The herald., 1896-03-01
los ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING.. MARCH l. 1895.

the fact that my volition within GER
tain bounds was instant in its carrying
into effect. My soul was restricted to
spacial limits, owing to the fact Of still
existing within the elastic limitations
of the +" electrical" body. l was thus
not dead. Close by me. in reclining
position on q divan, was the cast of
human form. easily recognized it as
the material prison had just left, yet
how strange it seemed and what a won
derful contrast between that mould of
clay and the glorious habilaments
with which was now encased +! There
was in me the premonition of beatific,
Thanksgiving. psychic powers. In this
strange metempsychosis. l possessed
no feeling of any erossness. My form
showed none Of the accompaniment
of fleshy materiality. There foated,
an incorporeal solidity, disenthralled,
raptured by a celestial ichor, and
raised to the delirium of ecstacy
by the thrill of a spiritual life which
transcends the sensibilities of the
soul-clogged earthly state. There dwelt
within me the inflnity of thought and
Of will. The intense desire to visit
Fantasi, my Beloved, my Beautiful,
| instantaneously arose within me. My
| volition scarcely assumed the form of
an intent ere its fulfillment. passed
| with an ease which knew no. hiudrance
and with a rapidity which annihilated
time and space, through the material
! solidity of the cave, the midnight air
and the Palace of the Cliff into the
boudoir of my Beloved.
| Upon her dRdal couch of ivory Fan
TASTE lay sleeping. Through the high,
wide easement there streamed blaZ-
ing flood of white moonbeame, which
transformed the picture wealth of
walls, the silken hangings, the frescoed
ceilings, the lofty, FURNISHED mirrors
and q world of decorations into a
trance-hsunted, fragrant vagueness as
though a million diamonds had been
vaporized. Fantasie was the most
beautiful of ethereal beings-divinely
spirituelle! Her face, 80 lily white in
its almost supernatural fairness, told
in mystic language the heaven born
rapture of her love dreams. Gould
make my presence known to her?
Could cause her to be also dweller
in the Pure Light like mysslf?-were
the thoughts which fondly and fleet
" suggested themselves. Poised in the
center of the apartment, Idirected the
focused concentration Of my psychic
powers toward her. For an instant
there was the fsintest quiver through
out her frail young being fol-
lowed by q strange rapport of tele-
pathy which reached from soul to soul.
There was mysterious sound
"A lulling melody-as though our
souls had become attuned to the har-
monies of spiritual spheres. My in
most being reeled and swooned. . .
I was lost in maelstrom Of undetin-
ing through magic haze the soul of
Fsntasie seemed to hover between the
two worlds 'like star twixt night and
morn upon the horizons verge" ".
then followed a relapse on the part OF
my Beloved into strange psychal
apathy an appearance of the
cessation of the functions of life. |
say appearance, because I knew that
she was not in the state of death. 1t
was not hypnotism; it was not clRiro-
voyance; it was not the sleep of trance
nor was it that suspension of organic
vitality known to the medical world as
catalepsy. It was some unexplainable
lethargy wherein the soul had plunged
which no language could give faint
impression. l must not attempt to dc
scribe the wild psychological expe
riences Of that weird night, its fearfu
mysteries, it's panorama of swoonini
Xstas; II nor T. coqa!d L.. the eypresssionles p
!, horrid horrors of the two following
days. Let me clearly state here tina
in my efforts to disembody Fantasie,
mad negatived and neutralized m!
psychic forces-and it had become i'm
possible for me to return to my mate
rial frame till she could exert herself
back to general vitality or till her com
plete death took place! This spell
binding of the souls electric forces
this paralyzed gravity of the spiritua
world-may transcend all materia
understanding or it may seem tn,
height of the absurd. but alas, it wal
too terribly true!
/; On the following morn, my parents
waited in vain for the coming down o.
Fantasie; and, in order to ascertain tn,
reason of her absence, they visited the
chamber. I saw them draw near thu
,, couch whereon lay Fantasie in tina
! strange sleep of marble stiffness.
felt the thrill and tremor of dread ap
prehension that swept through both o
them. saw my father with sudder
start tremblingly take hold of the cole
white hand then reel back
ward as though struck by the light
: ning's bolt, whispering in the huskines
and despair Of deepest pathos, th
7 words "She is dead" 1 fel
those piercing pangs of soul-stsbbinl
sorrow-those inmost meanings of tn,
utter insanity of hell-doomed hope
l They drank the bitter dregs of life
changeful cup to the last and bitteres
= drop.
a But must speed on toward the enc
!. On the following day saw my Far
TASTE, my tranced-love, EMBODIED in
l shroud and then laid within caske1
: Rare and beautiful flowers we're wovel
into wreath and placed as diadem a
her head. The state whereby our soul
: we're held bound. had as yet undergon
no change. 1 saw my parents wit
, tear-flled eyes bend over her pale ant
. passive form-a form that possessed al
| the semblance of a corpse. All! wha
beautiful corpse! A face so pure, 8
sweet, 80 spirituelle that it seemed de
filed by the solar light of this materia
/. world. Eyes closed in futterless i'm
? mobility and fringed with the midnigh
= sweep OF lengthful lashes. Bosom 9
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