Death, and After?

Death, and After? is by Annie Besant, the third of a series of Manuals designed to meet the public demand for a simple exposition of Theosophical teachings. The author points to the stately Egyptian Ritual with its Book of the Dead, in which are traced the post-mortem journeys of the Soul. The text says the general belief in Re-incarnation is enough to prove that the religions of which it formed a central doctrine believed in the survival of the Soul after Death.

The text says the word Elementary is very often used to describe the lower Manas in its garment the desire body, and that the word should at least be restricted to the desire body plus lower Manas. The text sets side by side someone who deliberately lays down, not merely risks, his life from altruistic motives in the hope of saving those of others and someone who deliberately sacrifices his life from selfish motives, in the hope of escaping trials and troubles which loom before him.