The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-11-23
GOOD SUBJECT
Is DISCUSSED
Mr.. w. l. ROGERS OF NEW YORK
SPEAKS ON do WE SURVIVE
BODILY DEATH
Before Large Audience in Windsor
Hotel Sunday Evening
Speak Each Evening.

The first Of a series OF Eve free lee
lures TO be delivered during the pres
ent week in the assembly room OF the
Windsor Hotel was neld last evening
by w. L. Rogers. OF New York City.
national lecturer for the TheosophicsI
Society. Mr.. Rogers delivered a very
good address on the subject, DO We
Survive Bodily Death"
He spoke in part as follows: In
the whole OF human experience we do
not meet with more vital question
than this II a man die. shall he live
again., About tins question are
grouped the fondest hopes and the
darkest fears OF the human race. Do
we live again?' DO we meet once
more those we have known and loved
and lost. or do we. through the door
way OF the tomb. pass to the dreamless
sleep of eternal night Do we 70 TO
extinction in the silence OF the grave.
or do we step beyond the visible
world. welcomed by the eager. waiting
hands?
TO this question. the science OF our
day gives no direct reply. II neither
anirms nor denies the hypothesis OF
Immortality. But II does furnish us
with certain facts upon the subject.
and the logical deduction from these
Facts is that we survive bodily death.
that individual consciousness Is moi
dependent upon the existence OF the
physical body. but that with the
change called DEATH we enter upon
another phase of life as real as the
one we are living now
The speaker in the course of HIS re-
marks, laid special emphasis upon the
great scientific research work con-
Quoted by the scientist. Sir William
Crookes, the inventor of the Crookes
tube, through which the X-ray mani.
tests its wonders, and who is IN
doubtedly the greatest living scientist
OF our time.
Sight and Hearing.
According TO science" he said
there is not an atom in the universe
that Is not in constant vibration.
Whatever there is. known and un.
known. must be sending forth yibra-
lions. and. mark this. IL is through
these vibrations. and only through
them. that we can be conscious of
anything beyond our arms length. for
the other physical senses are not
here available. So sight and bearing
only are seryic1ble in becoming
aware of the intahgible world about
us.
rs it not the foolish and the
thoughtless who believe in the exist
ence of the world unseen? Is IL those
who think and investigate? II is phi
losophers. poets and scientists. II is
the Hover of all the ancient civiliza-
ton that the world has produced. II
Isl the mighty intellects. of modern
time. IL is Emerson. whose great mind
grasped occult truth and gave M a
new world of intellectual wealth"
IL is the purpose of Mr.. Rogers TO
organize class in this city. Thursday
evening. in occult science. which will
meet once week. and also To organ
ize. on Thursday. lodge OF the Theo-
sophical Society in this city. which
will work in cooperation with the
main organization which has its head.
quarters at Los Angeles. California.
The final and concluding lecture of the
series will be delivered Friday even
ing on the subject The Self-Develop-
ment and the Way to Power"