Man and his bodies [antikvár]

MAN AND HIS BODIES, "Introduction.ViSo much confusion exists ^s_to consciousness, and its vehicles, the man and the garments that he wears, t^t it seems expedient to place befoi^ theosophical students a plain statement of the facts so far as they are known to us. We have reached a point in our sfudies at which nm^i that wa^_at: first obscure hasi become, clear, muHi that was vague has become definite, much that was accepted as theory has become matter of first-hand knowledge. It is therefore possible to arrange ascertained facts in a definite sequence, facts which can be observed again and again as successive students developtl^^jgower oJ^c^bser^^ and to^sne^Coii^hem^^^^same certainty as isfelt"by the physicist who deals with othexpbserv-ed.and tabulated phenomena. But just as the physicist may err"so may the metap_hysi.cis,t and as knowledge widens new lights are thrown on old facts, their relations are more clearly seen, and their appearance changesoften because the fur^er light shows that the fact which ^.med a whoÍe'wai~önl3r^_fragment. No authority is claimed for the views here presented; they are