The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-09-28
"DEATH AND AFTER
TAe0sophy's View 81 What Lies =
youd the Grave.

PettIs' hail was crowded last night Vii
an audience that sat through an horsI
lecture and A half hour or hearing answe{
10 questions bearing on thecSorhy, al
then seemed reiueEan, 20 leave. The oce,I
sion WAS the second lecture Ia the sersd
of FIVE given by the Countess wackA
rneisier. Her subject was Death and AL
ter IL was handled in a manner to q
people thinking. and the assurance WI
which the lecturer spoke Of the future "a
and the soui-ali on the scientific haslsl
was startling. A question asked at III
end of the lecture. inqulring OF the connlt
ess by what right she assumed 10 kns{
more Of the future life than the camhirsl
scientific world. brought this wildly III
fore the mind. Her answer was tina, Il
scientists devoted their attention 10 III
objective. physical side OF life. they weI
not competent 10 speak of tho subjected
side. where this knowledge OF the afs}
death state could be obtained.
Death. said the lee ture-, was viewed All
fsrently by different peoples. The natty.1
of the Orient do not fear death Al al
They lie down 10 die with no more eorl
Germ than they compose themselves !
sleep. The reason was that they believed
IN a rehlrth--re.rcarnaf son--and that ths4
had a soul which could not die. Selthsi
does the massTl2lsss fear death-~he does 81
believe IN hereafter Nor does the eec.l
TO whom death is bat the door TO hlinl
Bat these who believe death 10 be pun
ishmeni for sin fear IT,. The fear Of het
is back Of the fear OF death.
The lecturer went into description d
the death state--citfng cases OF person1
who had been resuScitafed. and he'd
death 70 them had seemed a delveraaesI
a breaking away from the prison-hoas@
Of the body. and how against their N
the magnetic chord that stili held them Il
the body was strong enough 10 draw thsu|
back into IL. To understand death 4
was necessary that men should kno3
they have souls. That men have sogIj
was proved by magnetism by which III
soul consciousness was temporarily stIl
arated from the body and enabled to 81
certain Information at long distances|
such information TO be afferward vcrin |
by the ordinary means of communicated
That this was a fact had been proved d
many Ia ali parts OF the world I'd
Affirmative evidence OF one man whJ
knew WAS OF greater moment than III
evidence of dozen who did not kncsl
What the minority know. ard not whai
the majority do not know. Is accepted 4
evidence hy the world
'rssth." said the countess, lis the Will.
drawing OF tno consciousness from ous1
things 20 inner fields OF perception with3
and the beginning OF a new plane Of n
fstenee," Spanking Or suicide, II was n
scFib@d ~ most terrible SIM the takiEj
away cf "a Goigiyeu life. and the horri
Of the soal 10 ana Itself more alive thaj
IL had ever been in tho physical body ed
doomed 10 carry ia life burdens v-hieh
sought 70 escape by death vas viy.di
portrayed Wha. a man sowesi that \
woula surely reap. whether the harys4
was good or EVIL. and again and again
was mans sot 20 return 10 earth lie. hid
10 gather fresh exsserf sHee ard ttrousl
evolution. az sast 20 attain 10 the iiyla
consciousness OF she perfected soul
Speaking Of the return OF the dead al
our desire % corr rsunacate with oar loss
ones. thu lecturer deprecated this eom]
rnunicat.en. for The reason that death, "A
ing fse door 10 freedom and life On othd
planes. Il retarded our friends IN ,hls eyd
laffso1 10 call them hack 10 earth II wal
true that we could through oar own xoess
purified and naa,ss ut. communicate vii
the souls az the departed in The devachsn|
state 'T41.s state. this heavenly condttlcs
was described as the realization OF our "A
sires here, olsf thu progress we made
that condition was not on new Tines. ID
the old lines Of the earth life aew ss|
persenees had 10 be got through n
tnsArBa ton on the physical plane.
oa Thursday evening. October /. IA
countess wlll speak I'm the same hall i
: o'ct0eA, on Man aa5 Woman. the Ma
tsss ~ T'helr Own Deattnies" The cous
tess wiij also % present az the meet a
% Amanda Lodge. ~ r-w Yesser building
on Wednesday evening.