Produced by MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: The above is a reproduction of a photograph of an electric spark, showing the Negative and Positive. The white represents the negative, the lines show the positive, the view on the top showing the strongest positive effect.] The Secret of Life, Death and Immortality A Startling Proposition, With a Chapter Devoted to Mental Therapeutics and Instructions for Self Healing _By_ HENRY FLEETWOOD _Author of_ “MUSIC AS A CURE” Published by Henry Fleetwood Los Angeles 1909 Copyrighted by HENRY FLEETWOOD Dec. 3, 1908 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I Life Cosmic Evolution; Life Germs—how produced; “The Word”—evolution of; Universal Vibration—the only Immortality; Continuous Evolution—the condition of creation. CHAPTER II Electricity and Life Proof that Electricity is Life; recent discoveries in the wireless telegraph and telephone, telepathy, etc.,—how they affect the human race; other possibilities of Electricity. CHAPTER III Love and Music Their relation to Life; their effect on creation; the power of love; the power of music; all emotion subject to these powers. CHAPTER IV Immortality There cannot be conscious immortality; what is immortality?; why we hope for consciousness in a future life; how the ancients regarded a future life. CHAPTER V The Sun Its relation to life; what is radiant energy?; why the ancients worshipped the sun; the Parsees the present sun worshippers. CHAPTER VI Fear The great curse of the Universe—the only devil—its insidious claims—its effect on life. CHAPTER VII Death Its relation to Life; the only Immortal; its loving purpose; its relation to evolution. CHAPTER VIII Healing Mental Therapeutics, or healing suggestions; Christian Science; Faith healing, etc.