CHAPTER III
THE LAW OF REBIRTH

WE have already referred to a birth and death
and birth again" in our previous articles. .
To-day we want to look a little more closely
into this great subject. I have said that all
religions have recognised this law at one time
or another. Here in the East it is a living
faith, in the West it dropped out of Christianity
about the fourth century by common consent
of a Council of the Church Dignitaries. It is
quite possible that the decision was no accident
but was necessary for the working out of our
evolution. The keynote struck by the Christian
Faith has been a note of individuality, if I can
put it in that way. It is a religion which
taught that each one worked out his own
salvation in a single life. Doubtless this belief
was needed to make man work for individualism
which has been necessary for the world at this