River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-07-24

\ or WneTe II came from l UOn even KNOW
myself where it came from-and only
ascertain afterwards by looking at the
printed number pasted on it, and then
| looking for that number in my written
catalogue, which will tell what the frag-
ment is-where it came from. But the
sensitive goes on, without being told
ANYTHING about it, and describes, perhaps
the scenes on the populous banks of the
| Nile in Pharaoh's time, or the rocky hill
sides of the valley, and describes the rock
hewn sepulchres, and the artists there al
work with chisel, or with brush, carving
and decorating the wonderful figures cut
cut of the rock in the heart of Egypt
three thousand years ago.
AMAZING POWER OF PSYCHoMETRY.
The sensitive goes back, not only to
gigantic tree ferns unrolling their fronds
in the worlds primal ages, and sees rep
tiles rushing through the waters, or lying
dead on the shore, but even sees cock
reaches run out, when the dead carcass of
the hugh reptile is turned over by one of
the land-slides on those torrid hills of
mighty rains. These experiments, and
others of similar nature, have tried by
thousands.
LET Us NOT FEAR TO TELL THE TRUTH.
You say those statements are eXtrava-
giant. But there are hundreds of extrava-
giant things that are true. | know these
to be true. People say you shouldn't
tell such extravagant things, the world
isn't prepared for them yet. But what is
ever going to prepare the world, if the
truth is never told it? The world would
be babes forever, if people acted on that
principle. Somebody a thousand years
ago said something, or l should not be
saying this tonight. If Nature is bold
enough to teach me truth, ought to
he manly enough to tell that truth to my
neighbor. Applause. There are deeps
infinitely deeper, and heights infinitely
higher, than rny that have yet been eX-
plored. We all ought to look at an at
tempt to sound this great ocean, whose
deeps can everywhere be recog-
nized by the clear thinkers of the
world
hold that nothing dies absolutely. l
hold that everything that exists has an
existence in the spiritual world. That
building is not only a house; 1T has its
spiritual counterpart.
WHAT WE SEE Is THE LEAST PART OF THE
REAL MAN.
The more | investigate this subject of
psychometry the more clearly this theory
is impressed upon my mind as the only
possible way Of accounting for these facts
But when we have gone so far as that, it
is very far from satisfying the human
soul. When we have gone so far as to prove
that person who lived IA thousand or
million years ago, can be seen by the
backward iOurneying psychometer, just
as he was, amidst his surroundings, and
all his life of that day is brought before
lis, that does not satisfy the yearnings of
our spirits. We want something grander
We want proof positive that we, our in
dividuals selves, shall still live, as in
dividuals, when the monuments we have
reared, and the mountains we now see,
are alike levelled under the universal
law of dccay-change-death. | am in
clined to think that these desires of the
human spirit are to be met Nothing is
given to mock us. We do not have these
immortal aspirations without some pos
sibility of their being satisfied. | be-
lieve with Walt Whitman when he says,
Il know | am deathless, and am not con
tanned between my hat and my boots
This orbit of mine cannot be swept by a
carpenters compass. do not know what
follows the death of my body; but
know well whatever is really me shall
live, Just as much as before. | suppose |
am to be eligible to visit the stars in my
time. | suppose that | shall have my
riads of new experiences of this earth will
prove only one out of myriads. How can
the real body ever die and be buried? 1t
will elude the hands of the corpse-cean-
ers, carving whatever has accrued to it
from the moment of birth to DEATH
There is a conscious life for the indi-
vidual-lifc in the great hereafter for the
human spirit. What We see with the eye
is the least part of the real man. You
never saw persOn--yOu see the flesh, the
ewes; 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
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 md 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, Where
shall we bury youl" 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. Q, he wants to sleep
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,
re1v ears to hear with, and new legs to
TX with. He has a new body now.
l}aes DE want that old one any m0res
You couldn't hire him to 90 back into it,
Yoa mighr as we'll expect an eaoIe that
is soaring in the sky to come back and
get into his old she'll. 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, but not the man. Back to the
earth let it go back to the bosom of our
7iverssl mother and help make mate
al 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 a chicken trying to struggle out Of
the SHELF We see such struggle IN the
birth of the departing spirit This strng-
gle of the man seems terrible. But there
is the radiant spirit, calm as the morning.
1t locks down and smiles sadly to see
them weeping over what is no longer 4
man, but corpse NV sister Anna DEN
ton Cridge, was clairvoyanf | have
had her describe the spirit departing, as
she saw i with her spiritual eyes. She
saw every step Of he process BY which
the spirit passes from the bodv--a slen-
| der, golden cord, which attaches it Just
as the umhilical cord sttaehes the newly
born-babe 10 the mother When the
golden thread is severed the spirit can
never again 70 back into the body.
MOTHERS DEPARTURE sEEN ~ HKR
DAraHTER
A much more complete description III
the spirits departure from the body was
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