To the Editor of the fort-Ciuna Daty News"
Sm,—With regard to the letter from Cuamovaxr and Cuamauntant 1 beg to assure him that in referring to Prnpiexco's and Auoesi's experiences "peculiar" T had no desire to little what I am convinced must br 8 beautiful and desirable state of I intended to convey that such a state Is supernormal and beyond the experience, or often credulity, of the. vast majority' of people, "Your correspondent is correct when he affirms that the two states of consciousness commingle and that the state of physical sleep is the arousing fof faculties greater than those normally used during our so-called waking hours.
'AST have already indicated, physical matter as we know it, is per-moated by a ner degree of matte: called "etheric" and a still finer state matter called Our bodies fare thus composed of matter of mi [degrees of rarifieation and the focuss> Ing of the consciousness or "soul" in the etheric matter of the body would render the person aware of the etheric portion of all objects sur: rounding him. Similarly, concentra-ion in the astral matter of the body immediately "tunes in" the person to) the astral world around us.
"The state of physical death is the Jonforced shifting of the consciousness to a finer degree of matter owing to {the coarser body having been render fed uninhabitable through accident or; disease, The so-called "dead" are! thus present all around us but we are tunable to sce or communicate with them asthe majority of us are incapable, as yet, of focussing our con-Jsclousness in matter of the appropriate degree of fineness. To those! who are able to do 0 the dead are ever present and the myth of the "dear departed" who have made "the last Tong. journey" is exploded.
It is not found that any sudden metamorphosis in the character zirian occurs at death. On the contrary, the remains afler death exactly what wes before it—the same in intol~ eet. the same in his qualities and powers save that, having lost his physical body, he is unable to affect {that portion of the world composed of corresponding matter, Lo, solid, liquid fand gaseous, Of course,' communica tion with the physical world is. still possible through passive mediums "io yield up their lower vehicles for tse of those no longer possessing thole own.
"There is another form of medium: ship, however, called clairvoyance, by which the superphysical world is) directly cognized. This faculty Is! latent in every man and may, by pro perly regulated exercises, be develop: fed so that the world beyond the Ties open as day. Clairvoyants may vary considerably in their response t0. the unseen world—some may "see" a Tittle more than others, some have clear conceptions of what. they see, others are confused and incoherent.
C. Jinarajadasa says inh ist Principals of Theosophy" Gwritten in 1910):
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.