160 SYDNEY T. KLEIN^ F.L.S., F.R.A.S., ON THE 



Ego in our consciousness, depends, as I have shown, upon the existence 

 of the brain, which is the organ of the mind ; when this is removed 

 the manifestation disappears, but physical life, which we have in 

 common with all plants and animals, does not require a brain at 

 all ; this is clearly seen in the lower forms of life ; it would be 

 difficult to point out the brain of a cabbage or an oaktree. If he 

 will refer to p. 146, he will see that he is again confounding the Physi- 

 cal Ego, the Soul-man, with the transcendental, I speak there only 

 of the Transcendental having no Free will, but on p. 135 I emphasize 

 that '}uan, the living Soul, if you like, has freedom of will to choose 

 between the Spiritual and Physical influences. 



I indeed appreciate the kindly words with which Canon Girdle- 

 stone closes his remarks ; he will, I think, on further consideration 

 recognize my reason for eliminating as far as possible all dogmas, 

 especially one of so controversial a character as the Virgin birth, 

 and, with regard to the line " But God hath revealed them unto us 

 by His Spirit," although this is in consonance with the very basis 

 of my argument it opens up the question of direct Eevelation which 

 I have studiously avoided in my paper. 



Need I say how deeply I appreciate the second printed communi- 

 cation as evidence of a true lover of the Divine, and one who is 

 travelling the same path which we must all follow in the " Quest 

 for the Grail " ; I have had many other similar communications, and 

 in almost the same words ; it is very gratifying to know that so 

 many others have had the same wonderful experience and have thus 

 realized their kinship with the Eeality ; would that others may also 

 be led to meditate upon what after all is " the pearl of great price," 

 for which those, who have once possessed it, know they would, if 

 they had it not, give everything in this world to acquire. 



The question of having a body after death must, I am afraid, be 

 relegated to that much used but misleading region of thought called 

 Anthropomorphism ; how can a Spirit, which is independent of space 

 limitation and therefore Omnipresent, be imagined to have a body ? 

 does anybody still imagine that, when the physical film is pricked 

 for us, we shall have legs and arms and wings and have to see and 

 hear by means of sense organs ? With the elimination of Time and 

 Space, all matter ceases to exist, for we know, by late discoveries in 

 Radio-activity, that every atom of which the human body is com- 

 posed, and every atom of the phenomenal Universe, is nothing else 



