Tigerlilly - Lobsang Rampa

of Kharma etc., so by reading the above author's works they
will understand these things and they will realize how black
cat Johnny Shanko could return to the earth as Mr. T. Catt, to
finish the life span which had been denied him previously
when, unhappily, he was sent to his heavenly home a few years
too soon. It can be very comforting to acquaint oneself with
these truths, which eliminate the sadness one normally experi-
ences on losing a pet, just to know we will meet again on this
earth plane or the next, where we can be together, knowing no
parting. If you read the aforementioned books you can lead a
fuller, richer life, provided you take them seriously, for they
are all true books, the whole eighteen of them, and there may
yet be another, making nineteen altogether.
A great dea1 of fiction has been written about Carl and
about Lobsang Rampa who followed, because the Press, as
ever, prefer to make everything sensational, treating people in
a derogatory manner. Carl's father was the Chief Water En-
gineer of the district in which he lived in the town of Plymp-
ton, Devonshire, but the Press preferred to describe him as
being in the capacity of a plumber. Now what difference it
makes whether Carl was the son of a baker, a tailor or a
candlestick-maker I could never fathom, except it seemed to
provide a certain amount of satisfaction to the media and a few
zealous individuals who were egging them on, and by des-
cribing someone as being a plumber's son they hoped to
denigrate him and tried to influence certain publishers to
refuse to publish Lobsang Rampa's books. So it can be seen
what jealousy and spite can do when a man is rather different
and possessed of a superior mentality, something those people
who were trying to pull him down, failed to understand. But it
has always been something of a puzzle to me what is wrong
with being a plumber—and wasn't Christ the son of a carpen-
ter, a worker with wood. Water or wood—what's the differ-
ence?—We need both, and why should a stigma be attached to
either a plumber or a carpenter? According to what we read
about the life of Christ he was mocked, derided, and finally
stoned and crucified, and to me this is an indication that all
great entities, great men and women who have come to the
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