The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-17
WHAT AFTER DEATH?
CLOSING LECTURE BY BURCHAM
HARDING LAST NIGHT.
Many Torture Themselves Unneces-
sarily Respecting Death, the Fear
of Which is Solely Founded on
Ignorance.

Last night Bureham Harding gave
the concluding lecture of his series. Not.
withstanding the inclement weather the
audience was not small. The subject of
the lecture was What Happens After
Death After short introduction Mr..
Harding said:
MANY torture themselves unneeessar-
lily respecting death. Setting out with the
proposition that nothing can be known
after the breath leaves the body, they
conjure up dreadful possibilities, and
mus death is feared, This fear is founded
the un G ,sr,o'5 Tbeo oney are AFRAID of
TINS ignorance and the dread arising
rom IT, An explanation is given of
mans nature. showing what the change
called death really is, and traces the
immortal man into and through the states
after death, until once more he is re-
porn on earth.
The authority for its doctrines is very
great All the leading teachers of old
were agreed upon the facts. Read the
sacred books OF the Hindoos, Chinese.
PeIsians' Egyptians. Greeks and Hebrews
DAY, sases. Initiates and masters who.
py great purity of life and entire deVo-
uon 10 helping suffering humanity, have
acquired greater wledge than is COM
mon among human beings. These have
been able TO pass into these states and
bring back knowledge concerning them
hheosophy asks no one to accept any
determine for himself upon the evidence.
STATES AFTER DEATH.
The states after death may be divided
into two, Kama LOca meaning the place
Of desires and heaven. When the body
Is thrown off after death we are in Kama
Loca, another state of matter around this
earth, invisible to the physical eye, but
TO some ciairvoyants. After a
period there, another death takes place
and the soul awakens in heaven. remain |
ing until il reincarnates into another |
body on earth. Earth life is very impor- /
tant. for in it all new thoughts and as
piratiOnS are formed, every action leaves (
a thought as a seed, habits are acquired /
and character built After death nothing
life is lived over again. The states after /
death are thc reflection or the reproduc-
ton OF the last earth life. Heaven is to |
make the harvest of life immortal in the
waking hours Is always active, sometimes
,reating thoughts of a lower nature, n
ger. envy. hate and jealousy We put
much thought into natural things OF
iaily life and business. At other times
)ur actions lead 10 thoughts of love- |
oity and compassion, desires to help our
elioW man ana aspirations of a higher
nature. The book of the recording angel
5 Il real thing, no thought nor act but
s recorded. Thus at death we have built
lp a thought body which is a harvest
f a lower nature. When the physical
ody is discarded this passes into Kama
soca.
I'm this state the lower thoughts are
brown off, that the higher may be re-
aased to pass TO heaven. The length
{ stay depends upon the strength and
itality put into the passions and desires
uring earth life The dominant desire
ormed on earth has full sway, we are
without will, automatons
ID hither and thither by the leading de
ire. II attached to friends we shall be
ear them, and can sometimes be seen
they are clairvoyant The desires
radually lose energy, for there is no
ody though which to repeat them,
IN escape and awaken in heaven. Those
ASSIGNS and desires represent our sins.
lat part of our character which has not
Fl been conquered. Dying relieves US of
turn to earth and are taken up in an
her body, and we continue struggling
it'll them. We return TO earth until the
wer desires are completely controlled
SUICIDES IN KARMA.
Victims of capital punishment and sui
des are conscious in Kama Loca. The
lrious PRINCIPLES OF mans constitution I
e born to cohere together for certain
~iod BY violent death he may get
] of the physical body, but the real
an. the thinker is not dead. only trans
rred to Kama Ioca. and VIII remain .
Inv conscious and active in that sphere
It'll he should have died in a normal
~ Full of anger. hate and revenge,
ey float about in the sphere of the
nd and the senses. seeking sensitives,
ediums and weak-minded people, that G
ey may control them to carry out their :
n ideas of rage and revenge upon hui
unity When the occult side OF mans
ture is more generally understood, cap
/ punishment viii he abolished.
Nov heaven is reached. the place of
It and reward for the soul-essentially
state of happiness. Its duration, we are
d. varies greatly for individuals. the
craze being from 1000 to 1900 years.
re the higher thoughts alone are pres
l. At death the whole past life is re-
wed. and the keynote is struck of it's
ninant trend and aim. Divide the past
into two. that part appertaining to
ndane and selfish affairs which have
n left in Kama Loca. and the higher
,irations and thoughts which form the
IS of heavenly existence. AS in a
am, friends and scenery are vivid and
!, so are we in heaven surrounded by
thoughts until the soul assimilates
m and they become permanent as
racter. The thoughts of earth life are
DIS which take root and grow in
ven. all that relates to the soul bios
rs there. We live surrounded by the
nds of earth life, repeating past ex-
fences. We left the lower nature in
ma Loca; our conception of it is lost.
nds are therefore localized Bodily