Life After Death.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXV, Issue 3944, 24 November 1908, Page 2

Life After Death.

Another of Miss Christie's interesting theosophical lectures drew a good attendance on Sunday night in the Kia Ora Tea Rooms, and at its close many interesting questions were answered. The subject, "Life After Death," was dealt with m an able manner and from the standpoint of occult science, which, the lecturer 1 , began where materialistic science ended. The fact that the life of the soul is continuous, and the change called death but a recurring incident in that life war, strongly emphasised. There is no death, and that this is true can be proved by anyone who treats the science of the soul as he would treat any other science, viz., study it carefully and experiment along the lines laid down by those who have done it all before and are now experts. The man is not changed by death—"the righteous are righteous still, and the filthy are filthy still;" he has but cast off his densest envelope—the body—or "food sheath"—and is more alive, more sensitive than ever. It is cruel to indulge in noisy grief when a friend dies, as by so doing we disturb his review of the life just over, wake him out of the blissful dreamy state in which he should spend the first 36 hours after leaving his body, and impose upon him all the jarring misery and grief we ourselves are suffering, thereby binding him to the earthsphere and hindering his progress heavenward. For us men and women of average moral, intellectual, and spirtual development, this earth life, with its griefs, daily trials and disappointments, is the worst hell we get; the next world—call it astral plane, purgatory, Hades, Paradise, or anything else—is as heaven compared to it, and heaven as far removed again in glory and bliss of being. We meet our loved ones not only in heaven, but in this intermediate state; and if we train ourselves now in Theosophical Society and other kindred schools, we can each and all, sooner or later, bring back the memory of their loving companionship which we enjoy every night during the sleep of our physical bodies. The human soul is a spark of divinity, so never sleeps; the human body is an animal, so must sleep, else it would die. So the man leaves it to sleep and rejoin his loved ones on the higher planes. Remembering this is but a matter of training. Theosophy does not ask you to believe this, only to experiment and prove it for yourselves.