The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-07

and gave The world the belief that the
stare IS suhaerrlent to the interests of
the individual Once the individual is
assured of survival after death. sufTcr.
lngs and pains viii become much moro
enauraple. Personality will then appear
as permanent in nature as matter or
energy From my point of view this
Is already cvidentially demonstrated
quite as effectively as is the theory Of
evolution and Will increase in strength
WIN the multiplication Of evidence .
Are a separate heaven and hell in.
d,cated oy tbe spirit messages which
You accept as gcnuine''
They quito uniformly indicate that
heaven and hell are simply states Of
mind. -
Spirit Bodies Described
What arc thc other characteristics
OF so-callod spirits, ms indicated bv
Your accepted datn7''
Human frailIics appear to be as rife
in that life as in this. There is tbs
same sort of confusion and defects OF
memoir. Spirits appear TO have TO
Get INTO an abnormal state before thev
can communicate with us al ali. Human
senses do not appear to be- perpetnated,
put methods of communication appear
20 pc the same as with us, also the
""ta'ter OF statements made. The pre-
ponaeranee Of evidence is that the
spirit body is fac similc of the hu-
man organism and it can be conicc:
tured to bc aetherial in its nature. So
iar IS we can tell, there is no difference
IN the pcrceptivc faculties save that
tneT arc actberial and not physical and
lnaf their range is far bevond ours.
Ihe" seem 10 be able TO sec INTO the III
ture, and IN some cases this process
OF proPhesy appears to resemble our
own process of inductive inference from
known facts. In other cases il is in
explcablc.
That child develops TO maturity ~
the spirit lite is the general claim Of
thc spirits who have appeared 10 raallv
communicate with man. or coerse.
there are cases where one who died ss
a child is still spoken of as child.
put TINS may be due to the thouohis
pelng transformed into a phantasm. The
spiritual life is q thought life, taking
me form of reality, just as in an
hallucInatiou. The earthly body appea, :
10 be really spiritual body that has
arranged material particles about il
self to suit the outline OF the spirit.
Kat IN the spirit life there appears 10
be no decline as in this life All of this
Is simply what the burden Of our cyi-
dcncc indicates To date and is not mv
ihulFiuual bcJrl-
Spirit Clothes n Puzzle,
'Phanlasms may be these acthoriaI
iacsImiics of human forms perceived by
what IS termed our 'subcon" cio"s mind
But thus is not yet proved, The fact
thai phantasms appear III familiar
clothes offers great puzzle and can
only be explained 10 datc by the hal
iucination hypothesis, which supposcs
them 20 be telgOathic effects OF Ii. =.
thoughts of the deceased. -
If communication between the dead
and the living became general. would
man s whole past and future be unfold.
ed to bim?'
81 doubt IT.. When deceased persons
DO apparently communicate they forget
so mach that il seems very doubtful
whether we can ever definitely con.
strucl even the past. In one commune
ration 10 nc my father said that they
observed the Sabbath day i'm that lifa
and In q moment. discovering his cr.
'or. added: 'Oh, When can | get away
from my memories! =
81; communication between the dead
md the living ever became general.
would our world probably be dominated
,r governed from tho so-callcd spirit
yorl1?f
"No. Man VIII always be left 10
york out his own salvation by his own
Individual judgment and effort.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS