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ral resurrection cannot be that of all the defunct bodies of the adamic era, the problem

of this resurrection cannot be waived aside. The theory of the resurrection of the flesh
is, indeed, accepted by the Old Testament and upheld by the Gospels. It is an article of

the Apostles’ Creed, and an object of liturgical prayers in the Master Canon.

The question is, therefore, to know in which sense, according to esoteric Tradition,

this doctrine should be interpreted. For it seems a natural apogee to the dramatic
evolution of the human species on Earth.

This subject cannot be broached without referring to the age-old, much debated

problem of reincarnation.

The two questions of resurrection and reincarnation are, indeed, closely linked
together. It is unnecessary to repeat, here, what has been put forward already in the

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first volume regarding reincarnation proper and pseudo-reincarnation . But we must
add the following data.

If we admit that man is endowed with a Soul and a body, we admit that this Soul has
become incarnate. And if we consider the Soul to be immortal, it is not illogical to think

that it can utilize this faculty of incarnation once again or even several times. If, like all

the Christian Churches, we accept the principle of the immortality of the Soul, it is

difficult to understand the why and the wherefore of a single terrestrial life which, in the
great majority of cases, is an aimless wandering from one error to another and which

ends in moral bankruptcy and physi-

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Ref. t. I, pp. 274 and following in French original version; pp. 302-303, in English
manuscript.