New-York tribune., 1909-10-24

speak. with a physical body, which is F1
the instrument by means of which he g
relates himself to the physical world.
By means of this physical body he IS
able to enter into the conditions of the present
phase of life. The change we call death IS SIM
ply the emerging from this outer body. IL IS
one of the natural processes IN the evolution oil
life
The ethereal world Undergraduates all the
physical world. The horizon line of the unseen
the incalculable, is constantly recedlng and we
are increasingly utilizing the ethereal forces
All these are part of the conditions OF which
communication with the dead " IS one OF the
possibilities. Between the physical and the
ethereal realms there are no hard and fast lines
1t is all matter of what Swedenborg calls
discreet degrees. The territory of the unknown
IS conquered and becomes the known; the myS-
terious becomes the familiar process OF daily lie
Death is merely a name for the change that
liberateS the ethereal body from the physical
body This ethereal body is in the same cor
respondence with the ethereal world that the
physical body is in with the physical world. 1t
is merely the natural environment. Man IS
spiritual being temporarily clothed IN physl-
cal body, his instrument by means OF which he
comes into relation with the physical world,
the sole object of which. during his entire So
journ, is to develop his spiritual forces,-his IN
tellect, his powers of achievement. BY the
process we call death he is released from this
| physical body and environment.
| SCIENCE teaches that the heat and light
~ from the sun pass through nlnety-twO mill
| lions of miles of space in which there IS nothing
| that our senses could recognize as matter.
| Light and heat are transmitted by means of
| short electric waves in the universal med um
| known as 1uminiferouS ether. This ether fills
| the infinite space between the heavenly bodies,
| and the space between atoms, as air fills the
| space between falling drops of rain. When
| these electric waves are about one ffty-thOu-
sandth of an inch long, they affect the eye and
| are known light; when about one twenty
| fve-thousandth of an inch in length they af-
| feet certain nerve terminals, and are known as
| heat; when about one hundredth of an inch IN
| length they affect the Photographic plate, and
! are known as ultraviolet light Now, II the
| physical eye could register the vibration Of the
| ultraviolet raw, we should see this ethereal
| world and our friends in the ethereal body who
| inhabit it.
The blind do not see those about them, be-
| cause the eye does not register the vibration Of
| light The deaf do not hear, because the ear
does not register the vibration of sound To
the dead appear as the blind, the deaf,
and the dumb do to us. They stand by US. and
we do not see them; they speak and we do not
| hear and as we do not hear, we do not answer;
| and so we are practically as the blind deaf, and
dumb to us. Science has proved the exist
ence, the conditions, of this ethereal realm, and
| any inquirer may 90 to such authorities as SIR
| William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge. Professor
Zollner, Professor Dolbear, and other scientists
| Now, the question arises, Can the man in the
| ethereal body communicate with the man in
the physical body? Is spirit to spirit respon-
| sive?