Includes bibliographical references and index.

"WHENCE comes man and whither goes he? In the fullest answer we can only say: Man, as a spiritual Being, comes forth from God and returns to God; but the Whence and Whither with which we deal here denote a far more modest sweep. It is but a single page of his life-story that is copied out herein, telling of the birth into dense matter of some of the Children of Man… The use of clairvoyance for research into the past is not new. The Secret Doctrine of H. P. Blavatsky is a standing instance of such use. Whether or not the work thus done is reliable is a question which must be left for decision to future generations, possessing the power which is now used for this purpose. The research work was done at Adyar [India] in the summer of 1910 … we shut ourselves up, so as to be uninterrupted, for five evenings every week … two sets of notes have been preserved. They are woven into the present story written partly during the summer of 1911 … and completed in April and May 1912 …"