Reincarnation / by Annie Besant.

  • Annie Besant
Date:
1892
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Credit: Reincarnation / by Annie Besant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    centuries the reemergence of the types of intelligence and of character that marked the beginnings of such periods. Let the student, with this idea in his mind, compare the Aug^istan period of Roman history with the Elizabethan period of English. Let him compare the conquering, colonizing, empire-building type of the Romans with that of the English. Let him com- pare the currents of religious thought in tne third and fourth centuries after Christ with those of the eighteenth and nineteenth, and see if he cannot trace in the prevalence of mystic and Gnostic thought to- day anj' reemergence from the close of the fourth century. When he has pursued this line of study for awhile, he will begin to see that the statement in Theosophical books that fifteen centuries is the “average period between incarnations” is not a mere fancy or guess.’ xiv. The rise and decay of races is best explained on the hypothesis of Reincarnation. It is noticed that some races are dying out, despite the efforts which have been made to check their decay; their women become afflicted with sterility and so their numbers steadily diminish, their complete extinction being only a question of time. The Reincarnationist saj's: “The Egos are leaving that race; all that can be learned through that' particular expression has been learned; the Egos.that once informed its chil- dren have gone on into other races; there are no more baby Egos to puzzle out through it the lessons of their earliest human experience; hence there is no demand on it from the plane of causes, and it must inevitably disappear.” So also do we find that when a race has reached its acme of attainment slow decline sets in, and synchronously another race be-
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