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    Death, and Afterwards
    Death, and Afterwards
    Death, and Afterwards
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    Death, and Afterwards

    By Edwin Arnold

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    Edwin Arnold's 'Death, and Afterwards' is a profound exploration of the concept of death and the possibilities that lie beyond it. Written in a poetic and lyrical style, the book delves into various spiritual traditions and philosophies from around the world, offering a moving and thought-provoking perspective on the afterlife. Drawing on literary influences such as William Wordsworth and John Keats, Arnold's work is a beautiful and poignant meditation on the mysteries of life and death. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in existential questions and the nature of human existence. Edwin Arnold, a Victorian poet and journalist, was deeply interested in Eastern spirituality and philosophy. His experiences traveling in Asia and studying different cultural and religious traditions provided him with the inspiration to write 'Death, and Afterwards'. Arnold's background in journalism also lends a sense of intellectual rigor and depth to his exploration of the afterlife. I highly recommend 'Death, and Afterwards' to readers who are drawn to profound and philosophical reflections on the nature of existence. Arnold's lyrical prose and insightful observations make this book a captivating and enlightening read.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMusaicum Books
    Release dateJul 4, 2017
    ISBN9788075837967
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      Death, and Afterwards - Edwin Arnold

      Edwin Arnold

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      Æsch. Suppl.

      Unto this day it doth my hertë boote That I have had my worlde, as in my time.

      Chaucer.

      "Never the spirit was born, the spirit will cease to be never;

      Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams!

      Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit for ever;

      Death hath not touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems!"

      The Song Celestial.

      Man is not by any means convinced as yet of his immortality. All the great religions have in concert, more or less positively, affirmed it to him; but no safe logic proves it, and no entirely accepted voice from some farther world proclaims it. There is a restless instinct, an unquenchable hope, a silent discontent with the very best of transitory pleasures, which perpetually disturb his scepticism or shake his resignation; but only a few feel quite certain that they will never cease to exist. The vast majority either put the question aside, being! absorbed in the pursuits of life; or grow weary of meditating it without result; or incline to ! think, not without melancholy satisfaction, that the death of the body brings an end to the I individual. Of these, the happiest and most useful in their generation are the healthy-minded ones who are too full of vigor or too much busied with pleasure or duty, to trouble themselves about death and its effects. The most enviable are such as find, or affect to find, in the authority or the arguments of any extant religion, sufficing demonstration of a future existence. And perhaps the most foolish are those who, following ardent researches of science, learn so little at the knees of their star-eyed mistress as to believe those forces which are called intellect, emotion, and will, capable of extinction, while they discover and declare the endless conservation of motion and matter.

      If we were all sure, what a difference it would make! A simple yes, pronounced by the edict of immensely developed science; one word from the lips of some clearly accredited herald sent on convincing authority, would turn nine-tenths of the sorrows of earth into glorious joys, and abolish quite as large a proportion of the faults and vices of man kind. Men and

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