CHAPTER XI
CONSTITUTION OF MAN

THEOSOPHY is a philosophy. It deals with the
past, present, and future of man. With the
present, by describing what man really is as
shown and seen by means of the faculties
developed ; with the past history of man, how
in the course of evolution he has grown to be
what he now is; and of the future, there is much
to be said, for, is not the future a reflection of
the past, a mirror in which past and present
determine what shall be.

Theosophy speaks of man as being a soul and
having a body. This reverses the usual, common
or garden idea that man is a body and possesses
a soul. On this one sentence hinges the change
of a whole sequence of ideas, for, in determining
what man is, you determine his future and you
look into his past. If a man is a body and
possesses a soul, he belongs to one life only, and
his past, present and future lie here in his phy-
sical body and end at death, the disintegration