondriacal, half-insane prophet; it is a part of the Presbyterian Confession of FAITH, and is accepted to-day by a very large class of intelligent, educated, and r...
- Karma. Part 5
- So the evil which we uncomplainingly suffer now will be recompensed to the utmost in some bright and beautiful, though it may be far-off, life. What is time to the heir of eternity! Thus the everlasti...
- Chapter XIV. Ethical Conclusions
- THE truth of the reincarnation of the human soul carries with it as necessary corollaries most important ethical conclusions. It establishes a philosophic and legitimately scientific basis for human c...
- Ethical Conclusions. Continued
- Here, where we are struggling in the bonds of matter, is our only hell, the law of cause and effect our sole punisher, and heaven our release from sensuous existence either temporarily by death, o...
- Appendix A. Reincarnation As Applied To The Sex Problem
- THE differentiation of sex, as seen in the Vegetable, Animal, and Human kingdoms, at a first glance might seem to be only a method adopted by Nature to ensure the perpetuation of form and the preserva...
- Reincarnation As Applied To The Sex Problem. Continued
- The very measure of time during which our solar system will endure is given, had we but skill to compute it, in the motion of the pith balls which dance between the poles of the electrical toy. For th...
- Appendix B. Embryology And Reincarnation
- WHILE not falling strictly within the purpose of this work, there are certain facts connected with the very beginnings of physical life that are of sufficient interest and importance to merit brief no...
- Embryology And Reincarnation. Continued
- Sex exemplifies the positive and negative forces or aspects of the Absolute upon the purely physical plane. That there is an inner entity thus continuously widening its conscious area through evoluti...
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