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EOSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
preliminaries, it will be easy to prove the problem. Neither
ran we prove the existence of color and light to a man who
was born blind ; they are facts which he cannot appreciate,
because lacking in the requisite faculty. But if he acquires
the faculty of sight by an operation, it will be unneces-
sary to prove these facts to him, he will then see their
verity. For similar reasons no one can appreciate proofs
of the immortality of the spirit until he has fitted himself
to see the spirit; then it will be easy for him to obtain
positive proof of the immortality of spirit, its existence
prior to birth and persistence after death. Until he has
thus qualified himself, he must be satisfied with reasonable
inferences such as may be obtained in many ways.
QUESTION No. 81.
Is there any authority in the Bible for the theory of re-
birth?
Answer: Yes, there is plenty of authoritj*, although it
is only taught directly in one place. The Jewish priests
believed in the theory of rebirth, or they would not have
sent to ask John the Baptist "Art thou Elijah?" as it is
recorded in the first Chapter of John in tho twenty-first