Reincarnation

About this eBook

Author

Walker, E. D. (Edward Dwight), 1859-1890

Title

Reincarnation : A study of forgotten truth

Original Publication

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin And Company, 1888.

Credits

Richard Tonsing, Carla Foust, MFR, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

BP: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Islam, Bahaism, Theosophy, Other and new beliefs

Subject

Theosophy

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 77318

Release Date

November 24, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.REINCARNATION A STUDY OF FORGOTTEN TRUTH
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.INTRODUCTION.
5. 5.I. WHAT IS REINCARNATION?
6. 6.II. WESTERN EVIDENCES OF REINCARNATION.
7. 7.III. OBJECTIONS TO REINCARNATION.
8. 8.IV. WESTERN PROSE WRITERS ON REINCARNATION.
9. 9.V. THE POETRY OF REINCARNATION IN WESTERN LITERATURE. — PART I. AMERICAN POETRY. — PREËXISTENCE. — A MYSTERY. — THE METEMPSYCHOSIS OF THE PINE. — THE POET IN THE EAST. — THE METEMPSYCHOSIS. — IDENTITY. — ONE THOUSAND YEARS AGO. — THE FINAL THOUGHT. — FROM “A POEM READ AT BROWN UNIVERSITY.” — FROM “BEYOND.” — FROM “RAIN IN SUMMER.” — FROM “THE TWILIGHT.” — FROM “FACING WEST FROM CALIFORNIA’S SHORES.” — FROM “LEAVES OF GRASS.” — STANZAS. — PART II. BRITISH POETRY. — FROM “INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY.” — TO MY DAUGHTER. — A REMEMBRANCE. — RETURNING DREAMS. — FROM “DE PROFUNDIS.” BIRTH. — SUDDEN LIGHT. — FROM “CATO’S SOLILOQUY ON THE SOUL.” — FROM “THE MYSTIC.” — FROM “A RECORD.” — OF MEMORY. — FROM “PARACELSUS.” — FROM “ONE WORD MORE.” — FROM “CHRISTINA.” — THE DREAM OF PYTHAGORAS. — DR. ARNOLD. — PART III. CONTINENTAL POETRY. — TRANSMIGRATION. — “TO THE INVISIBLE ONE.” — THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS. (LA MÉTEMPSYCOSE.) — THE SONG OF THE EARTH SPIRITS. IN GOETHE’S “FAUST.” — THE SECRET OF REMINISCENCE. — A SONNET ON CAUCASUS. — PART IV. PLATONIC POETS. — PREËXISTENCE. IN IMITATION OF MILTON. — THE RETREAT. — A HYMN ON HEAVEN.
10. 10.VI. REINCARNATION AMONG THE ANCIENTS.
11. 11.VII. REINCARNATION IN THE BIBLE.
12. 12.VIII. REINCARNATION IN EARLY CHRISTENDOM.
13. 13.IX. REINCARNATION IN THE EAST TO-DAY.
14. 14.X. EASTERN POETS UPON REINCARNATION. — FROM THE PERSIAN. — THE SUCCESSFUL SEARCH.
15. 15.XI. ESOTERIC ORIENTAL REINCARNATION.
16. 16.XII. TRANSMIGRATION THROUGH ANIMALS.
17. 17.XIII. WHAT THEN OF DEATH, HEAVEN, AND HELL?
18. 18.XIV. KARMA, THE COMPANION TRUTH OF REINCARNATION.
19. 19.XV. CONCLUSION.
20. 20.APPENDIX. — BIBLIOGRAPHY OF REINCARNATION. — I. Latin. — II. German. — III. French. — IV. English. — V. English. ( Translations. ) — VI. Fiction. — VII. Articles in Periodicals, Pamphlets, etc. — VIII. Philosophical and Theosophical Magazines.
21. 21.INDEX.

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