THEOSOPHY.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1920, Page 4

THEOSOPHY.

LAST NIGHT'S LECTURE. At the Theosophical Hall, New Ply. mouth, on Sunday evening, a large audience gathered to hear Mr. H. Banks, national lecturer for the -Theosophical Soi ciety in New Zealand, deliver his last lecture of the scries on tho topic of "Realms Beyond the Grave." The lecturer based his description of after-death states upon the published records of highly trained investigators with acknowledged spiritual vision, who have clearly indicated how first hand experience of super-physical worlds may be acquired by those who care to make the necessary effort. Many students have testified to successful results upon, following the prescribed Briefly stated: After death, man ewt» of his outworn garb of flesh, and assumes a vesture composed of material many times finer than ether—-called desire material—hence invisible to mortal eye. This body is the familiar dream* robe which now he occupies the whole; time, and he finds to his delight that il is not subject to disease, fatigue, or cident; is impervious to I - unaffected by extremes of heat or is propelled with the speed of so that he may travel to a limitless tent, and in every way greater and power of expression are Jiis in thhSP body. The result of his age-long here is the enrichment of the soul, who, by the process of profound contemplation upon the experiences of his last life on earth, distills added wisdom, and weavos new faculty, for the resumption in his next birth of the sublime task to which he lias set his hand—the attain* ment of perfection. This evening a public question meeting will be held at -ight o'clock m thq TheosoDhical Hall.