out to recast its ethical code there can at least be no doubt that it
is eagerly seeking reliable evidence that we live after bodily death and
that it will welcome a hypothesis of immortality that is inherently
reasonable and therefore satisfies the intellect as well as the heart.
Those who are dissatisfied with the old answers to the riddle of
existence and demand that Faith and Reason shall walk hand in hand, may
find in the following pages some explanation of the puzzling things in
life--an explanation that disregards neither the intuitions of religion
nor the facts of science.

Of course no pretension is made of fully covering the ground. The book
is a student's presentation of some of the phases of theosophy as he
understands them. They are presented with no authority whatever, and are
merely an attempt to discuss in simple language some of the fundamental
truths about the human being. No claim is made to originality but it is
hoped that by putting the old truths in a somewhat different way, with
new illustrations and arguments, they may perhaps be seen from a new
viewpoint. The intention has been to present elementary theosophy simply
and clearly and in the language familiar to the ordinary newspaper
reader. All technical terms and expressions have been avoided and the
reader will not find a single foreign word in the book.

L. W. R.

CONTENTS

I. THEOSOPHY 9

II. THE IMMANENCE OF GOD 15

III. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SOUL 23

IV. LIFE AFTER BODILY DEATH 29

V. THE EVOLUTIONARY FIELD 43

VI. THE MECHANISM OF CONSCIOUSNESS 49

VII. DEATH 59

VIII. THE ASTRAL WORLD 69

IX. REBIRTH: ITS REASONABLENESS 103

X. REBIRTH: ITS JUSTICE 135

XI. REBIRTH: ITS NECESSITY 153

XII. WHY WE DO NOT REMEMBER 167

XIII. VICARIOUS ATONEMENT 181

XIV. THE FORCES WE GENERATE 187

XV. SUPERPHYSICAL EVOLUTION 205

CHAPTER I.

THEOSOPHY

Rediscovery is one of the methods of progress. Very much that we believe
to be original with us at the time of its discovery or invention proves
in time to have been known to earlier civilizations. The elevator, or
lift, is a very modern invention and we supposed it to be a natural
development of our ci