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may not too long be undergoing the process of decomposition, and thus nullify "in that sleep of death what
dreams may come." It takes from about nine to eleven
years for a corpse to chemically disintegrate, or entirely divest itself of its earthly remnants and become a denuded
skeleton.
To shorten the time for the spiritual consiousness of the astral body, while still adherent to the corporal remnants, would that not be good, or would it be wicked, or none-effectual?
As yet I have not had an opportunity to inspect the
exhalations or emanations that may present themselves on
the sometimes frosted windows of fish stores and game
stores, nor undertaker’s morgues and the more grewsome
dissecting rooms and on tombs with glass windows—all fraught with the mysteries of death, or may be, astral life.
I am not sufficiently conversant with spiritism to know
if there have been any authentic physical manifestations
or materializations by spirits, whose bodies have been
cremated or otherwise perished through fire. It would be
Interesting to learn, authentically, as it would bear di- rectly on the subject in question, whether "the astral body
of an individual form remains with the remnants of the
latter until these remnants have been fully decomposed,"
to quote Dr. Franz Hartmann, —when logically the astral body belonging to the cremated body or remnants, which
undergo immediate decomposition, or transmutation,
would at once pass on to a higher spiritual plane. We
might, or we might not, thus gain immediate accession to a more beatified condition, by cremation one way or another.
I read some little time ago of a terrible explosion of
fifty-five tons of black gunpowder, near Toulon, in France,
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