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CAN THE DEAD SPEAK 
 
 <TO THE LIVING? 
 
 Light on Death and the Hereafter. 
 
 By EMIL CLIFFORD HARTMANN 
 
 1 There is a growing search and an increasing desire to know what really lies heyond 
 the grave and to be able to penetrate the veil which separates this world from the hereafter. 
 It is a direct lesult of the great World War, and of the fact that BO many homes were stripped 
 of their loved ones during the influenza epidemic. We find the growing search for the know- 
 ledge of what lies beyond the grave, bringing to light many hidden facts concerning t lie 
 hereafter. Aristotle has declared that much light flashes on a subject which one contemplates 
 much. Those who have been bereft of their loved ones cannot help but question, "Where is 
 her 1 wonder just what death is? Is there life after death? When a person dies, doc- lie 
 live again? Can he see me? Will I ever see him again? If I only knew, how happy 1 
 would be!" 
 
 2. Everybody is truly desirous of knowing just exactly what the hereafter is, and it is 
 right and just. There are some who will say, "What do I care about the hereafter? Just 
 one world at a time, please. All that I am concerned about is the here. I do not know 
 whether there is a hereafter, and I do not care to know." Many of the modern thinkers 
 ridicule the idea of trying to know what lies beyond the grave. This is due to ignorance and 
 narrow-mindedness. The Great Goal which every true and faithful Christian should have 
 his vision set upon, is the demonstration of immortality in the flesh and of the flesh. There 
 is no need of anyone dying. "See, I have set before you life and death. Choose life, for what 
 pleasure have I in the death of them that dieth?" saith the Lord. Eternal Life is the big 
 teaching of Jesus Christ. Nevertheless, if anyone should fail to demonstrate over death, it 
 is wisdom for him to know where he shall go when he passes on and what it is all like. That 
 is the reason why the writer has given this subject such a thorough investigation and feels 
 himself capable of writing upon the subject. 
 
 3. It is a universal subject, being discussed in all countries. Wherever the appearance 
 of death has laid hold of one, those who have been left behind are desirous of knowing where 
 their loved one has gone, as well as of hearing his voice. "If I only knew I would see him 
 again some day I could bear it so much easier," is the cry of so many hearts. The garment 
 of flesh which has been laid aside is not your loved ona, and in no way is that shell related 
 to him; it is merely the physical dress which he wore while upon this physical plane; the one 
 who has passed on is a soul, a mind — living in a psychical body. You are deceived and cause 
 yourself much useless sorrow every time you think of your beloved as dead. The shell, or 
 physical body, is apparently dead; the beloved is not a body, but is soul and mind. He 
 occupied a physical body in order to manifest among the sons of men who are in the flesh. 
 Know that your beloved is living in the Omnipresence of His Holy Love. 
 
 4. Such minds as Sir Oliver Lodge, Conan Doyle and Basil King have, through their 
 untiring efforts, helped to remove many of the charges of fakery from the subject. There 
 are many "fakers" dealing with the subject, working on the sympathies of those who are 
 mourning and searching for a message from the departed. If men and women knew the Truth 
 about death and the hereafter, they would not be seeking "fortune-tellers," 'trance-mediums' 1 
 and those who work along those commercial lines, trying to get a message from the other 
 side of life. If your loved one has a message for you and the conditions are harmonious, he 
 will get it across to you in an independent way, as you will find later on in this article. 
 
 5. Once death was the terror of man. He feared and dreaded the idea that some day 
 he would face death. Many of the churches have held the ghastly idea of deatli before the 
 minds of their people, thinking that the fear of some day dying, would cause them to live a 
 better life here and now. When we know the God of Love and Truth, then all fear is put 
 away. "Perfect Love casteth out all fear." 
 
 6. Why does man fear death? Job says that the very thing a man fears he is bound 
 to get. Scientifically speaking, it is not wise to fear a thing, since through the fear of that 
 thing you are liable to attract it to yourself. Man is a mental magnet and attract 
 himself everything that harmonizes with his thought. Man tears death because he is ignorant 
 of what lies beyond the grave. The Egyptians taught death with its attendant fortj 
 judges, before whom every soul would have to pass for examination. If they were 'trained 
 in the Mysteries of the Order of Osiris and were able to answer, *'I am an Osiris, I have never 
 sinned, etc.," they would pass him by claiming that he knew and understood. The Clin 
 would call it, "Saved by the Blood of the Lamb." Osiris is to the Egyptiuns what Jesus 
 
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 Christ is to the Christians. In the Egyptian Book of the Dead one can find some very 
 interesting facts about death. ^s^ 
 
 7. The Greeks taught death to he a twilight of the gods, where all the great minds w< 
 assemble and discuss the great teachings. The Greeks of old wee always Reeking knowledge. 
 The Christians have always taught a heaven, a hell an-.l'a y-w " :i' or\ . '!'!.< ■-<> who are <:<><»d, 
 they claim go to hea.en: the had go to hell and those who are half way between go to, 
 purgatory. Such beliefs do not harmonize with the ixod (( f Omnipotent and Omnipresent 
 Love. David tells ns in the 139th Psalm that. "Though 1 make my hed in hell, there Thou 
 art." <;«>d is Omnipresent. If there is a hell it must i>e in his Omnipresence. Many believe 
 thai when ;< man is dead, he is dead; while others believe thai the dead are asleep in their 
 graves awaiting a future resurrection, when all the graves shall open and their dead shall 
 come forth. In the great resurrecting thought of Absolute Truth the crrave of mortal -elf 
 shall open and yield forth the glorious Free spirit of man. i8 what t lie Scriptures truly 
 mean. As long a*- man is ignorant concerning death, he is going to he afraid of it and will 
 
 misunderstand all its attendant phenomena. 
 
 8. Before going any further with this Subject of, "Can the Dead Speak to tlie Living?" 
 let us realize first of all. "There IS DO death." The wri; »r, often in his lectures, declare.-, that 
 there are more people dead walking around on the earth, than who I'OVe passed on. Many 
 people act as if there is DO life in them. They need the Absolute Truth of JesUS Christ to 
 
 waken them up. "I am come that ye might have life and that ye might have it more. 
 abundantly." There is no death in the sense that one ceases to be; thai is. that he is dead 
 and. gone forever. Life, Truth teaches us has no beginning and do end. All beginnings and 
 
 end- are but supposition-. Life is Omnipresent. In the great Ocean of Unlimited, Undying 
 and Changeless Life, we all live, move and have our being, Longfellow, in his immortal poem, 
 "The Psalm of Life," tells us: 
 
 "Life is real, life is earnest, 
 
 And the grave is not its goal. 
 
 'Dust, thou art, to dust ntiirncth,' 
 
 Was not spoken of thy soul." 
 
 0. Man, being a three fold being, will find himself functioning on one of the three planes 
 Of consciousness. Ee cannot finish with one plane until he has manifested mastery over that 
 
 plane. Those who die and pas- on and have not finished their work here, are hound to come 
 hack to earth again and finish the work which they left undone. (The writer's booklet on, 
 (< Keincarnation, in the Light of Jesus Christ." explains that subject.) Man is Spirit, soul 
 and body. He functions on either the physical, material, earth plane, or the psychical, astral 
 or etherial plane. Se cannot enter the realm or kingdom of Pure Spirit, the Kingdom of Cod, 
 until he has demonstrated himself the Son of God. "1 am the door, through Me, if any man 
 shall enter, he shall go in and out and find pasture." Jesus Christ never taught Heaven after 
 death, claiming that through death one would enter into it. Tf one could enter into Heaven 
 through death, then why would the Scripture- tench us. "Death is the wages of sin"? How 
 can the "wages of sin" usher one into Heaven? Can you find anywhere in the teachings of 
 Jesus Christ the authority for the teaching of a three dimensional heaven? 
 
 10. "Ye shall do the things that I have done and even greater." Jesus demonstrated 
 over death and entered into the Ascension, taking his physical or human body along with 
 Him. He declares that every true believer is to do likewise. Do you believe it to be possible? 
 All things are possible to them that believe. There is no use looking around and saying, 
 "Has anyone ever done it?" Jesus Christ declares that you can do it. The command would 
 never have been given were it not possible to fulfill it. Seek the Kingdom of God and let the 
 mind of Jesus Christ think, reason and speak into and through you, and you will demonstrate. 
 "IT any man will believe into Me, (the Jesus Christ Free Spirit Self in him) he shall never 
 taste of death." In the Omnipresence of Life, there can be no death for the one who holds 
 fast, being well grounded in the underlying principles of True Christianity. 
 
 11. Life is an infinite circle, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is 
 nowhere. Life is. It always was, it is now and evermore shall be, life without end. Life 
 is always in the present tense. Jesus Christ never was, Jesus Christ is now). "Before 
 Abraham was I AM." It is for everyone to demonstrate the Abundant Life of the Spirit, 
 which is without beginning of days and without end of years. There is no reason why 
 anyone should "pass on" under the belief of death. Death is not God-ordained. It is not 
 His Will. "Thy Will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven." Is it God's Will in Heaven that 
 anyone should die? Then is it His Will that anyone should die on earth? Men and women 
 die because they forget to lay hold upon the Most High. They believe their home to be 
 hereafter instead of the here. The Omnipresence of Life means the nowhere presence of 
 death, and everyone should stand fast to that acknowledgment of Absolute Truth. "Death 
 is the wages of sin." Sin is ignorance. Truth frees one from ignorance, therefore it frees 
 one from death, but man must hold fast and live the Truth and bring his life up to its fullness. 
 Do not accept a part of the Truth, accept the whole Truth, for it is the whole Absolute Truth 
 of Jesus Christ that shall set you absolutely free. 
 
 12. A Truth student, who had been in the knowledge of spiritual things for some twenty 
 
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 yrn'-s. running around after "teachers" with their varied ideas and never finding the True 
 
 i i. Jesi - ( hrist, who Bays, "'Learn of Me, for 1 am meek and lowly of heart," cai 
 the writei cne day and told of her terrible fear of death. She was battling with t lie fear 
 thought of deatl and e Bhe fought the more apparent death would Beem to her. 
 
 feaied to sleep, Lest she should die while asleep. Bhe realized that she, through the concen- 
 trated power of her own thought, was setting into operation a law which would bring death 
 to hei body. .Man is a law unto himself. Through his silent and audible words he establishes 
 himself in the law that "as a man soweth (in thought, word, feeling and action) bo shall he 
 reap outwavdlly." "Like attracts like." The writer said to her: "Whether you live or 
 whether you die, remember always that yon are living, moving and having your being in the 
 great Love Presence of Jesus Christ, the Omnipresent md Omnipotent One. 'Though I walk 
 through the alley of the shadow of death 1 shall fear no evil, for THOU art with me.' 'Lo, 
 I am with you always." Do not resist death. Just know there is no death, all is life." 11. -r 
 fears were dissolved and Bhe lived at the relaxed place, where one is able to be pulled from 
 the laws of gravitation and find the laws of levitation lifting them up. that "where 1 am 
 there ye may be also.'* "Look unto Me all the ends of, the earth and be ye saved (from, 
 death i for I AM and there is none else." y / 
 
 13. Every Christian must learn the art of relaxation. £^fax yourself mentally and 
 physically and you will find yourself being filled with more life,Tiealth and strength. Holding 
 on to false memories, to worries, fears and errors of various kinds and descriptions, 
 tendency to deaden the body. Many a drowning person, who is righting and struggling trying 
 to save himself, has been known to pull a life-saver under with him. A life-saver many times 
 finds it necessary to give the one he is trying to rescue a blow on the forehead, in order to 
 knock him unconscious, thus relaxing him and making it possible to sa\e him. A drunken 
 
 man, because of his unconsciousness, has Leen known to fall oir of a building and not have 
 a bone broken. A person who walk- in his sleep and is about to fall off of a building, - 
 never be awakened, for if he falls in an awakened state he is liable to break some of the bones 
 in his body, whereas if he falls in the sleeping state, he is unhurt. Relaxation is one of the 
 secrets of Eternal Youth. 
 
 14. One is never tccourt death, even though it seems to have its good points as well as 
 its bad points. Nothing is gained through death. Everything is to be gained through 
 demonstrating over death. Many pray for death, believing it to be the way out of their 
 troubles and sorrows. The body, or this earth plane, is not. the cause of one's sorrows. The 
 mind is the seat of all causation. One is the same after death as before death. Death is the 
 lazy man's way of trying to get out of a problem. ''The last enemy to be overcome is death" 
 Are you going to let that enemy overcome you, or are you going to overcome that enemy 1 
 "If any man will keep my sayings he shall never taste of death. This is Lite Eternal that 
 they might know Thee, the only True God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou has Benl (into the 
 soul of man." "For Cod so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoso- 
 
 believeth into Him should never perish (die) but have everlasting Life." 
 
 15. -Many wish that they could die so that they could have rest. "In Adam (the old 
 mam we all die, but in Jesus Christ we are all made alive." Those who are living in the old 
 thought— which thought is not the Truth of Jesus Christ — find themselves laboring by the 
 sweat of their brow. "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I shall give 
 you rest." If you cannot find rest here, how are you going to find it hereafter, when yo 
 
 the same entity hereafter, with the same mind and thoughts as you had while here'. Man 
 nd and in his mind he always lives, until he finds the Free Spirit Self in himself; this 
 Self wipes out the past and establishes him in the Kingdom of Cod. 
 
 lb. Death «emes to free one from struggle, sickness, disease and pain, yet we realise in 
 Tr itli that Mich freedom is not permanent; because its foundation is not in Truth, but in 
 error. On? must build his foundation upon the Rock of Ages, which abides forever. If every 
 wb] would but accept the Vicarious Offer of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God that taketh away 
 the sin, sickness, sorrow and fruits of sin from those who are in error, and make His BOUl an 
 offering for sin, he would demonstrate right here and now. the "power over the enemy." < : <>d 
 ' ven man dominion over all things, even death. Dominate death and d<> not let it 
 dominate you. The scientific men of the day aie beginning to realize that death must be 
 
 ime. Many are calling it a curable disease. It is possible to transform, rejuvenate 
 renew the body here and now. "I shall not die. but live and declare the work- of God." h 
 it God's work that man shall die? 1> it Hifl Willi Heath is missing the mark of the 
 calling of Jesus Christ. It is dropping one's vision from the heights and (daring it upon 
 the depths. 
 
 17. The realization, a^ well as the proof, has come that not even the body dies, I 
 simply decomposes and returns to its native element-, whether the body ifl placed lind< 
 
 ground, cremated or buried at sea. The body, in the stillness of death, m in 
 unthinkable vibration. There is no such thing as "dead inatier." Life permeates everything. 
 - knew that it was possible to take the life in the stones and turn it into bread. 
 
 r.'.es in trees, books in the runniiiK brooks, sermons [fl thinR."— Shakespeare. 
 
 It il a fact that new life form* start working in the body after it hat Marted to decompose. 
 
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 Vany have odd ideas of just liow the body should be disposed of. It makes no difference, for 
 the body ie of no further value to the soul. The silvcr-eord which unites the soul to the 
 body, when once broken brings death. The method of burial dors not affect the soul one way 
 or the other, although it is the writer's honest opinion that cremation i> far the best method, 
 because disposing of the body in that way is best not only from the standpoint of sanitation, 
 but it frees the soul from all physical bondage and attachment to the old body which it 
 dropped. 
 
 is one is the same after death as before death. Death has not changed the soul at all. 
 From it has been stripped the physical pjarment of flesh, in which it was to demonstrate the 
 beauty of God, Perfection. Job said, "Yet in my flesh I shall see God." "Glorify God in your 
 body. I -hall not be unclothed but clothed anon." "Knew ye not that ye are the temple of 
 the living God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth therein?' Find God the Father and Jesus 
 Christ the Son within yourself and you will have found the True Secret by which Eternal 
 Youth can be demonstrated right here and now. 
 
 l!). The writer often likens humanity to an onion-, it has many layers, as man has many 
 bodies. Stripping an onion of one layer doc- not render the onion less than an onion. When 
 the soul has stripped itself of one body ; ' does Dot make man less than a man. The objective, 
 or physical body, when laid aside leavi ovl to function wholly in its subjective, or 
 
 psychical body. The bouI, or man. has unclothed itself, yet Paul says, "1 groan in the flesh. 
 not to be unclothed (that is to drop the physical body) but to be clothed upon (with the body 
 of the Lord which God has prepared for each of us. the body m Heaven awaiting the 
 manifestation of bvs "For this cause many are sickly, weak and die among you. 
 
 Dot dis< c: ning the Loi d's body." 
 
 20. The Wisdom and Knowledge of Jesus Christ gives us the assurance of continued, 
 everlasting life. Jesus spoke so much upon that Bubject, His tn th teaches us that there is 
 
 lie law of Love and Justice, that there is but One Source of Life and everything from 
 the fungus to the archangel is i partaker of i T or i ? - Bhadow- -the relative form of life. Life 
 i-> endless and in the one great ocean of Unlimited Life, no one really dies. Did not the 
 Berpent tell Eve. "Ye nhall not -inch die."1 Man passes under the appearance of death, yet 
 man docs not die. The serpent -poke the Truth. Yet it is not even necessary to go through 
 the appearance of it "Judge not according to appearances, but judge righteous judgment." 
 
 21. The appearance of death is the dropping of cue form to function in another form. 
 Man can never be without form, for man can never he without expression. Each new form 
 
 ording to one'- own Btate of consciousness. The new form looks very much like the old 
 form which was dropped, unless one made ■ ie'_ r demonstration in the change of his 
 consciousness befo e dropping the one form to function in the other. The body, whether 
 physical or'psychical, is but the reproduction of the thoughts and the feelings of the eiro. 
 We have character snalysists today. One's character can be read through the study of the 
 features ^i the face and body the face being the index to the consciousness, giving one an 
 idea of what the consciousness contain- Yet it is not a positive guide, for one's character 
 can change qiticker than the body can record it. as the material seems to be very slow in its 
 rate of vibration. 
 
 22. It is man's privilege, as well as his duty, to know all these things aright, and thus 
 he released forever from all ignorance concerning the Immortality of Life. It is given unto 
 each one to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, Life. Truth and Love. No one should 
 ever he content with ignorance, though many claim that "Ignorance is bliss." It is the wrong 
 kind of bliss We want the bliss that is the ecstacy of Heaven, which comes through the 
 application of the knowledge of Truth. Though we are taught to live in the NOW, we are 
 to know that the NOW exists on all planes of manifestation. We are all to know what there 
 is to be known about the future, yet we are to live and work in the Now, so that the future 
 shall have the true colorinsr. Many of the "I-know-it-alls" claim that they do not know what 
 takes place after death and because they do not know-, they feel that no one else knows. 
 
 23. We are to seek all our knowledge direct from the Holy Spirit and not from the 
 "spirits" or souls of the departed: for they know very little about the hereafter, the same as 
 we know very little about the here, compard to what we are yet to know. There is only 
 ONE who knows all things and that ONE is Jesus Christ within the soul of every human 
 being; it is saying to every human being. "Learn of Me." When you -eek knowledge you do 
 not go to th a "chela" (student) but rather you go to the "guru" (teacher i. We are taueht 
 to go to the One Teacher, the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ, who has promised to teach us all 
 things and bring all things to our remembrance. 
 
 24. It is only the study of Absolute Truth that gives us an absolute assurance of all 
 things spiritual. The Spirt of Truth in man reveals unto him the deep things of Cod, in the 
 degree that he seeks for its guidance and opens himself to its Spirit. The assurance of man's 
 immortality must come from within: if it does not, th^n man is rather doubtful. Many who 
 are interested in "spirits" are rather doubtful themselves about a man's immortality, for 
 souls on other planes die to one plane in order to pa-s to another. "In My Father's house 
 are many mansions, if it were not so I would have told you." "Ye shall not need to die the 
 second death." Even death on these planes, which are seven in number, can be overcome 
 
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 through the application of the Truth of Jesus Christ. It is the Truth understood, used and 
 lived that will give man the power to demonstrate over death and attain translation and 
 ascension. "All things are possible to them that believe." Those who believe are fired with 
 the Di\ ine Character. 
 
 25. Learn to always look first of all to the One in you which knows and understands, 
 from Whom nothing is hidden that it cannot be revealed. Seek its guidance and you will 
 find that all else will be added unto you. Holy daily, "There is One in me which knows. It 
 is the Omniscient One. I will seek its guidance. It reveals to me the hidden things of God. 
 It teaches me all things. There is nothing hidden but what it reveals unto me." Then 
 accept all outer witnesses to the degree that they confirm what has been revealed from 
 within. 
 
 26. The existence of invisible souls in the various grades of unfoldment has never been 
 denied by those who have "connected up" with "that something" in every soul which knows 
 all things. Life is a great school and we find every soul, whether in the flesh or out of t lie 
 flesh, learning in the various grades, the great truth about Life. Those who have unfolded 
 their clairvoyant sight can see these souls, provided they are on the earth plane. Main 
 
 are earth-bound, being held close to earth because of some problem which they left unfinished 
 and which they are to finish before passing on to higher planes. Others are held earth-bound, 
 due to the fact that those whom they left on earth are clinging to them, through sorrow and 
 through grief. One little boy, who had passed on, came to his mother in a vision, carrying 
 a lantern which kept going out all the time. His mother asked her little son why the light 
 kept going out. He told her it was her tears that kept putting the light out. The mother 
 ceased to grieve and saw the little one pass on to higher spheres. We know that Jesus 
 appeared first to Mary Magadelen after the Resurrection and said unto her, "Be not clinging 
 to Me. for 1 have not as yet ascended unto my Father and unto your Father," thus proving 
 that e\ en Mary, in her great grief and sorrow, was holding Jesus back from accomplishing 
 the great work. He gives humanity an example of how grief holds one earth-bound. Grief 
 will also cause one to bring about a waste of flesh, energy, vitality and supply. Socrates 
 has declared that, "He who grieves much is a magnet to attract waste." 
 
 27 We should forgive all those who have passed on and send them only the highe-t, 
 purest and most loving thoughts. There should be no grief or sorrow, rather "Rejoice because 
 1 said, T go unto my Father.'" Our love and our prayers must never be discontinued because 
 someone has passed on that we love; but rather, over the wires of the true love thoughts and 
 feelings, one's love, trust, cheer and prayers should travel. It is good to pray for those who 
 have passed on. Our prayers are food for their souls. Instead of strewing flowers upon their 
 graves, .send them the flowers of Gods richest thoughts and blessings, which help them on 
 their life journey. 
 
 28. The presence of those who have passed on can be seen, heard and felt. The writer 
 does not advise the developing of the psychic senses, among which is the clairvoyant sight ; 
 that is, the ability to see those who have passed on and pre yet earth-bound, or who linger 
 near the earth plane for various leasons. There is no healing gained from such seeing. It 
 does not demonstrate foi one what looking to Jesus Christ demonstrates. "Look unto Me 
 all the ends of the earth and be ye saved for I AM and there is none else." Looking to Jesus 
 Christ enabled Peter to walk the troubled waves of Galilee. As a rose must unfold from 
 within, so must the psychic senses be unfolded by the Spirit of Jesus Christ within the soul 
 of the devotee. Man's soul is the garden of the Lord in which He lives. He plucks out the 
 errors and tills the soul with the Good, according to the degree in which man unites himself 
 to the Lord Mighty to Save. One can 6poil a rosebud thorugh forcing its unfoldment, so also 
 many souls are being spoiled each day, as far as this incarnation is concerned, unless they 
 take hold of the Absolute Truth of Jesus Christ, which will heal these psychic Benses until 
 it pleases the Higher Self of man to have them opened. There is no use trying to put the 
 cart before the horse and there is no need of anyone trying to unfold their psychic Benses 
 
 they have first of all found the God Self within. 'Seek ye first the Kingdom of God"j 
 and &6 a direct result these Benses shall be opened and you will be able to use them for the 
 glory of God and not for the glory of self. 
 
 29. A mother who does not know the Absolute Truth about the children which the Lord 
 has blessed her with, will be found watching over those children after Bhe has passed on. the 
 same as she did while in the flesh. After death she seems to be closer to them than before 
 death, because in her psychical body she can go with them wherever they go. By doing this 
 fehe remains earth-bound. If she would put her chlidren in the charge of the Blessed Self 
 which is within them, she would go on her way proving the great Truth of Life, thus relieving 
 her of the sense of burden which she is allowing to hold her earth bound. She ha> failed to 
 east her burden upon the Lord and go on her way rejoicing, breaking the la-t thread of 
 attachment to the flesh. If the child is sensitive or negative enough, it can feel the mother's 
 ■rteesee. Many are the instances where a child has felt the mothers presence and heard 
 her voice. 
 
 30. A nurse, who studied Truth with the writer, told him of an experience she had had 
 before coming into the knowledge of the Truth. Her mother was stricken with paralysis 
 
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 which compelled her to remain in bed, bo her daughter gave up her work to take care of the 
 mother. The mother's room was above the kitchen; it was in the early summer months 
 when the windows could be left open all day. The daughter know very little about cooking 
 and had to go to the kitchen window and call up to her mother, asking her how to prepare 
 certain foods Bhe called up in order to as e herself the trip up the stairs each time. Is 
 became a habit. In the late sumoier her mother passed on and through force of habit she 
 
 would go to I lie window and -tart to call uj>. and then -top when Bhe realized that her mother 
 ha i gone, although she fell her mother's presence in the home all the time. She would stand 
 still and think aboul mother and soon -lie would hear her mother's \ oiee telling her just what 
 
 to do. It continued tor quite a while, snd daily the daughter would sit by the window and 
 ask her mother many questions, and the mother would try to answer them. It was noi 
 
 for the mother to be held earth-bound in that way. neither was it good for the daughter to 
 forget everything else and jusl - t there and communicate with the mother who had passed 
 on. Bach had her work t»> do. hot neither was doing this work. The house burned and the 
 communication ceased. "Where thy treasure ;-. there is thy heart also." Our heart and soul 
 in"-! never be given in Love to anything le-s than the Highest. The mother's treasure was 
 her child and she wanted ir her daughter all the time. The Cosmic Law sent them 
 
 on their way. 'I here i- no error in feeling the mother- presence or in listening to her voice; 
 
 the erroT lie- in seeking her guidance rather than the guidance of the Omnipresent Jesus 
 Christ, who tell- u- not to seek "familiar spirits," but rather seek the pn [dance of the Holy 
 One, which One we arc all to find within ourselves. Seek the counsel of the Most High and 
 yon will never he led astray, Only those who minister in the name of Jesus Christ, hearing 
 
 the seal of the Lamb, should he allowed to counsel one. 
 
 31. Many hav( -<«!i their departed and have conversed with them in visions and in their 
 wakening hours. One New Thought teacher, who does not understand the fullness of Truth, 
 Instructs hi- followers Cat ih<> must not pay an\ attention to visions and dreams. The 
 Bible -peak- very famorably 01 visions :nn \ dreams and much good has been accomplished 
 through Beeking their int >n. One mould never seek for that interpretation outside 
 
 of himself, for "There is <>n ( » in me which knows," -lmuld he his thought. Visions are 
 beautiful and instr ctive, but we air not >«• make gods of them. It seems a pity that those 
 
 who do not understand He fullneSS of Truth in all it- various phases will try to keep others 
 
 from, understanding. We are to live and allow everyone else the same privilege. A lady in 
 
 Colorado had a vision about 5 a. in. She saw herself -landing by the brink of a m-wly dug 
 grave. It was <hirk. ami raining quite hard. She could see distinct forms, and among them 
 the form of an elderly man. He -at on the blink of the grave with otic leg and one foot 
 hanging down in the grave. She Bcreamed and -aid. "Who is it?" A voice replied and said, 
 "It is vour father." She awakened. Not knowing the Truth of how to work spiritually so 
 a- to clother her father in the consciousness of Good, wherein no evil could enter and no 
 plague could come nigh hie body, -he allowed the vision to remain in her mind a*s it wan 
 given her. That afternoon she received a telegram stating that her father had just suffered 
 a stroke of paralysis on one side of the body. She had received a warning in the vision. If 
 she had hut known the Truth of Jesus Christ she could have started prayers and spiritual 
 work for her father, and thus saved him the false condftion. 
 
 SSL On October 80, 1018, the writer, a dough-hoy at that time, had an ohservation post 
 in the front trenches with the 354th Infantry. 80th Division, on the Argonne-Meuse front. 
 The American Artillery were given orders to shell all of "No Man's Land" on that front as 
 a preparation for the big drive of November 1st. The artillery figured a thousand yards 
 short: and the shells, instead of going out in front of the front line trenches of the German 
 lines, came right into the American front lines. The fhells were flying to all sides of the 
 writer, killing and wounding many of the soldiers in the trenches; apparently, the writer was 
 facing sure death. He held fast to the Truth of Jesus Christ, but his thoughts rapidly flew 
 to his dear mother and sister. No one but him who stood there at that moment knew wdiat 
 a terrible scene it was — trees all shattered to pieces — bodies hurled up in the air — the screams 
 of the wounded. After the war was over and the boys had returned to their respective homes. 
 his mother and sister related how on the early morning of October 30. 1018, they both had a 
 vision. They heard the screams of their "soldier-boy," and instantly began praying the True 
 Way of praying as taught by Jesus Christ, (which method the writer will put into a booklet 
 called, "The Value of True Prayer, and How to Pray"). There is a difference in time between 
 the two places, but as nearly as we could figure it out, the writer's danger and the mother's 
 and sister's visions were simultaneous. The writer declared, after reaching home, it was a 
 miracle that he was saved that morning. Ninety-two days under shell fire and received not 
 even a scratch. After his people had related their vision, then he understood why he w 
 wonderfully protected. Why should his loved ones have had that vision? It was a warning 
 for them to pray, so that "no evil could befall him and no plague come nigh his dwelling." 
 Many people have had visions, and later found out that the visions came out just the way 
 vision was given them. If they had only known that the premonition was given to them so 
 that they could pray and save the one in question, many would have been saved from death. 
 
CAN THE DEAD SPEAK TO THE LIVING 7 
 
 S3. The hereafter is very much the same a-^ the here. We will have flowers, homes and 
 occupations, mveh the same as we do here. Heaven, according to the teachings of Je 
 
 Let is within the soul of man. It is a state of consciousness, which man is to uncover and 
 li-.e in; so 1 hat he will find heaven wherever he goes. Heaven U likened unto a piece of 
 leaven, which leavens the lump. When vou have the leaven or the riding power of the All 
 Good in your own hands, you will cause heaven to appear wherever you go. Heaven i- 
 within man and not outside of him. Man carries his heaven with him, but false theology has 
 made him believe otherwise. Heaven is not a realm of three dimensions, like the here and 
 the hereafter. Heaven is the realm of the fourth dimension, the inner world of Pure Spirit. 
 Love, order and Harmony. The hereafter is still an outer world. Those who are living in 
 the hereafter, can. if they but will, turn within their own soul and find Heaven there and 
 manifest it outwardly. Man's soul is the Carden of Eden in which the Lord Jeeus Christ 
 lives, moves and has His Being. One student, looking into his mother's eyes as she 
 passing out, saw Jesus Christ*. The eyes are the windows of the soul, and when our eyes are 
 single, clear and pure, we will be able to lock into the soul of man. Seeing into the soul of 
 man we shall see the ONE — IESTJS CHRIST. Living in the sense world, man loses the sweet 
 communion and companionship with Jesus Christ. The writer, in order to make it clear to 
 his students, teaches that heaven is the within of the within. It is not within the body, but 
 within the within of the body. 
 
 'M. To all appearances outwardly, the psychical body, the body in which one lives in the 
 hereafter, is very similar to the one he had while on earth. Many try to pinch it to see if it 
 is real: but they find that it does not have the same sensation as the earth body had; heme 
 the reason why so many sensualists remain earth-bound, being in bondage to the senses 
 The flesh is the realm of sensation. Drunkards, and those whose only thought was sense* 
 gratification, cannot find liquor and sexual pleasures in the hereafter; so they remain earth- 
 bound, close to the realm of the tlesh. trying to get their satisfaction through possessing or 
 obsessing some negative or sensitive person. Many a young man has gone to the bar to get 
 a drink. While there a drunkard from the hereafter side of life, tried to get into the man 
 to overthrow his will; and began causing the young man to consume more and more liquor, 
 until he was "dead-drunk"; and then the usual phrase is, "When whiskey enters a man. man 
 leaves." Liquor and sexual pleasures open the way for the psychic world to work in and 
 through man. Man should learn to rise above those conditions of physical sensation. The 
 eupid with a bow and arrow, we have learned, is a psychical entity, whose work is to bring 
 about a sexual union oftentimes outside of the marriage vow, so that it can be born again 
 on earth. 
 
 S5. Most all of this devilish work is done at night. The night-time of the physical world 
 is the day-time of the psychical world. When the demons of the psychic world overthrow ■ 
 man's reason, this world calls him a "lunatic." which word is derived from lite word "moon" 
 or "luna." which is one and the same. We find those who are obsessed with the demons of 
 the psychic world doing things and saying things foreign to themselves when they are in their 
 conscious senses. Much could be written upon this subject, but a hint to the wise It often 
 quite sufficient. The Christian Eathers of old taught that the greatest prayer a man can 
 
 v is the name of Jesus Christ. "In my name shall ye cast out demons ." The name of 
 Jesus Christ is fire to the demons of the physical world. Clothe yourself safely with the 
 Spirit of the name of Jesus Christ and you shall always be protected. "Only those who hear 
 the mark of Jesus Christ can come near Me." 
 
 :'>(). .A soid that passes out with murder in his heart and is not permitted to cany out 
 his plans before death, will remain earth-bound; and if thai soul does not listen to the Jesus 
 Christ Teacher:, on the invisible plane and cast out murder from his heart and till it with the 
 Holy Love of Cod, but makes up his mind he is going to do it anywav. he will remain earth- 
 bound, and try to use someone else through which to commit his crime. It is anger, jealousy 
 and haired that open the way for such an entity to net into the consciousness of the man in 
 the flash. Jesus said, "It has been said to you by them of old. thou -halt not kill; but 1 say 
 unto you. that he that is angry with his brother is in danger of the hell fire." Man must live 
 in the Love Truth of Jesus Christ and put away from hinuelf that which does not belong to 
 the gieat Truth of Being. Be positive to all error and •"Keep the telephone of your mind 
 forever transmitting thoughts of Love. Purity. Joy. Peace and Truth: then when lust, hi 
 Mid SfTor try to call you up. they will always get the busy signal; after a while, they will 
 forget your number." 
 
 IT. The psychical or etherial body, being of a higher vibration than the flesh or material 
 body, permits those in the hereafter to move about more freely. Blood being an earthly 
 thing. i> quite unknown in the hereafter; therefore, they never -ee anyone Weed there. sfuch 
 Could be written about the soldier boys who passed on while on the battlefield, and of their 
 eriences in the hereafter. The writer may write a booklet upon that subject later on. 
 it inspiration so directs. 
 
 The good which one does on earth helps him along in the hereafter. \o good, which 
 is done from the tine basis, i> ever lost. JeeUS tells the ston about LaiarUi and the rich 
 man. It is true. Lazarus, one who WM cry poor in this world's goods, vet rich in 
 
8 CAN THE DEAD SPEAK TO THE LIVING! 
 
 spirituality, was always doing pood, not for notoriety, hut because it was 11 is Will. Lazarus 
 never missed an opportunity to let liis light shine. Lazarus did not realize the close relation- 
 ship between righteousness and riches. 11*' took much consolation in the old religioui 
 that piety and poverty go hand in hand. The old belief was that a righteous man peve 
 become rich, yet we find ahundant testimony in the Holy Bihle to prove that, "The 
 association between righteousness and riches is so close thai where we find a lack of riches, 
 or a lack of prosperity, or a lack of comfort, we should seek the cause." Man is a law unto 
 himself. Many have established themsleves in the law that one cannot he spiritual and 
 prosperous at the same time: yet one can he. if he hut understands the Truth. Lazarus was 
 hungry; he l>e<_ r L r ed help of a rich man: hut the rich man refused him. Tie rv»h man did not 
 know that every form of good "Tie does is a Beed Bown in the &rreat garden of life Jesu^ tells 
 us that in the hereafter Lazarus took the position of wealth, due to the good he did on earth: 
 
 and the rich man. whose richness was material — which richness he could not take with him 
 
 - was found to he very poor. When one has a principled prosperity they can apply the 
 principle on any plane of consciousm 
 
 39. A saintly soul, now listed among the "living dead." once told the writer a most 
 
 helpful story which a student of hers had related, it being a v is : oii a'.WiH the hereafter. 
 
 Mrs. M seemed to be absent from the physical sense red toveh of things and present in 
 
 the psychical realm, otherwise known as the hereafter. She told of how she was met hy a 
 
 guide, who showed her about the certain plane in the hereafter in which she was to I've; 
 
 explaining many interesting facte to her about the "hanp\ huntin.f? grounds" as the Indians 
 
 believed it to he. burying all the chief's possessions with him: as they believed he would use 
 
 them in the hereafter. The guide showed her a beautiful dwelling place, and told her it was 
 the home her housekeeper was building. He then pointed across the stvee* to the one her 
 
 butlei was building, she asked him what he meant by Baying, "That home is being built for 
 
 your housekeeper, and the other (inc for your hutler." The guide said. "Friend, all the 
 unselfish good which you do on earth. letting not your right hand know what your left hand 
 is doing, renders the substance by which these homes are built. Your housekeeper is indeed 
 a Christian. Though at times you are terribly mean to her. feeling yourself superior, yet in 
 turn she i- most gracious to you. she i- fulfilling the Taw. because ^he is letting the Love 
 of .le-iis Christ shine in and through her. She doe- mnch pood in the world. Were you to 
 follow her on her day ofif you would find what a wonderful soul she is and see the wonderful 
 good she i- doing. Your hutler also does much good. They themselves furnished the good 
 thoughts, words and deed-, hy which these beautiful palace- were built. These homes are not 
 built by hand-, hut hy true thoughts, words, and loving and unselfish deeds." 
 
 4(1. The lady then asked the guide to direct her to her "home on high." She said, 
 "Surely I must have a wonderful mansion compared with thai of my housekeeper and hutler." 
 The guide took her out on a desert place — the mode of travel in the hereafter is swift. To 
 think, is to he there. "This, my friend, is your place," (pointing to a roughly built shack 
 on a desert piece of ground i. The lady screamed in horror. "You insulting brute! Do you 
 
 know to whom you are speaking? I am Mrs, . We are the 'pillars' of the 
 
 Church. We entertain the priest in our home and do everything that he tells us to do. We 
 helped to build the church and we help to finance it. We largely support the priest. We help 
 all the charities on earth." "STOP, my dear friend!" he replied. "All that you have ever 
 done on earth was for the glory of self, and not the glory of God. You never helped those 
 from whom you knew you would never receive any earth-glory, A string was tied to all your 
 gifts. You have rejected and crucified the Blessed Lamb thousands of times; for inasmuch 
 as ye have done it unto the least of them, you have done it unto Him; He io the hidden man 
 in the heart and soul of every person you meet and speak to. Your life has been that of a 
 hypocrite. You have never furnished the substance for a home to be built for you. Your 
 good never reached higher than self. Good, like water, rises no higher than its source. Your 
 good never had its foundation or source in the Love of God and the Truth of Jesus Christ. 
 The cup of cold water which you gave was never given in His Name or Character. This 
 shack is all that you have inherited. Meekness and lowliness is the key to Divine Inheritance. 
 You entered the earth without any material wealth. You thought that the accumulation of 
 wealth was everything. You forgot to lay up treasures in heaven. Your wealth never came 
 through the Law of Prosperity. All the wealth which you have is that which you have 
 derived from the labor of others. You stole your wealth from the poor. Your wealth is 
 founded upon the poverty of others." 
 
 41. She begged to know what she might do to be saved. "Return to earth, worship God 
 in the Spirit of Divine Love toward everybody and everything, and let your life be the life 
 of the Truth of Jesus Christ. Remember, God never builded churches for men and women to 
 worship in. He built hearts through which they are to express Divine Love one toward 
 another. Your heart is His Holy Temple and before the altar of pure thought you shall meet 
 Him face to face. Every church on earth is man-made, having man as its foundation. You 
 cannot show me one church on earth that Jesus Christ founded and established, for He 
 founded and established no material church. His church is the Invisible Church and all the 
 members of that church believe not in creeds but in Loving Service. Jesus told you, 'God is 
 
CAN THE DEAD SPEAK TO THE LIVING ? 9 
 
 Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.' In Spirit and 
 in Trnth there is but one church owned and operated by Jesus. Every church seems to be 
 expressing anything else but Di\ ine Love toward every other church. Each feels that the 
 other is wrong. They are all wrong. The Church, to be the Bride of Jesus Christ, mu-t heal 
 tlie sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons, preach tlie gospel freely without 
 price, pew rentals, and gi\e freely, knowing they will receive freely. The churches have too 
 much commercialism in them. None of the churches have the Truth, for none live up to His 
 teaching. 'By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one toward 
 another.' By this shall all men know that this is the Church of Jesus Christ, because of its 
 divine, unselfish love and brotherly attitude toward every other church — every other believer. 
 The Church of Jesus Christ is the Church of Divine Love, which the Samaritan expressed. 
 
 42. "The Lord built your heart; it is His Temple, where you may worship Him every 
 moment of the day by expressing His Love, Truth and Glory toward all. The churches on 
 earth must be redeemed. They are not feeding the lambs of His fold. Their worship of 
 masses, burnt -offerings, sacrifices, rituals, ceremonies, are all an abomination to God. Jesus 
 Christ never founded a church, as they seem to claim He did. The Church of Jesus Christ is 
 the Spirit of Jesus Christ, which eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, neither has it entered 
 into the heart of man. Man is the Temple of the Living God, and the Spirit of Jesus Christ 
 dwells therein. Within the soul of man is the glory and bliss of the True Church. Jesus 
 taught man to worship in the True Temple not made by hands and buildtd by the material 
 realm. God is Spirit and He must be worshipped in the Church of the Spirit of Jesus Christ 
 and not in the material stone and wood church of man. Go, my soul, and preach the True 
 Gospel of Jesus Christ; heal the sick, as Jesus commanded every Christian to do. Take no 
 thought what you shall say; the Truth will be given you to speak; for you are now His 
 humble servant, His mouthpiece, through which Jesus Christ shall aerain work on earth. 
 healing the sick, preaching the true gospel, casting out demons, raising the dead and cleansing 
 the impure minds and bodies of men. The Angel of His Presence and Power fills you and 
 surrounds you, working in and through you, for and by you, to do His Will. The more 
 selfless you become the more you will be filled with the Spirit of Jesus Christ." The lady 
 returned to earth and did mighty works in His Name. 
 
 43. Many times before passing, the loved friends and relatives of the one who is about 
 to pass on, who are in the invisible world, will gather around the bedside, waiting to welcome 
 the soul into the hereafter. The writer, praying at the bedside of an elderly lady, saw her 
 husband who had passed on just six years that day. He was waiting to take his wife to their 
 home in the invisible. Those who are about to pass often see a great Light, which Light, 
 if they but hold fast to, will mark the corpse with peace, light and grace. Many times this 
 Light makes them return and take up their bodies. The writer and his sister were called to 
 the bedside of one, whom the physicians claimed was passing out — her eyes having started 
 to set and the nails began discoloring — they sat at the bedside, dcelaring the Truth and 
 knowing that Jesus Christ was working in and through her soul and He was adjusting all 
 
 s. She returned to the body, which, while she was out of it. was made perfectly whole. 
 She ig well, strong, happy and wise today. She tells of how as she stood outside of her body, 
 
 \v her discarded body, but all seemed so dark round about her. She saw a Light in the 
 lar distance, and she started traveling toward the Light. The Light met her and returned 
 h'T to her earth body. Just before passing you will often find them exclaim: "Oh! I am BO 
 happy It is so wonderful. I want to go on. Isn't it beautiful?" Prior to passing, the 
 "dying" one seeing his loved ones will often make peculiar expressions, such as, "1 want to 
 eat my slipper with papa." (meaning her departed husband). "Grandma is here. I see her." 
 "<>h! look at all the people who are here." 
 
 44. No one should hold his loved ones earth bound by running to mediums, clairvoyant-. 
 ouija boards and other material, personal and psychical means, trying to get a message from 
 linn. If your loved one has a message for you he will gel it to you. Some way will open 
 for him. Those who have passed on can and' do speak to us Why shouldn't they." aince there 
 arc no dead? The psychical voice, according to appearances, is much fainter and softer than 
 that of the physical, yet it sounds much the same as the earthly voice. Many speak through 
 Mm sub-conscious or psychic mind using the laws of mental telepathy. If one i- receptive he 
 
 1 the message. In the great realm of mind, there is no separation. They gel 
 concentrated thought, and we can get theirs. In the great ocean o\ mind, then- [g no 
 place where our thoughts cannot go. 
 
 48. Many say, "If the living dead are able to communicate with the living, then whv 
 don't they do it ?" Many times it is because of a lack >f conscious power to make themsi 
 felt and heard. Many lack the understanding of just how to go aboul it. Main arc ignorant 
 
 Mich matters, being of the doubting Thomas class. M;m\ t rv. but the skepticism of 
 their loved ones in the flesh shuts them out. Many cannot gel near their loved one- on earth. 
 
 <■ of the thought walls of error and materialism. The writer believes in independent 
 communication. He docs not cave for dependent communication; one never can be quite 
 ot it. There are those in the hereafter who do not know \cry much about the state of affairs 
 existing on that plane, because of their nurrow-mindedne.^.' Neck the True Spirit of Jeeui 
 
10 CAX THE DEAD SPEAK TO THE LTVIXC? 
 
 Christ within yourself; and yon will hove found the Omniscient, All Knowing Mind, from 
 which all wisdom, truth and Bcience emanates. 
 
 -Hs. The Truth is. that we are all in eternity now. There is but One World. God's world; 
 and in Spirit and in Truth we are all living, moving and having our being in God's World: 
 yel our senses still report a world of evil, matter and personality, with a here and a here- 
 after, filled with persons of various grades of intelligence. Hea\en is all about us, yet the 
 Benses are not regenerated enough to see it. Wordsworth has declared thai heaven lies all 
 about US in our infancy. We are all in Eternity now. the city four square. There is no 
 death, for all is Life. Nothing is gained through death. Never court it oi pray for it. Why 
 meditate upon death ami desire it ': Death i- the wages of sin. Only sinners then want 
 death, because they are after their wages. We get what we desire and meditate upon. Keep 
 your mind steadfastly centered upon < od and Jesus, the I oiversal and the Particular. You 
 can live a- long ae you please no time is Bet. One can Lengthen and they can shorten their 
 stay en earth, according to the way they think, live and act. Through sin and erroneous 
 thinking, living and acting, one shuts on the life-supply. Establish the idea in vour mind 
 now that Yur SHAL1 M Y! l: DIE, bul live and prove that God is Life. Eat of the Tree 
 of Life, and do not relate yourself to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Everything 
 has its birth in idea. Idea ; > the root or beginning of everything that manifests upon this 
 material plane. You begin t<> live the life of <• >rnity snd youthfulness through establishing 
 yourself in the [dea of Abundant I ife and ' ternal Youth, Oneness with God through Oneness 
 with your Jesus Christ Self. Grow dailj in the Master Consciousness. "Yet shall thy world 
 
 grow polar to thee and crystal OUt a world like thy thou 
 
 )7. l've-y -oo' must be salted with th< . purifying and regenerating fire of 
 
 God's Holy Love. No one can ascend the mountain of sup< >usness of our Lord, save 
 
 the\ have ■ ough thai Bre, tried and pn e. We al e to our place in life. 
 
 In the Father's house are many mansions that is, plane- of consc'o isness There are infinite 
 worlds; and t : me and i nderstanding will ye1 permit us to he able to communicate with them 
 as well as kisit them, tl - we communicate with and visit other continents. 
 
 48. Some <la\ everyone -hall know there is no death W are all to meet again. All 
 who have passed on are -Oil alive and <•■ ascious. Death Bhould be looked upon as a trip to 
 another realm. Jesus demonstrated a higher method of leaving this world, that is through 
 the Ascension which all are yet to demonstrate. Tie eye- must he incapable of tears in order 
 
 .' beneath the veil, those who are in the hereafter. 
 
 ('.». It is the writer's Bincere desire, that i-. if you are interested in this subject, that 
 you will read the booklet which he i- now writing, which is a companion to this hooklet, 
 entitled. "Reincarnation in the Light of Jesus Chrisl 
 
 ."0. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the great poetess, who i< listed amoncr the "Living Dead." was 
 
 SOnal trend of the writer's and they would sit for hours and discuss the subject of the 
 
 hereafter, exchanging notes, and Mr-. Wilcoj heartily agreed with his ideas. Her husband 
 
 passed on In May. 1916. The following Prayer is what site used each day in order that she 
 might he comforted : 
 
 "This is my Rosary of Prayer, which I say at least six times a day, and when I am not 
 uttering it. I am trying to live it. Tt stems to me to cover the whole spiritual ground, and I am 
 knowing that Light will be shown me. and peace given me. 
 
 PRAYER. 
 "Dear Creative Spirit, F?ther, Mo'her. God of the Universe. I love you and with you place 
 my problems. T know I am encircled by your Everlasting Arms. I know my beloved is in your 
 care. All I ask of you is Light to see my way, and the consciousness of the Living Christ within 
 me. and knowledge of the Indwelling God Presence, dreat Spirit, hear my prayer." 
 
 —ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. August, 1916. 
 
 51. The following are extracts from a few of the letters which the writer received from 
 Ella Wheeler Wilcox: "I am going to come o er early next week for noon lunch and see you 
 all. It seem? a long t'ir.e since I left. 1 am slowly training in endurance. I am aware that 
 in a large final sense ; t is time that 'all life is one and there is no separation.'" "Your very 
 good letter came a long time ago, hut as I had no very good report to make of myself, I did 
 not write you. Now T write in great joy to tell you that the clouds have rolled away becattse 
 I have received, for the last few weeks, wonderful and unmistakable messages from my 
 
 Beloved. The proof is so overwhelming that nobody but an idiot (or the still existing 
 stubborn type of oithodox Christian) could doubt it. These experiences did not come until 
 I had my home entirely to myself again, my orthodox relati.es having returned West again 
 to remain. I know you will be greatly interested. The messages urge me to go to France 
 this winter and I am making my plans to do so, if possible. Wishing you all happiness and 
 success in your work, I am. sincerely your friend, Ella Wheeler Wilcox." 
 
 52. The writer shall be pleased to hear from all the readers of this booklet. If you have 
 any helpful articles and data which would be helpful for an article like this, kindly send it. 
 The writer shall be pleased to serve you in any way he possibly can. Round and about you, 
 dear reader, are the Everlasting Arms. The Arm of the Lord is not shortened that it cannot 
 help you. Trust in the guidance of the Indwelling Presence. The God of Love, the Grace 
 of Jesus Christ and the Ministering Presence of the Holv Spirit is with you now and forever. 
 I bless you.— EMIL CLIFFORD HARTMAXX. 
 
CAN THE DEAD SPEAK TO THE LIVING! 11 
 
 THE BAD HABIT OF DEATH 
 
 "A great scientist recently explained to us that death is only a bad habit. 
 We die because we have inherited the idea that to die is a necessity of 
 existence. From our earliest childhood we have death forced on our attention. 
 Healthy, rosy-cheeked little children warble about death in the Sunday School. 
 (They are taught about the death of Jesus Christ instead of being taught 
 about His Glorification.) 
 
 "In our villages, youths and maidens linger by the gate of the church- 
 yard and recite Love's old sweet story to each other. In our populous cities, 
 many of the homes of the living look out upon the homes of the dead (bodies), 
 and the burial grounds are used as pleasure gardens. 
 
 "In the busy thoroughfare, where all is seething life, the undertaker 
 displays his wares and his price list. Marble monuments and half veiled urns 
 with angels in attendance are to be seen in the shop windows of the most 
 fashionable streets of our cities. The dead are borne through the streets in 
 a manner especially arranged to attract public attention; and everyone who 
 has lost a relative, publicly advertises his bereavement by wearing the 
 trappings and suits of woe and grief. 
 
 "This has made death a familiar feature of everyday life. It is such a 
 familiar feature that everyone has death always more or less in his mind. 
 We dwell upon the idea of death, the idea takes possession of us, and because 
 it is a depressing idea it gradually impairs our vitality and brings the body 
 into conditions favourable to death. 
 
 "A lady of ninety, one day said to Fontennelle, who was then eighty-five, 
 'Death seems to have forgotten us.' 'Hush,' whispered the old man, putting 
 his fingers to his lips. The eminent scientist asserts that if we could forget 
 death, death would forget us." — The Referee. 
 
 "There is no death! What seems so is transition. 
 
 This life of mortal breath 
 
 Is but a suburb of the life elysian, 
 
 Whose portal we call death." — Longfellow. 
 
 "When I go down to the grave, I can say like so many others: 'I have 
 finished my day's work,' but I cannot say, 'I have finished my life's work.' 
 My day 's work will begin again the next morning. Death is but the changing 
 of garments. The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity." — Victor Hugo. 
 
 "To me, the eternal existence of my soul is proved from my ideal of 
 activity. If I incessantly work till my death, nature is bound to give me 
 another form of existence, when the present can no longer sustain my soul." 
 — Goethe. 
 
 "Is it not strange, my friends, that after all I have said to convince you 
 that T am going to the society of the happy, you still think that this body is 
 Socrates? Bury my lifeless body where you please; but do not mourn over 
 if it were Socrates." — Socrates. 
 
 "Man never dies. The soul inhabits this body for a time and leaves it. 
 The soul is myself; the body is only my dwelling place; the soul departs, 
 and the body merely falls to the earth." — Buddhist Scriptures. 
 
12 CAN THE DEAD SPEAK TO THE LIVING! 
 
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 4.— The Faith That Wins Confidence $1.00 
 
 5. — King Solomon's Secret ,.$1.00 
 
 6.— The Magic of Blessing .....$1.00 
 
 HELPFUL BOOKLETS AND PAMPHLETS 
 
 Spiritual Intrepretation of the Lord's Prayer 5c 
 
 Self Treatment for Prosperity and Success 5c 
 
 How to Concentrate 5c 
 
 The Power of Thought 5c 
 
 The Plus Entity of Your Other Self 5c 
 
 NEW WRITINGS SOON TO BE PUBLISHED 
 "Reincarnation in the Light of Jesus Christ" 25c 
 
 A splendid article on " Where did I come from and where am I going?" 
 "The Value of Prayer, and How to Pray" 25c 
 
 A most instructive booklet upon the most important subject in life. 
 Prayer is the solution to all problems. Learn how to pray. 
 "Divine Healing — Its Principles and Practice" 25c 
 
 Giving thorough Instruction upon How to Heal Yourself and Others. 
 "The Law of Prosperity— How to Use and Apply It" 25c 
 
 A complete article on How to Demonstrate Prosperity and Success. 
 
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