THOUGHTS FROM WRITINGS 



the soul is not visible is no demonstration 

 that it does not still live. The condition 

 of being unseen is the same condition 

 which occurs while the body is living, 

 so that intrinsically there is nothing 

 exceptional, or supernatural, in the life 

 of the soul after death.— ' The Story of 

 my Heart' 



MY soul has never been, and 

 never can be, dipped in time. 

 Time has never existed, and 

 never will ; it is a purely artificial arrange- 

 ment. It is eternity now, it always was 

 eternity, and always will be. By no 

 possible means could I get into time if 

 I tried. I am in eternity now, and must 

 there remain. Haste not, be at rest, 

 this Now is eternity. Because the idea 

 of time has left my mind— if ever it had 

 any hold on it — to me the man interred 

 in the tumulus is living now as I live. 

 We are both in eternity. There is no 



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