Existence after death

THE ROAD

TO IMMORTALITY

Being a description of the after-life

purporting to be communicated by the late

F. W. H. Myers

[Frederic William Henry Myers, 1843-1901]

through

GERALDINE CUMMINS

"For it has been my lot to be concerned in a work more important and more successful than anything in my own capacity or character could have led me to expect. I have been one of the central group concerned in a great endeavour; the endeavour to pierce, by scientific methods, the world-old, never-penetrated veil. The movement which took overt shape in 1882, with the formation of the Society for Psychical Research, was aided indeed by help from other quarters, but in its essential character was the conception of a few minds, and was piloted through its early dangers by a small group of intimate friends. With this endeavour to learn the actual truth as to the destiny of man I have from the very first been identified and, so to say, incorporate. Edmund Gurney worked at the task with more conscientious energy; the Sidgwicks with more unselfish wisdom; but no one more unreservedly than myself has staked his all upon that distant and growing hope." --Frederic Myers

Part I

Comment 9

I Why? 10

II The Chart of Existence 13

III The Plane of Illusion 15

IV Consciousness 30

V The Plane of Colour (the World of Eidos) 34

VI The Group-Soul 42

VII The Plane of Flame 47

VIII The Plane of White Light 51

IX Out Yonder, Timelessness 52

X The Universe 54

XI From the World of Eidos 57

XII The Incident of Death 58

XIII The Evolution of the Psyche 71

Part II

XIV Free Will 77

XV Memory 79

XVI The Great Memory 85

XVII Attention 87

XVIII The Subliminal Self 89

XIX Sleep 95

XX Telepathy 100

XXI The Interpenetration of Thought between the Two Worlds 103

XXII Happiness 109

XXIII God is Greater than Love 112

PART I

EXISTENCE AFTER DEATH

COMMENT

IN writing of that mystery men call "The Other World," "Existence after Death," or "Our Father's many Mansions," I am, you will understand, limited by what I know, limited by my own experiences. So I can only endeavour to write of the truth as I perceive it. You must pardon me if I seem to blaspheme, or if I seem merely to be treading the path others have trod.

We are working, I hope, for the same end. We both feel, perhaps, that if we can add anything to the sum of human knowledge, as regards man's spiritual nature, our pains and our labours are worth while. You and I may not have the power to bring about sensational happenings, but at least we can, in our small way, help in the furtherance of the knowledge that there are vast horizons quite beyond our perception, stretching limitless into the infinite.

These stray remarks of mine are the expression of my own "other world" knowledge. I can only retail to you the truth as I know it. Many and varied are the conditions that prevail when the soul comes alive in this world, or in one of the states to which we are subject after death. I use advisedly the term "comes alive" in connection with the soul. For the soul seems to us as dead when it lives in its body of clay as we would seem to the average agnostic. It is certainly true that many of us shades almost doubt the existence of a soul in the bodies of certain men and women of the low animal kind, who live, in the physical sense, on earth at the present moment.

Chapter I

WHY?

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