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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued |Lady Shelley a Spiritualist|3-180}} | {{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued |Lady Shelley a Spiritualist|3-180}} | ||
... | {{Style P-No indent|ture, was undoubtedly a medium. In his rebellious hatred for all forms of oppression, political and religious, he had not only emancipated himself from all sectarian fetters, but had thrown off, as he supposed, all belief in God and a future life. But he was wiser than he knew. Throughout his writings his internal consciousness is continually contradicting the merely external errors into which he had fallen Belief in immortality was as natural to his heart as love of the beautiful. But he had been foully persecuted because of his anti-religious notions, and he too hastily confounded all belief in things supersensual with the systems whose tyranny he abhorred.}} | ||
Shelley was subject to trances, and was partially a somnambulist. In her admirable “Shelley Memorials,” Mrs. Shelley relates several instances, showing that he was undoubtedly a ''sensitive. ''He was drowned, it will be remembered, in the wreck of his own small sailboat, in a violent storm, on his return from Leghorn to his house, on the gulf of Lerici, July 8, 1822. His friend Williams, who perished with him, wrote in his diary, on the previous 6th of May, the following passage:— | |||
Fine. Some heavy drops of rain fell without a cloud being visible. After tea while walking with Shelley, on the terrace, and observing the effect of moonshine on the waters, he complained of being unusually nervous, and, stopping short, he grasped me violently by the arm, and stared steadfastly on the white surf that broke upon the beach under our feet. Observing him sensibly affected, I demanded of him if he was in pain; but he only answered by saying, ‘There it is again? there!’ He recovered after some time, and declared that he saw, as plainly as he then saw me, a naked child (Allegra, Lord Byron's daughter, who had recently died) rise from the sea and clasp its hands as if in joy, smiling at him. This was a trance that it required some reasoning and philosophy entirely to wake him from, so forcibly had the vision operated on his mind.” | |||
We are glad to see so honored and conspicuous a name as that of Mrs. Shelley associated with the cause of Spiritualism. The experiences of her married life, her knowledge of the noble and gifted being who has entwined her name imperishably with English poetical literature, have undoubtedly helped much to satisfy her that the facts on which Spiritualism is based are eternally and impregnably true. Long and happily may she live, cheered by the mellow light shed on her declining days from the unseen world—from the land where Shelley awaits her. | |||
{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued |Eminent Rosicrucians|3-180}} | |||
In the last chapter of this book, he shows how by his aspiration towards, and his invocation of, superior things, man may ascend into the intelligible world, and become like to the more sublime spirit, and intelligence. He represents man, as it were, ascending Jacob’s ‘adder, on which angels throng, striving to reach to the thoughts and the points of those who are above it, at the very gate of heaven; seeking to strike one end of the chord of harmony which runs through spiritual realms, each one holier and purer than the last, and which shall vibrate at length even with his thought before the throne of God. But while seeking this, his, closing counsel is, that,— | |||
“In the first place, we must implore assistance from the First Author, and pray not only with the mouth, but with religions gesture and a supplicating tone—also abundantly, incessantly, sincerely—that He would enlighten our minds, and remove the darkness gathering upon our souls, by reason of our bodies.’’ | |||
Disraeli states that before Agrippa wrote the book by which he is best known, his “Vanity of the Arts and Sciences,” he intended to reduce into a system, and marked the secret of communicating with spirits and demons. “On good authority,” says Disraeli, “he was well assured that the upper regions of the air swarmed with what the Greeks called ''daimones'', just as our lower atmosphere is full of birds, our waters of fish, and our earth of insects.” | |||
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