'Think,' I told him, 'what may be waiting for you. You may discover the meaning of Spirit. You may open up a new world, as rich as the old one, but imperishable. You may prove to mankind their immortality and deliver them for ever from the fear of death. Why, man, you are picking at the lock of all the world's mysteries.'
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The promise of discovering immortality is unproven and may remain theoretical.
I dropped all my own views of sense and nonsense. I told him that, taking all that he had told me as fact, the Presences might be either ordinary minds travers…
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Of course he could only describe his impressions very lamely, for they were purely of the mind, and he had no material peg to hang them on, so that I could rea…
He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.
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What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?