A warning against unrestrained grief for the dead was given by Capt. G. W. Carter in a lecture on Saturday afternoon, at the Theosophical Society's room on The Dead Have Never Died." Probably there is no subject concerning death of more vital importance than that of the right attitude of mind and emotion toward the living dead. It is commonly said that we can do nothing more for them when they have passed away from physical plane life, but a greater error could not. easily be made. The connexion with us is by no means severed. Not only are the dead emotionally in touch with us but their emotions are very much keener than if they had a physical body, through which to express them, They are now living in the astral body, the matter of which is enormously more responsive to emotional vibrations.
"A joyous emotion here would be tremendously more joyous there,"' said Capt. Carter, ''and a thing that would produce depression here would be a hundred times more depressing there. This fact should give pause to those who are incline ed to think in sorrow, and with something of despair, about friends who have passed on. They are not far away in space, and our emotions affect them profoundly and instantly."
Death is merely the close of a particular cycle of experience. It is the annihilation of nothing but the physical body, in its aspect an instrument of activity and a vehicle of the consciousness upon the physical plane. The atoms of the body, drawn together in the human form for temporary use, are, in death. released from the cohesive force of a living organism and will return whence they came.
In reality there is no such thing as death. unless it be strictly applied to the form. regarded as a temporary vehicle of consciousness, said the lecturer. As for the consciousness. there is no death, or cessation of the individual. intelligence.
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