World Mystery: Four Comparative Studies in General Theosophy

And in this sacred inquiry let us start with ourselves, where we find a soul vehicled or involved in a body, the home of innumerable ‘lives, ’ vehicled again in infinitesimal cells, each the body of a soul. And yet the soul of man is not composed of these ‘lives’; the consciousness of man is not simply the product or sum of their consciousness, nor is his intelligence a compound of their intelligence. The Soul of man is one, a self-centered unit, indestructible, imperishable, self-motive; it dies not nor comes into being. Contents: The World-Soul; The Soul-Vestures; The Web of Destiny; True Self-Reliance.