New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-17
Mr. MASSEY ON THE PLATFORM
MANS pRIMEvAL SEARCH FOR HIS SOUL.
MEsMERIsM THE KEY TO TIE ANTIQUE NOTIONS
OF IMMORTALITY.

Gerald Massey, the English poet, delivered lee
+pre last night in Chickering Hall. His subject
was Man in Search of his Soul during 5O,Ooo
Years las Revealed by the Bone Caves, and How lie
Foppd IT," Mr.. Massey read his lecture, which
was listened to attentively by the small audience,
but il did not receive much applause until near us
close when the speaker referred to the men OF tens
of thousands of years who discovered their seventh
soul by spiritual awakenment," who he said were
+be cenpine interroQators of nature At the close
Of his lecture Mr. Massey said that he had been Ill
for few days, but that if he were able to speak on
Monday night he should continue his series OF lee
tures then the subject being: " The Non-liistoric
Nature of the Fall of Man, and what it Signifed as
Astronomical Mythos and Physiological Fable.
The lecture last night was in substance as follows
Since the doctrine OF Evolution has succeeded that OF
Revelation and the recognition Of Mans ascent has super
seeded The faschood of his fall the whole ground Of the
besnninS Nothing can be truly known of the human
oricnes until the doctrine of development has been APP
LIED Also before can tell what the men OF the re-
mote prehistoric thinking must be able to
read the signs they once made in the dumb show OF ior
and progentOr of human speech examples OF when nave
been 20 bs tomb We often hear Of the Mother
Earth and interior formation OF certain cairns IN
Br n c Which prove that the tomb was Representative
image OF the womb Therefore the dead some years
400 were buried with idea Of reproduction In anOther
s r. "a moi possible TO say at every stage exactly what
was the private thought Of the early butt possible
10 Their meaning was continued in Egypt and has
more or less survived in the religious ritual OF the
The conclusion that there was door on the 9lhef se
of the grave had been attained by the men OF the none
caves all probability more than 10000 years ago. INV
then did primitive archaic attain that certainty Oh
foothOd In the dark void implied by the burial CUSTOMS
including the black man and the red man. VINO mas ~
doubt about living on in his happy huhthg Brou mn
whereas so many % ,a %r tSat ra step the
dark and stumble because they eau ii n,Iu
posng there was primeva revelation made to primitive
man. which showed him. once for all, that ne was m i ~
learn how lowly. but how natural was the revelation
made to primitive man. Nor can the subject DC up i
conceying the existence OF an immortal soul have ran
sacked the myths Of the world and the leSends o is
chief races and find such thing anywhere as pc
ginning with abstract conceptions whilst inc inouc,n
man appears to have been losing ms soul TYptiaps
the Brons the IImdoOs the Ckaldeans the Gn0ttcs al
held that had seven souls The Dak0as DOIu hal man
has four souls one remains with the corpse one stays
in the village passes into the air. ana one ascehds
to the land spirits The Khonds of orissa also recog-
nize the -four souls fourold soul The Hebrew ab9ns
sometimes recognize a triple soul In the Drmnc
philosophy man Is composed OF seven SONS or ecnens
earth wafer air. vapOT. fire, BLOSSOM and the Wlnu OF
purposes Intelligent ghos-and endowed with seven
senses These are closely related To the seven com
ponent parts Of the soul in csotcrc Buddhism ana Ill
Tf P,imitiye man perceived that he came from tho
Mother and that he formed Of flesh made from her
blood that the water ana tRC reG Te Cd
ny the the motncr Of all flesh and the
blood or mystical water of life. The souls may be
Formulated as the soul Of blood csh that which took
form the soul Of breath the corporeal Sonl OF cXteI
perception; the soul Of memory or internal per
cepti6n; the soul Of pubcsccnce the spiritual soul
i'm view that we car understand the Of such an
preston being bound NJ in the bundle OF life I'm
HoS Sbc .on Of breath might be spated or blown
out mTii"N The memory might be lost forever. The
duce itself for the future life. And II the spiritual self
had failed to be copcd IN this life the ncXus was not
established between the human and the divine or seventh
soul o the series and 50 the man was gradually resolved
back into the irs element that of blood IN the red lake
For ysaf hod that the human de.irc to he repro
duccd in death is the continuity OF the divine desire to
instinct. and that those WI" ln nr own lay I'Ic,' !nc
future In great measure because thy sprn the
We can gci of the cavcmcn, We
! that they cing to the skirts Of their departing
friends and kept such relies they wCrcac oprcscryc
The primary type of pcrmoneuce the bone and this
was the first thing thai could be saved The bones Of the
| could Ne preserved ast was In Egypt and IN Mexico
The Bushmen. Hottentot+ Maori and other races -tiu
1I we , i hone Of t dead in tH likc9cs. Of ihc If
ing Aud thi, the practice OF the me, who buried The
bones covered with red ochc IN The British K, inound,of
fed religOusly eaten, and this was one cause Of
The Mosaic and other sacred writings contain no annun
citation of door % immortality, and the fact has
excited constant wOud amongst the urlH-tUcicd Eut
the subject Wa, mol taught oi Old a. h'i ~ "illlrh
preccpt matter o fact II was not the promise
of Immortality that set forth. or needed,
! when a practical demonstration considered
| attainalic in the mc.mrric mysteries, What
do YOU think 1, the use OF telling the adept
whether IIindOO buddhist, liHnc Magician, who
ucricncrs the suprunan ecstasy, that hc nl, live by
aithl He will reply thai ne lives by knowledge, and
walks hy the open sight and that another life Is thus
| demonstrated for him in this, Such the Egyptian
eighth stage Of attainment such the elimination ~
the ancient gnusls. hi, i the supreme secret Of all
secret. In the gnOsis 81 the most hidden y,tcrf only
to be fatnOmcd by those who cOnd enter the abnormal
conditions aud De a. spirits AMONG spirits IL wa- 10y
this transformation ia trance that Icdcccs p
TENS of thousands discovered their seventh soul
by spiritual aWakcnmcnt and the series eliminated
I'm what was held to be the Tlc sprull and permanent
entity They genuine intc1Ogaors Of nature. how
| ever limited their knowledge. But thcy made much al
that which the science OF to-day Is inclined 10 naE"
little Of or pOJIpOOh altogether In "a, Ignorance Of
that these abnormal conditions u the lnc-mcrc
trance have for the Interpretation OF the prehistoric
and spiritual self type OF Tie eternal The EgN tiIn-
| rcrcscutcd that winch their saw ana you may
trlst them for the truth IL this In every thing else
Nothing 4 COmnOncr among the primitive than for
dead The wOug-man, the spirit doctor OF West Africa
and uf the Karcns equally certain that they
can sec and with the ghOIt Of The departed
! winch Ia now become si-a soul. Tic matter
bccauc we them" but when asked II h" believed IN
God he shrugged his shoulders. God did demon
! stratc His existence to them as the ghosts lid.
/ For H. who are familiar with abnormal human
dtOus these facts established. They LONGER seek
! Tor acceptance recognition What they demand Is
true Interpretation, and with the truth OF their Htcrpct
lion hound the proper understanding thc primitive
| and the metaphysics OF prehistoric We
the miracles Of mi,incrprccd mythology demonstrate
the Ialul. ncxus fOI the next step upward ia human
! evolution.