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forms, which they emanate. Considering these things from the immediate point of view, let us see their consequences in the earthly center. Already, by the fact of telepathy, the human evolution is accentuated. Man, conquering new psychic powers, will one day be permitted to manifest his thoughts at any distance, without a material intermediary. This progress constitutes one of the most magnificent stages of humanity toward a free and more intense life. It should be prelude to the grandest moral revolution ever produced on our globe. By its effect, evil would be vanquished, or greatly diminished. When man has no more secrets, when others can read the thoughts in his mind, he will not dare think evil, or consequently do evil. So ever the human soul mounts, climbing the ladder of infinite development. The time will come when more and more intelligence will predominate, and disengaging itself from the bodily chrysalis, reach out and affirm its empire over matter, creating by its efforts new and more extended means of perception and manifestation. The sense, in their turn refined, will see their circle of action enlarge; the human will become a mysterious temple filled with harmonies and with perfumes, an admirable instrument for the service of a spirit. At the same time, with the human personality, and soul, and organism, the earthly organism will be transformed. In order that society evolves, the individual must evolve himself first. It is man who makes humanity, and humanity by its constant action transforms its dwelling. There is an absolute equilibrium between the moral and the physical; the thought and the will are the excellent utensils by the aid of which we can transform everything in ourselves and around us. Having but high and pure thoughts, aspirations toward all that is great, noble, and beautiful, little by little we will feel our being regenerated, and with it, gradually, society, the globe, humanity. In our ascension we will come to better understand and practice this universal communion that binds all beings. Unconscious in the lower states of existence, this communion will become more and more conscious in the measure that the life is elevated and travels over the innumerable degrees of evolution to arrive one day at that state of spirituality where every soul, shining with the glory of acquired powers, in an ecstasy of love sees and feels itself united to all in work infinite and eternal. 44
CHAPTER VII MANIFESTATIONS AFTER DEATH In the preceding examination we have followed the spirit of man through the different phases of extrication. Ordinary sleep, somnambulism, transmission of thought, telepathy under all forms: we have seen its sensitiveness and its means of perception increase, in the measure that its ties to the body relaxed. We are going to see it now in the state of absolute liberty - that is to say, after death, manifesting itself at the same time physically and intellectually to its earthly friends. No chasm separates them in the different psychic states. Whether these phenomena take place during or after the material life, the cause is identical in its laws and in its effects. Let us eliminate the idea of the supernatural, which has long been looked upon with suspicion by science. The old adage, ‘Nature makes no breaks,’ verifies itself once more. Death is not a break; it is a separation and not a dissolution of the elements that compose the earth man. It is that passing from the world visible to the world invisible, whose limits are purely arbitrary, and due simply to the imperfection of ourselves. The life of each one of us in the Beyond is the natural and logical prolongation of actual life, the development of the invisible parts of our being. There are links in the psychic domain as in the physical. We have seen in the two orders of apparitions, whether living or deceased, that it is always the etheric form - this vehicle of the soul, the reproduction or the picture of the physical body - which becomes perceptible to the medium. Science, according to Curie, Lebau, and Becquerel, familiarizes itself day after day with the subtle and invisible states of matter, with its fluids, in a word, utilized by the spirits in their manifestations, and well understood by them. Thanks to recent discoveries, science has entered into contact with a world of elements, of forces, and of powers unsuspected, and the possibilities of forms of existence long unknown at last appear to him. The scientists who have studied spiritual phenomena - Sir W. Crookes, R. Wallace, R. Dale Owen, Sir Olive Lodge, Paul Gibier, Myers, Aksakof - have testified to numerous apparitions of the dead. The spirit of Katie King was materialized during three years in the home of Sr. William Crookes, member of the Royal Academy of London, and was photographed on 2nd March 1894 in the presence of a group of experimenters, as he relates in his book Researches. Myers speaks of 231 cases of apparitions of the deceased. Among them was one announcing an imminent death. A commercial traveler had a vision one morning of a sister dead nine years. When he related this to his family it met with incredulity and skepticism; but in describing the vision he mentioned a scratch on her face. This detail caused the mother to faint. After coming to consciousness, the mother related how she had inadvertently made this scratch on her daughter’s face as she lay in her coffin, and had covered it with powder, so that no person in the world knew of the occurrence. The fact that it had been seen bye the son impressed upon the mother the veracity of the vision, which she believed was a forerunner of her own death. In fact, she died some weeks later. In a report made before the ‘International Congress of Psychology’ in Paris, 1900, Dr. Paul Gibier, Director of the Pasteur Institute, spoke of the materialization of phantoms obtained by him in his laboratory in presence of regular assistants in his biological work and of several ladies of his family. These were given the special mission of watching the medium, Mme. Salmon; of disrobing her before the séance, in order to verify her garments, always black, while the phantoms appeared in white. The medium was also locked in a metallic cage, and Dr. Gibier kept the key; yet under these conditions, in a half-light, numerous forms of various heights appeared, from little children to those of tall stature. The formation was gradual, and took place before the eyes of all the assistants. Interrogated, they spoke, declaring themselves personalities who had lived on earth, whose mission it now was to demonstrate the existence of another life. In Paris, 23rd September 1900, Doctor Bayal, Ex-Governor of Dahomey, and Senator of Bouches-du- Rhône, described the apparitions he had witnessed at Arles. The phantom of Arcella, a young Roman girl whose tomb is at Arles, was materialized in the presence of many people, among whom were the poet Mistral, and a general of the division, a noted doctor, and others. Professor Milesi, of the University of Rome, testified in the Revue of Psychic Studies, 11th September 1904, to the materialization of his sister three years after her death. ‘She appeared with the exquisite smile which was habitual to her,’ he said. In an article in the Figaro, 9th October 1905, Mr. Charles Richet, of the Academy of Medicine of Paris, Member of the Institute, wrote; 45
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