Excerpt from The Ghost of Sir Francis Whynn, Baronet
It was through the agency of Spiritual activity the physical body was enabled to use its organs, function, live, move and have its being.
Then it is possible to realize that the body of flesh was merely an instrument, - a medium for the more or less intelligent Ego to make use of.
Death in this is recognized as a means to an end - a liberation. The fact must not be overlooked that all Mother Nature"s special and important labours are quite invisible to the physical eye.
There must of necessity be an unseen realm.
The marvellous force that is called "Life" is ever in operation throughout the whole Universe, working through and with atoms, molecules, germs, forming them into various shapes and putting them to various uses. Throughout the realms of Nature potent forces are attracting these and other infinitesimal atoms, or molecules, and forming cells of living germs from apparently invisible matter, and by marvellous processes - the processes of evolution and involution, shape and quicken into being multitudes of creatures.
In the past a certain school of materialistic scientists taught that mankind was probably the outcome of a fortuitous combination of atoms of matter, animated, of course, by force. And that when these said atoms disintegrated and the body fell to decay, then man"s career as a thinking entity was over. Briefly put: "Man cannot think without his brain. Individuality ends at death," was their declaration.
Now, a number of Spiritual Scientists thought otherwise and asserted that Individuality does not end with death: that "Memory is Immortal"; that it belongs to the Ego, - the I Am or Unseen Being, and does not depend upon the functioning of a human brain. A physical brain is essential only to the Ego whilst dwelling in the physical body. That Memory itself is indestructible. An integral part of the spiritual nature, and a very useful part, yet not visible to mortal gaze.
It is now a well-recognized fact that Dame Nature neither wastes nor destroys one atom of matter; nor perverts, or suspends force in any way. The savants, the great analytical chemists, the Master Minds, - assure us after untiring research into the realms of Nature"s finer workings that there are numberless delicate yet intensely active forces ever in operation governed by immutable laws.
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