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Rh This simple truth lays bare the mistaken assumption that man dies as matter but comes to life as spirit. The

so-called dead, in order to reappear to those still in the existence cognized by the physical senses, would need to be tangible and material, — to have a material investiture, — or the material senses could take no cognizance of the so-called dead.

Spiritualism would transfer men from the spiritual sense of existence back into its material sense. This gross materialism is scientifically impossible, since to infinite Spirit there can be no matter.

Jesus said of Lazarus: “Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.” Jesus

restored Lazarus by the understanding that Lazarus had never died, not by an admission that his body had died and then lived again. Had Jesus believed that Lazarus had lived or died in his body, the Master would have stood on the same plane of belief as those who buried the body, and he could not have resuscitated it.

When you can waken yourself or others out of the belief that all must die, you can then exercise Jesus' spiritual power to reproduce the presence of those who have thought they died, — but not otherwise.

There is one possible moment, when those living on the earth and those called dead, can commune together, and

that is the moment previous to the transition, — the moment when the link between their opposite beliefs is being sundered. In the vestibule through which we pass from one dream to another dream, or so when we awake from earth's sleep to the grand verities of Life, the departing may hear the glad welcome of those