Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-07-22

lions, was enabled 10 unfold and periec
itself in accordance with the unlversa
tendencies Of all created things. i1
While this spiritual formation was GO
ing on, which was perfectly visible to m,
spiritual perceptions, the material bod,
manifested, to the outer vision of observ
ing individuals in the room, many sym
toms of uneasiness and pain; but these in
dications were totally deceptive; they wcr.
wholly caused by the departure of the vita
and spiritual forces from the extremitie.
and viscera and the brain, and thence into
the ascending organism.
The spirit arose at right angles over the
head or brain Of the deserted body. Blu
Immediately previous 10 the final dissolu
ton Of the relationship which had for SC
many years subsisted between the two spir.
itual and material bodies, | saw-playins
energeticai.y between the feet of the ele
waited spiritual body and the head of the
PROSTATE physical body-a bright stream
or current OF vital electricity. This
taught me, that what is customarily termed
Death is but a Birth Of spirit from q
lower into higher state; that an inferior
body and mode of existence are exchanged
for superior body and corresponding en-.
downment and capabilities of happiness. ]
learned that the correspondence between
the birth of a child into this world, and the
birth of The spirit from the material body
into the higher world, is absolute and com.
plete-even 10 the unabilical cord, which
was represented by the thread Of vital
electricity, which, for few minutes sub.
sisted between, and connected the two or.
ganisms together. And here perceived,
what had never before obtained knowl-
edge of, that small portion OF this vital
electrical element returned TO the deserted
body, Immediately subsequent to the seper.
alton of the unbilical thread; and that that
portion Of this element which passed back
10 the earthly organism, instantly diffused
itself through the entire structure, and
thus prevented immediate decomposition.
1t is not proper that body should be
deposited in the earth until after decompo.
sition has positive evidences Of such struc.
tural change, even though life seems sure.
ly to have departed, it is not right to con.
sign the body TO the grave. The umbili.
cal life cord, Of which speak, is some,
times not severed, butts drawn out into the
finest possible medium Of sympathies con.
nected between the bodies and the spirit.
This is invariably the case when individu-
nls apparently die, and after being absent
for few days or hours, return as from
a peaceful journey, to relate their spiritual
experience. Snch phenomena are mod.
erately termed frances, Cata!epsy, Som
nambulsm and spiritual Extassi. There
are many different stages of diversions, and
subdivisions OF these states. But when
the spirit is arrested in It's flight from the
body. and when it is held in transitional
or meditorial state, for only few hours or
minutes then the mind seldom retains a
recollection of Its oxperience-ths state OF
seems, 10 superficial obsery.
er, like annihilatiop; and this occasional
suspicion efconsciousness (or memory is
made the foundation of many
an argument against the souls immortal
existence. 1t is when the spirit entirely
leaves the body-only retaining proprie.
torsbip over it, through the medium of the
universal umbilical thread or electric wire,
as it might be called that the soul is ena.
bled to abandon its earthly tenements and
interests, for many hours and days, and af.
return TO the earth, laden with
bright and happy memories. s
AS soon as the spirit, whose departing
hour thus watched, was wholly disengag-
ed from the tenacious physical body, d.
rected nv attention to the movements and
emotions Of the former; and saw her be-.
gin to breathe the most interior or spiritu-
al portions the surrounding terrestrial at.
(The reader will find an ex.
planation of what is meant by the s'inte.
rior portions of the terrestrial atmosphere
by referring TO the consideration Of s'air
as medium" to be found in the pa,ho-
logical department of this volume.) At
first it seemed with difficulty that she could
breathe the new medium; but in few
seconds, she inhaled and exhaled the spir-
itual elements of nature, with the greatest
possible ease and delight. And now l saw
that she was in the possessions of external
and physical proportions, which were
Identical, in every possible particular-im-
proved and beauti(ul-with those portions
that characterized her earthly organiza.
tions. That is to say, she possessed a
heart, stomach, liver, lungs, &c. &c.,
just as her natural body did previous to
(not her, but) its death. This is a won.
derful and consol;ng truth! But saw that
the Improvements which were wrought
upon, and in, her spiritual organization,
were not so particular ana thorough as 10
destroy or transcend her personality; nor
did they materially alter her natural ap.
pearance or earthly characteristics. So
mucI, like her former self was she; that,
had herfriends beheld her Gas did) they
certainly would have exclaimed-as we
often do upon the return of a long absent
friend, who leaves US in illness and returns
in health-"Why, how we'll you look!
how improved you are!"-such were the
nature most beautifying in their extent