The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance

AUTHOR'S PROLOGUE I. THE HEROINE BEGINS HER STORY II. THE FAIRY SHIP III. THE ANGEL OF A DREAM IV. A BUNCH OF HEATHER V. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING VI. RECOGNITION VII. MEMORIES VIII...

THIS WAS PRECISELY MY TEACHING IN THE FIRST BOOK I EVER WROTE. I was ridiculed for it, of course,--and I was told that there was no 'spiritual' force in electricity. I differ fr...

Yet,--as he personally declares, through the mouth of his modern science,--he is not of real importance withal. The little planet on which he dwells would, to all seeming, move...

The night before I left home was to me a memorable one. Nothing of any outward or apparent interest happened, and I was quite alone, yet I was conscious of a singular elation of...

"Our little friend is of a rather strange disposition," he observed--"She has the indifference of an old-world philosopher to the saying of speeches that are merely socially agr...

"What does the world seek most ardently?" it demanded--"The Love of God?--or the Love of Self? If it seeks the first, all things in heaven and earth shall be added to its desire...

"Eight hundred guineas"--she answered--"But, you see, he has to leave his patients in London, and find another man to attend to them during his absence. He is so very clever and...

I took myself sharply to task for what I considered a foolish mental attitude,--but do what I would, the attitude remained unchanged. It was helped, perhaps, in a trifling way b...

Thus commanded, there was nothing for the reluctant Mr. Swinton but to obey, and I could not help smiling at his evident discomfiture. All his precise and matter-of-fact self-sa...

"Easily!" he answered--"Anyone can understand it with a little attention. What I mean is this,--you know that the human body outwardly expresses its inward condition of health,...

And he opened a door on his right, through which we peered into a long, lovely room, gleaming with iridescent hues and sparkling with touches of gold and crystal. The bed was dr...

"What do you say? Can you put up with my company for an hour or two and allow me to be your guide to Loch Coruisk? Or would you, too, rather not see the sunset?",

Then all who were assembled joined in singing a strange half-barbaric song and chorus of triumph, to the strains of which they slowly moved off and disappeared like shapes breat...

The cruel smile deepened on the woman's mouth,--she made no answer, but simply raised her hand. In immediate obedience to the signal, a man, clad in the Florentine dress of the...

"My nerves are all unstrung,"--she said--"I think that friend of yours is one of those persons who draw all vitality out of everybody else. There are such people, you know, fath...

I did not trouble myself to reply. The white sails of the 'Dream' were coming nearer and nearer over the smooth width of the sunlit water, and as she approached my heart grew wa...

"Women," said Mr. Harland, poising a stem of asparagus in the air, "are so constituted as to invariably make havoc either of themselves or of the men they profess to love. Wives...

"Oh, is it only 'apparent'?" laughed Santoris, gaily--"Well, to those who never knew me in my boyhood's days and are therefore never hurling me back to their 'thirty years or mo...

"You are pleased at what you cannot realise," he said, slowly--"If you go to the House of Aselzion--and I see you are determined--it will be a matter of such vital import that i...

I call you by this name as I have always called you through many cycles of time,--it should sound upon your ears as familiarly as a note of music struck in response to another s...

"I feel,"--she went on, hesitatingly--"that you are leaving us for some undiscovered country--and that you will reach some plane of thought and action to which we shall never ri...

Fascinated by the restful charm of my surroundings, I seated myself on a marble bench near the fountain and watched the sparkle of the water as it rose in rainbow radiance and f...

"What you want to learn,--and what every beginner in the study of psychic law generally wants to learn first of all, is how to obtain purely personal satisfaction and advantage,...

"We start, therefore, with this Governing Intelligence or directing Mind, which must, like the brain of man, be dual, combining the male and female attributes, since we see that...

"Now"--he continued--"I will put before you a very simple illustration of the truth which underlies all Nature. If you were taken into a vast plain, and there saw two opposing a...

"Who is responsible,"--I said to myself--"for the sense of fear? Who is it that so mistrusts the Divine order of the Universe as to doubt the ultimate intention of goodness in t...

Having read thus far, I paused--the little room in which I sat appeared darker--or was it my fancy? I listened for the voices which had so confused and worried me--but there was...

And I saw a small boat slip out on the gloomy water, guided towards me by One whose face was hidden in a fold of black. My companion drew me with her and signed to me to enter....

This discovery so terrified me that for the moment I lost breath, and I came to a halt in the very act of ascending. Then I saw the Figure in front of me turn round with a threa...

"Remember," he said--"what force there is in a storm of opinion! The fiercest gale that ever blew down strong trees and made havoc of men's dwellings is a mere whisper compared...

We went down many stairs and through many corridors,--some dimly lit, some scarcely illumined at all. The night had now fully come,--and through one of two of the windows we pas...