William Walker Atkinson

Reincarnation and The Law Of Karma (eBook, ePUB)

A Study Of The Old-New World-Doctrine Of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause And Effect

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Produktbeschreibung

“The growing soul must realize that it has within itself all that it requires.” —W. W. ATKINSON

William Walker Atkinson was an American pioneer of the New Thought movement. In this work, he makes us discover the phenomena of reincarnation and metempsychosis in all their dimensions (historical, religious, scientific...). By revealing to us the transmigration of souls, he makes us aware that we are not just simple humans passing through this world. Thus by offering us the knowledge of our physical, astral and spiritual evolution, he gives us the possibility to understand the true meaning of our presence here on earth.
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CONTENTS:
CHAPTER I. The Early Races.
What is Reincarnation?—Transmigration of Souls—The Something That Persists After Death—The Soul Not a Fresh Creation, but a Traveler on a Long Journey.
CHAPTER II. The Egyptians, Chaldeans, Druids, Etc.
The Egyptian Idea of the Soul—Forty Centuries of Occult History—The Inner Teachings of Egypt...
CHAPTER III. The Romans and Greeks.
The Reasons of Rome's Backwardness in Spiritual Knowledge—Why the Greeks were Advanced—Pythagoras; Orpheus; Plato...
CHAPTER IV. The Jews, Essenes and Early Christians.
The Inner Teachings of the Jewish Priests—The Jewish Rabbins and Their Secret Doctrines—The Kaballah, the Zahar, Nichema; Ronach; and Nephesh...
CHAPTER V. The Hindus.
India the Mother of Reincarnation, Past and Present—The Aryan Teachings...
CHAPTER VI. The Modern West.
Reincarnation in the Modern Western World— The Revival of Interest and Its Cause— Theosophical Society—Madame Blavatsky—The Western School of Yogi Philosophy: Its Fundamental Teachings—The Spiritists, and Their Doctrine...
CHAPTER VII. Between and Beyond Incarnations.
How Long Between Incarnations?—Necessity for Mental and Spiritual Digestion and Assimilation—The Advanced Teachings—Earth- bound Souls—Advanced Souls and Their Rest Period—Where Does the Soul Dwell Between Incarnations?...
CHAPTER VIII. The Justice of Reincarnation.
The Contrasting Theories of the Soul and Its Future Life—Doctrine of Reincarnation the Only Philosophical Theory that Reconciles Facts with Theory—The Law of Karma Automatic and Enforces Itself...
CHAPTER IX. The Argument for Reincarnation.
Natural Laws Universal—If the Soul is Immortal, it Must Have Always Been So—A Mortal Thing Cannot be Made Immortal Any More Than Nothing Can be Made Something— Future Life Implies Past Life—Varient Experiences Necessary for the Soul's Education ...
CHAPTER X. The Proofs of Reincarnation.
Actual Proofs of Personal Conscious Experience Demanded by Science—Such Proofs Possible and Have Occurred to Many of the Race...
CHAPTER XI. Arguments Against Reincarnation
Why Reincarnation is Opposed by Some—The Answers to the Objections—The Proof of the Existence of the Soul—Is Reincarnation UnChristian and Derived from Pagan and Heathen Sources?
CHAPTER XII. The Law of Karma.
What Karma Means—Does Karma Punish or is it but the Workings of a Natural Law?—The Various Kinds of Karma—The Advanced Mystical Doctrine—The End is Absolute Good —There is No Devil but Fear and Unfaith.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alicia Editions
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9782357287402
• Artikelnr.: 61303186

Autorenporträt

William Walker Atkinson (December 5, 1862 - November 22, 1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement. He is the author of the pseudonymous works attributed to Theron Q. Dumont and Yogi Ramacharaka.[1] He wrote an estimated 100 books, all in the last 30 years of his life. He was mentioned in past editions of Who's Who in America, in Religious Leaders of America, and in several similar publications. His works have remained in print more or less continuously since 1900. William Walker Atkinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland on December 5, 1862,[4] to Emma and William Atkinson. He began his working life as a grocer at 15 years old, probably helping his father. He married Margret Foster Black of Beverly, New Jersey, in October 1889, and they had two children. Their first child probably died young. The second later married and had two daughters. Atkinson pursued a business career from 1882 onwards and in 1894 he was admitted as an attorney to the Bar of Pennsylvania. While he gained much material success in his profession as a lawyer, the stress and over-strain eventually took its toll, and during this time he experienced a complete physical and mental breakdown, and financial disaster. He looked for healing and in the late 1880s he found it with New Thought, later attributing the restoration of his health, mental vigor and material prosperity to the application of the principles of New Thought. Some time after his healing, Atkinson began to write articles on the truths he felt he had discovered, which were then known as Mental Science. In 1889, an article by him entitled "A Mental Science Catechism," appeared in Charles Fillmore's new periodical, Modern Thought. By the early 1890s Chicago had become a major centre for New Thought, mainly through the work of Emma Curtis Hopkins, and Atkinson decided to move there. Once in the city, he became an active promoter of the movement as an editor and author. He was responsible for publishing the magazines Suggestion (1900-1901), New Thought (1901-1905) and Advanced Thought (1906-1916). In 1900 Atkinson worked as an associate editor of Suggestion, a New Thought Journal, and wrote his probable first book, Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life, being a series of lessons in personal magnetism, psychic influence, thought-force, concentration, will-power, and practical mental science.