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Title: Reincarnation
A Study in Human Evolution

Author: Th. Pascal

Translator: Fred Rothwell

Release Date: May 19, 2007 [EBook #21533]

Language: English

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REINCARNATION

A STUDY IN HUMAN EVOLUTION

THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY

AND

THE REINCARNATION OF THE SOUL

BY

DR. TH. PASCAL

TRANSLATED BY FRED ROTHWELL

"Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I
should be forced to answer him:--It is that part of the world
which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was
created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his
first entrance into life."--SCHOPENHAUER.

(_Parerga and Paralipomena_, Vol. 2, Chap. 15)

LONDON

The Theosophical Publishing Society

161 NEW BOND STREET, W.

1910

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CONTENTS

CHAP.

SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

I. THE SOUL AND THE BODIES

II. REINCARNATION AND THE MORAL LAW

III. REINCARNATION AND SCIENCE

IV. REINCARNATION AND THE RELIGIOUS AND
PHILOSOPHICAL CONSENSUS OF THE
AGES

CONCLUSION

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SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE.

Theophile Pascal was born on the 11th of May, 1860, at Villecroze, a
village in the South of France. His childhood was spent amid the
pleasant surroundings of a country life. Shortly after his s