Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-24
COMMUNICAT WITH THE DEAD

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Ia FUNDAMENTALLY, man is spirit jIS
L ual being, here and now. This
spiritual being is clothed upon" so to
speak, with physical body, which is
the instrument by means of which he =
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. 1t is
one of the natural processes in the evolution of
life.
The ethereal world interpenetrates all the
physical world. The horizon line of the unseen,
the incalculable, is constantly receding 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-
ferrous becomes the familiar process of daily life.
Death is merely name for the change that
iberates 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
| 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, = 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.
Where the Spirits Live
| SCIENCE teaches that the heat and light
from the sun pass through ninety-two mil
| lions of miles of space in which there is nothing
| that our senses could recognize as matter.
Light and heat transmitted by means of
| short electric waves in the universal med UNI
known as luminiferous 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 as light; when about one twenty
| 6ve-thousandth of an inch in length, they at
| feet certain nerve terminals. and are known as
heat; when about one hundredth of an inch in
length they affect the Photographic plate, and
physical eye could register the vibration of the
| ultraviolet ray, 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
1.-The dead we appear as the blind, the deaf,
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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 are to us Science has proved the exist
ence, the conditions, of this ethereal realm, and
any inquirer may 60 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 in
the physical bodyl Is spirit to spirit respon-
| sive?
| Kate Fields Communications
/ TN the winter of 1867 Doctor Hodgson and
had many curious experiences connected
with the mediumship of Mrs. Piper: He had
seances with her every Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday morning. l had frequent ones
Kate Field, who had died in May, 1885, ap-
peared to be alert in communicating-by means
of automatic writing, through Mrs Piper's hand
with DR.. Hodgson as well as with myself OF
| had been experimenting in writing letters
to her to determine if she could read them.
Some strange things, either curious coinci-
dences or else proofs that she read those letters,
occurred; but will pass over those. One dayI