"THE EYES OF THE SOUL."

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVII, Issue 50, 20 December 1910, Page 3

"THE EYES OF THE SOUL."

DESCRIPTIONS OF DREAMS. In a little book just published, entitled "The Deathless Soul," the writer gives many reasons for believing in existence after deatli. Dreams, he contends, show the independence of the soul from the body. "Think ojxt your dreams," he says, "for they will prove to you that in your soul dwell miraculous powers. In your waking hours you see by the aid of your physical eyes. In your dreams, when your physical eyes are closed, you see with equal clearness of view. With what eyes do you see? Unquestionably with the eyes of the soul. In dreams the soul overcomes the law of death. This is only one of the miraculous revelations of the soul's power afforded by dreams. Its marvellous annihilation of time a„nd space has already been referred to. *ln an hour, in a minute, «iu a moment we travel far and accomplish superhuman deeds."

Proceeding to show that the duty of the soul is that of an attendant, a watcher and an in&piror, the writer gives what he calls another marvellous phenomenon of its action during sleep. "Have you," he asks, "considered why it is that when after taking up residence in a strange habitation, and having been awakened on three or four successive mornings by some sudden and unaccustomed sound as, for instance, the ringing of a bell, you fail to be aroused on the fifth morning? The sound is as loudly given forth; your physical senses are just as unimpaired as they were on the previous mornings, yet on this fifth morning the same sound fails to arouse the same sense of hearing which responded to it on those previous mornings. By what influence, then, is it that your slumber is protected on this fifth morning? Surely by the influence of your soul. It was the duty of the soul to permit your disturbance on the first mornings when the unaccustomed sound was given forth, because for your protection in life it was necessary that you should be taught a lesson of alertness and siwft waking in the face of any sudden danger heralded by a strange sound. But the lesson once conveyed, the soul would appear to prove its independence of the body by subsequently electing to ignora the sound."