The Washington times., 1926-02-12
SPIRITS LEAVE
HIM LUKE WARM
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writing efficiently. Hardly any car
do SO through mental channels
alone. When they do, it is FIRE
uuently an accident. Telepathy is
4 faculty that the race must and
will develop. Other super-physic
faculties must and viii be devel
oped also. Note that / say super
physical. not supernatural. There
is nothing supernatural.
Few PsychicaIly Developed
Most mediums and more fortune
tellers are either deliberate frauds
or self-hypnotized into faith in
their own baseless assertions. A
few undoubtedly have their psychic
faculties more or less developed.
Mediums here and there may
serve as channels of information.
The principle OF mediumship is not,
however. q sound one. Facts must
he obtained by the individual
through patient, persistent seeking
after them. Truth is not trans
nitted by go-betweens, whether
clergy or mediums,
knowledge of future life must
be acquired by scientific investiga-
ton. Spiritualists, who conduct
such investigation are to be COM
mended. Those who lay Down
dogmas and dicta for the rest OF
us to believe, and those who profit
eer in human hopes by marketing
their divine dope" and celestial
s.tips," are to be condemned. re-
5ect authoritarianism in religion. in
psychology and in anything else
in which the acquisition Of inforna.
ton is the desideratun. Creeds and
revelations are never sources OF
knowledge. Reason, experience and
observation have taught us all that
we actually know. 1t is safe to
say that they will teach US all
that we shall ever know.
Leans On intelligence
Immortality seems to me very
probable. Not because churches or
seances have told me so. hut be-
cause my intelligence tells me so.
Nor am / satisfied with that. I
want proof and gladly cooperate
with both n1aterialists and spirit
ualfsts who scientifically and ra-
tionalIy seek the solution or the
problem. am satisfied that science
viii eventually yield the evidences
of future Iife-also of pre-exiSt-
ence. for I believe In reincarnation.
L believe in It. do not know
ANYTHING about 1t. do not know
anyone else who, to my knowledge.
knows. although / know some who
declare that they know, and be-
Iieve many of them are sincere
and few are both sincere and
informed
The specialized energy IN the IN
divfdual must retain Identity after
death. 1t must have been in
dividualized before birth. The old
idea of immortality is absurd. for a
soul that has no end could hardly
have had a beginning. II Is little
short of laughable to argue that a
soul that never existed before. sud
denly occupies the body of an
infant. and then lives on forever.
Energy Retains Identify.
Reincarnationi the theory that
the individual ego. like the universe
itself, had no beginning and viii
have no end, Is a tenable doctrine.
So also is the humiliation theory,
that the individual ego originated
at birth and win be extinguished at
death.
Both theories are tenable, al
though that of reincarnation seems
to me much more in accord with
known facts OF physics. Call it
Theosophy and the hasty thinker
Jumps away from it. Call 1t the
law of evolution extended into the
psychic and spiritual realm
from the material, and the average
man acknowledges its reasonable
ness.
The matter of which the human
body is composed. never dies. but
changes form, accomplishing
as John Does corpse to reappear
as earth, moss, boys, etc. Is 1t
not logical that the vital, animat-
ing principle should also continue to
exist, even IL also functioning diff
ferently?
Question On TeIepatly
Open Forum:
Every once IN q Uhite I am
thinking of a tune, and my wife
starts to sing it, IN the same KEY
it's, running through my head.
We are Uery close pals and zoe
believe ats some sort of rapport.
Is there any other explanation
for this2 r. C. STRIPE,
Baltimore, Nd.
Readers of the Open Forum who
would like to explain the theory
involving Mr.. Stripes experience,
may address the Open Forum,
Washington Times.
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