The herald., 1896-06-01

I their relatives at the time Of their de-
parture; and many persons have re-
ceived letters from their parents stat
ing that they felt their children were in
some trouble, and there was trouble at
the time when the parents felt 1t.
The Gospels report several cases OF
telepathy in the life of Christ He cured
the Centurion's servant at q distance
by his word. He sent out hts divine IN
fuences and vitalized the patient. The
daughter of the Syro- -PhOenician woman
was cured by Christ without seeing her.
He felt that Lazarus was dead, although
no report of the death had reached him.
He knew what his disciples and others
were thinking about. All these facts
are telepathic. Ananias and Paul were
brought together in Damascus by tele-
pathic influences; and Paul was sum
moned by telepathy to preach in Mace
donia.- Peter visited Cornelius through
telepathic influences. The facts of tele-
pathy are so numerous and strong that
no one can deny that one mind is some
times affected by another at great
distance from it; and yet the law by
which these phenomena are produced
are unknown to us.
Persons have undertaken to make the
conditions through which mental COM
munion could be established between
minds in different parts of the globe
They have arranged to sit down in ST.
lence at these distant points at the
same hour and mediate on some sub
ject thinking of one another: and then
they report what they were thinking to
see if one party affected the mind of
the other party. These effortsihaveJnad
little success.
Telepathy Is a law Of the universe:
but so far it does not seem that we can
know it so that we can use it to carry
our messages to one another in this
world. Prayer is telepathic. We pray
for people whom we have never seen
as we'll as for our dear friends; and
these people live far away from us. We
expect that our prayers will exercise
certain influences upon these people
through God. When we use the tele-
phone we make our connections with the
persons we wish to communicate with
through the central office. We pray in
the same manner We send our petit
tions to the central office of the uni
verse. believing that through it con-
nections will be made with our friends.
and that our prayers will become bless
ings to our friends. This is telepathic.
Catholics, and Jews, and others, pray
for their dead, according to this tele-
pathic law. They do not know where
their dead friends are. They know only
that they are somewhere in the universe.
They trust God. the central heart of the
worlds, to make connection with their
friends so that their prayers may reach
and help them in the new life. Prayer
for the dead maintains a kindly and
religious interest with the unseen world.
In the Bible there are many stories of
angelic telepathy; 1t is not irrational
to believe that angels suggest thoughts
to human beings in this world. They
did so in dreams and visions in ancient
times. Our feelings, thoughts and deeds
are registered in the universe. The in
fiuences of our lives go out into, space.
and are guided by infinite wisdom and
care to our eternal homes to be our
| treasures that neither moth nor rust
| can corrupt. and that thieves cannot
| break through and steal
| If telepathY be not q. fact and law,
| then a great deal of religion is neither
| a fact nor a law; for prayer is the as
sumption that we believe In this law.
| and that our life-inf!uences go to some
| place in the universe by this law. Cranks
| and insane persons may say and do fool
| ish things in the name of telepathy Dut
| these foolish things cannot destroy the
| fact that under certain conditions we do
! communicate with each other over some
| spiritual wire.
| In the life to come we may see that
| the inhabitants of planets can hold men
| tai correspondence without any visible
| medium. Christ taught that weak souls
have angels. looking on the face of God
| A4t
our lives. They see us and think of us.
The dead pray for us. wish us well. re-
| ioice at our success in righteousness and
| happiress Christ certainly taught that
| we can make angels happy and surely
they wish US WELL but that wish Is
prayer Christ is praying as of old Tor
the success of His Gospel. The worlds
are telepathicaliy connected. and the
| Gospel teaches this grand fact of the
| universe.
Theosophicsi
| DR.. Allen Griffiths, the Pacific coast
| lecturer on Theosophy, spoke at ODD Eel
| lows hall yesterday morning. He salu
| in part:
THE prevailing conception that sui
j eide ends all by annihilating the indi-
| vidual consciousness, or that II is the
| exit of the soul from this and entrance
to another better world, is wrong. Sui
! eide is a crime from the corresponding
punishment of which there is no escape
The crime consists in impeding the soul
| evolution by cutting short its present
opportunities for that evolution. a sui
| eide is as much alive after his violent
act as before. He is for time as fully
conscious of earthly affairs, and the
actions of his former associates aS
ever, but because he has destroyed hi!
physical body, which is the appropriate
physical instrument for functioning up
on the material plane-thiS earth-hi:
power of action on that plane is nil. He
awakens after the first rude shock o
his violent action to as full conscious
ness of earthly events as before, bu
finds himself entirely unable to taxi
part in them, or to make his presence
and wishes known unto his erstwhil'
friends. At first he does not realize hi
impotence but gradually and surely /
dawns upon him, and then he is tortured
by regret. which surpasseS the poWe
of language to describe. He linger
about his former haunts and friends
and eXhausts time and energy in fulfil
attempts TO attract attention and en-
gage in former pursuits, until he realize
the utter futility of such efforts, where
upon ensues a state of abject ard hor
rible despair. If he suicided at 80 year
of age and the term of his natural lif
| would have been 60 years. he will re
main, without possibility of escape. il
this terrible mental agony for 80 years
! In other words, by violently hurlin
himself out of his physical body, he no
only does not escape the ills which fles
is heir to- but takes all these ills wit
him and flies to others he knows not o1
a thousaudf fold worse and more numer
Gus, from which there is no possibility o
escape until the term of what woul
have been his natural life has expired
Heaven and hell are states of conscious
ness, not localities, and the suicid
makes a Veritable hell for himself
hell of mental anguish and torture, bot
before and after the act.
The postmortem state and period q
| Eg..,,. lit I