Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-20

there are eyes that can see it. There is
an interior vision that can be exercised
| 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.
When they said to Socrates, s.Where
shall we bury you2'' he replied, "Bury me
anywhere if you can catch me-" But
they never have caught him.
What grand thing that we can lay
off this body when the time comes!
! 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
indwelling spirit O, he wants to sleep 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 new body how.
Does he want that old one any more?
You couldn't hire him to go back into it.
You might as well expect an eagle that
is soaring in tie sky to come back and
get into his OIL shell. There is a 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, hut 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.
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 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 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-b babe to the mother When the
golden thread is severed the spirit can
never again 60 back into the body.
A MOTHERS DEPARTURE SEEN BY HER
| DAUGHTER.
A much more complete description of
the spirits departure from the body was
given by Myra Carpenter, in a letter to
Mr.. Joseph Baker She was treated by
mesmerism for epileptic fits, and soon be-
came good clairvoyant, and eventually
seer Of spirits:
envy mother and had often talked of
death and Immortality. She frequently
magnetized me when she was in health,
and 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 I 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 I was absent attending an invalid.
came and remained constantly with
her, until she left us for better home.
Her last words were addressed to me.
Perceiving that she was dying, l 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 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.
I could feel them as material, and yet,
they communicated sensation 1 can
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 not
appear with the wings of fowls. as angels
are commonly painted, but they were in
the perfected human form. They seemed
SO pure, so full of love, that it was sweet
to look at them, as they watched the
change now taking place in my mother.
II 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 veil seemed to
drop over the eyes; then the hearing
ceased, and next the sense Of feeling
The spirit began to leave the limbs, as
they died first; and the light that filled
each part, in every fibre, drew up towards
the chest. AS fast as this took place the
veil seemed to drop over the part from
whence spiritual light was removed. A
ball of light was now gathering just
above her head; and this continued to in
crease as long as the spirit was connected
with the body The light left the brair
last; and then the silver cord was loosed
The luminous appearance soon began t
assume the human form; and could SET
my mother again! Rut, oh, how changed
She was light and glorious arrayed il
, robes of dazzling whiteness; free from
disease, pain and death. She seemed t
/ be welcomed by attending spirits, will
, the Joy of a mother over the birth Of ,
{ child. She paid no attention to me, o
any earthly object, but joined her com
panions; and they seemed to go ava.
through the air. attempted to follow
them, in the spirit, for felt strongly at
tracted and longed to go with my moth
er. I saw. them ascend till they seemed
to pass through an open space, when