New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-05
THE LIFE AFTER DEATH.
HeaUen and He'll, as Understood by
q TheOsODhist.

c. Jinarajadasa, B. A. Cambridge, of Colombo.
Ceylon, spoke a large audience at Assembly
Hall, 22d-st. and 4th-ave, Heaven and Hell
Of Fact and Fancy" last evening. The lecture
delivered under the auspices of the New-York
branch of the Theosophcal Society founded in 1875
by Nine. Blavatsky and Colonel H. S. Olcott. The
lecturer said, in part:
All religions have taught that when man dies
his soul or spirit enters into a place or condition
what IS termed heaven and hell in the Christian
Nearly all the ideas of heaven and hell taught
by the various religions pure fancy. The hot
by some Of the Eastern religions. simply do not
exist. Heavens and bells there are but they are
mental conditions called heaven and he'll can be
though Invisible world into which every ma man en-
ters when he passes the portals Of death.
heaven and he'll can be obtaned-knowledge as
definite and precise as our understanding Of the
chemical elements Humanity in its progress has
governing the natural world. Heaven and hell are.
in way, material, not spiritual in the sense OF
can be studied by those who have properly de
veloped their inner senses, just science can study
the properties Of the elements.
is to be found The latest researches of the physi-
cists into the composition of matter show grades
Of matter finer than an, any recognized by human
steel though IL were sponge and the ether
that Undergraduates all matter, are now established
facts. The Investigations of scientists like Sir
William Crookes and Sir Oliver Lodge, in England.
France,
and that man has abnormal senses hitherto un-
rounded by invisible worlds of matter ana that
trained men can observe their constitution and
life therein. This ability comes through develop
ment Of powers in man vaguely called psychic or
The invisible worlds surrounding us. observed by
these new faculties. are made of matter finer even
than the all-penetrating elecron Of science; they
governed by laws which are Just as natural as
any in our, physical world. They IAN be observed
for the trained scientific psychic Investigator to
cd of investigation the so-caIIed dead are seen
10 be not far off in the stars inside the earth,
worlds
In order to understand what the after-death
stand something about the constitution or make
Man has several physical bodies, or, rather, his
one physical body is very complex piece of mech
chemical elements; this outer form is the overcoat
men COMPOSING the hysca bov ne are ne n6 ei Of
atoms. and atoms of misunderstanding mod
take US. Theosophy holds that the eiectrons are
composed of ether; back of ether is astral matter
etheric, astral. and mental body and these bodies
cast aside the etheric astral and mental bodies
SIN remain The man himself. the ego, continues
spending 10 them-roughly speaking, heaven and
hel-and except for his physical pody. is just the
When man enters this after-death state he finds
suffering that man gndsTgoes VINO longs for the
ana 5 OF me earth that cannot be
death. He burns within with these passions and
his suffering lasts long he has these desires
but there is no place OF torture with devils
Heaven is seen to be part of this invisible
world where all, irrespective of faith. nation or
age. are happy; realizing the dreams Of happiness
they have had through affection people devotion
70 God. or love OF knowledge and of the arts
whoever has done something to help another lives
in heaven during AT least part of his after-death
unselhshness of his service. 80 ~ '''e
In this heaven world be seen the prao+
uslclans. living and active and creating music aS
or old. and the poets and artists creating works o3
genius and men and women happy in the compan
ionship and love of their dear ones Eo'