====== The Inner Life ====== == THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | SEPTEMBER 1936 == ---- The man lay back and in a moment said, “Why, I feel so wonderful and strong.—Yes, I am perfect. Look.” He leaped from the bed. “Who is that there in the bed who seems so still—so old?” “Yes, look, I am young! I am a young man again. I see that door now. You are standing in it!” The girl smiled gently as he moved toward her. “But what of my family?” he asked. “Could I see them before I go?” “They have chosen to recognize Death,” she answered. “Therefore they will see you in death. You have left behind the thing that is real to them—your earthly body which they know as you.” “I never dreamed that it would be so beautiful,” he said. “If only I had known before! I would have told others so that they need not fear.” He moved nearer the door. He looked through. “There is no difference!” he cried. “It is all the same.” They were now through the door. “This is LIFE EVERLASTING, the everlasting life that you were meant to have, that which waits for all and is all in all. It is where everyone eventually comes, though some take centuries to arrive. Your great search for earthly knowledge and your lack of fear have brought you to this consciousness. What you have left behind is no more, because you have taken away that which gave it life. You are now free.” As the girl finished, the door closed behind them. The doctor entered the patient’s room and looked at the body lying on the bed. He listened for the heart beat and felt for the pulse. There was none. He stood and looked at what had been the friend he had known for many years. Gently he raised the sheet over his head. “What little men we are,” he muttered to himself and left the room. The presence of the girl had penetrated the doctor’s consciousness. He, too, was beginning to see the light. ————o———— BOOKS, not those which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but those in which each thought is of unusual daring, such as idle men cannot read, and timid ones would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institutions,—such I call good books. —Thoreau. {{ :36-412.jpg |}} ---- //⥳ [[life_everlasting_5|previous page]] // | // [[jesus_christ_sep36|next page]] ⥴ //