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M. F. A. L.--(I here said something about myself, I forget; I think it was about being proud.)

Date of account: Published 1916
Source: Raymond; or, Life and Death With examples of the evidence for survival of memory and affection after death.
Reference: Raymond; or, Life and Death With examples of the evidence for survival of memory and affection after death. · selected passage 124
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

Record summary

We change our state at birth, and come into the world of air and sense and myriad existence; we change our state at death and enter a region of--what?

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We change our state at birth, and come into the world of air and sense and myriad existence; we change our state at death and enter a region of--what? Of Ether, I think, and still more myriad existence; a region in which communion is more akin to what we here call telepathy, and where intercourse is not conducted by the accustomed indirect physical processes; but a region in which beauty and knowledge are as vivid as they are here: a region in which progress is possible, and in which "admiration, hope, and love" are even more real and dominant. It is in this sense that we can truly say, "The dead are not dead, but alive." ούδέ τεθνᾷσι θανὸντες.

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