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TWIXT LIVING AND DEAD. “REALITY' OF THE UNSEEN.” Sir Oliver Lodge, foremost psychist of the British Empire, lecturing before a large audience at Carnegie Hall, New Aork, on “The Reality of the Unseen,” delivered the following opinions:— • We are separated from those who have gone before only by a veil of the senses. There is no gulf between us. If there is 1 a gulf it is between heaven and hell. If there is a chasm —love bridges the chasm. The soul constructed the body; dominates it and will survive it. The body wears out, but why not the soul? All things persist. Life incarnates itself in one form and then in another. We develop our own personality. If we have no individuality or character we may simply go on in a general body and life, like vegetable matter. God communicates with us. The Highest lets us hear from Him. The saints and the prophets were not fooled. Here in our present state wo have material body. Later we will have an ethereal hotly, Hereafter we will be able only to associate with our friends. Those who have led selfish lives, those who have lived for themselves alone and have made no associations or friends, will be lonely indeed. Memory and character are not limited to the body. They arc not a part of the body. The body is only their instrument. PRE-EXISTENCE THEORY. I believe that we had a pre-existence in soma other form of life. I do not think wo jumped into life afresh some 50 or 00 years ago. There was some germ of us before. but it was not this individual that we are to-day. Our present individuality | began with our birth. We have acquired j possession of our own soul, personality and I individuality. j The communion of saints has been j taught us. We are finding that it is a I futility. That which has been culled telepathy also has been called inspiration and prayer. Like real love they are not parts of the body, parts of reality. If we could only perceive the happiness beyond the veil we would be overwhelmed. There may be persons who are so low that they can only associate with devils, but I have never seen such persons. There arc others who may be saints and be fitted at death for the glories of heaven. Far bo it from me to deny it. The spiritual universe is the foundation of ail religion. The communion of saints, the communion of tho spirits with the people on this earth, is a reality. They and we are agents of the Almighty, ALL IN ETERNITY NOW. We are all in eternity now. We will not enter eternity at some future time for doing things and the present is the time fur action. We speak of the world to come. I don’t know if there is n next world. I believe I that it is all in one world, i The kingdom of heaven is all about us. The earth is one of the heavenly bodies, seen from a distance it will be illuminated ami as beautiful as the other planets. Although it lias been hard to believe it for j the last few years, the earth is a beautiful place where men have not spoiled it. When we emit this body and go into the heavenly world, as we call it, we will take with us nothing but ourselves. We are all wedded to ourselves for eternity. We are not far separated from the other side. We arc all of one family now. Would that the mothers of America who lost their sons in the war knew and understood the condition under which their offspring now exist. Three boys are happy and busy. They arc doing their little jobs just as they have | done them here. They are all anxious that you should nut be mournful for them. TAy are anxious that yon should not be sorrowful. SPACE IS ONLY ETHER. 1 believe the ether of space is a substantia! reality with extraordinarily perfect properties and with enormous energy and a | substantiality more impressive than that of matter. Matter is made of ether. In these days of the Einstein theory it is legitimate to doubt the reality of ether. But it G always easy to doubt. The reality of everything is in the mind c n..-n. and when you get an inspired mind there is a comprehension of the universe. Our senses are animal senses that tall u« but little of the reality of things. My message to you is that those who have gone before and through the veil are all of one family. The partition is Rot a real partition. There is no gulf bcj tween us. The other life is all around us. The brain is the screening organ. During our short period on earth we have practical work to do. If our minds arc centred on the glories 1 eyoud we could hardly attend to our work here. WAR DEAD NOT LOST. Do not let a horrible thing like war break up your families. It is sad for those young fell"',vs in a way to have been cut off from their youth anil with their tasks uncompleted, but they died in a noble cause. They arc not gone from us entirely. They have merely emigrated before us. They are not disembodied. Tiny are discaruate. It is a merciful dispensation that has screened us from so vast a universe as that lying beyond. It is merciful because we can attend to our daily duties.

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Southland Times, Issue 18825, 19 May 1920, Page 7

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NO GULF Southland Times, Issue 18825, 19 May 1920, Page 7

NO GULF Southland Times, Issue 18825, 19 May 1920, Page 7

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