This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1887. Not illustrated. ... APPENDIX. The existence of nearly one hundred branches of the Theosophical Society throughout the Indian Peninsula induced me to try to collect the popular beliefs of the several races respecting the postmortem vicissitudes of the human entity. To this end I addressed the following questions to a number of the more enlightened members of the I. What do the people of the District of your present residence, and those of your Native District, believe as to the nature and locality of Kama, or Vayu, Loka? II. Do they think it a place with geographical limits and boundaries; or merely a condition, or state of existence, through which the soul must pass before entering a higher one? III. Are the races inhabiting it human, subhuman, or super-human--lower in development to mankind, or