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Translator's Foreword

ix

Preface to the First Edition

xi

Preface to the Third Edition

xv

Introduction

1

CHAPTER

I.

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE HUMAN BEING

9

1. The Corporeal Being of Man

15

2. The Soul Being of Man

18

3. The Spiritual Being of Man

20

4. Body, Soul, and Spirit

22

II.

RE-EMBODIMENT OF THE SPIRIT AND DESTINY

59

Re-incarnation and Karma

59

III.

THE THREE WORLDS

87

1. The Soul World

87

2. The Soul in the Soul World after Death

109

3. The Spirit-land

129

4. The Spirit in the Spirit-land after Death

141

5. The Physical World and its Connection with the Soul and Spirit-lands

161

6. THOUGHT-FORMS AND THE HUMAN AURA

178

IV.

THE PATH OF KNOWLEDGE

195

Notes and Amplifications

225