A comparative study of the various religious dogmas concerning the soul and its destiny, and of Akkadian, Hindu, Taoist, Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Christian, Mohammedan, Japanese and other magic. Most of the conclusions reached in this book have followed after the putting on paper of the facts which are their grounds, and the most important theory Flagg puts forward is quite opposed to his former preconceptions, quite different from anything he had an idea of in the beginning.