What Happens After Death a Psychic Inquiry Explored
The article surveys diverse scientific and occult views on immortality from the book What Happens After Death and related works. It highlights claimed proofs of life after death, including letters from the astral world by Judge David Hatch via Elsa Barker, Patience Worth writings, and discussions of heaven and the astral realm.
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Funk & Wagnalls Company
Patience
Max
Elsa Barker
Mitchell Kennerley
New York City
David P. Hatch
Superior Court of California
Los Angeles
Bruce Hatch
Barker
Casper
Yost
Bt. Lou's
Patience Worth
John 11. Curran
Missouri
Emily Grant Hutchings
Tower Grove Park
St. Louis
Thue
The Problem of Two Wives and Heaven’s Clothing
A narrator recalls a debate among three women about marriage after death. They discuss biblical answers and the idea that in heaven they neither marry nor are given in marriage. The piece also describes how spirits imagine and create clothing, with one woman noting garments form from mental patterns.
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Christ
Judge Hateh
Earth
The Living Describe Spirit Life Through Trance-Mediumship
The article notes that spirits returning describe life after death via trance mediumship. It explains awakening on the other side feels natural, with no drastic personality changes, the spirit continuing life as it left off, like waking in a different room on holiday.
The Theosophic View on Death and Afterlife
Theosophic view states that human consciousness remains the same after death and that life outside the body mirrors the physical world. Progress continues through building conscience and faculties from earthly experiences, guiding us to a new earth-life.
A Scientist's View by Sir Hiram Maxim
Sir Hiram Maxim argues matter is eternal and that the soul is a material condition. He asserts the soul is transmitted through generations and that those who fail to pass their soul to descendants are lost, with death ending all for them.
An Agnostic Philosopher's View By Nordau
Dr. Max Nordau presents a skeptical stance on immortality arguing death is final, consciousness ends, and personal memory ceases. He finds immortality of an alien soul unconscionable and undesirable, deeming nothingness more consoling.
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Max Nordau
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Mra. Parker
Paris
Voila
Alabaator
Children In Heaven
Lionel
Kaulbach
Jerusalem
Wife No
J. E. Roberts, M. A
Jesus Christ
Our Lord
George E. Winter
the Theosophic View
Mrs. Annie Besant
Sir Hiram S. Maxim, C. E., M. E
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