Esoteric Buddhism

progress. In the following pages the elucida-
tion of this profoundly interesting mystery is
attempted, and it will be seen that the view of
events now afforded us is not only a solution
of the problems of life and death, but of many
very perplexing experiences on the border land
between those conditions, — or rather between
physical and spiritual life, — which have en-
gaged attention and speculation so widely of
recent years in most civilized countries.

It was time, in fact, that the esoteric doc-
trine should be offered to modern thinkers
to assist them in grappling with the enigmas
which the spasmodic operation of very exalted
spiritual faculties in some cases — the manifes-
tation of some extra-physical laws and forces
of Nature in others — have been latterly ac-
cumulating on our hands in great abundance.
Rather, I imagine, because the conjectures put
forward to account for them were unacceptable
to the cultivated world at large, than because
the occurrence of extra-physical manifestations
of late years has been disbelieved altogether,
have most people been unwilling to pay close
attention to such occurrences. Nor is it neces-
sary that they should do so now, in order to
reach an intellectual standpoint from which the
whole range of possibilities in regard to com-
munications that may be established between