The Theosophist. November 1903

the wonders that waylay the researcher we have but o recall--Matter in a fourth state the genesis of the elements the dissociation of the chemical elements the existence of bodies smaller than atoms the atomic nature of electricity the perception of electrons not to mention other dawning marvels far removed from the lines of thought usually associated with English chemistry. [...] And yet we are told the Maori had no religious beliefs ! The soul of man comes from the centre of the Universe Hawaiki and is born on earth in a physical body ; when the body dies it decays and returns to mother earth while the spirit passes into the spirit-world and after a period the Ego in the case of a good man passes to the centre of the Universe the Heavenly Hawaiki to bliss and pea [...] Hawaiki is said to be the centre of the earth "where the germ and the race evolved and developed ; where the beloved Lake Raugiriri rested and where Wharekura stood.: As the heart yearns to return to the original home and mother land so the released spirit in obedience to the 'law of gravitation' hastens to the centre "1903.] Hawaiki the Ancient Home of the Maori. [...] In this body the man travels just as in the other case but without any of the dangers which beset the path of the astral visitor and with the enomous advantages which the possession of the higher faculties of the mental plane gives in the way of additional sight and wider know- edge. [...] No one was stirring but the moon was there and the sea and the gleam of the moonlight on the rippling waters just as if I had been looking on the actual scene I was wide awake and the same time that I saw the scene I distinctly heard the dropping of the rain outside the window.