REINCARNATION.Study of theInits

Human

Soul

Relation to Re-Birth,

the Evolution, Post-Mortem States,

Compound Nature

of

Man, Hypnotism,BY

Etc.

JEROME

A.

ANDERSON,

M. D.

f

F. T.

S,

/

is

decwve of

the que-stion whether the

Soul

exists

if among the

activities

and

there are to emotional states of our being

be found such as

do not belong

to

our

bodies."

ARISTOTLE.

THE LOTUS PUBLISHING COMPANY,1504

Market

Street,

San Francisco,

Cal.

MAY

8,

1893.

COPYRIGHT,BY JEROMEI I

1892,F.T.S.,

ANDERSON, M. D.. 70 Market Street,A.-

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BY

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PUPIL.

PREFACE.''PHESE pagesL

are intended to present, in as concise a form as pos-

sible, 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 ex-

cept 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 supportof our position,it

meet modern

scientific

has been thought best to pass them by, and to agnosticism entirely upon the territory of its

own

It is believed that by thus "carrying the war into more Egypt" good may be accomplished in directing attentionfacts.

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 phenomenawhich, 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,in their production.

andalso

his essential independence of his

numerous marvels of many

body countries, and

The

especially of India, havescientists,

been omitted; for they, although partly accepted by

who

" fancy they find in "glamour and "collective hallucination" an

still an unclassified residuum, whose scientific exto be explained even more than the phenomena needs planation for which it attempts to account. In short, the purpose of this book is to establish the fact of the existence and repeated rebirth of the

explanation, areitself

by an appeal to logic and reason alone, based upon phenomena of such universal and every-day experience that all who choose maysoulverify each successive step taken, oris

phenomenon

to

which reference

had.

PREFACE.

IV

The writer was bitterly antagonized by the idea of reincarnation when he first became familiar with it in Theosophic literature but,;

after careful

and earnest attempts to arrive

at a philosophic or scien-

tific hypothesis in harmony with natural phenomena which would render this view unnecessary, he was compelled by sheer force of

facts

and

logic to accept

it.

The

trains of reasoning followed,

andare

the

phenomena appealed

to are outlined in these pages.

They

issued in the hope of aiding others

who may have become,

as the

writer had, biased toward materialistic viewstific"

education, to recognize this grand truth.is

by a one-sided "scienThe attention oflate E.

inquirers

also called to the scholarlyintuitional,

work of the

D. Walker,

and

and philosophic Manual by Mrs. Annie Besant, both being upon the same subject Reincarnation.to the occult,J.

A. A.

CONTENTS.INTRODUCTION.^-

THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF THElute Hypostases

Consciousness

SOUL. The Three AbsoSubstance ForceI.

9

CHAPTERness

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE SOUL. No Physiological Basis for the Unity of ConsciousMemory Feeling, Originate Sensation.Etc.

Mechanical

Motion

cannot13

CHAPTERof SOUL. The Nature Thought Transference, Etc

II.

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF THE EXISTENCE OF THEDream TranceClairvoyance37

CHAPTERTHE EVOLUTION OF THE

III.

SOUL. The Unit of Consciousness from Atom to God by the Widening of the Conscious Area through Experience, Etc

55

CHAPTER

IV.76

THE INDIVIDUALIZATION OF THE SOUL. Centers of Consciousness Freed by Pralayas The Cycle of Necessity,

CHAPTER

V.

REINCARNATION

PHILOSOPHIC

AND LOGICAL EVIDENCE.Life only to be Explained Philo85

Failure of One-Birth Theories

sophically by Reincarnation

CHAPTERREINCARNATION THESeedsEtc...

VI.

SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE. Bulbs Metamorphosis of Insects Genius Idiocy Prodigies, .102

CONTENTS.

vii

CHAPTERTHE COMPOSITE NATURE OF THEof the

VII.The Seven Aspects116

SOUL.

One Center of Consciousnesss

CHAPTERTHE REINCARNATING EGO. TheHigher Ego

VIII.128

Nature and Functions of the

CHAPTER

IX.Related to the147

THE PERSONALITY. The Animal Man How Divine Man

CHAPTERLoca and NirvanaNatureof.

X.Devachan

POST-MORTEM STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

Kama158

CHAPTER XLHYPNOTISM AND THE HUMAN SOUL.States of Consciousness

Hypnotic Processes and185

CHAPTEROBJECTIONS To REINCARNATION. Other Objections Answered

XII.

Loss of

Memory Explained210

CHAPTERKARMA.The Law

XIII.220

of Cause and Effect on all Planes

CHAPTERETHICAL CONCLUSIONS.

XIV.238

APPENDIX.EMBRYOLOGY AND REINCARNATION.Fetus

The Nutrition of the245

INTRODUCTIONTHE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF THETT7HEthe

SOUL.for con-

term " Soul"

may

be defined as a vehicle

sciousness.

The

latter, as

one of the

triple aspects of

Unknowable

or Absolute,

must be regarded

as infinite.

Anything which, by limiting this infinity, enables consciousness to manifest upon finite and knowable planes is The Universal Soul, under this therefore classed as Soul.definition,

would be the vehicle

for

Universal

not Abso-

lutefinite

Consciousness; the human soul, the vehicle for the manifestation of that limitation of the Infinite which

we recognize as huma'n, or self-consciousness. The material aspect of the Unknowable seems to be the means by which Infinite Consciousness is enabled tomanifestfinitely.

Hence,

all

Soul has

its

ultimate essence

in this material oris

Substance-root of the Unknowable, and of a material nature. But the three Aspect-Roots

the third being Motion or Force are eternally associated, so that one must not fall into the error of taking, a toomaterialistic view of Soul.Ifit is

the material vehicle of

its

consciousness in one aspect, it is in another by virtue of being incapable of dissociation from this consciousnessitself.

It is

certain

only because of philosophic necessities and of phenomena of consciousness upon the material

plane that Soul

is thus more intimately associated with the Substance-Aspect of the Unknowable Rootless Root than

with the Conscious-Aspect.

A

human

soul, then,

is

a center of consciousness having

Xits

INTRODUCTION.originin

Infinite

Consciousness,In

brought into self-conscious relations with itself

and limited and and theinmost essence,

Universe by a material vehicle.this material vehicleis

its

derived

from the indestructible

Substance- Aspect of the Unknowable; substance of so refined and ethereal a nature as to utterly transcend allthose properties and qualities with which we ordinarily associate matter, and which, because of this and because itis incapable of weight, measurement or even comparison with the matter of this plane, has led to the formulating of the absurdly unscientific and unphilosophic materialistic

hypotheses and philosophies of to-day.lowing,

Instead ofretreat

fol-

by correspondence and analogy, thefor us are at

of

matter into those realms whichjective,

present submaterialistic

both modern science and so-called

philosophy havesity for that

failed to recognize the philosophic neces-

Unity which must underlie every aspect of and have in consequence utterly failed to bridge the illusionary chasm which seems to divide spirit ornature,

of course, impossible to carry molecular physics grossly and bodily over into conscious realms; but it is quite possible, and the onlyItis,

consciousness

from matter.

philosophic procedure, to carry the molecular laws of the conservation of force and the correlation of energy overinto the

realms

Bytion

so doing,for

we

of (comparatively) pure consciousness. at once secure a firm and stable founda-

There is no our philosophic superstructure. for and a "scientific" laws hypotheses for necessity longer one kingdom of nature, and quite a different and conflictingtific

code

for another, as is the case

with modern scien-

attempts to deal with mind andtotally separate

they were

and

distinct

matter as though elements in the

INTRODUCTION.Universe.fully

XI

The sameinin

lack of an unifying base

is

also pain-

for

dealing with purely physical sciences; as, the disagreements of geologic and asexample, tronomic calculations of the age of the earth.

apparent

It follows from the above that "Soul" must be a generic term, and "Souls" capable of infinite gradation and classifiFrom the anima mundi, the " Over-Soul" of cation.

Emerson, down to the unifying center of consciousness which makes possible the molecular combination formingthe structure of the humblest am