Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution

by Théophile Pascal

[211] Contra Celsum, Book 1, chap. 6.

[212] De Principiis, Book 3, chap. 5.

[213] De Principiis, Book 4, chap. 5.

[214] Contra Celsum, Book 7, chap. 32.

[215] E. Aroux. Les Mystères de la Chevalerie.

[216] Quoted by I. Cooper Oakley in Traces of a Hidden Tradition in Masonry and Mediæval Mysticism, a very interesting work on the sects which connect the early centuries with modern times.

[217] See L'Islamisme et son Enseignement Ésotérique, by Ed. Bailly. Publications théosophiques, Paris, 1903.

[218] Chapter 18.

[219] Islam is now awaiting the coming of the Mahdi, its last prophet; prophecy says that he will be the reincarnation of Mohammed (Borderland, April, 1907).

[220] This is the reason Afghans still undertake pilgrimages to Mecca.