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Excerpt: ". . . Suddenly the lights snapped on ... and now the ether vibrated with the earth-girdling bellow of the greatest radio hook-up in history. The eulogistic phrases were familiar; so was the toneless voice of an Ex-President of the United States for whom the great inventor remembered voting. But he could hear now, since death had stripped him of his protective infirmity. Muttering sadly to himself, the old man pressed his fingers to his ears...
Heaven to Survivalist Lodge is the ether, which he thinks may be the essence of cosmic reality, the real seat of life. To the ether a man's soul "returns" when he dies; there it abides, till it learns from higher beings (who also inhabit the ether) how to go up higher. Survivalist Lodge has made inquiries of some souls about their habitat, their habits. He reports: "Above all, family affection continues strong; the desire to help friends and relatives is perhaps the most prominent feature. [They] are evidently happy, amid gracious surroundings, surrounded by beauty like that...
...Survivalist Lodge is not a Spiritualist ; he is a member of the Church of England: believes not differently from but more than his fellow members. He lives on Salisbury Plain, near Stonehenge, near Lady Mary Bailey, famed airwoman. Other books: Life and Matter, Raymond, or Life and Death, Ether and Reality, Evolution and Creation, Modern Scientific Ideas, Science and Human Progress, Why I Believe in Personal Immortality...
Professor Einstein says there is no such ether. Energy in all its aspects, he thinks, proceeds through empty space. His astounding and generally ununderstood mathematical formulae are elegant kaleidoscopes in which almost all the infinite fractions of nature shift upon each other to form infinite patterns...
...Mackaye says there is an ether. But it is not static like Professor Miller's ether. The MacKaye ether is composed of helter-skeltering radiations. Like light his radiations move in all directions, and with the same velocity (circa 186,000 mi. per sec.). They have a superfrequency and hence a superpenetration. As light goes through glass and X-rays through bodies, his radiations go through everything. They are never at rest. Modifications of them- photons, protons, electrons and possibly other quivering mites of sub-matter not yet recognized-are only slightly less ubiquitous...