LIST OF CONTENTS.

PART I.

MAN'S PRESENT CONSTITUTION AND METHOD OF DEVELOPMENT.

A Word to the Wise .......................................... 5
The Four Kingdoms, diagram ................................. 16
Introduction ............................................... 17

CHAPTER I. The Visible and Invisible Worlds ............. 24
     Chemical Region of the Physical World ................. 29
     Etheric Region of the Physical World .................. 34
     The Desire World The realm of feelings, emotions, and desires. ...................................... 38
     The World of Thought .................................. 48
     Diagram 1. The Material World a Reverse Reflection
          of the Spiritual Worlds .......................... 52
     Diagram 2. The Seven Worlds .......................... 54

CHAPTER II. The Four Kingdoms ............................ 56
     Diagram 3. The Vehicles The various bodies or forms through which the spirit expresses itself. of the Four Kingdoms ......... 73
     Diagram 4. The Consciousness of the Four Kingdoms .. 74

CHAPTER III. Man and the Method of Evolution ............. 87
     Activities of Life; Memory and Soul-growth ............ 87
     The Constitution of the Seven-fold Man ................ 88
     Diagram 5. The Three-fold Spirit, the Three-fold Body
          and the Three-fold Soul .......................... 95
     Death and Purgatory ................................... 96
     Diagram 5½. The Silver Cord The spiritual link connecting the physical body to the higher vehicles. .......................... 98
     The Borderland ....................................... 112
     The First Heaven ..................................... 113
     The Second Heaven .................................... 121
     The Third Heaven ..................................... 129
     Preparations for Rebirth ............................. 133
     Birth of the Dense Body The physical, material body. .............................. 139
     Birth of the Vital Body and Growth ................... 141
     Birth of the Desire Body and Puberty ................. 142
     Birth of the Mind and Majority Reaching the age of legal adulthood. ....................... 142
     The Blood; the Vehicle of the Ego The individual self or spirit. .................... 143
     A Life Cycle (diagram) ............................... 146

CHAPTER IV. Rebirth and the Law of Consequence .......... 147
     Wine as a Factor in Evolution ........................ 165
     A Remarkable Story ................................... 172