Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-19
THE GREAT BEYOND
GL|MPSED BY LODGE
Sir Oliver Says Surprises Await
the Dead; Believes Souls Have
Bodies Over There.

we look like after we go to 1t and the
power we retain tn forcscc and Influence
events on this planet.
He offered specific evidence for his
views in three cases; the recollcctions oi Q
man who nearly died while under al
anaesthetic and believed that his spirit
for n while was detached from his body
indications that Mrs. Piphcr, the medium
in her frances saw the dead with whom she
communicated, and report on conditions
i'm the hereafter dictated by dead father
| 10 n young woman who did automaue
/ writing.
MAN HAS TWO BODIES.
We have two bodies, the one that lives
on food. catches the "flu'' and finally re-
turns TO dust and another one OF ether,
which is perfect and permanent, IN the
opinion of Sir Oliver. II we could see it'
t our ether form would look about the same
as the other one. He reached this CON
clusion. he explained, because ot the iact
/ that Mrs. Pipher, In the TRANSITION stage
after coming out ol trance but before re-
/ turning TO normal. could pick out the
nbotograpbs of the dead persons she had
| been talking To from among dozens oi
! others. After she WAS quite herself again,
/ however. Mrs. Pipher could not recall
/ ANYTHING about the person IN the other
/ world with whom she had been taking
| While believing that this established That
! We retain our shape, size and genera
appcarancc in the ether body which We
| carry To the other world Sir Oliver offered
| no opinion rs TO the manner IN when the
ether body is clad or any detail about us
use or possible further development In
fhe hereafter. From spirit messages how
ever. he concluded that the spirits found
the body more useful and efficient than
the machine of flesh which they formerly
/ had.
Dr.D srRpRrsED At NENT WORLD.
Tho dead are surprised. he said, not by
the strangcncss of their new Surroundings
but nv the fact that they find their habita-
tion n good deal like earth They have, for
,nstanc.,. animals. trees and flower They
have other things which we have not, but
these other objects. his conclusion WAS, are
so different that they cannot be approm.
mated to- anv of our conceptions, anu
spirits generally fail inseekng to describe
them in the vocabulary of earth Those
who have died most recently, he SAID, are
more ant to tell through mediums OF the
familiar things which they find where they
are Those who have long been IN the
other state. develop more interest IN whas
IS strange and unearthly and strive IN
their interworld conversations TO Gve US
,nkiinps of them. but our speech generally
Drovcs 10 be n non-conductor for such
ideas.
Sir Oliver guarded against being under.
stood 10 deny heaven or hell, but saiu
we proceed Immediately TO a local stop
place which is neither. If we could get
into communication with SAINT or .
spirit of evil. he said, we might IND nun III
heaven or hell, but the run of men go TO .
place hike earth. although more elevated
The universe and our past and future
states or existence, according 10 the
lecturer, are organized on basis OF $40"
evolution. There are no sudden Jumps,
he asserted.
FEELS LIKE HOME COMING.
s'You don't feel As If you had come 10 a
strange place, but as if you had come
home the dead father, who communi-
Gated with his notwithstanding daughter
was quoted by Sir Oliver a. saving. TINE
of the things | have learned here IN THESE
months since have come here Is the I'M
,nense power OF thought. Every hard
thing YOU say or feel for another makes
your path and his harder. had no notion
how much effect we have upon each other
the living and the dead. our pain Is
ours: our Joy may he yours.
The more. you realize your nearness,
so rnI,ch the nearer we can come. Pray
for us all. living and resurrected here
a great bond between Us. All my HE on
eaTth i "a clear here. can unron II like
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Sir Oliver dealt with predictions sup
posed 10 be made through mediums 20 the
departed. or what is generally called
fortune telling He said that the dead
naturally had control over the same meth
ods OF prediction, based on Judgment or
eknowledge. that we have on earth, As I,
wise man can frequently predict future
hspDenings from his knowledge OF char
acter and factors affecting human action
or as a railroad manager could predict
that a new fast train would run over hls
road on a certain date, when he intended
TO put such n train on the schedule.
SPIRITS AS sooTHsAYERs.
With disinterested and clearer views on
human character, and greater under
standing Of human events, spirits could
well have the power 10 same better pre-
Chctions than the living The clear eye OF
the spirit might diagnose a DANGEROUS
disease, rs yet unknown to the v1ctim, or
foresee a combination of circumstances,
not apparent on earth, which would IN al
probability bring some event to pass.
Further than that. they had to some ex-
tent the power 10 influence events so as to
make good what they foretold. Sir
Oliver said. however, that he was battied
bv the accomplishment of predictions
which went further than this. When j
spirit said that on gwen day and hour
and at a certain place tram wreck would
occur. the subject presented diiilcuIties
He sa id that he could not see how de-
dlctive reasoning could put spirit into
possession of such Information in advance,
and that he did not believe a spirit would
exercise what power it might have to
cause such catastrophe.
DEAD CAN RESIST EVIL.
All predictions, even those of the dead,
he asserted, were subject to change, If
unforeseen circumstances intervened. There
is no such thing rs predestination, ac-
cording to the lecturer. Any person for
whom evil things are predicted should re-
member. according to Sir Oliver, that his
will is free and that he can resist and often
elude the blow which is prepared for him
Vigorous human action can change the
of future event, which seems
most likely to the spirit, because of the
accumulation of probabilities visible to |
the ghostly faculties of the prophesier.
The interest of the dead in things on |
earth gradually lessen before engrossing |
il their new life. except |
where q spirit threads his way back earth |
ward on missionary work.
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