Reincarnation and the Law of Karma: A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect

Atkinson undertakes a sweeping examination of one of humanity's most persistent beliefs: that the soul endures beyond death and returns in successive lives, shaped by the accumulated weight of its choices. Writing in the early twentieth century, when Western spiritualism was flourishing alongside ancient Eastern philosophies arriving via translation and trade, Atkinson positions reincarnation not as superstition but as a coherent principle of spiritual cause and effect. He traces its manifestations across civilizations - the Egyptian mummification rituals preserving the ka, the Greek philosophy of metempsychosis, the Hindu doctrine of samsara - arguing that these diverse expressions point toward a single underlying truth. The book operates within the New Thought tradition, treating karma not merely as cosmic accounting but as a dynamic process of soul-growth through repeated earthly experiences. Atkinson writes with the conviction of a man who believed he was restoring lost knowledge to a materialist age, making this both a historical survey and an earnest argument for reconsideration of what modern civilization had dismissed.