637th ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING, 



Held in the Conference Hall, 



THE CENTRAL HALL, WESTMINSTER, S.W., on Monday, 

 January 23rd, 1922, at 4.30 p.m. 



Alfred T. Schofield, Esq., M.D., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read, confirmed and signed 

 and the HON. SECRETARY announced the election of the following 

 Associates: The Rev. Wilfred H. Isaacs, M.A., F. J. Moon, Esq., Mrs. 

 W. G. Martley, Vincent C. H. Millard, Esq., M.A.. Miss Mildred Duflf. and 

 Mrs. Agnes S. Whipple. 



The Chairman then called on Mr. Sydney T. Klein, F.L.S.. F.R.A.S., 

 to read his paper on " The Invisible is tlie Real, the Visible is only its 

 Shadow." The lecture was illustrated by physical experiments. 



" THE INVISIBLE IS THE REAL, THE VISIBLE IS 

 ONLY ITS SHADOVir" lUustrated by physical experi- 

 • ments. By Sydney T. Klein, F.L.S., F.R.A.S., F.R.M.S., 

 &c. 



IN other words, the Spiritual is the Real, the physical is 

 onljr its shadow -form, as depicted on our finite organs of 

 perception. 



Let us firstly clearly understand what we mean by Real and 

 Unreal. 



To most people the world in which we live seems very real 

 and it is difficult for them to believ e otherwise ; but the longer 

 we investigate and the more knowledge we thereby gain of our 

 suiTOundings, the clearer we see that behind all phenomena there 

 is a wonderful incomprehensible " power " which we call the 

 Spiritual, and that that power is quite beyond our senses of 

 perception and therefore of our conception, except in its effects, 

 namely, those appearances which in detail we call phenomena and 

 in the aggregate we call the Universe. 



In whatever direction we pursue our investigation we indeed 

 find that nltimately it is always the L^nknowable which is the 

 cause of the Knowable ; the Invisible the cause of the Visible. 

 On the other hand those who have not investigated or looked 

 beyond the horizon of everyday life and who insist that the 

 Visible is real because they live and move and have their being 

 therein, can only look upon the Invisible as shadowy and unreal. 

 But a little thought shows this conclusion to be quite untenable, 

 because if the Invisible is unreal and the Visible real it would 

 make the unreal actually the cause of the real, which is, of 



