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THE POWER OF KARMA company with their physical body find that they have a body made of something else than the physical matter we are accustomed to here, but it is solid and substantial, just as good as their old bodies, and indeed rather better. They have moved on and are happy, and most of them say they would not come back for anything. The universe is great and splendid beyond our imagination.
The teachings of the great masters and philosophers are turned into truths for those who have experienced the touch of death ; but it is better for everyone to grasp these truths while still living in the physical body. There can be no possible doubt about this, just as there is no room for doubt in the reality of a spiritual world. “Beyond question,” said Socrates, "the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will truly exist in another world.” A great number of spiritualists prefer to use the term “etheric body" instead of soul. At death the etheric body, which was united with the physical body, leaves it, and continues its conscious existence in a world of finer matter; and though separated from physical matter, it is possible for the departed to communicate with those still on earth. The Theosophists assert that man has seven sheaths, of which the physical
