“YOURSELF GOES ON”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11383, 8 December 1930, Page 3

“YOURSELF GOES ON”

SIR 0. LODGE ON LIFE AFTER

DEATH

Belief in the existence of angels and other unseen beings was expressed by Sir Oliver Lodge, the scientist, in am address at the official residence of Mr Snowden. -Chancellor of the Exchequer 11, Downing-street. “I think, he said, “space is pulsating with life and mind. There are not only people who have inhabited this body and left, it, but others who have not been on this earth before, angels and principalities and powers —they are all there. "We live among shadows. If our eyes were opon wo should bo blinded and could not rtand it.

“In this room at the present moment, I supose, there are waves passing through from every captial in Europe which, if you had a set, you could, apprehend, and tune-in to the station you wanted. But you must have the material instrument in order to explore the universe. I v ent the parable of the wireless to he thoroughly grasped. It shows that things may exist in space of which we know nothing we have the proper means for investigation. “This body of mine is an index or demonstration to me. I believe I have an ether body as well. Tile matter body lasts, only about a century and then you leave it behind, but you. don’t leave yourself behind. Your self goes on. Killing the body does not kill you. It spoils the mechanism and prevents you doing anything. You destroy the loudspeaker—but you might have a duplicate set.”