The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1907-12-18

expressed in such an soriginaI manner.
But as years passed on. after Helen
Wilmans became Mrs. Post and attain
ed great material success. she lost to
a certain degree that quality from her
writings
She lost, as so many followers after
metaphysical thought do. the all need
fui balance wheel.
She began 10 write and talk Of the
folly and weakness of dying: u teach
the possibility Of life eterna! in This
body. and she harped upon that strain.
while her body aged and while death
steadily approached, 10 give the bless
ed relief. that is the life work (if one
may use the paradox Of the Angel Of
Death. Another great soul. George
Francis Train. spent the last twenty
years Of his life in preaching the no
death philosophy. He assured his
friends that he should remain on this
earth for a hundred years az least in
the same body, and that he should
never require the need of medical at
tention. Yet he passed out of his body
before he reached four score years. 1t
is a misfortune when brilliant and
gifted minds waste their vital forces in
this foolish talk about forever in this
material body on this material plane
1t is quite true that Christ told His
disciples the last enemy TO overcome
was death. But Christ had studied in
India. and he was speaking in para
bles: he referred to the time which
awaits each soul when it reaches its
last incarnation and returns to be
one with Cod" and is done with
births and deaths. I doubt if any
mortal ever lived on earth who more
fully loved life or who found more de-
light in earthly existence than the
writer of these words. Yet | cannot
conceive 4 more dreadful fate than to
know l must always live on in this
same body.
Even were all those dear to me t.
continue with me. and were one to be
ever young and well. it seems to me
the desire for a change OF body would
come To be as intense and insistent as
does the desire for a change of APP
parel with the passing Of the seasons,
OF the desire for change of scenery
from time 10 time.
Knowing what we all do. of the mar
vellouS planets whirlng through il
limitable space: knowing as we do the
great probability that most of the
planets are inhabited. we show small
appreciation Of all Gods creations if
We are content to keep on forever in
this same body. in this same sphere.
AS we'll might the worm in the CO.
coon say it wanted nothing better than
its little worm shape.
Death. or the process of giving up
the body for a finer one. ought TO be
made a simpler and less terrible pro-
cess. We ought to live with such order
and simplicity. and so close to the
laws of nature. that We could retain
our faculties. our health and our abil
tiles to keep among our fellow men
and TO attend 10 our rightful duties
until the call came to go higher
The transition should be more easily.
and without long suffering sickness, or
fear.
We should, as il were. change bodies
as easily as we change old garments
for new.
The horrible customs connected with
funeral obsequies should be done away
with. and the cast off body should be
quietly and privately cared for by
those whose business it is TO attend TO
such duties.
And the fashions which fix an obli-
gatory time upon the living for the
display of grief should be made ridic
ulous in the eyes Of right thinking peo-
pie.
Religion should impress upon the
scrrowing friends OF the one who has
changed bodies the sin of forcing the
signs Of personal grief upon all OBJ
servers.
There should be more frequent and
intelligent references to the life be-
yOnd after a soul has gone on. OrthO-
dox religion has done much 10 make
death seem horrible. The idea Of a
loved one waiting in the grave for the
resurrection morning is Tepellant and
terrible TO a sorrow sick mourner on
earth What comfort can a desolate
mother find in such a thought? But
the belief that her child is met at the
outer threshold OF earth by loving
spirits. who take it in their care and
lead it into beautiful. radiant rooms of
the House Of Many Mansions" bears
comfort on its wings. Helen Wilmans
did not. at least for many years, be-
lieve in any life beyond the earth. She
believed that mortal will was all there
was Of Divinity, 1t was natural. there
fore. that she should desire 10 con-
tinue on as long as possible in this
body, but ere this she has found how
how small portion Of existence the
earth life forms. and she has no doubt
awakened 10 rejoicing in the con-
seriousness Of the finer spiritual form
which is now hers. and in the pleas
ures and privileges found in the high
er and more spiritual plans beyond
May her passing on cause her fol-
lowers 70 cease their foolish boasts
about living forever here and in this