Man's life in three worlds : a booklet for beginners / by Annie Besant.

  • Annie Besant
Date:
1923
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Credit: Man's life in three worlds : a booklet for beginners / by Annie Besant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    stead of into a country already well known. In order to avoid this, it seems to me to be better to take a somewhat new departure, and to study the Man's clothing in the order in which he puts it on, that is, at the beginning of a new life-period. I therefore spoke in the first chapter of a “life-period as “from the be¬ ginning of one descent into the physical world to the leaving of the heaven world for his next descent. The life-period is the circle in the three worlds, and it does not really mat¬ ter at what point we start in the tracing of the circumference; I am beginning with the putting on of the first of a new suit of clothes, because that starting-point, though novel, seems to have certain advantages in clarity. A very observant reader may challenge the use of the word “circle, because in a circle the circumference is completed when the starting-point is reached, and man's life is thereby made the running round a circle over and over again, a proceeding which seems to be unnecessary and tedious. The challenge is just. Man's life is not a series of circles but a spiral: the curve does not reenter itself, but is ascending, and when the spot at which the apparent circle began is again reached, the
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