The Life After Death - C. W. Leadbeater
The Life After Death and How Theosophy Unveils It, was First Printed 1912
The following chapters are reprinted, with kind permission, from pamphlets issued by The Theosophical Publishing Committee, of Harrogate, and from an article in Lucifer for September, 1896. The reception given to the first of this Series, "THE RIDDLE OF LIFE," of which 60,000 copies have now been printed, leads us to think that the present booklet, which gives a rational picture of the actual facts of the after life, will be warmly welcomed.
Chapter 1
IS THERE ANY CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE?
THIS subject of life after death is one of great interest to all of us, not only because we ourselves must certainly one day die, but far more because there can scarcely be any one among us, except perhaps the very young, who has not lost (as we call it) by death some one or more of those who are near and dear to us. So if there be any information available
with regard to the life after death, we are naturally very anxious to have it.
But the first thought which arises in the mind ..of " the man who sees such a title as this is usually Can anything be certainly known as to life after death?" ...