This book was published by
William Atkinson for the first time in 1909 in Chicago, under the pseudonym
"Yogi Ramacharaka", and below you can see the cover and the first
page of the first edition.
In the middle of the page he put
the following sentence:
"What we call death is just the other side of life."
Below appears the publisher:
The Yogi Publication Society, Chicago, Illinois.
The copyright and the table of
contents appear on the next two pages, and you can read the twenty
chapters that make up the book at the following links:
5. After death
17.
Astral shells
19. Re-birth
MY OPINION ABOUT THIS BOOK
William Atkinson wants his
readers to believe that a Hindu sage named Ramacharaka is passing them on the
yogi philosophy about what happens after death, but it is false and what
Atkinson really did was:
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partly he took what
Master Kuthumi taught.
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partly he took what
Charles Leadbeater taught.
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partly he took what
Max Heindel taught.
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and partly Atkinson
added his inventions based on his own speculations.
And unfortunately the result is
that William Atkinson's explanation of what happens after death is grossly
distorted, incomplete, and full of errors and falsehoods.
And this shows that William
Atkinson did not investigate seriously because if he had studied more closely
what the instructors that he read wrote, then he would have realized that
Charles Leadbeater was based on what Master Kuthumi taught, but he distorted him
and added his own inventions.
And Max Heindel was based on what
Leadbeater taught, but distorted him and added his own inventions as well.
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