Death: Its Causes and Phenomena. With Special Reference to ImmortalityFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1912 - 550 pages |
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Death: Its Causes and Phenomena, with Special Reference to Immortality Hereward Carrington,John Richard Meader Affichage du livre entier - 1911 |
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animal appear argument asked asphyxia automatic writing become believe blood bodily body brain catalepsy cause cells character clairvoyance communication conclusion condition consciousness dead disease dying effect energy ether ethereal body Eusapia Eusapia Palladino evidence existence experiments explain F. C. S. Schiller F. W. H. Myers fact force hand head heart Hodgson human immortality impossible incident interest John McClellan known letter light living manifestation material matter medium mental mind Myers natural death nervous occurred old age organism pain patient person phenomena Phinuit photograph physical Piper poison possible premature burial present produced Professor protozoa prove Psychical Research putrefaction question reason remarkable result rigor mortis scientific séance seems seen Sir Oliver Lodge sitters sitting sleep Society for Psychical soul spirit sudden death supernormal supposed telepathy theory things thought tion tissues trance vibration vital writing
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Page 267 - For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law...
Page 271 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 505 - You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage ; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by.
Page 278 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 230 - I cannot help believing they had this sort of death also in their eye. For surely, at whatever age it overtake the man, this is to die young.
Page 238 - I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth. And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God. Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.
Page 328 - ... much more refined is man's spiritual constitution. She walked in the atmosphere as easily, and in the same manner, as we tread the earth, and ascend an eminence.
Page 331 - On a certain Sunday evening in November 1881, having been reading of the great power which the human will is capable of exercising, I determined with the whole force of my being, that I would be present in spirit in the front bed-room on the second floor of a house situated at 22 Hogarth Road, Kensington...
Page 325 - This new head unfolded more and more distinctly, and so indescribably compact and intensely brilliant did it become, that I could neither see through it, nor. gaze upon it as steadily as I desired. While this spiritual head was being eliminated and organized...
Page 333 - On Saturday night, March 22, 1884, at about midnight, I had a distinct impression that Mr. SHB was present in my room, and I distinctly saw him while I was quite awake. He came towards me and stroked my hair. I voluntarily gave him this information when he called to see me on Wednesday, April 2, telling him the time and the circumstances of the apparition without any suggestion on his part. The appearance in my room was most vivid and quite unmistakable.