VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE HELPERS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2474, 29 May 1915, Page 15

VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE HELPERS

0 —— UPON THE BATTLE-FIELD. In the course of an addross given before the Theosophical Society on Sunday evening Miss 0. W. Christie, after explaining dearly that man is the consciousness which uses the body, and keeps it awake while in it, describoci the method of leaving it so that it could sleep, and added that the normal man did this every night, and for hours then led a much wider and less hampered life, going with almost the speed of thought to any part of the world he desired to visit, and bringing back sometimes the memory of what he saw, as a dream. Theosophy is the science of the soul, and those who study it can, in time, easily distinguish .between a brain-dream and the memory of aotnal happenings upon higher planes. Hundreds of people were now using this knowledge to holo loved ones at tho front by visiting the wounded and dying left behind upon the battle-field; but no one must think he or she con do anything there in his astral body, that' he does not know and practise upon the physical plane in everyday lifo.

Those who know first aid can

render it,, doctors and nurses • oan do in their astral bodies exactly what they know well and do when in. full, waking physical consciousness, no more; people like myself can place a wounded limb, or a head in a more comfortable position, giro a drink to a man feverish with pain, comfort a friend by sitting or standing beside him and speaking to liiin, or by going for help when it is available. In order, to do these things one must know how to materialise (draw in physical matter) or must be helped to do so by more advanced studenta. There are four main kinds or degrees of materialisation: (1) Partial —whero only hands, or hands and arms, must bo physical, as when a wounded man requires a drink, or a change of position, and is too ill to notice who helps him.- (2) Whicli is tangible, but not visible—to lift an unconscious man and oarry him to safety. (3) Visible, but not tangible, to speak to the dying and comfort them by remaining with them till they leave the body. (4) That which, is both visible and tangible, as when helping nurses, doctors, or others, ajid the helper, appears as an extra nurso or doctor.

Several stories of actual work on the field and in <a field liospital_ were then given, and 'iie audience invited to study those matters for thomsjtlves. When tlio war is over there will be hundreds of stories of supposed angel visitors and helpers, who. «re only ordinary, kind, commonsenso people in tlißir astral bodies, and they will bo laughed at or dismissed _as dreariis, or the visions of moil delirious with pn*n and oxeit-emont, by tho ignorant majority. '