A New Model of the Universe

Heaven and hell, transmigration of souls, reincarnation, the wheel of lives—all these theories contain the idea of reward or punishment.

The greater part of religious teachings on the future life connect it with the idea of reward or punishment

the other hand, echoes of esoteric teachings on life and death sometimes reached man. He could hear that the visible, earthly, observable, life of man is only a small part of the life belonging to him. And man of course understood in his own way these fragments which reached him, changed them in his own fashion, adapted them to his own level and understanding, and built out of them some theory of future existence, similar to existence on the earth.