To further illustrate the fallacy of Western mathematics you are continuously adding one fraction to another and heaping up certain amounts of gold to an everlasting eternity without the slightest or remotest possibility of reaching the amount of your gold piece, for stop again and think that every payment lands you a trifle nearer the goal, but you never reach it. Does this not in itself demonstrate the fallacy of your entire science of numbers and prove that the same is "an illusion?" Man's existence outside of the Sacred Caste of India is certainly not one of peace of mind or joy, for during his earthly existence does he dwell in a state of happiness or sorrow and grief? Can you realize or recall a single day during your existence when you were thoroughly contented and free from desires or wish for amelioration? Are you perfectly contented now? A man may roam and travel everywhere; this in itself will be an education unto him and bring him in contact with many different races and species of mankind, but he will never meet an individual, old or young, rich or poor, of high or low Caste, king or peasant, who is perfectly contented with his condition on earth, for he will be filled with a desire and longing for something more and better.

The human soul never has and never will be free from amelioration, or ever become contented, because the very nature of his soul and his existence on the earth plane attracts to him and involves grief and tears. The constitution of man, his faculties and desires of his soul are the same all around the globe. They differ slightly, of course, in a degree, but he must necessarily possess the same qualities of soul for his universal adaptation to the law of life. Man's earthly existence in itself is conducive to, and signifies pain, both bodily and mentally, for he is encumbered with a material body, with a thousand and one desires which he will never be able to gratify. Consequently his existence instead of being a condition that is of advantage to him in his present state is an existence of longing and suffering, although he may exist under the most favorable conditions, and what he may term contentment and peace this hour is only a temporary absence of pain and want, but in time pain, desire and a longing will fill up this space the same as darkness will fill a room that is light. The earthly existence of man is full of sorrow and pain.

The sensitive human soul feels the pangs of agony and sorrow that are thrown out by the millions of despairing human hearts and souls around it; consequently, how can it remain serene and peaceful surrounded by so much sorrow and suffering? The great cardinal principle of Eastern Occultism and its teachings is soul reincarnation.

The same has been subject to great thought and study by the Western man, but many have failed to grasp the far-reaching significance of this great philosophy. He is given to doubt the great eternal law and truth of soul reincarnation. Yet nothing is more self-evident. No man is able to recall to his memory the previous condition of his existence, and because of this he believes it an impossibility. Does any person recall to memory the first six months or year of his earthly life? Yet he existed three and six months in an embryonic state before his birth, but has no recollection of this condition, but within every human soul, through the faculty of intuition, there is a consciousness that he has existed forever-more. Are you able to call to mind a day or second when you did not exist? or a time when your soul or spirit will ever cease to exist? Death, as referred to previously in this chapter, is simply a change in conditions of the existence and actual condition of the soul. The soul certainly survives the change of conditions.

The great advantage of death, or soul transition, lies in the fact that you are leaving behind and abandoning your poor physical body, which has held you down like a mighty weight, but the thought and sorrow that depresses the soul when it entertains the thought of death is driven out when you recollect that after soul transition you will dwell with those who have passed to the spirit, life, and who are near and dear to you, and that your life ever after will be thoroughly happy. No human soul would desire or really look upon it as a blessing to enter a state of eternal existence encumbered with a diseased and worn physical body, for when the soul leaves the body it rids itself of it and its memories, which soon fade from the mind. The body and physical senses in themselves have been the means of our entertaining many illusions and follies. They have been the instigator of many of our crimes and shortcomings. The future state of existence of the soul is not one that will involve trouble or sorrow.

Man's whole life is an illusion, and the past a dream, his present state of existence is actual, his future on the earth plane also is an illusion as far as the bodily senses are concerned, because, as has been stated, he is never satisfied or contented with his present surroundings or condition, and is always cherishing a hope of wealth and future happiness some time in the future, but to him it is always in the future. His tomorrow becomes today, and a year from this day he expects to be happy, but that blissful time never materializes. The things and objects that he has so greatly desired and has expected to gain, flee from him like a rainbow or like a bird that flits from branch to branch. Thus it is ever through life on the earth plane. Old men and women let their memory flit and dwell back over their past life like an individual who wakes up in the morning contemplating upon a dream. Then, and only then, the whole truth comes upon them that they have been chasing a rainbow, existing in a paradise that has been folly, for how many desire to live over again their life if they were to undergo the same storms of fate, ambition and revenge?