LIFE AFTER DEATH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15503, 9 January 1914, Page 5

LIFE AFTER DEATH.

A THEOSOPHIST'S VIEWS.

A public lecture on "The Nature and Value of Life After Death" was delivered in the Theosophical Society hall yesterday afternoon by Miss C. W. Christie. Life, said she, was one and continuous. It was spent in three different mansions of God's house. The first was the physical, which was the lowest and most coarse, and in it was spent the shortest period. When the physical body wore out, the parson left it, and entered into a much brighter and larger life, in a body made of desire or astral matter. On this astral plane life was much more beautiful, because the individual was free from the necessity of making a living he required no food, and he only needed to think of clothing to create it. Good citizens did not suffer anything in the nature of a hell beyond the disappointments of the physical life. When the astral body wore out the man stepped out of it, just as he had done from the physical, and found himself upon the mental or heaven plane, clad in a body of mental matter. Here life became intensified ten or ono hundred fold, according to the point in evolution of the person. In both the astral and heaven planes the man met his friends who had gone before. Each of the three worlds had seven subdivisions, each one being a greater glory, though it depended upon the development of the man how much of the glory he could take in. The value of the heaven world consisted in the fact that there one reviewed the experiences of the life just over, marked all that had hindered and helped, and this formed his conscience wheJi next he came back to earth. After a period of 750 to 1000 years spent in the emotional and mental worlds, the person descended by the stages he had come, drawing around the permanent atom, new mental and astral bodies, and was guided to his future father and mother. He lived in the house with them watched the growth of the body, and at its birth overshadowed and controlled it until the seventh year, when he became imprisoned in it for the term of his natural life, unless lis became a pupil of occultism, and learned to leave the bodv as many theosophists did to-day. The lecturer said that she frequently visited the astral plane, and brought back with her a definite consciousness of her experiences.