Randall The Dead Have Never Died

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to show how it was possible for individual life to hold continuity. Theology has claimed it
without explaining how or where. This no longer satisfies the human heart or mind, a fact
which accounts for the great unrest among your people in every land. For this reason it has
been our aim to explain the law through which life is continued, and so simply to state the
facts and explain the conditions that all may understand. The key to comprehension is first to
realize that your Earth does not contain all the matter of the Universe, that all that you see and
touch is but the substance used by life in growth. When one leaves the earth-condition, divests
himself of the physical housing, he, through such change, ceases to be mortal. By becoming a
resident of the new sphere he is said to take on immortality, but in reality he has always been
immortal."
"You regard the telephone as wonderful," he said, "wireless telegraphy more wonderful still
but we communicate with each other by simple thought projection. You regard the
phonograph as a marvelous instrument, but it is crude beside the instruments in use among us.
When you appreciate the truth that we live in a state no less material than your own, you will
understand that with our greater age and experience we are much in advance of you, and make
and use appliances and instruments that could hardly be explained to mortal mind. At some
other time I may be permitted to discuss this subject more fully."
CHAPTER XXV RATIONAL DEDUCTIONS
THERE is not in the universe a single great problem that man can truthfully say he has
mastered, that nothing remains to be found out concerning it. The laws that control this world
are universal and in force in other spheres as well as in this; they control all solar systems and
worlds in space; therefore, a complete comprehension of those laws and their application
requires more than mortal life. If this were not so, perfection would be practically immediate
and without process, and men would become gods here and now. The most brilliant men who
ever lived, knew but little of natural laws and of the origin and destiny of man. Until now
little effort has been made to find them out.
The earth is yet so crude, our senses are so dull and our vision so limited, that we fail to
realize those emanations and movements of refined matter about us, or the subtle and
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incessant play of forces around us. From a single ray of light shoot millions of electrons and
corpuscles, the basic constituents of matter, smaller than the atom of hydrogen; these, striking
blow upon blow, pass by and through us in their incessant warfare with the night, but we feel
them not.
We do not realize the quivering and bending of the earth's crust under our feet, caused by
changes of temperature or the pressure of atmospheric waves, nor do we hear the
fermentations and oxidations of the soil in the changing seasons. We do not even yet know the
exact nature of that ether which a recent investigator considers omnipresent and omnipotent.
We see the action of gravitation, but know nothing of the medium through which it operates.
We hear the wind soughing among the trees; but we do not hear the roar of sap up trunk and
branch, the bursting of the buds as they bombard the air, or the speech of growing trees and
flowers and grass among themselves; yet life, wherever found, has language.
The vibrations from out the abyss of space would reach our ears if they had more and higher
octaves, or if our capacity for catching sound were immeasurably intensified; we do not hear
the clang of the planets as they ring down through their orbits, the explosive detonations of
the sun, the wild dance and chant of the Nebulae, the comets' note of warning, or the rush of
wandering matter of which worlds are made, which must send out impulses and tremblings
through the ether to this planet of ours. We are at all times in a great sea of intensely active
forces and potentialities governed by a law of which we have little conception.
About us, but invisible to most, a nation, or rather many nations, of spirit-people, "live and
move and have their being," more industrious, more active, more intellectual, and more
energetic, than we; so intense is their vibration that we do not ordinarily feel their touch, hear
their voices, or see their forms; but conditions can be made, and have been made, whereby,
notwithstanding our limitations, we may have speech with them, and know at least something
of how and where they live, and what they are doing.
There is so much in nature that we do not understand, is it any wonder that, having kept our
eyes so close to the ground, we have not discovered this spirit world before? We have made
conditions in which it became possible for us to know a little of those other people, and, even [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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