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W AFTER DEATH A PROVABLE
; FACT, SAYS SIR OLIVER LODGE
j, rUr1 Oliver Lodge says:
i "The (turvivnl by man of what we call death cuu be M-ie.iUtiriill.v iiroveu.
j It Iihh been (leinonstrntctl beyond any doubt that vc can i-oiiimunicuto
vlth those who hnc died.
AVc do not so straight to heaven at death. Neither do we so straight
to hell.
Life "over there" is one of progress.
Thee on the other side are eager to rnmmmik'ute with their friends lieie.
Three, ueeessary conditions to communication arc : First, a medium, nu
Individual who poiwcMrs psychic power : second, n control, one on the other
side similar to a medium here; third, the romi.uniioiitor, or the intelligence
who sends the message. ,
There is no end of rubbish communicated. It requires a putieut sifting
of all the evidence to get at the truth.
We arc making the character here on earth that we must live with over
.there,
Involution is not necessarily progress ; it may ul-o mean retrogression.
The wnr has sent millions of joung men out of life. They are all eager
to let their friends on this side know thej are happy. There are n few
miserable ones.
t Sir Oliver believes that Doctor Comvell actually communicated with his
wife's spirit, and is anxious to talk with the eminent Philadelphia divine
absut his experience. He sajs it is in line with other spiritual revelations
since the war.
He warns against dishonest mediums and i:dvios work with private
persons who possess psychic power
SIR OLIVER LODGE SA YS SURVIVAL
AFTER DEATH CAN BE PROVED
K;
.'Continued from rnte One i portnnit.v. and it was the fraud and im-
, 'I have learned, the life 'over there' is position that vvejudbed me aeainst the
'one of progress. belief. Then there is so much to be
' "It is a great error to end one's . guarded against; there is telepathy
life ove- here. We should not be in both of the dead md the living; the nc-
a lutrry. livery man should end his tion of mind on mind : tile dre.tm strnt-i
Job Jhere and not hurl himself nto the i f the human mind that olteti uiter-
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"I hnve explained." went on Sir Oii-
rt vcr. "the mechanism of the survival of
. , personality iu the persistence of tha
,, ethereal part of ninn. As to communi-
. ' cation, from the other side it must come
through huinnn agency here. Those who
do not understand or do not want to
understand say that we 'call up' spirits.
We do nothing of the kind. Those
on the other side are eager to get in
communication with their friends. Wc
could not 'call them up' even if we
desired. Particularly since the world
war the joung, strong, virile men who
Tirivc becu so suddenly hurled into th"
other world are eager to get the word
over here that thev still live "
Sir Oliver then took up the question
as, to the character of communications.
T asked him ns to its mechanism, the
"bow" of getting messages across.
Medium Is Necessary
"There are three necessary condi
tions to communication. Kir-t. tlu
medium on this sid". A medium is an
' individual who possesses psychic
power. It doesn't mean a weak-niind-fd
person, either. Not ever one has
psychic power. I haven't n bit, but
several of mv daughters have. Siv
oud, a control. Thi- I gather, is some
one on the other side similar to the
nuJhim here, and third, the communi-
caior. That is the spirit or intelligi u(c
tint sends the message. The control
over there, the individuality that con
trols the medium, can be likened to a
telegraph operator who transmits the
"message intiusted to Inm." said Sir
Oliver.
"Where there are many spirits striv
ing to communicate, they apparently
confuse the control, and then wueu,
in addition tin subliminal mind of the
medium line jet, active, meaningless
confused and foolish . Messages
through.
"Skeptics, or rather unbelievers,
complain the-e is so inue'i of this. I
cay mi j self there is no end of rubbish
I'Oinmuulcntcd. It 'equiies a patient
sifting of nil of the evidence to get
at the truth
veni to confus" and render messnges
unsatisfactory and meaningless " ,
In reply to the question whether
or not the messages come from re-
leased earthly spirits or from spirits
from the higher spheres. Sir Oliver
frankly expressed the belief that tliov
were earthly. "And vet T do not
know." lie says, "the spirits of highc
spheres in communion with (tod do not
come into the earthly spheio. tliongl
they can influence those of the carth'
sphere. I gather from my communica
lions." I
"Are the spirits enmmuuicatius
with earth able to forecast the fu 1
ture?"
"Those who have recently gone ove-?
No. It is possible that tlio-e who are
older in the spirit life may hold some
power of prophecy and may communi- i
cate it to some on the earthlv sphere.
Rut I cannot sny definitely. I want to
maintaiu an open mind on the subject.
I don't want to dogmatize on it now." ,
Then he continued : i
"There are two methods of predic
tion Kiisrlv. inference from the pres
ent. The doctor predicts that a patient '
will die within a certain period. lie in
fers that from conditions. Another
method is b planning, working to pio
duce effects and then predicting vvliutj
thev will be. Spirits may have n wider j
vision than we. lint it is not well to i
build 'on suih structures. Ueyond this
1 cannot saw
"You btliee. then. Sir Oliver, that
wc do not all go to one heaveu or sphere
of life over there?"
"I believe that the general run of
people on earth are not lit for the be
atific visiou. They do not get to heaven
for a long time. The saints ma.v , but
we are not all saints. It i like u classic
concert. Some of us niiiv like it, but
the others prefer vaudeville. Ilncli one
urns- I KOCs to his appointed p'ace in the world
be.vond. M'veruiciess, nankiua is in
touch with the highest by prayer, the
ofteuer we pia the Letter it is for Us."
communicated by him. He warned
against dishonest mediums and advised
work with private persons who
possessed psychic powers.
Another interesting statement was
that nil communications were not triv
ial even though they appeared so to
those who wanted to disbelieve or ex
pected great results in n brief while.
iSvidcntinl truths were often hidden in
- mas of irrelevant communications,
"What nbout the spirit photographs
tl it are creating excitement in Ung
land? "I nm very doubtful nbout them,"
was the frank avowal. "I can make
them myself. 1 was once convinced
they were fraudulent, hut now I don't
know. Cotuui Doyle is greatly im
pressed with them. 1 think the evi
dence in their favor is rather weak.
There is a man near Crewe making
them. lie vent me one of Itaymond,
but It was like the picture of Hnyniond
in the front of .my books. I simply
snj I do not know nbout them."
Not for Weali Intellects
Perhaps the most significant state
ment by Sir Oliver was thnt it is "not
wholesome to give one's whole attention
to psychics alone. Anyhow, only well
halauccd minds and strong personali
ties should engage in it."
"It is likely," he says, "to have
a. bad rffect upon weak mentalities, and
besides they are not able to judge be
tween or distinguish the false from the
true.
"It was the cranks who kept me
nwny from it," he said, "and I seri
ously deprecate its study for the feeble
minded. AVc must be sure of our proof
nbout all things, and only 'sane, healthy
peopl" should give it their attention.
"Of course you aie aware that some
objectors claim it is nil the work of
devils, while clergymen, us a rule, de
nounce it as n device of Satan," 1 sub
g. sted.
"Yes. I've met with n'l Mich asser
tions," wns th reply with a smile.
"but those who sny that know abso
lutely nothing nbout it. As for the
preachers. I have n great sympathy for
them. They occupy a prominent and
responsible position in the community,
bnt I reiterate thnt those who arc loud'
est in their denunciations know least
about the subject."
"What is life on the other side
like?"
"Communications gpca'-c of it as much
like this. They tell of trees' and flow
ers and nnimal life. Indeed, I some
times think it is our own life here
seen nt a different angle, but ngoiu I
must miv. I do not know. Years of
patient investigation alone will demon
ttrato the truth."
Sir Oliver 1odge is still carrying on
his work in connection with" the ether
nnd the structure of atoms when nt
home. He visited the V tilted Stntes
first iu August, 1881, when he deliv
ered an address before the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science iu Philnklphin, He recalled
with great regret some events of his
tstny in Philadelphia, particularly that
the thermometer registercdi 1)0 degrees
for several days and he wns compelled
to fly to Newport for relief.
SCIENTIST DOUBTS
COMVELL SAW SPIRIT
Sir Oliver Lodge Believes,
However, Pastor Talked
With Dead Wife
Sir Oliver Lodge, eminent Uritish
phvsicist nnd writer on psvchical ie
search, believes Dr. Uussell II. Con
well, pnstor of (trace Baptist Church
and president of Temple University)
was led to the hiding place of Ins pen
sion pnpers by his wife's Bpirlt.
The Kngllsh scientist landed nt New
York yesterday from the steamship
Lapland. So interested wns he in
Doctor CouvvcII'h experience under the
influence of Mrs. Conwcll's "ethereal
continuity" that he expressed n desire
to confer with him on the subject nt
the earliest convenient time.
Doctor Couvvell explained several
weeks ngo to his congregation that his
wife's spirit had returned and re
vealed to him the hiding plncc of valu
able pension papers. At thnt time he
said the spirit hud been plninly visible.
"Thnt is something upon which I
have not decided in my own mind," he
said. "What Doctor Comvell saw may
have been n mental picture brought up
by the thoughts produced by his wife's
spirit's influence upon him. 1 nm not
quite sure thnt the spirits materialize
themselves after death."
Sir Oliver passed off lightly the ex
planations of Dr. I.Ightneu Witmer, of
the University of Pennsylvania, and
other psychologists of the experience
set forth by Doctor Comvell.
"Hallucinations is n woid they use
quite often in explaining tilings which
do not appear clearly to them," he
snid.
Kir Oliver believes the experience of
Doctor Comvell is in line with other
spiritunl revelations since the wnr, and
Is another forerunner of startling and
remarkable discoveries of the life after
death soon to be made.
He believes Doctor Conwell wns under
(he influence of his wife's spirit, but
thinks it entirely possible that the image
of his wife conceived by the local edu
cator nnd pastor may have been the
result of the deep impression made on
his subconscious self by the revelations
and his own anxiety to see such an
apparition.
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Involution Not Progress
Sir Oliver iniiile an unusual statement
when he snid that while evolution was
rftnn Sir (lliter t..k in. the matter ' llUiari suppuseu 10 mean progress
of hi.s own conversion to a belief iu the
vurviviil of personality beoud the
grave. Here it is :
he did not so icgaid it.
This cam" in answer to the question
if there was rctrogresM'on as well as
,, . . .,.. - - IIULII J.-IUII III III. Ill, Ulll .IIVIV- .1 -3
tomerted 1'iffeen lear.s Ago , jR, ,mts jt
"It was quite fifteen jitirs or more j '"There aie degraded forms or animal
before I became fully convinced of th' lifn which show retrogression." he said,
truth of survival In 1SS!) I had my "The liarninle is a degraded form of
first experience and it was both evi- crab. The idea that we descended trom
dential and convincing, but I did not niiinke.v is wrong. M theor.v is thai
believe it It wits a message trans- I maD and monkey descended from a com
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"Mrs. Piper was the medium pri
vately employed for years hy the
American Society for Psychical Re
search. "It came from a deceased relative
who had lien very kind to me when 1
was a young man. 1 kpt on. hovvevir.
with in.v investigations until about I'.lOti
when the u,cuinulat"d muss of evidence
mon in stor; that man went up m the
scale and the monkey down. I'volu i
Hon doesn't alwavs mean progress over,
there, but it depends upon ourselves I
whether we go up or down. I
"City life here illustiates that a child
born and raised among thieves would
likelv be a thief.
"I do not sny that theie is reiro
grcs.sion in the uic ueyouu. Hell is
became so great that I finally decided .till right except the hopclcssness of it
to come right out in the opeu and de- the eternity of its duratiou. Com -tlarr
my position. i muuiuitious from the other side sny
"My vie v is that no omc should jump i there is a place of repentance and an
at conclusions I'lie evidence should be I totieiuent . that seltishucss and cruellv
cumulativ before any one accepts the are the worst things to overcome. Theie
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