1) The Materialistic Theory teaches that life is but a short journey from
the cradle to the grave, that there is no higher intelligence in the universe than man; that
his mind is produced by certain correlations of matter and that therefore death, and
dissolution of the body terminate existence.
There was a day when the arguments of Materialistic philosophers
seemed convincing, but as science advances it discovers more and more that there is a
spiritual side to the universe. That life and consciousness may exist without being able to
give us a sign, has been amply proven in the cases[pg 035]where a person who was entranced and thought dead for days has suddenly
awakened and told all that had taken place around the body. Such eminent scientists as Sir
Oliver Lodge, Camille Flammarion, Lombroso and other men of highest intelligence and
scientific training, have unequivocally stated as the result of their investigations, that
the intelligence which we call man survives death of the body and lives on in our midst as
independently of whether we see them or not as light and color exist all about the blind man
regardless of the fact that he does not perceive them. These scientists have reached their
conclusion after years of careful investigation. They have found that the so-called dead
can, and under certain circumstances do, communicate with us in such a manner that mistake
is out of the question. We maintain that their testimony is worth more than the argument of
materialism to the contrary, for it is based upon years of careful investigation, it is in
harmony with such well established laws as the law of conservation of matter and the law of conservation of
energy. Mind is a form of energy, and immune from destruction as claimed by
the materialist. Therefore we disbar the[pg 036]materialistic theory as unsound, because out of harmony with the laws of
nature and with well established facts.
2) The Theory of Theology claims that just prior to each birth a soul is
created by God and enters into the world where it lives for a time varying from a few
minutes to a few score of years; that at the end of this short span of life it returns
through the portal of death to the invisible beyond, where it remains forever in a condition
of happiness or misery according to the deeds done in the body during the few years it lived
here.
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