El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-27

| n WOMAN has passed through the
~ Gethsemane Of Sorrow. by losing
| her lover He has gone on into
| other planes OF existence. A great and
beautiful love united the two: and their
/ future shone like a green oasis, which
| the weary traveller sees just ahead of
| him. Both the man and the woman
| mad known trouble and pain; and this
| love had come to them like radiant
| sun, obliterating all clouds. Then, sud-
denly, death called One was taken
| and one was left
A friend writes of the one who is
| left as follows:
She is brave in her sorrow and Is
trying to overcome it by forgetting her.
self and working for the happiness OF
those around her. but her soul is con-
stantly tortured in its search for the
reason OF such an affliction
She says that if she mad reason to
believe she would meet him again in
the next life, she could find peace in
such hope and could spend all the
rest Of her life here in being faithful to
him.
The orthodox churches preach that
| there is no marriage nor giving in
marriage, nor personality of sex in the
life to come. and then we wonder why
the good God creates such great and
beautiful love between the sexes, il He
means no continuance of that kind of
love in the next life
Does He Know:
She is constantly asking herself:
Does he know how 1 suffer? Does
he wish me to be faithful to him or
has he learned that our love was only
mortal as our bodies?"
The orthodox churches tell US there
is no marriage in the realms beyond;
but they do not know that there is no
sex attraction or individual love exist
ing there
Sex attraction possesses other at
attributes than the mere physical The
man and woman who deeply, beauti-.
fully and completely love each other.
are conscious ora great and wonderful
spiritual expression. The physical ex-
pressions of love are part and nee
essary part, of certain seasons OF love
while mortals remain in their physical
bodies; they nave their place in the Di-
vine plan But where the real love ex-
lists in all its. entirety, these expressions
OF 1t are not the satisfying ones
1t Is the spiritual feeling, back of the
physical ardor,. that makes the passion
holy and lasting This feeling belongs
to the sex nature; no affection, or
friendship, with one of the same sex.
could produce this exquisite passion of
the soul That is because it requires
the male and female elements all
through nature to make a complete
unit Death cannot end this feeling.
Where it has dominated two beings on
earth, and where one goes on to other
realms, that emotion will unite them
and keep them in spiritual touch SO
LONG AS 1T LASTS IN THE HEART
OF THE ONE ON EARTH
Progress of the Soul.
without question, when it exists. &C
companied with intense sorrow and
lack of resignation, it prevents the
progress of the soul which has gone
from earth; prevents it's progress to the
higher and more ethereaI planes.
There are many realms beyond earth;
from the magnetic plane nearest to us,
to the realm of dazzling light where !
spirits go after they have dropped other |
bodies in other planes. And where they
finally prepare for another incarnation |
Life is no more stationary after death |
than it is here on earth. AS we pass |
from one phase OF existence here to |
another. and finally die, SO We pass
from one to another there, each time
dropping a sheath or body as we
pass on.
When a soul leaves this earth and !
goes over the border it finds the realm
for which it Is fitted through thoughts
and acts while here The man this |
woman loved found his mansion; the
one he had built for himself while on
earth His mansion would be only his
for a season; he would soon pass on
about his fathers business If the In
tense longing and sorrow and love of
the woman he left here did not keep
him nearer earth.
Such love and sorrow has magnetic
attraction for souls; and there are
those who find greater happiness in
staying close TO earth and trying to
give what comfort they can TO dear
ones left behind than they fould find in
pressing onward
Earth's Love and Sorrow.
When the love and sorrow of those
on earth have been purified of all phys
lcal attributes, and the purely spiritual
passion of love remains, then the soul
can move on. and yet carry this love
with it, When the heart on earth be-
gins to forget and cease to feel the
need of the one who has
gone. the spirit goes forward into other
healms perhaps with a sense of loss:
DerhanS with sense Of froadOn,