Question of Immortality the Editor of the "Nonni-Ciiwa Datcy News"
Sm—Apart from that subject which the correspondence has been closed, I would like to take up another on the question of immortality. 'Vena speaks of the "spirit that lives lofty dreams, j.c, after being re-Teaged from ils body, ow pray, dreaming is a physical action, just as, for instance, blowing 'a trumpet and producing a' note, OF trumpet, no. note; no brains, no dreaming.
Another of his inconsistencies is to maintain that the shedding of the Physical is necessary" in order that the spirit may be set free, But this is never considered necessary Psychists, who have it that the spirit might Teave the body and, in the form of an astral self, make excur= sions at will. Such momentary. dis: embodiments' are known as. the Phantasm of the living, or more com. monly called, a double, "And this again, if you will seo, 1s a physte action. Or io body, no disembed ment; no disembodiment, no double.
But then, most beliefs are just such nae drew are made of "on without brains, Vena would have "Te arana Shanghai, Nov. 6.
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