LIFE AFTER DEATH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21473, 22 April 1933, Page 7

LIFE AFTER DEATH

"REAL ETIIERIC BODIES" SIR OLIVER LODGE'S BELIEF INTEREST IN PAST LIFE [from our own correspondent] LONDON, March 14 In a broadcast talk on "The Future Life" last Sunday, Sir Oliver Lodge said that people "on the other side" have bodies made of ether. "Some of them," he said, "do not always know that they have died." He suggested that some of the dead could be more easily helped by people still living than by those on their side. "They tell us," Sir Oliver proceeded, "that things are not much changed, that existence does not seem revolutionary different; and that they still have bodies, though they are unable to make use of their earthly matter._ In amplification of the statement tha;t they still have bodies, I make the hypothesis that they are in an etheric environment instead of a material one, and that their bodies are made of ether. "Our future bodies are just as real to our etheric senses as are the "bodies we have grown accustomed to; but those we certainly leave behind and never attend to again. We go on with our ether bodies complete, and slough, off the material organism. Powers ol the Dead "This may not be a correct interpretation of what they have told me about the conditions of their existence. It is my interpretation of their testimony, and as such there may be plenty of error in it, along with some kind of truth." Sir Oliver said that he did not know how long the interest of the dead in the affairs of this life continued, but they certainly did not lose interest in thoso they loved, having the power to help, advise and sympathise. "The mother of a large family to whom they were all dear is not likely to lose interest in the'individual members, and she does not," he said. "Their birthdays and all such events are remembered and some little present occasionally suggested, which suggestions are carried out by those who still have the power of dealing with terrestrial objects. "Children, on the other hand, immediately attract loving care and respond to it. A mother may well feel happy that her child is in good hands and is better looked after than she could hope to do. She need not worry. Of all the stupid objections that are made to continued thought for the welfare of tliose left behind, the idea that such thought is an interruption and a drag-house is the jnost foolish."' "In the Depths of Space" Sir Oliver said that the dead see more clearly than we do what all tho struggle and effort on the earth is for, and though they cannot interfere by main force so as to stop a war, they can influence statesmen to take steps that will make it less likely for wars to 1 occur.

"Our notions of existence are. parochial and very restricted," added. Sir Oliver. "Away in tho depths of space innumerable intelligences have their existence. Grades of being exist with powers and knowledge immeasurably superior to our petty and restricted intelligence," .. ■;