The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-12-04
MYSTERY OF DEATH
SOON TOBE SOLVED
Reason and Science, Not Spiritualism
or Occultation, viii Reveal Truth
About Other World, Is Claim of
New York Woman.
BY MARGERY REX.
Written for International News

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all earthly conundrums. Who has not
wondered and pondered over the icy
enigma, the lonely last experience of
mortals, the one-way street of spir-
itual experience?
Death and the Beyond Heaven or
He'll or Nothing or Something, what
ever you believe, hope or fear
And now the efforts Of the scien-
tific world are to be co-ordinated in
an attempt at solution. Such is the
object Of the International Institute
OF Metaphysics just founded in Paris
by group of such celebrities as Henri
Bergson. Madame Curie and Charles
iRichet. The institute will start inn
mediately one school for occult prop
uganda and another for the study Of
spiritualism in all its phrases. The re-
search work will be headed by DR..
Gustave Corey, famous spiritualist,
who says:
Our scientific experiments will
soon solve beyond doubt the problems
of life and destiny"
On the very day that the dispatch
epitomized above was received from
Paris came a statement from New
York woman, writer and student of
metaphysics, Miss Ella Smith Lawson,
who declares she knows what 1t is to
die-for | have been through It,"
Miss Lawson calmly declares that
she has been in the world beyond.
She says that 1t resembles this
world; that its people are clad as on
this planet; that it is world of SER
vice, creation and work; that 1t is
governed by standards of excellence
and not by monetary rewards; that
when we reach height of reason and
scientific understanding we all shall
be able to traverse the realm.
1T happened six or seven months
ago." she began Il had been study
ing and writing continually for a pc
Rod of two weeks with scarcely any
sleep or rest. One afternoon | was
sitting in my easy chair studying and
suddenly I felt tremendous vibra-
ton. I didn't know what to think
at first. l was perfectly conscious of
everything about me.
Then / was carried across by this
vibration | was in the other world.
of which the conscious world we live
in is but half. There were two peo-
pie there, two friends of mine. You
would say they were dead but | do
not recognize such a condition as
death There stood friend of mine,
Aurelia Pierce. She spoke to me.
Il started across the room-yes,
there are rooms, houses, all these
things we have here are in he other
world too. looked down at my waist,
not too fresh (my rolled sleeves soiled
from working so hard) and seeing how
richly these two were dressed in mod
ern clothes, and realizing my appear
ance in contrast with the exquisite ma
ture Of their surroundings. my concen-
tration was fixed on these trivial
| things, and lost what they were say
| ing to me. But nevertheless, learned
much of that world. All this time
was quite conscious. / could hear the
noises in the street.-the trucks rumb-
| ling below, on the earth.
Vibration it was that accomplished
is crossing, like the throbbing of a
motor Let me explainl
"We are all so blind here because
we have had no vision in this earthly
world in which we dwell. Our exist
ence will be made complete by an I'M
derstanding of this other world, usu-
ally called the spirit world.
We can gain appreciation of all
this by complete knowledge of the
Fourth Dimension. condition of ex-
istence beyond time. space and mat
ter.
And the age of the Fourth Dimen-
sion is at hand.
THE two worlds are coming togeth-
err, not by oceultism or spiritualism.
but by the reasoning and discoveries
of pure, cold science.
ITO reach the other half of our
world we must reach a pinnacle Of
pure reason, a foundation of scien-
tific knowledge. The task needs a
free mind, great courage-then sail
on.
'Let no creed or ceremony stand
near to scare you.
I'VE have funny ideas in this world
about knowledge and ignorance. We
think the highly-educated people are
the wise ones. No, the educated and
really learned man is the one that is
closest to life. Life-it's all life-life
itself is the keynote of all this telk of
another world.
I'm the other world we shall live
differently. There will be no money
standards to make US unhappy.
Tn the other world all must ere
ate and work The rich man who had
always lived by the toll of others will
be in sorry plight That will be hell
for him because he must perform at
first the most menial tasks in order to
fit himself for service of some higher