Excerpt from Theosophy and Christianity
These papers were originally written for the columns of the Bombay Cat/301i: Examiner, in which they appeared during the course of 1904. They were occasioned by the recent appearance of two articles on Theosophy in the magazine East and M31, and were addressed to Indian readers, especially to Parsees, some of whom took a good deal of interest in them. Theosophy has not many adherents in this country, but it has some, and its hypothesis of Re incarnation is not unfrequently discussed. But what is of much more consequence, the Problem of Evil, which Theo sophy is an attempt to solve, is one of the most burning of questions for those who take interest in the reasons which people allege for the loss of their faith. It is because Father Hull discusses this question in so able and instructive, and at the same time so temperate, a way, that his little volume seems 3, likely to prove acceptable to English readers. The original form of newspaper articles, with the Parsi gentleman's letter.
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