40 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



ditions for the functioning of bodily or- 

 gans do not exist there. He must de- 

 velop new and more perfect senses; 

 higher, spiritual and bodily faculties 

 which differ from his present ones as 

 much as the objects of this higher 

 world differ from the things of earth. 



A direct transposition would there- 

 fore be without value. In order to 

 make investigations, a radical meta- 

 morphosis is an indispensable condi- 

 tion. The soul must be separated from 

 its earthly clothing and pass through 

 all the transformations which com- 

 mence with natural death. In order to 

 return here, this person must again go 

 through the same processes in reverse 

 order. At his re-birth upon earth he 

 would not, in all probability, differ 

 from other people. He would know as 

 much or as little as we do. 



But even if we assume the improba- 

 ble and imagine that this person re- 

 turned to us with the memory of all he 

 had lived through and that he tried to 

 relate his impressions and experiences, 



