The Peak in Darien, With Some Other Inquiries Touching Concerns of the Soul and the Body

The Peak in Darien, With Some Other Inquiries Touching Concerns of the Soul and the Body - An Octave of Essays

My last little book, Lectures on the Duties of Women, was addressed principally to the young of my own sex. The present volume is intended for my contemporaries who are daily brought face to face with some of the darker problems of the time, or are led by their advancing years to ponder ever more earnestly on the mystery of the great transition. In these various papers,some new, some already published in different periodicals,I have striven to meet fairly the questions whether the denial of God and immortality be indeed (as Agnostics and Comtists are wont to boast) a magnanimous creed, whether life be truly (as Leopardi and Schopenhauer and hundreds of their English disciples din daily in our ears) a burden and a curse, and whether (as much recent legislation and newspaper literature would seem to teach) bodily health be after all the summum bonum for which personal freedom, courage, humanity, and purity ought all to be sacrificed? To these discussions, I have added one on the Fitness of Women for the Ministry of Religion,a subject, I believe, destined soon to acquire importance,with two or three less serious papers on other matters touching moral questions; and, in conclusion, I have returned to a speculation concerning the immediate entry into the life after death which I find has possessed interest for many readers. That Peak in Darien, which we must all ascend in our turn,the apex of two worlds, whence the soul may possibly descry the horizonless Pacific of eternity,is the turning-point of human hope. And it appears to me infinitely strange that so little attention has been paid to the cases wherein indications seem to have been given of the perception by the dying of blessed presences revealed to them even as the veil of flesh has dropped away. Were I permitted to record with names and references half the instances of this occurrence which have been narrated to me, this short essay might have been swelled to a volume. It is my wish, however, that it should serve to suggest observation and provoke the interchange of experiences, rather than be considered as pretending to decide affirmatively the question wherewith it deals. Perhaps it may be as well to forestall any misapprehension by stating plainly that I utterly disbelieve, and even regard with intense dislike, all so-called Spiritualist manifestations and attempts to recall the dead; and that I have never found any sufficient testimony for stories of ghosts or apparitions of the departed beheld by men and women still in the midst of life. Only at the very moment when we are passing into their arms does it seem to me that the law of our being may permit us to recognize once more the beloved ones who are not lost, but gone before. The lines of W. J. Fox precisely express my thought on this subject: ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 68018
Author: Cobbe, Frances Power
Release Date: May 8, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Geo. H. Ellis
Publication Date: 1882
Publisher Country: United States