Category: Death

  • Thy Son Liveth

    This eighty-four page book, by writer Grace Duffie Boylan, small enough “to hide in a mourner’s sleeve”, was principally intended to amplify the common spiritualist theme “There is no death”, and to comfort those mourning the loss of their sons and husbands in battle. It is said that “Grief is love that has nowhere to…

  • The Other World

    It lies around us like a cloud— A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.

  • The Day After Death

    Here are a few excerpts from a talk given via the mediumship of Cora L. V. Richmond in Chicago on January 17, 1881. I’ve read many tales of the dying experience, but this luminous account is one of the most beautifully eloquent. Read the post on the Cora Richmond blog.

  • The Gates of Birth

    Passed on to the higher life, on September 11th, 1880, Cromwell, infant son of W. H. and M. A. Lambelle. Aged nine months. He has gone, he has gone to the Spirits’ home,To live in another sphere:Away from earth through the gates of birth,to a home of beauty there.