What the Other World is Like
What the Other World is Like is an article published in the Daily Express on 26 june 1919.
What the Other World is Like
FULL "EXPLANATION" BY SIR A. CONAN DOYLE.
A remarkable definition of the other world and a description of Christ as an "automatic writing medium" were given in a lecture by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the Queen's Hall yesterday.
"Scientific discoveries have shown that the physical body is permeated with ether,"
Sir Arthur said, "and a French scientist made an important when he demonstrated that there was a difference between the other surrounding the body and the ether in the body. The body is permeated with 'bound ether.'
"There would still remain a mould of my body standing in the place of the physical body if the latter were to disappear. The etheric body — the spiritual facsimile of the other — passes over at the moment of death. It disengages itself until it finds itself looking at its own body.
"So the dead body will endeavour to communicate with the sorrowing relatives, but will fail because its voice is differently tuned. It will see other figures, those of loved and dear ones, who, animated by love, sympathy, and attraction, come to lead it into the new life.
A "REST CURE."
"The conditions of the other world are remarkably like our own, raised to a higher sphere. It is a 'rest cure' after the troubles and trials of this life. Here man knows his worst ; there man knows his best.
"What have the messages to say with regard to Hell? They are couched in the terms of mercy and kindness which go with the higher religious thought. There is no greater blasphemy than to say that God could be less merciful than we are.
"Punishment, to my mind, is that the spirit will be more heavily weighted with earthly matter, and the spirit's progress will be retarded thereby.
"Christ's miracles were not sporadic things. They were marvellous things, executed by the means of a farce which we all have, but which He had in the highest degree. He chose His disciples not for their virtue or wisdom, but for their psychic power. Three of them were always with Him when He performed a miracle, as though their presence were necessary to complete a circle.
"Christ, asked a catch question about the woman in sin, hesitated in replying. He called on all the divine reserves of knowledge. He did the last thing one would expect. 'He wrote on the sand.' What did it means? Christ was an automatic writing medium."
