PSYCHICAL SCIENCE AND THE SOUL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 1 December 1915, Page 4

PSYCHICAL SCIENCE AND THE SOUL.

Bearing the title, “Startling Facts of Modern Science Regarding Man’s Soul,” the first of a course of lectures on “the theory and practice of spirit intercourse 7 was given recently hy Mr J. Hewat McKenzie in the Music Hall, George Street, Edinburgh. Mr McKenzie said psychical science had proved that man had a soul,which was separate from his physical body, The soul was organic, and continued to live after the death of the physical body, but while the soul as a spiritual reproduction of the body was more solid and concrete than the physical form, it was so fine that it was invisible to ordinary eyesight. It was discernible only in a crystalised form. That was rather a tall story to tell, but the ordinary Christian was prepared to believe that the very same thing happened in Palestine 2000 years ago, and ;he assured them it was occurring every day. Psychical science had revealed that the soul could be photographed and weighed, both before and after the death of the body. At death, the soul of man weighed from a quarter to one and a half ounces, and an hour or two afterwards might weigh less than onesixteenth of an ounce. Every living thing had, a soul, through the powers of which the physical body was held as a living and vital whole against decomposition. On the death of the physical body the soul rose to its allotted sphere. Study of spirit intercourse would establish the reality of a spiritual w r orld not discerned by the coarser physical senses, and that the so-called dead were alive and were able to communicate with persons on earth.