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FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 10: Fortunately, this is a fact only in the imagination of those who are blinded by faith.]

[Footnote 11: Before men had sinned individually on earth.]

[Footnote 12: _De corruptione et gratia_, chap. 7, No. 19; _Cont. Jul.

Pelag._, Book 4, chap. 3, No. 16, et _De Peccat. merit. et remiss._, Book 3, chap. 4, No. 7.]

[Footnote 13: ”Omnes illae unus h.o.m.o fuerunt.” _De Peccat. merit. et remiss._, Book 1, chap. 10, No. 11.

Theologians pa.s.s over St. Augustine's adoption of this theory, giving one to understand that he abandoned his error shortly before his death. (_Dictionnaire de Theol._, by Abbe Berger; volume viii., article x., ”_Traduciens._”)]

[Footnote 14: See also, on this subject, his letter to Sixtus, before the latter became Pope. Chap. vii., No. 31, and chap. vi., No. 27.]

[Footnote 15: The movements of ”creation” and ”absorption,” which are called in Hindu symbolism the outbreathing and the inbreathing of Brahma.]

[Footnote 16: Creation.]

[Footnote 17: After violet and red there stretches quite another spectrum, invisible to the human eye; it is because violet is at the beginning of our known spectrum, that one might think it was not the neutral point thereof.]

[Footnote 18: The soul believes itself distinct from the All, because it is subjected to the illusion engendered by its body.]

[Footnote 19: Without the aid of the eyes, walking is impossible to those suffering from plantar anaesthesia.]

[Footnote 20: Pleasure, like every other form of sensation, produces the same results, though perhaps with less force.]

[Footnote 21: A magnetic effect or an emotion. All travellers who have escaped from the attacks of wild beasts mention this effect of inhibition, manifested by the absence of fear and pain at the moment of attack.]

[Footnote 22: Primordial matter which has not yet entered into any combination and is not differentiated.]

[Footnote 23: A soul.]

[Footnote 24: In these cases, the soul.]

[Footnote 25: The personalities or new bodies created by the soul, on each return to earth.]

[Footnote 26: That is to say, the seventh incarnation.]

[Footnote 27: Waking consciousness.]

[Footnote 28: See _Karma_, by A. Besant.]

[Footnote 29: Those who have studied thought know that it is capable of being incorporated in diverse states of astral and mental matter.]

[Footnote 30: If the divine law allows it.]

[Footnote 31: If the divine law has not allowed the action to take place.]