The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-06-05

positive that we, our Individual selye
shall still live. as individuals, when Ii
monuments we have reared, and the mour
tains we now see, are alike leveled unds
the universal Law OF decsy-change-
| death. j am inclined TO think that thes
desires Of the humsu spirit are to be me
| Nothing is given to mock us. We DO nc
| have these immortal aspirations withou
some possibility of their being satisfied.
believe with Walt Whitman when he says
81 know / am deathless, and am not con
| tanned between my hat ard my boots. Thi
| orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpen
ter's compass. i do not know what follow
the death of my body; but know vel
whatever is really me shall live, just s
much as before. suppose / am to be eli
gible 10 visit the stars III my time. L sup
pose that shsll have my raids Of new ex
periences, and that the experiences of thi
earth will prove only one out Of myriad-
How can the real body ever die and b
buried? 1t will elude the hands of III
corpse-cleaners, carrying whatever has &C
crued 10 ii from the moment of birth L
death"
There is conscious life for the individ
ual-life in the great hereafter for the hu
m an spirit. What We see with the eye i
the least part OF the real man. You neve
saw person-you see the flesh, the eyes
you see the eyes but not what looks out o
the eyes. There is a spirit behind that W,
have never seen. But there are eyes tha
can see it. There is an interior vision tha
can be exercised by many persons. A per
son whose vision is so developed as to ens-
bic him to see the spirit, learns absolutely
and scientifically, that man hiss 4 spiri
behind all this that il externally visible
and that that spirit ia deathless; that deati
has no power over it.
When they said TO Socrates, where shsl
We bury you? he replied, ''Bury me sny
where, # you can catch me" But they
never have caught him.
What a grand thing that We can lay of
this body when the time come,
There il the old man feeble and worn
out. His eyes are dim and his ears heavy
sounds can hardly make their way to the
ind yelling spirit. o he wants to sleep a
long sleep. Come, O, Death Angel, to old
old man it is Just what the old msn wants
Give him new eyes to zee with, new ears to
hear with, and new legs to walk with. He
hss a new body, now. Does he want that
old one any more? You couldn't hire him
to 90 back into it. You might AZ well ex
pect an eagle that Is soaring in the sky to
come back and get into mis- old shell. There
is dead man, as you will call him-but
there is no man there; there il the eye, but
no seeing; the ear, but no hearing; the bod
is there, but not the man. Back to III,
earth-let it 60 back 10 the bosom Of cur
universal mother, and help make material
for the new Elen and women that are still
to come.
There il the dying mar; his eye il dim,
his cheek pale; his friends stand weeping
around, as they look upon what seems to
be the death agony Of the departing. This
is what makes death 70 terrible. But there
Is something We do not sea radient
spirit doing its be-t to rid itseif Of the old
body. Did you ever see q chicken trying
TO struggle out of the shell? We see such
s:ru gle in the birth Cf the departing
spirit. This struggle of the man seems
terrible. Bat there is the radiant spirit
calm as the morning. 1t looks down
and smiles sadly 10 see them weeping over
what is 10 louger a man, but a corpse
Nv sister, Anna Denton Cridse. was aclair-
voyant. | have had her describe the spirit
departing, az she saw If with her spiritual
e;ss. Sue saw every step of the process by
which the spirit passes from the body
then, putting On the perfect form. There
il Z connection sill with the bJdy-a slen-
der, golden cord. which attaches il just a.
the umbilical cord attaches the newly
born babe to the mother. When tha;
golden thread il severed the spirit can
never again go back into the b5dy.
TRe earth is 4 grand sspulchre; the sea
but 4 wide, deep grave. Oar bodies are
but the walking ashes Of the departed, lent
US for time, TO be returned when death
gives Us notice, by a summons that none
c an neglect or resist Old worlds reach the
goal, new worlds start hourly on the track
The matter composing our plannet has be
longed to other worlds, millions OF times
and shall doubtless belong to worlds un,
numbered, in the coming time. The water
we drink has made the glory OF many a sun,
set, and spanned the sky in rainbow arches
the dust beneath our feet has been trodden
a. it is now trodden upon, by unoounted
generations in the past; and every drop o
the briny sea has coursed down the cheek:
Of the children of sorrow. There is not a
particle OF this planet that has not be-
longed to worlds unnumbered before this
And this il true of humanity. There goes
the grand life-procession over The
planet. They march over the globe in con
slant succession. The old man, the young
maiden, and the little children, to;tering-
on they go, and take no backward step
They In arch usly-dropping theii
bodies az they 60; bodies that have served
the souls purpose for while, and thess
bodies are seized by the law of decay and
change, and by the subtle alchemy of death
are transformed into grass and flowers, tc
feed those who are to follow, when all those
who are present have gone. Well, done
old boy. You have served my turn go
back to the earth, to which l beqNeathed
you-make corn, srspes, apples, pears, fol
the oDcoming hosts, for the new men and
women, better and fairer than we, when We
hsve gone to fulfill our destiny in another
condition OF being. So goes the grand
m arch. There never was a time when Just
that thing did not take place. Whist i:
true CT the world to day, ia true of all pas
time. You will see, then, that death is M
curse. You will see that the Common no
ton that death was imposed rs curse, il
utterly faise.
A MOTHERS DEPARTURE SEEN BY HEI
DAUGHTER.
A much more complete description O
the spirits departure from the body wa
given by Myrs Carpenter, in letter t.
Mr.. Joseph Baker. She was treated by
mesmerism for epileptic 6ts, and soon be
came a good clairvoyanr and eventually
a seer of spirits:
"My mother and / had often talked o
death and Immortality. She freauentl,
msgnetized me when she was in goot
health, and was in the clairvoyant state
by her assistance, when the spiritual sigh
vas first given me. by your assistauc,
(Bsker's) 1 acquired the power of pultinI
myself in that state without the sssistanc
Of an operator She had often requested
that l would, at the time OF her d.cease
put myself in that state and carefully no
tice the departure of the spirit from tn.
body. Her failing health sdmonished he
that her end, for this life, was near; bu
she viewed it with csImness, for he
thoughts were full of the life to come, an,
her hopes placed on her Father in Heaven
Death had no terrors for her. When sh,
felt its approach. she sent for me, as l We
absent attending an invalid. / came sn,
remained constantly with her, until sh,
left Us for better home Her last word
were addressed to me- Perceivip,
thst she was dying, I seated my
self in tie room, and was soon il
= state of spiritual clsirvoy ance
With the opening Of tie inner sight, tn,
painful scene Of a mothers death va
chsnged to a vision OF glory. Beautifu
angelic spirits were present, watching owe
her. Their faces were radiant with bli-.
and their glitiering robes were like trans
narenf SNOW l cnnld feel fhen, "A mate