Reincarnation : A study of forgotten truth by E. D. Walker
Sultane française au Maroc by Noël Amaudru is a book. From the opening supplied, it reads less like narrative and more like a wide-ranging philosophical study that argues for the reality and value of reincarnation. Its likely topic is a cross-cultural defense of that doctrine, seeking to align spiritual intuition, ethics, and science while answering Western religious and scientific objections. The opening of the work assembles epigraphs on soul and immortality, then
a preface and introduction that claim reincarnation as an ancient, globally held “forgotten truth” needed to counter modern materialism and to restore moral coherence. It defines reincarnation as the soul’s repeated earthly lives governed by cause and effect, explicitly rejecting crude animal transmigration, and outlines a plan covering history, theology, poetry, objections, and the companion law of karma. The argument is organized into seven main evidences (immortality implies preexistence; nature’s analogies and evolution; scientific causation and conservation; the soul’s persistent identity; solutions to original sin and future punishment; anomalous experiences like déjà vu and alternating consciousness; and the problem of earthly injustice), followed by four objections (no memory, fairness, heredity, and distaste) with replies that invoke forgetfulness as mercy, supersensuous memory, affinity-based birth, and spiritual recognition beyond appearances. The section then begins cataloging Western advocates—from mystics and Platonists to Enlightenment and German thinkers—signaling a broad literature the study will draw upon. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Walker, E. D. (Edward Dwight), 1859-1890 |
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| LoC No. | 18027485 |
| 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 | Reincarnation |
| Subject | Theosophy |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77318 |
| Release Date | Nov 24, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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