, 1877-07-21

persons are naunteu WIN NuSuc lCeI~
ing that it is not the first time.
These feelings are scientifically ex'
planned as the result of the double form
Ot the BRAIN. The brain is in two halves
which act together in the production OF
every thought, und usually with perfect
synchrsnism. But it may happen that
one side shall be cXertcd moment In
advance OF the either then when both
act together, subsequently producing the
full clear thought, there is the trace OF a
former Impression, c0ning up Ike the
memory OF former event. Whether
this is good physiology or not, there is
probably some explanation OF this pecu'
liar form Ot remncscence not necessarily
involving pre-exIstence, but in AN un-
scientific age, it would help to establish
u theory that already had presumption
in S lavor In the popular mind. The
only solid ground of truth that this doc
trine has to stand on, however is the tact
OF the suul's immortality. This truth
/ is faith is one, hat man except in the
10 vest grade OF savage lite, cannot live
without Yom nay say it is revealed
to him, you may say he invents it, you
may say he steals the notion from other
people, this is the tact-in some form he
hus it. THIS faith in immortality Is ex-
pressed In Aryan hymns Older than the
law of Moses, it was carved into stone in
Egypt, before the days of Abraham.
That man shall live IN some form after
the death OF the body is part of every
religion, is as nearly AS universal faith as
| is the belief in God. This tnke to be
the reason above all Others that the
metempsychosis has so widely prevailed,
formed palt Of so many different re-
ligions and exerted such n controlling
and permanent influence on mankind.
! The last book of the Laws Of Menu |
told you sets this doctrine forth. In
that book the doctrine is made the basis
of system of rewards and punshments.
If man lives life Of virtue he will
after death be born into higher life
may be u kings son or born to inherit
great wealth.
II he on the other hand lives wickedly,
his next birth will be on u lower plane,
perhaps still, he will be allowed hu.
man body, but he will be born into II
lower caste, If he is very wicked, his soul
will enter some animal as punishment.
These punishmcnts are usually in some
way made to correspond to the nature
of the offence. Thus If man lives u
sensual lite his soul shall at death enter
pig-it he steals grain he shall live the
life OF q rat next time, he shall become a
vulture if he steals meat, tor great sins
his soul will be made to pass many times
through dogs, snakes, spiders, or even
trees and grasses. Horrible punishment
you say, yes but throughout it is RENE
dial and not HOPELESS. 1t is a stairway
from top to bottom, formed by the bodies
Of all living things, and any soul animal
or human, may progress upward or
down ward. Another strange anticlpa-
tion of Darwinism may be seen in this
idea Of the progress of souls up this
grade Of bodily forms from animals to
med.
fla soul sins it grows downward, if
it lives virtuously it rises, this is the law
of all its transmigrations. And now l
come to the end OF my long depression
when I state that reaching the very top
round of this ladder is to BECOME
BuDDHA. Perhaps should say reaching
the one next to the top is becoming Il
Buddha, and 20 reach the highest is to
enter Nirvana---heaven Itself The way
to Nirvana, or to become Buddha Is
open to all. A story is told to illustrate
this as follows: A man once committed
sins so many and great that in the course
Of his atoning transmigrations he became
flea. But one morning while plying
his lancet upon sleeper in the exercise
of his profession, a ray of sunlight
streamed into the room, and with that a
ray Of reason entered his soul and he re-