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LIFE AFTER DEATH.
“Astral Life and the
Heaven World.
At a meeting of the Theosophi- cal Society held yesterday after- noon, Mr. David Gubbay gave a lecture on "Life after Death as follows:
The subject of life after death.
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It is impossible for me to go sonses, he is paying the penalty of| through the subject of life after kannic laws which ho in his past death fully as my time is limited life must have violated by some but I shall endeavour to give you heinous crime. The wise man will summary of the fundamental therefore watch his thoughts with principles of the subject as intight the greatest care and govern them -リ lost they should be allowed to rùa by Theosophical Literaturo,
Man before he enters his immortali riot, and do evil to himself and to bodies has to pass through his three uthers mortal ones, the physical, the emotional and the mental.
The physical body consists of
is one of the most interesting solid, gaseous and etheric matter TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
themes, both to young and old which are wonderfully organised who from timo" immemorial have into cells and tissues and aro-built been continually asking: "Can any-into organs which enable the con- thing be known for certain regard-scionences to become aware of the ing "life after death?"
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British Empire Exhibition in A certain King in bye gone a whole is man's, medium for com, times always bad his nobles with manication with the physical world yard sext year. Already there him at his dinner. It happened and it is sometimes called for this Australian woods, lf not in locally
la talk of "soting a fashion" in! that on a certain occasion a bird renson, "the body of sotion." Now, made article. The possibilities flow in at one of the windows and when a man dies he simply goes appeal alike to members of the after, flying about the room flew out of his body withdrawing him-Exhib tion Commission in Aus- out and disappeared into the dark-self into the etheric double. As he tralia, the s v.ral State Forestry neas. The King's poet immediate- does this the cord connecting the Department, timber merobants ly cried: "Such is the life of man-otheric double with the dense body and fur ilu e manufacturos
its beginning a mystery: likewise is snapped and thus there is no throug out he C mmonwealth. its ending. Like the flight of that means for the vital energy to reach bird is man's swift passage on the dense body and be distributed this earth."
death.
In every religion there is a pro-through it Shortly after he with It is stated in the Western the Australian press that the Napier mise of man's inmortality and all draws from the Etherie inte tell us that death is not the end Astral Body, but the individual bim Broome syndicate announces that of Laris Sages and wise men self is in no way changed by leaving as the result of correspondence have delved into the question the body. His characters still rewith English financiers, all of the since man's creation but to many it main the same, he has same de capital required for the erection of Bugar, milk, and cotton has proved an utterly hopelesa task sires, the same emotions, the same factories, has been provided. The to solve the problem of life and intellectual powers, the same aspira-proposal is to settle a large tions, love, friendship and continues number of familice in the far Some time ago two students of to live just as before he entered north of Western Australis "to a celebrated medical college tried the Astral life. The Astral life is grow cotten, sugar and other to solve the problem of death. called the intermediate world. tropical and semi-tropical pro Thay placed a bed upon" scales he has led a He of sensuality, ducts. The syndicate will build specially invented in order to re- drunkenness or ease and luxury or a jetty and railway to, the site of cord the difference in fractions of the pleasures of the table he feels the sugar fields The syndicate an ounce in the weight of a dying the craving which he cannot gratify has acquired 1,000,000 acres #ro man before and after his death. being minus his physical body. suitable for tropical agriculture. This, they thought, would demon-This causes him to suffer and its everal thousand acres of rubber
Įtrees will be planted, strate the existence of a soul acuteness depends entirely on the Their experiments did not satisfy intensity of the desire. Gradually, { them.
So they tried another he gathers experience and over- The success of an Australian method. They placed a man who comes his desires through his in- was dying in a very dark room and ble helpers, casts off his astrid youth of 15 years (Charlton), who one of the students stood by care body, lives in his mental body and record, has attracted attention to established & world's swimming fully watching for the moment when the soul should leave the passes onto the next plane, living the activities of the Education body, whilst the other stood at the portion of that piano which is Department of New South Wales. called the heaven world. It is here Since 1916, when the department head of the dying man with thehat he meets his full reward for estabi-bed vacation swimming same intention. Suddenly one of the students cried out that he saw very unselfish work done for others schoole, more than 34,000 children The 'idéa bluish colour in his physical world and for have learned to swim. something of a
This very unselfish and loving thought of instruction in classes developed emanating from the body. may be true for when a man dier too. If he is an artist or a scientist og of the enthusiasm of certain he simply withdraws himself from or a philanthropist who had worked school teachers, who, prior to
his body into his etheric double for love he will and fulle oppor1916, devoted a portion of their vacation to teaching the young- No scientist, chemist ör patho-unities to exercise his faculties.
atere. It was fi:at attempted with logist can tell you definitely what But there is a set higher heaven 800 boys in the Sydney Domain life is though Professor Fisher, that we tower before returning to baths. None of the 800 could the president of the Royal Society earth. It is one of the laws laid swim, yet so great was the suc in his presidental address a few down that he should be reincarnated cess that the State was presently years ago anid that it lies with the time after time and lifted through engaged in the task of teaching chemist to find out what life is.
purificatory suffering and through all its students how to swim. The In the laboratory we study the increasing happiness to the highest classes are extremely popular, and transmutation of matter but know and intensest bliss of which he is the swimming contests are im- that nothing is lost in space; only capable.
portant annual ovente. that matter is converted from one form into another. Life which we
The Causal Bdy.
see then that the real man
sec manifesting as force plus who goes from incarnation to incar telligence or as we call it the Son likewise cannot be destroy-nation has one body, the causal, ed but continues existence eternal-
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A machine for ́armless men→ simple in design, and yet almost
urmed of the higher mental matter uncanny in its logenuity-s ly through many forms until it matter which never changes. I can demonstrated at a British Red Royal Botanic Gardene, Regent's has gained its experience in every liss all this, death will lear its Cross display recently in the erors or as, we shall simply look Park, organised by Sir James possible manner. Then it returns to its Creator or as the Bud-upon it as a halting station on cur Cantlie. dhists call it, Nirvana-the journey and understand that when liberation from the wheel of re- we "return to earth we must grow metal birth.
With the aid of a pair of levere attached to a
the
10 learn of God's splendour. It is table and manipulated by the impossible to learn it in one life feet, Mr. William Witt, who lost The Evidence of Scientists. In modern times we
have the of experience and we therefore re-both arms in an accident four ovidence of Sir William Crookes, turn to earth to test our powers years ago, performed a series of machine could do. These in- Sir Oliver Lodge. Alfred. Russell and fit ourselves for it. The phy-perations to show what Wallace, Sir F. Barrett, Professor sical, astral and mental bodies are!
cluded taking soup, drinking Camille Flamirion and Britain's left behind to disintegrate and new tea, peeling egg, light cigarette, working a eminent paltiac leader, Mr. Balfour, one are taken on for the next in ing late Premier of England. Are these carnation, but the causal body goes sewing machine, hammering in testimonies false Personally a from life to life, and it" in this nails, playing draughts, writing. and replacing have studied their works and firmly body that gives us our destructive typewriting. boljeve in their conclusions. You individuality. We must not forget various implements from an over" may ask me why I should put faith our lives physically, astrally and turned toolbox. The utensils and in their words. The reason is very mentally are in the hands of God tools used were ordinary ones, simple, I do not 8C0 that such who stands by as in life and death affixed to the levers by special at eminent scientists renps any benefit for He gives us the boon of renoune invention of Mr. W. J. Thompson, by spin out a tale that would bringing Heaven for a while if we
tachments. The machine, the
are an Edinburgh gas-fitter, seemed on them the World's ridicule. Notit to return to birth at once to be to be possgaard of the acumen of only have the theosophical teashing reconstructors of a defective world. & Robot.
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of Rey. O W. Leadbeater, Mra It is for us before we enter the astra) Annie Besant and others corroborat.and mental planes to learn, open ed the evidence of Parchical Re-jour eyes, see God's great plau suarchers but the fact of life after and know that we have a soul and Therefore we should death has also been established cannot dic. through the medium of well trained not mourn for those who leave the
A certain number, is as many elairvoyants. Though life after physical world, for we in our pray- death can also be proved through ers and loving thoughts are great less than 50 as four times the the study of modern Spiritualism helpers to those who have crossed number is above 50, What is the yet it is rare to find an honest and the Bar. Every one who passes will number?
rullablo medium. Moreover the know himself as an eternal spirit practice is fraught with all manner and not as the bodies that he leaves of risks and danger, Moses the behind for ho inherits a wider, a great Legislator has well laid the more splendid destiny, and grander law in saying, "Do not search the future.
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Yesterday's Answer:
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morrow,
Do no wrong, so know, no
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dead" for he woll knew the danger] Now does not this sound like to the living.A
Leraptation to the man who is tired Nevertheless it is asserted by of this world and of his life to com- eminent theosophists that there are mit suicide in order to enter into the in the above thyme, and is the great truths behind Spiritualism heavenly bliss! But the purpose only vowel in the aetence. which can be discovered by any of life is the divine scheme which man who is willingly to devote the we are compelled to understand and
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