The fact was events of far greater importance to the tribe than her reincarnation had passed unrecorded in books.

They are diametrically opposed to the philosophy of Karma and of reincarnation, which are the tenets of theosophy.

He imagined himself to be the reincarnation of Charles XII, while in Napoleon he recognized the monster of the Apocalypse, which he himself was sent to fight and conquer.

When and how would be its reincarnation?

To Indians the word progress meant the passage of the soul through aeons of reincarnation towards a blissful absorption into the inconceivable void of indistinctive existence, as when at last a jar is broken and the space inside it returns to space.

So, many a humble poet dreams His songs will touch the human heart, And full of hope his offering lays Before the shrine of Art; Poor dreamer, may he never know That he too draws a silent bow! CONTENTS PROEM MY PROMENADE SOLITAIRE REINCARNATION TO THE "RING NEBULA" THE WAIF THE SILVER HERONS TO THE SPHINX YOUTH AND AGE

Meantime the Earth speeds on through space, As the sun for a million years hath steered, And, an eon hence, the entire race Will have played its part and disappeared; But what will the lifeless planet care, As it follows its Promenade Solitaire? REINCARNATION

"The method of evolution," as a great Master said, "is a constant dipping down into matter under the law of readjustment," i.e. by reincarnation and karma.

This doctrine was in a certain sense revolutionary: it declared that all the high officials and superiors who treated the people so unjustly and who so exploited them, would in their next reincarnation be born in poor circumstances or into inferior rank and would have to suffer punishment for all their ill deeds.

The Buddhist monks at the Toba court now submitted to the emperor, regarding him as a reincarnation of Buddha.

ZAIN, C. C. Facts and fancies about reincarnation, by C. C. Zain, pseud.

MARTIN, A. R. Researches in reincarnation and beyond.

Researches in reincarnation and beyond.

SEE Zain, C. C. <pb id='016.png' n='1956h1/A/0680' /> BENJAMINE, MARIA M. Facts and fancies about reincarnation.

ZAIN, C. C. Facts and fancies about reincarnation, by C. C. Zain, pseud.

MARTIN, A. R. Researches in reincarnation and beyond.

Researches in reincarnation and beyond.

" The essential idea of reincarnation is indicated in the following quotation from the Upanishads: "And as a goldsmith, taking a piece of gold, turns it into another, newer, and more beautiful shape, so does this Self, having thrown off this body and dispelled all ignorance, make unto himself another and more beautiful shape.

" Reincarnation is the periodic "dip" of an immortal individual into materiality for the working out of karma, after an interval, long or short, spent under other conditions of existence.

He pays a fine tribute to the theory of reincarnation.

But in each reincarnation, however predetermined every act and event, their reaction upon consciousness remains a matter of determinationis therefore self-determined.

But his whole purpose in living, he told me, was to yield himself to certain meditations, so that in his final reincarnation, which was only a few centuries off, he would return to the real thing in Buddha.

ÇIVA, or SIVA, the third member of the Hindu Trinity, the destroyer of what Vishnu is the preserver and Brahma is the creator, is properly Brahma undoing what he has made with a view to reincarnation.

IMMORTALITY, the doctrine of the continued existence of the soul of each individual after death, a doctrine the belief of which is, in one form or another, common to most religious systems; even to those which contemplate absorption in the Deity as the final goal of existence, as is evident from the prevalence in them of the doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation.

One might well prophesy that such a spirit will reappear in a later reincarnation as ruler of the universe! November 4, 1810.