The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1911-03-17

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o. HV,fS chical experiments, had
been enabled to build up
An active medical practice OF my own.
MY duties were light; often the doc
tor did not call upon my services
Tor two or three weeks together
More and more rarely had he done
so OF recent months. and gradually
the conviction. sure, although intui-
tive. was borne in upon me that the
days of our association were num-
bered.
Although comparatively young In
years. Brodsky lived through the ex-
istences Of three ordinary men. His
early revolutionary career In Poland,
his struggles in America, at first for
the mere necessities of life. afterward
for success; finally, the dedication of
his career to the solution of psyschi-
cal problems has satiated him with
worldly experiences. He was I'M
married; his only ties lay, as he had
told me, upon the yelled shore of
eternity. / felt that life held nothing
further for him.
Death" he said to me once, "1s
no result of physical processes. So
wonderful a machine is the human
body that there exists no reason at
all why 1t should not go on forever
What kills is the satiation with earth
ly experiences that comes to u.s. 1t is
the longing of the soul for it's resting
place, where 1t stores up and absorbs
all the results of its earthly achieve
ments until IT is ready to renew them
In some fresh incarnation"
And you-are you satisfied?" ven
tured to ask.
Not with the world he answered.
But with my own personality-yes
l am tired of Ivan Brodsky. These
fncarnations are the merest hating
places in the souls long pilgrimage.
l would like to take up my work
afresh, but in different body, so that
/ might forget Brodsky, with his hopes
and longings and disappointments,
and face the world with the fresh an
ticipations and new faith of a child"
But that is humiliation" l cried.
"All the dreams of immortality that
are the hope of the world, the desire
for continued personal existence after
death-are these all useless?"
BY no MEANS" the doctor ans
wered 1.-THE personality persists af-
ter the change called death. 1t re-
mains so long as it is needed Rein
carnation is not fulfilled until the soul
has grown tired of its remembrances
and voluntarily descends, after some
thousand years of dreams, to gain
new experiences, And then, though
1t puts of the old personality forever,
the results of its acts remain to mod
lily its new life; shadowy remem-
brances fit through the brain: old
friends are encountered; besides, in
the end, everything is remembered.
For those who wish continued per.
sonality there is heaven of rest
where every dream and hope come
true. But as for myself, | confess,
II only l could start life again and
take up my work in a new body |
should be infinitely content. Nor will |
this be long, | believe"
knew that he alluded to his heart.
which was somewhat affected; yet the |
danger was not. imminent nor likely |
AT any rate, l shall be ready to |
answer the call. when it comes" said |
the doctor. He walked over to his |
desk and unlocked a drawer. Here |
s sealed letter that have left you,"
he said. After my death you will |
open It,"
l wondered even then why he did |
not lock the drawer
l remembered this conversation the !
more wildly in the light of subse- |
luent events. 1t must have been lit |
lie more than a week later when he |
sent for me.
81 am resolved to undertake an ex- |
pertinent" he said, more difficult
han any that I have ever attempted.
It has been done before; yet it is
arduous and uncertain. You have |
heard of the Indian fakirs who actu-
ally pass over the borderland of death,
themselves to be buried In |
1 grave, on which the grass sprouts,
only to be revived after a period of
you will not attempt such an ex-
pertinent as. that?" | cried.
NO" answered the doctor. ut
would be senseless to attempt so fool
sh an experiment without grave rea.
son. Nevertheless ! am planning one
somewhat analogous; intend to pass
through the gates of death for the
sake OF giving back to one who has
been deprived of it his inheritance of
he soul"
"You mean the imbecilel" | cried,
understanding.
Yes" answered the doctor 81
hope that this will succeed; but if
ny own death be the result at least
he last act of my life will have been
o some good purpose" And would
lot dissuade him from his intention.
Among the dozen or more inmates
If DR.. Brodsky's home, whom he
out of his own pocket.
WIS an imbecile orphan, some seven
'e,rs 81 age This child had never