Too low they build who build beneath the stars.-Young. The simplest person, who in his integrity worships God, becomes God, yet forever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable.-Emerson. All goes to show that the Soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie, an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.—Ibid. What a delight, what a transport it is, for a Soul that is wandering among the stars, to look down and laugh at the palaces of princes and the whole globe of the earth and all its treasures. -Seneca The Lord flows into the spirits of angels and of men. -Swedenborg. I delight in believing myself as Immortal as God Himself. -Montesquieu. If it into that invisible The Soul, the immaterial part, being of a nature so superior to the body, can it, as soon as it is separated from the body, be dispersed into nothing and perish? Oh, far otherwise. take its departure in a state of purity region of the Divine, the Immortal, the Wise, then its lot is to be happy in a state in which it is freed from fears and wild desires and the other evils of humanity.—Socrates. A WORD ADVISORY. THE mortal who would dedicate his tomb to A eternalis Somnus (the Eternal Sleep of Death), should pass these pages by. And the illogical dogmatist who holds that an All Wise God is capable of the stupendous folly of creating Intelligences in His own Image only to force or resolve them back again into the negation of being, will find what follows out of harmony with his economy of thought. What is written here is for those who believe in the Immortality of the Soul. Such may read, and if to their edification-if what is set forth here touches one responsive chord in the Spirit Kingship of their natures-then the author will have achieved the fruition hoped for while addressing himself to his work. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DISEMBODIED SOUL. CHAPTER I. DEATH-LIFE-THE SOUL. Painlessness of Death-Sensations After Dissolution-SoulLife Phenomena-Thought, the Vehicle of the SoulThe Deathless Entity Sexless-Contact With God's Spirit the Life of the Soul and of All Things-Visibility of the Incorporeal Entity-All Thought or Mind Processes Seen by the Spirit Eye-Ignorance of Incarnate Beings-Egos in Eternity Taken at Their True Worth. Death, always dreaded, I found painless.* To be rid of the fleshly incubus was indeed a relief. Upon discarnation the Divine Spark within me became etherially sensitive and what lucidity of *Dr. Woods Hutchinson, a celebrated physician, in the American Magazine, on the subject of the painlessness of death says: “While many of the processes which lead to death are pain |