The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-07-23


follows the death of my body; but l
know we'll whatever is really me shall
live, just as much as before. suppose I
am to be eligible to visit the stars in nv
time. I suppose that I shall have nv
RAIDS of new experiences of this earth will
prove only one out ofmyriads. How can
the real body ever die and be buried2 It
will elude the hands of the corpse-clean-
ers, carrying whatever has accrued to it
from the moment of birth to death.''
There is conscious life for the indi-
vidual-life in the great hereafter for the
human spirit. What we see with tile eve
is the least part of the real man. You
never saw a person-you see the flesh, the
eyes; you see the eyes, but not what
looks out of the eyes. There is a spirit
behind that we have never seen. But
there are eyes that can see it. There is
by many persons. A person whose vision
is so developed as to enable him to see
the spirit, learns, absolutely and scienti-
tically, that man has spirit behind all
this that is externally visible, and that
that spirit is deathless; that death has
no power over it. @.2f}.E - ...
When they said to Socrates, '.Where
shall we bury you9" he replied, 'Bury me
anywhere if you can catch me.'' But
they never have caught him. aEs4se, y
b What grand thing that we can lay
off this body when the time comes! y
There is the old man, feeble and worn
out. His eyes are dim and his ears heavy;
sounds can hardly make their way to the
in1vyo11fnor o,,SrSf 1o 1fc %o "a
long sleep. Come, o Death Angel to the
old man; it is just what the old man
wants. Give him new eyes to see with,
new ears to hear with, and new legs to
walk with. He has a new body now.
Does he want that old one any more?
You couldn't hire him to 60 back into it.
You might as we'll expect an eagle that
is soaring in the sky to come back and
get into his old shell. There is dead
man, as you call him-but there is no
man there; there is the eye, but no see
ing; the ear, but no hearing; the body is
there, but not the man. Back to the
earth let it go back to the bosom of our
universal mother, and help make mate
rial for the new men and women that are
still to come. $685., Dy2"IH&. IT,:
There is the dying man; his eyes are
dim, his cheek pale; his friends stand
weeping round, as they look upon what
seems to be the death agony Of the de
parting. This is what makes death so
terrible. But there is something we do
not sea- radiant spirit doing its best to
rid itself of the old body. Did you ever
see a chicken trying to struggle out of
the shell? We see such a struggle in the
birth of the departing spirit. This strug-
gle of the man seems terrible. But there
is the radiant spirit, calm as the morning.
1t looks down and smiles sadly to see
them weeping over what is no longer a
man, but a corpse. My sister Anna Den
ton Cridge, was clairvoyant I have
had her describe the spirit departing as
she saw it with her spiritual eyes. She
saw every step of the process by which
the spirit passes from the body-a slen-
der, golden cord, which attaches it Just
as the umbilical cord attaches the newly
born-babe to the mother. When the
golden thread is severed the spirit cah
never again go back into the body. =
MOTHERS DEPARTURE SEEN BY HER
DAUGHTER.
A much more complete description OF
the spirits departure from the body was
given by Myra Carpenter, in letterlto
Mr.. Joseph Baker. She was treated by
mesmerism for epileptic fits, and soon be-
came good clairvoyant, and eventually
seer of spirits: .s,.,@.q - =,
"My mother and I had often talked of
death and Immortality. She frequently
magnetized me when she was in health,
and I was in the clairvoyant state, by her
assistance, when the spiritual light Was
first given me. By your assistance Ba-
ker's) acquired the power of putting
myself in that state without the assistance
of an operator. She had often requested
that would at the time of her .decease,
put myself in that state, and carefully
notice the departure Of the spirit from
the body. Her failing health admonished
her that her end, for this life, was near
but she viewed it with calmness, for her
thoughts were full of the life to come,
and her hopes placed on her Father in
Heaven. Death had no terrors for her.
When she felt its approach, she sent for
me, as was absent attending an invalid
l came and remained constantly with
he., until she left us for a better home
Her last words were addressed to me-
Perceiving that she was dying, I seated
myself in the room, and was soon in a
spiritual clairvoyance. With the opening
Of the inner sight, the painful scene Of a
mothers death was changed to a vision
of glory. Beautiful angelic spirits were
present, watching over her. Their faces
were radiant with bliss, and their gilt
tering robes were like transparent snow
could feel them as material, and vet
they communicated y sensation I car
only describe by saying it seemed like
compressed air. Some of these heavenly
attendants stood at her head, and some
at her. feet, while others seemed to be
lowering over her form. They did moi
appear with the wings of fowls, as am gels
are commonly painted, but they were il
the perfected human form. They seemed
50 pure, so full of love, that it was. swee1
to look at them, as they watched the
change now taking place in my mother.
y 81 now turned my attention more di
rectly to my mother, and saw the exter
nal senses leave her. First, the power OF
sight departed, and then a veil seemed t.
i drOD over the ewes: then the ihearint