The Washington times., 1922-04-20
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hodern Christianity He Glasses
as Cars That Have Be-
come Uncoupled.

NEW YORK, April zO.-Sir Ar.
thur Conan Doyle gave the second
OF his series Of three lectures on
spiritualism yesterday afternoon in
Carnegie Hall. Speaking on the
religious aspect Of the new reve-
lation," Sir Arthur pointed out the
necessity on the part Of the church
for taking. up the movement.
He likened the life of the church
to a train OF cars, the engine Of
which is spiritualism. The train
started it's journey propelled by the
engine back in the days of Christ,
then the cars became uncoupled
when the ecclesiastical element
overcame spiritualism. The trucks
kept moving, but lost momentum
continually, until at the present
day they have nearly stopped.
IF spiritualism is again attached
20 the cars. Christianity will again
go forward" he said.
Sir Arthur found the principal
trouble In making the public under
stand the movement was the ten
dency TO scott and joke. He said
lic III tbS mas "a
very unintelligent attitude, allow
ing much cheap jocularity to creep
in the news concerning the inten-
ton Of spiritualism.
Joke Is Stale Now.
THE joke, however, is getting
stale now" he said, "and we do
not care so much for II as we once
did. The change in this respect
in Great Britain has been marked
in the last five years. The press
has come to understand II as a
solemn subject. And nothing could
be finer than the way the New
York papers have treated me in the
short time / have been here.
What spiritualism needs Is
propaganda. and l am here to help
it along and bring the ideals to
you as best 1 can. Spiritualism is
gaining impetus every day. Two
hundred and seventy Episcopal
bishops recently said: 1t Is pos
confirm the existence OF the after
life When 270 bishops say this
much you may be sure the main
body of citizens have gone far be-
yond the river"
Two Bodies In Each Human.
There are in every human being
two bodies, a material body and an
ethetic body" he went on. "The
latter is a duplicate, but in spirit
form. 1t can be realized in various
ways-by clairvoyants, by being neal
death and then recovering. by drugs
and other formulae.
"A person, after death. falls into
a sleep for three days and then
wakes up to enter the other world,
which is really but one of the ex.
istences that lead up to still higher
spiritual spheres"
Sir Arthur, in describing this new
existence, explained he received his
information from conversations with
spirit forms materialiZed through
mediums.
when you are ethetic and your
surroundings are ethetic everything
appears just as real and tangible as
an earthly existence" explained one
spirit form. Everything is higher,
more glorious than on earth. Life
is very full here, and 1 am far too
happy to return"
The heaven pictured is an entirely
material place, with homes, games,
sonalities living side by side. As Sir
Arthur pointed out, however, this
world is merely one step toward the
still higher lives to come. The per-
son keeps going higher in the scale
until lost in infinity.
An interesting statement concerned
the nature of the body when reach
ing the new world.
THE ethetic body remains like the
earthly body" Sir Arthur said. 1T
grows up, however, after a time. A
child grows into maturity as on the
earth, and an older person soon be-
comes rejuvenated from his twisted
self. The man becomes a normal
age-thlrty years, and the woman
twenty-five years.
when we meet persons from the
other side" he continued, I'VE ask
them about religion-about God.
They say God is so tremendous they
can't define him any more than we
can. Christ, however, is in their
world. He is the highest spirit.
Those who deserve 1t, meet him."