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Theophile Pascal. Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution
Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution
Table of Contents
SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
FOOTNOTES:
REINCARNATION
A STUDY IN HUMAN EVOLUTION
CHAPTER I
The Soul and the Bodies
Proofs of the Astral Body
Manifestations of the Higher Consciousness During the Different Kinds of Sleep
Manifestation of the Higher Consciousness in Various Cases of Mental Faculties Lost to Normal Consciousness
Manifestations of the Higher Consciousness under the Form of Memory
Manifestations of the Higher Consciousness in Phenomena of Double Consciousness
Manifestations of the Higher Consciousness, Indicating not only that it Extends Farther than Normal Consciousness, but Dominates, and Is Separated from it, Recognising that its Vehicle—the Body—is Nothing More than an Instrument
Manifestation of the Higher Consciousness in the Phenomena of Possession and Materialisation
Manifestations of the Higher Consciousness in Apparitions
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER II
Reincarnation and the Moral Law
Why Does Pain Exist?
The Problem of the Inequality Of Conditions
Objection
The Law of Causality (Karma).[28]
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER III
Reincarnation and Science
The Evolutionary Series
The Cyclic Process of Evolution
Progress
The Goal of Evolution
The Formation of Centres of Consciousness that become "Egos."
A Few Deductions
The Germ
What the Germ contains
The Problem of Human Heredity
Objection
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IV
Reincarnation and the Religious and Philosophic Consensus of the Ages
India
Resurrection
Metempsychosis
Reincarnation
Egypt
Chaldæa
The Celts
ANCIENT GREECE (Magna Græcia)
Old Testament
The Kabala
Rome
New Testament
Reincarnation in the Gospels
Reincarnation in the Apocalypse
Neoplatonism
The Early Christian Church
Islamism.[217]
The Doctrine of Rebirth in Modern Philosophy
Objection
Reincarnation and Forgetfulness of the Past
FOOTNOTES:
Conclusion
the end
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Théophile Pascal
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The necessity of cerebral quiet, if the higher consciousness is to make an impression, is now easy to understand; the finer vibration of the astral body cannot be impressed upon the brain when the latter is already strongly vibrating under the action of normal consciousness. For this reason also, the deeper the sleep of the physical body the better the higher consciousness manifests itself.
In ordinary man, organic quiet is scarcely ever complete during sleep; the brain, as we shall see shortly, automatically repeats the vibrations which normal consciousness has called forth during the waking state; this, together with an habitual density of the nervous elements, too great to respond to the higher vibration, explains the rarity and the confused state of the impression of astral consciousness on the brain.
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