Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-10-12
THE LIFE AFTER DEATH.
Heaven and Hell .s Under.sood By .
rheosophsst.

Heaven and Hell ss Understood By .
rheosophsst.
c. Jinarajadasa. b. A. Cambridge. OF
Colombo. Ceylon. recently iectured on
Heaven and Hell OF Fact and Fancy"
under the auspices OF the New York
branch or the Theosophical society.
The lecturer said In part:
''All religions have Taught that when
q man dies his soul or spirit enters into
\ place or condition which IL pieasur.
Rble or painful. corresponding to what
are termed heaven and hell in the
Christian religion.
Nearly all the ideas OF heaven and
hell taught by the various religions are
pure fancy. The hot bells of Chris
tisnity and the cold hells, as taught
by some OF the eastern religions, sim
ply DO not exist Heavens and. .helIs
there are. but they are condition. of
the mind ana not localities. The man.
tai conditions cslle6 heaven ana han
can be experisneed here on earth or In
that very RAJ <honxls zftvissS3s world
into which every INSTRUMENTATION he
passes the portaIsSf deatb. ras 49,.
"Theosophy maintains that knowl.
edge about heaven and he'll can DO
obtained-knowledge as .defnite and
precise as our understanding of the
laws governing the various combine
tons OF the chemical elements. Hu.
manity In Its progress has solved many
mysteries and discovered many laws
governing the natural world. Heaven
and hell are in a way material, not
spiritual, In the sense OF absolutely
nonmaterial states, and consequently
can be studied by those who have
properly developed their inner senses,
just as science can study the properties
Of the elements.
Modern science has shown us where
the truth is to be found. The latest re.
searches of the physicists into the
composition Of matter show grades of
matter finer than any recognized by
human senses. The electrons that pen.
citrate the hardest steel IS though II
were a sponge and the ether that inter-
penetrates all matter are now Sestab-
hshed as facts. The investigators OF
scientists like Sir william Crookes and
Sir Oliver Lodge in England eshdsRk
Chef In France show clearly that ts1ebI
athy Is one Of the higher powers OF
the human mind and that man has abb
normal senses Ihithsrtes unrecoonized.
Theosophistsy hold, that we3 are avn
rounded by invisible worlds OF matter
and that trained men can observe their
constitution and life therein. This abil-
ity comes through. development' of pow
ers In man vaguely called psychic or
claIrvoyant. 80
The invisible worlds surrounding us.
observed by these new faculties. are
made OF matter finer even than the alf
penetrating electron OF science: they
are governed by laws which are lust
as natural as any in our physical.
world. They can be observed I'm fuIl
waxing consciousness; it is not neces-,
sary for the trained scientific psychic
Investigator to go into n trance or,be.
come hypnotized.. BY this method OF
investigation the so called dead are,
seen to be not far or In the stars or In
side the earth. but close at hand and
living in these invisible worlds.
In order to understand what the
after Death states Of heaven and hell
are like we must understand something
about the constitution or makeup of
man. ~y..-.--s o.
Man has several physical bodies. or.
rather, his one physical body Is a very
complex piece Of mechanism. The out.
er physical form Is composed of the
chemical clements: this outer form is
the overcoat which is cast aside at
death. The chemical clements compos-
Ing the physical body are made up of
atoms, and atoms OF electrons. accord-
Ing to-modern science. b'urther> than
this science docs mot fnlselrs. Theoso-
ply holds that the electrchs are COM.
posed OF ether; back OF ether Is astral
matter, and so on. Man inha bits, there.
fore. n physical, ethcrlc, astral sand a
mental body. ana these bodies hitter
penetrate one another. When ths ply =
ical is cast aside the etheric. astral and
mental bodies still remain. The man
nlmseif. the ego. continues to function
In them ON the planes OF nature .corre..
spending to them-roughlySsfe aksAf
heaven aud Cbcsl5 andsSsxeept Tor 1iS
physical body Ia jusA sth> same man
49, ~ ~ y kAS Aff-0sft~
"When-nfan enters this after ,desth-
state he finds no burning pit, of hell.
Hell Is only a symbol of the suffering.
that a man undergocs who longs for
the lusts and nrntitious OF the Garth
that cannot be srattHed without the-
body he has cast aside at death. He
burns within with these passions. and
his suffering lasts as long rs he has
these desires. but there is no place of
torture with devils -,Gs.,- .fz.S,ls.s.A !.
Heaven is seen to be one mart OF
this invisible world. where all. arespec-
tive Of faith. nation or age, are happy:
realizing the dreams OF happiness they
have had through affection to people.
devotion to God or love of knowledge
and OF the, arts. Whoever has done
something to help another lives In
heaven during at least a part OF his
after death condition. happy In his
own way. according to the uuselfsh-
ness of his service,"-New York Trib-
une
a RANCtiIur.,s . GOLD.