The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-03-14
I IDEAS OF HEAVEN. "a
OPINIONS IN DIFFERENT LANDS ON
TIE FUTURE ABODE.
What tho Ancicnts Thought - Singular
Superstition About tho Left Eye-Tho
Tests Ia the Egyptians Examination.
Errors Concerning our Indians.

Inc lCitlt tNliic>e telcAci ~ tns exist
ence and controlling power Of spirits. Con.
fucius believed in the power Of heaven 10 de-
cree 10 reward and punish.
4 carlinal point ia tho Mahomeirn faith
IL the asserted existence OF angels celestial
and Internal.
The New Zealdudcrs Imagine that the souls
Of the dead ~ to a place beneath the earth
called Roinga The path 10 this region Is Il
precipics close 10 the seashore at the North
Cape II Is said that the natives who live in
the neighborhood san at night hear sounds
caused 10y the passing OF spirits thither
through the air. II IS common superstition
with them that the left eye OF every chief
after his death 0ecomcs a star. Shungie
celebrated New Zealand king. said he had on
one occasion eaten the lct. eve OF a great
chief whom he hal kilel In battle for the
purpose OF thus Increasing the glory OF his
I own eys Sometimes, apparently, u was
/ thought TINT there was separate nnor
+ tality for each of tho owes OF the dead-the
. lett ascending 90 heaven as "a star, tine right,
Cd the form Of a spirit. taking light Tor
Roingn.
The people II the Sandwich Islands held
/ confused medley of notions as 10 another
+ lie The current fancy was that the souls OF
/ the chiefs were led by a god whose name de.
notes tie 'cyehali of the sun, o. a life in tue
+ heavens. wbllo pobeian souls went down to
+ Akea. "A iugubrions underground abode
The Kamclatkans send all the dead alike
/ TO subierinuean ely-ium. where they shall
/ find again ticir wives, clothes tools, huts and
whore they ihali iish AMI hunt
The Druils' conception Of the future life is
a. T. ! AL
envelope. j. borne aion. Theclouds are com
posel Of to souls Of lately deceased men
They lg over the heads OF armies. inspiring
courage or striking terror Not yet freed
from terrestrial affections they mngle in
the passion and affair. Of men Nainly they
~ % slac above the atmosphere; an i'm
passabo wall OF sapphire resis-s their wings.
In the moon millions Of souls traverse ire
mendous plains of ice losing all perception
but that II simple existence, forgetting the
adventures they have passed through and are
about % .ccOmmcnco.
The Sclndmnvians believed that thigh up
in the ssY Is Odms hall, the magnificent Val.
Lllla IT touplo 81 the slain 10 women
being ever mentioned as gaining admission 10
Nalhaila OF joining $50 the JOYS Of the Elm
hcliar. some writer's have affirmed that ac-
cOrdug % scandinavian faith women had no
Immortal souls, or az all events were ox-
clulcd from heaven. The charge Is baseless.
Nulhalla was the exclusive abode Of /
tho most daring champions, but Nalhalla was
not the whole OF heaven"
The Egyptian idea II the abode Of the soul .
is not very allurmg. 10 is led b. the god .
Sloth into Amcuihc, the Internal world. the .
entrance io which iics in the extreme west ola f
tie further side Of the sea, where the sun
goes dJWl under the earth. 40 tine entrance f
sits wido fhroatei monster. over whose head .
is the inscription. This is the devourer OF
many who go intO Amenfhe, the acerator Of T
tAo heart Of him who comes With sins e. tho /
house Of Justice Tho soul next kneels be-
fore the i0fly-two agcc,,ors OF Osiris. with
dsprecatilg assegeratiols and intlrc,ssi0ns
u then comes 90 the liuaL trial IN the han OF
the Two Truths, the approving ami the con-
drmuing or. as % J., differently named, tho
ball OF the Double Justice, the rcwardng and
tao pmi-hing Hero the threo divmues
IIorus. Anubis AMI shoih, proceed to weigh
the soul ia the balance
The most ancient IIindoo doctrine OF the
future tato Of man. as given ina the Ncdas.
Was simple AMI rude "Emancipatl0n from
all existence Is the tuluess OF felicity says
che Of tho Oriontais And again a hum
drcl thousand years of the highest happiness
on earth arc not equal 10 tho happiness Of one
day in the dswalokas.'
Tho Pcrgians. who had tho Zoroastrian
faith. believed that "ail who faithfully OBJ
served tie law in purify Of Thought, speech
and action whore holy and soul have sepo-
rated. attained paradise in the next world
A. TO Ito Greeks and Roman, The no.
t.eh that the wrath ID the gods would pursue
their eflcnils 10 tho future state gave rise t.
q belief in the punishment Of Iartaru5; so
tho notion that the distinguishing kindness OF
the gods would follow their fayorites gave
rise 10 the myth ct EiysIum"
Tho Aiahomctan paradise is found as soon
IS tho righteous havo passed STRAIT, or
enc bridge Of the world. They obtain
their first taste OF their approaching felicity
Dy refreshing draught from "MahOnots
Pond Theh comes paradise, an ecstatic 9
dream of pleasure, filed with sparkling
streams, honoyed fountains, shady groves, 4
precioas stones, all flowers and fruits, bloom
ing youths. circulating goblets, blacl. eyed
hours, incense, brilliant birds, delightsome
music, unbrokon peace. \ Sheah tradition
makes the prophet promise 10 Ali twelve pal
aces in paradise, built Of gold and silver ]
bricks laid in a cement Of musk and amber !
Tho Mexican idea was that souls neither {
good nor bad or whose virtues and vices
balanced each other. were 10 enter a medium {
state OF idleness and empty content The
wicked. or those dying in any Of certain
mode.of death, went 10 Mietlau ,
. dismal hall withi. the earth. Tho souls Of
hose struck by iieSniny or dying by any of u
1 given list Of diseases also tho souls OF chill ~
lren. were transformed 10 a remote clysium. v
ilalocan. d
The ultimate heaven was reserved for war n
'iOrs who bravely fell In battle, for women
yho died ia labor, for those offered Ia the
ernples o. the gods and for few others
These passed immediately 10 the house Of the I
I'm, their chief god, whom they accompanied l.
or q term of years with songs, dances and il
eyeiry IN his circuit around the sky. Then q
.nimatng tho forms OF birds OF plumage they a.
ived rs beautiful songsters among tho low s.
u.s. now on earth, now in heaven, 40 their :,
pleasure. =
Tho belief tho best established among our 4
American Indians Is that Of the immortality
# the soul There f. only ono well authenti -
tate appears 20 hsve beea entirely wanting
a small clan, tho Lower Pendal GRIZZLIES 81
his people had no burial ceremonies, no no -
ION ot a life hereafter, 10 word COR soul y
Some Dakota tribes imagined four souls,
nth separate de- TIMES, one to wander about
be world. ono 10 watch the body, the third
D hover arounI tho village and the highest
D. g to tho spirit lind The seat OF tho soul
'as yariously located The Costa Ricans
lace 10 this day the powers u thought and
ieinory IN the liver Most usually the head
"a regarded ~ tho vital member The
ioicislu OF the Indian, especially the Northern
.lbs, in the faye OF death has often been tho
,pic Of poets, and has often been interpreted
} be a fearlessness OF that event This is By &
D means true. Savages have an awful hor-
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