from many contacts that those who have passed on do return at their seances, and do give messages, under the strictest test conditions, that are recognized and fully accepted by investigators and by the friends of the departed. Even such noted scientists as Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Conan Doyle and Sir William Barrett have accepted such evidence.

Nevertheless, we will quote from another authority—no other than from the Mahatma Koot Hoomi, considered a Master of Occult Wisdom and Law, in his own letters to A. P. Sinnett, while the latter was President of the Theosophical Society. See the Mahatma Letters, Transcribed by A. T. Barker. Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York.*

The rule is, that a person who dies a natural death will remain but a few hours to several short years within the earth’s attraction, i. e., in the Kama Loka (purgatory or realm of the earth-bound spirits). But exceptions are, in the case of suicides and those who die a violent death in general. Hence one of such, for instance, who is destined to live—say 80 or 90 years, but who either killed himself or was killed by some accident, let us suppose at the age of 20—would have to pass in the Kama Loka not a few years, but in his case 60 or 70 years, as an elementary, or rather an “earth walker!” since he is not, unfortunately for him, even a “shell.”

Happy, thrice happy, in comparison, are those disembodied entities who sleep their long slumber and live in dream in the bosom of space! And woe to those who Trishna (desire for life or rebirth) will attract them to mediums, and woe to the latter, who tempt them with such an easy Upadana (material cause of an effect). For in grasping them and satisfying their thirst for life, the medium helps to develop in them—in fact the cause of—a new set of Skandas (the impermanent elements of man, the personality—shell), a new body, with far worse tendencies and passions than was the one they lost. All the future of this new body will be determined thus, not only by the

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