Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-21

proportions. She lay with closed eyes and
seemed TO sleep.
Amazed beyond self-control, my first
impulse was to try again for admission at
the outer doors. l half-;urned away to
descend from the loft, when some heavy
folds of tapestry on the side of the room
farthest from me seemed of their own
accord to move aside, disclosing an arched
passage through which, in single file,
seven men with slow and measured tread
entered the room.
They were all dressed in long, black
gowns, belted at the waist with a broad,
plain band of shining metal, save one,
whose belt was of crystal. From their
necks a golden chain held symbol resting
upon their breasts. These insignia. as
well as the girdle of him who seemed to be
the chief, shown by some innate light like
the crystal globe in the center of the room,
except, as they moved, coruscations OF color
would flash out. There was no sinister
purpose in their high, pale foreheads and
long white hair and boards. ! was per-
picked A peculiar sensation stole over
me. l could not move, and | felt stihed.
| could do nothing but look.
With noiseless step and specifies
gravity the seven arranged themselves
around the casket, each standing upon one
of the inlaid symbols of the floor. As if
with single impulse they Joined hands in
mystic clasp. Instantly strain of weird
music, slow in measure but thrilling and
far-reaching, seemed to pervade the space
in the same manner as the light If souls
can be called from whence they go, this
would do it. Every spiritual perception
of my soul grew supernaturally acute. |
seemed to become dual. | was in the room
with them, and still | seemed to be con-
scious of my body looking in. l can not in
words explain my sensations, but this may
help to explain what followed.
''As the music went on, increasing in in
tensity of potency, the air began to fill
with an overmastering presence that was
| not Of earth. Indistinct shapes crowded
| the room.
Sat last, he who looked the oldest of the
seven, and who wore the crystal zone
spoke quietly and gravely-his rich, full
tones in harmony with the musical accom-
paniment that never for a second ceased
| nor faltered, but grew ever more master
full in its call to the inmost powers of the
| souls, His words, as nearly as | can re-
peat them, were these:
"'Brothers of the eternal and mystic
| number, we meet at last for the final veri-
hcation of the great central idea We
shall soon know if the soul dominates the
body through the infinite ages The hand
| on the dial approaches the full time when
the twenty-five years shall be completed
| since in this room my beloved daughter
passed from anesthesla to suspended ami
nation. During this quarter of a century
| the body has been preserved intact from
| the power of Zeb Chronas the destroyer.
1t Is untouched by the moldering decay
which happens to gross mortality. Our
skill and her acquiescence preserve this
| physical form to US this day, beautiful and
| perfect as at the moment when she so
| willingly offered herself as volunteer in
this untried and unknown advance into
the domain of the unknown science Thus
| far our experience is success. We are
now to learn from the actual whether the
spirit can re-enter the body at will. Are
we ready? The sages bowed low. as one
man, and their voices, as one voice, re-
| pied; In the name of the Three, the
| Five and the Seven, we are ready The
hands on the great clock moved slightly.
| The twenty-iifth year was finished, and the
lid of the casket flew open The maiden
moved, opened her eyes, blue as the sap
phires Of st. Johns vision, and spoke.
Her voice was not of mortal cadence, and
seemed like an answering chord to the
music which had now ceased. A silence
| followed, as profound and as far removed
from all mortal things as light is from
darkness. 1t was the silence which, louder
than seven thunders, speaks to the soul of
unutterable things Like the music of a
| dream her words fell upon our inner SEN
sation without need of the auditory nerve.
Father, dear, and my honored friends,
l have come back, answering your invoca-
ton, to fulfill our solemn compact. | an
swer your question by word, as action has
already replied. 1t Is possible for those
who have passed beyond the veil to come
back to the earth form, if it is kept I'M
soiled and perfect; but oh, my father, it Is
not desirable for the soul who has pro-
gressed so to do. The youth outgrows the
swaddling bands of infancy. If this is true
of the outer manifestation, how much more
| so is it of the spiritual grown apart from
its garment Of clay? Never, voluntarily.
will the soul descend again into its old,
outgrown prison house.
1.-The new body of the perfect, revealed
to the wise ones under the symbol of the
resurrection, will be as spiritual and per-
feet as is the soul--a growth from within
outwardly-the reverse of the manifesto
ton now known to your personal sense as
spiritual growth. Farewell dearly be-
loved, until you, released from letters of
clay, shall meet me in the eternal and I'M
dying. | adjure you by the "word of
power" to let me go. With all the spirit
force | have attained during these years
beyond the veil / will this dust to dust
"As these last words were spoken n
cloud of fine ashes fell back to the bottom
of the casket, leaving glorifed shape
| that tloated out into the room and was
gone.
"A sharp pang convulsed me and l was
unconscious.
"When | awoke next morning | found
the sun was shining brightly. | seemed
to have but one thought or purpose, and
| that was TO get away as soon and as far as
possible from this place | got all nv be-
longings together, hitched up my horse
and drove off. \ parting glance showed
me the heavy oaken shutters still securely
shut.
Wrapping my robes about me as A
PiOlSStiOii lhOIu Tie hteu air, puSneO on
through the woods to the next town.
where | found rest and refreshment for
myself and horse.
By guarded inquiries of the jolly land
lord managed to find out that the house
belonged to the President of the medical
| college at A. He was generally re-
garded as an eccentric and an enthusiast,
whom people feared more than they loved,
and whose success as physician was some
| thing marvellous. His only and beautiful
daughter had shared her fathers passion
| for scientific pursuits. She had suddenly
disappeared several year before, and was
thought to have been murdered, although
nothing was ever proved
"The old house had the reputation of
being haunted, and everybody give it
wide berth
| made good time" continued Dana,
and got my reports around on time, but |
never shall forget that nightly. p.
Pheldn in Irdrelers Reriew.
SHIPPING APPLES TO EURoPE.-It is
only within few years that the shipping
of apples to European ports has assumed
great proportions The figures for 1877