Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-28

memory and understanding. In palmer En-
giish 1t would be ghost. The point am try
ing TO make Is that we have in us ghost, which
ordinarily is confined to the contour Of our
physical body and which at rare Intervals NAV
De lncompletely separated therefrom. When
tnus lncompletely separated it constitutes a
veritable 'phantasm of the living Com
pieteiy separated it is the ghost Of ordinary
language and the mans body is dead.
ST. PAUL AS AN AUTHORITY.
"There was theosophist or spiritualist who
lived about the time of Christ, whom you may
have heard of, named st. Paul, who had some
thing to say about natural and spiritual
bodies. If any of our religious friends are
shocked at my handling such a subject from
the attitude OF the scientist beg leave to turn
about and present myself to you as a deeply
rellglous person who finds in the word of God
some corroboration of what he has ascertained
from scientific inquiry. There is natural and
spiritual body says st. Paul That spiritual
body is what am talking about Common
people call il ghost. When it is partly on.
of the living body it makes phantasm; when
1t has departed forever from the body it leaves
that body dead and probably takes to itself the
soul or spirit of the individual know of no
a priori reason why the spiritual part of o dead
person should not exercise the functions of
Will, memory, understanding and other es-
sentlal attributes of consciousness If SO what
is commonly called 'immor tality' would be thus
far demonstrated. helIeve it to be true that
after the sci aration of the ghost from the
physical body the former continues in con-
scious existence-for how long time it would
be folly for any one to pretend to decide. The
basis of such views as have Of another life is
mainly what I positively know to be
true regarding the nature, functions and at
tributes of the spiritual body within us. am
inclined to 60 one step further and say that all
real life is spiritual, and that here and now we
are leading q life absolutely dependent upon
svoir ia nd nfha
words, we are here and now already in the
spiritual world, as well as in contact with the
material world, the instrument of which con-
tact is our physical body. A mans body may
be defined as the apparatus of relation between
his spiritual self and his material environment
REAL AND UNREAL.
81 have myself seen on more than one occa-
sion phantasms of the living which appeared
and acted precisely as the individuals might
have looked and acted had those individuals
been materially present. How, then, did l
know that they were apparitions and not real
persons! Partly from the mode of their ap-
pearlng and disappearing, under circumstances
which-as for example, locked door-ren-
dered it impossible that a material
body should present itself then and
there. Such phantasm appears something
IKE figure thrown upon a screen, which can
be recognized for a few moments and then dis
appears. 1t has every appearance of solidarity,
w tiie eAtelt VI HluinC ODJectS Denlnd 1t as q
natural body would; likewise it is capable of
being viewed in more than a single aspect, on
change of position by the percipient. 1 have
never heard phantasm speak, but have re-
ceived an Ineligible and valuable message
from one, conveyed by attitudes and gestures.
1.-THE conscious voluntary projection of a
phantom is in my judgment an extremely rare
occurrence. l have sometimes taken what
believed 70 be the proper steps to produce such
an effect, and have subsequently, been in
formed that my attempt was successful.
In the vast majority of cases, how
ever, apparitions are spontaneous and
involuntary. Being thus not subject to the
will they are often not known at the time to
have been produced by the person 80 project
ing. AS a matter Of fact they ordinarily re-
suit from states of great mental perturbation,
with the cause of which perturbation the in
dividual to whom the phantom appears is in
some way connected, as, for ex-
ample, intense solicitude for a friend
or relative supposed to be in great
danger. The most startling cases are those
which occur at or about, a little before or a
little after, the death of the physical body of
him or her who thus projects the phantasm
A majority of the best authenticated cases
have occurred In connection with and at about
the time of the death Of the individual.
AT THE TIME OF DEATH.
'For example, let us say that A, shipwrecked
in the Pacific ocean, is struggling for his life
in the waves. B, his wife or mother, is in