The Idea That Buddhism Denies

Men Are At Every Stage Of Evolution, From The Most Barbarous To The Most Developed; Men Are Found Of Lofty Intelligence, But Also Of The Most Unevolved Mentality; In One Place There Is A Highly Developed And Complex Civilisation, In Another A Crude And Simple Polity.

Death Consists, Indeed, In A Repeated Process Of Unrobing, Or Unsheathing. The Immortal Part Of Man Shakes Off From Itself, One After The Other, Its Outer Casings, And - As The Snake From Its Skin, The Butterfly From Its Chrysalis - Emerges From One After Another, Passing Into A Higher State Of Consciousness.

I Have Ever Been The Queerest Mixture Of Weakness And Strength, And Have Paid Heavily For The Weakness.

Man Is A Spiritual Intelligence, Who Has Taken Flesh With The Object Of Gaining Experience In Worlds Below The Spiritual, In Order That He May Be Able To Master And To Rule Them, And In Later Ages Take His Place In The Creative And Directing Hierarchies Of The Universe.

The Idea That Buddhism Denies What Is Called In The West Individual Immortality Is A Mistake, So Far As The Buddhist Scriptures Are Concerned.