LIFE ALTER DEATH.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 410, 20 January 1909, Page 8

LIFE ALTER DEATH.

:;-'- v ■■' ;"^-■■AftNEwj 'S:S6'■";secretary"of the: ; Dublin,'Sooiety.-ipf-Psychical 'Research; explained,.to. an.":a'udien,co. of ; .spiritualists.at' .* h s:,^|ns..of/-the.^yal';Sdciety;.-"pf'' : Bfitisli: Artists,! in Lbnaon,';his 'new',theory .regard- 1 ijughthe, life of .theVsoiil after 'death. 'U .. - •',-/ ■ ■Hβ""went.so. far-,as-to. indicate,:'the- kiiitV of ;lifp w.hich )V ,in hisi.beh>f,v.is''le.d.'by dis-' <'mbpdied;,s6uls. and •; the; -probaijlp., duration pt it, supporting 1 hissßeculatignsby scientific' arguments.;, ;_>:,;"■- : ;,\. •; .''' ': '.-:;x■:',./:.'.;-V ; .After, commenting';-upp'p.;thp ifact.Hhat' , 'a ; poor;ghost.looking in 'ai;the.window;is shot at,':; persecuted," and..'; 'exorcised"'.'" Mr. : :d'Albe.:.gave.;.his,!reaspns:.for;, believing that; the ; soul-of. man |is,'an: aggregation - of the/;. psychomerea;; , or soul' particles/ .inhabiting, the ; individual. cells ,pf. 'the "humari body.."; ■.■■■./;-■ ';■,;.;-.; \':.:' : , : :'y.':,'.:'.-: .-■ .•' ■;. : /'.These psychpmer6s," : he said, ably..opaque .to? ultra-violet light,'an.d therefore may some day be, made jvisible.-by-more ppwerfulfoptical, means^lthan.we ; ;at. ; present possess.;. -Theyvwm.. then -;be;.weighed' and nieas.ured.-.. '.Their- weight' will .probably ..be , fo.uhd.to"be.aboutone-'thousandth;part of the ;body. J, '.' .{v : ':'"-+:?U<jlv --H .'Mr. ■d'Albe's. l "psychomeres" .the-'^spiil-Dody,?' , , ''and- ' : a're : from their'nature, suitefl: tp.the envirpnment of.'the;earth• atmosphere an ; .which;'he believes they.; ilpati -They . ■ have ".consciousness.'and power.'of locomotipnj.pW«nergy,'whioh,.as'it must ~be deiived;from; some, source, is: ably.V,obtaihed:'ffpni'.'the : .'ultra-vidlet'"raTS of the; sun".' ■'.:'■'._'.'._ ,',--.■■.•■■-."•..';'.,' ;■;::.T'.Xri" .v, ■,' Mr. ; d'Albe; 'arguocl -ihat as .'the,' soul-body subsists, on the...suh-ra'y.B. it j'reguire's- 'no digestive organs. ahd;hiis,,ip.need^ -to,'struggle■ the ■,material:body'dpes\.'ipr,'.food.;-.'Havin-g thus \ lost, the :-inceritive , ,to| compete -for. ■ exiet-'ence,:.the.ibul-body. ret'ainsv'tie\highe'r .quality .oLcpmpetitipn'in. mutual'-servipe: '•'.'....i-:.l'' 'ithis'. -line;'; s v;aiigumont; Mr: g.Albe; .whose.work, in'"science psychical research has been/commended, by. .p'rofessdr Oliver-Lodger and., Sir,'.,- "Williani,- Crookes, argued- that the.-'atmpspheiß.vis. inhabited, by the souls 'of, those/who hive: lived'for ,t ne tot 30,000; years:; : . ".";■. •/] .-;-L':.:- • •■ . ,; "The realm'of; soiJs, , . , he said, "extends .upwards from" : where. : we stahd for. 200 miles and is as thickly-populated is; the earth;""'- . 'After' 30,000 year's of Hhis 'soul existence -in the ■atmosphere, Mr. .d , Alhel'suggests-:a'; fur-ther-transfofmation, into a; of! existence suited to.the'-envirpnme'nt. which is' !to ;befpund inanter-plahetary' space,' :'ijnplying,'\as' °. ne "s', hi 3' audience;'ppmted;pl;t ijii'the- discussion following the lecture,: the' flh'ar.cpsmis unipn of all souls and all agtsi' ,;■., :;.,'''■!/ '