As each tumbler is dipped into the bucket it takes out from it a tumblerful of water (the separate soul).

That water for the time being takes the shape of the vehicle which it fills, and is temporarily separate from the water which remains in the bucket, and from the water in the other tumblers.
Now put into each of the hundred tumblers some kind of colouring matter or some kind of flavouring.

That will represent the qualities developed by its experiences in the separate soul of the lion during its lifetime.

Pour back the water from the tumbler into the bucket; that represents the death of the lion.

The colouring matter or the flavouring will be distributed through the whole of the water in the bucket, but will be a much fainter colouring, a much less pronounced flavour when thus distributed than it was when confined in one tumbler.