Mansions of the Soul

About this book

Harvey Spencer Lewis imagines the soul occupying a series of earthly homes. Reincarnation becomes an explanation for differences of character and the unfinished lessons of human life.

Mansions of the Soul belongs to the Rosicrucian teaching literature surrounding AMORC. Lewis uses the idea of repeated lives to discuss moral responsibility, growth and the relations between visible experience and a larger spiritual career. His system belongs to modern Western esotericism, with its own interpretation of older traditions. The image of successive mansions gives a domestic shape to the otherwise enormous prospect of living again and again.