CORRESPONDENCE.

Colonist, Volume XXXV, Issue 7194, 14 December 1891, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the Colonist. Sik,-I will admit at once that if the cass of the girl to which I referred is the same aa the one mentioned by " Mac," that it does not help the theory of re-inoarnation at all. As just now I have not the means at hand to investigate the point, " Mao " is welcome to make what capital he can ont of what is very possibly a mistake. I am altogether unable to follow the process of reasoning by which " Mao " arrives at the conclusion that " it ia no use to go back to Buddha," no statement of mine oin in any way affect the value o hia lite and teaohing. 'Ifit be true " that by proper cultivation of the soul it ia possible to recover this memory 1 ' it does not follow that Buddha's testimony is of no value to us, bat rather tbat he had so cultivated his soul. The soul is not " the great intelligent spirit that animates our bodies." Theosophy teaches that man is constituted of seven prinoipleg, the Christian doctrine that he ia composed of three, while much Bimpler, ia practically the same. St Paul says that man consists of body, soul and spirit, and my letters have been written in accordance with this conception. Bat as " We know not fully what we are, Still less what we might ba ; " my conceptions might be quite wrong, I am however open to conviction. If " Mao " is serious, and I can hardly believe it, when he says " as no doubt <sc." he must nave an extremely lively imagination ; there is not the slightest foundation for any euch assertion in my letters. If I had " recovered this memory," re-inoarnation would be a theory no longer, to me, but a faot, and it would be waste of time to try to prove its possibility when I knew it had aotually taken place, Yours, &Q., J.B.W. i _________________ — , — „