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CONCERNING
THE DYING
PART
II
October
1862
I
was called to see a young lady who was dying, as it is called. She
was seated in a rocking chair, and after sitting by her a few
moments, I knew she was about to leave the body, and just as I was
going to ask her if I should not lift her on to the bed, she said to
me, "Shall I now lay you on the bed?"
I
said, “Yes” and took her in my arms and laid her
on the bed.
She
then said, "Now I will place your head, so you will be
easy."
I
placed her head on the pillow and she said, "Now I will cover
you up."
I
did as she said, and she then remarked, "I will now sit down
by you and make you quiet, so you can go to sleep."
So
I took my chair and sat down by her, and in less than five
minutes, she had ceased to breathe.
This
young lady was as much detached from her body as I was, and she
grieved for me, instead of herself. She believed that I was sick - so
her happiness was in helping me.
But
her life was in her wisdom, for she knew she was alive and was
trying to comfort me, since I felt grieved to see her leave - as I had
then the same idea which the world has.
This
is one of the many cases I might mention to show that when
persons are leaving the body, they have all their senses - but to
those who are looking on, the person appears insane.
I
was sitting by a patient whom I had put to sleep that she might
have a needle extracted from her arm, and while the surgeon was
performing the operation, she said to me, "Does it now hurt
you?"
I
replied, "No."
She
said, "I should think it would!"
Here
was a person awake to all that was going on - who at the same
time took my body and arm for the one in which the needle was.
When
I mesmerized my subject, if his
nose itched, he would say to me,
"I wish you would scratch your
nose," and if I did - it
would satisfy him.
I
will now say a word to those persons who are so anxious to have
their friends know they are dying. To me this is horrible, and if
they only knew what I know, they would never forgive themselves for
the misery they inflict on those who would like to stay with them.
There
is no worse punishment I can inflict on a mesmerized subject
than to mentally carry him away and leave him among strangers.
Everyone who has ever mesmerized knows this fact.
Now
see how the dying like to embrace their friends. The army nurses
will tell you that the dying man will get as near you as possible,
and that they like to have you soothe them till they are separate
from our belief of life - for that is what torments them.
I
have seen a great many when their friends “cut the
cord” that
held them to their belief of life, and I know how it acts upon them.
According
to the Christian belief, it is necessary to prepare the
dying to go to heaven. So the minister comes to create a heaven in
his own mind... far off... and to impress the dying man of it... and as
he
grows nervous... he creates one according to his own belief - and
starts
for it under the direction of his pious friend.
The
scene is as trying as it is to tear a child from its mother and
lodge it in some dungeon, and then say good night. Both are as full
of grief as they can be - but the dying get to that "pitch" which grief
cannot reach. Then they become as marble, and their friends console
themselves by saying they are calm.
I
have seen all this many times. This is what I want to impress on
the friends. If you want the satisfaction of having your friends with
you - never even hint that
they are "going away," for you will drive
them from you.
But sit by them, just as though you were all together,
and you will see a scene that you will always greatly remember - for
you will always feel this life of your friend or child mingling with
yours - not to be separated by a belief.
These
are the proofs of that Wisdom which teaches me that my life,
senses, and everything near and dear to me in this "world of solution"
which is God - and in it we all live and move - although by our
belief we all live without God and in bondage through fear of death.
I
know that every person... like the gold... exists in the "solution,"
with
all his life qualities of wisdom and opinion - and is happy or
miserable, according to his life.
The
knowledge of this wisdom is the "new birth."
Disease
is a departure from this wisdom - which will dissolve the error
that holds the life in bondage - and set them free from death.
To
be free and know it - is to know this great truth - and put it
into practice.
Therefore
to cure disease as I do, it is necessary to believe this -
not as a "blind" belief - but as a wisdom which is a light that sees
through the error of man's belief.
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