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Reincarnation and the Law of Karma

by Atkinson William Walker

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Author: Atkinson William Walker

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This volume recounts a theory of rebirth and the principles of spiritual cause and effect. The author study traces the belief in the theory of reincarnation in different cultures and cast light upon the principles that carry this concept through thousands of generations.A fascinating and insightful document by William Walker Atkinson (1862 –1932), an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement.

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...as it may appear to many readers unfamiliar with the subject, the ancient Druids, particularly those dwelling in ancient Gaul, werefamiliar with the doctrine of Reincarnation, and believed in its tenets. These people, generally regarded as ancient barbarians, really possesseda philosophy of a high order, which merged into a mystic form ofreligion. Many of the Romans, upon their conquest of Gallia, weresurprised at the degree and character of the philosophical knowledgepossessed by the Druids, and many of them have left written records ofthe same, notably in the case of Aristotle, Cæsar, Lucan, and ValeriusMaximus. The Christian teachers who succeeded them also bore witness tothese facts, as may be seen by reference to the works of St. Clement, St. Cyril, and other of the early Christian Fathers. These ancient"barbarians" entertained some of the highest spiritual conceptions oflife and immortality--the mind and the soul. Reynaud has written ofthem, basing his statements upon a careful...