Tuesday, June 30, 2015

The Mysteries of Death - 250 Books to Download

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Contents (created on a Windows computer)

Researches on the Natural History of Death by Bennet Dowler 1850

A Study of Death by Henry Mills Alden 1895

Spirit, Soul, and Flesh - The Usage of Pneuma, Psyche and Sarx in Greek Writings by Ernest De Witt Burton 1918

The Undertaker's Garland by John P Bishop 1922

Death and Sudden Death by Paul Brouardel 1902

The Conquest of Death by Helen Wilmans 1902

Does Death End All? by Madison C Peters 1907

The Great Adventure by Louise Pond Jewell 1911

The Discovered Country by Carlyle Petersilea 1889

The Problem of Final Destiny, Studied in the Light of revised theological statement by William B Brown 1900

The Intermediate World by LT Townsend 1878

Death, by Maurice Maeterlinck 1912

The Grail of Life - an Anthology on Heroic Death and Immortal Life by John H Holmes 1919

The Adventure of Death by Robert W Mackenna 1917

Preparation for Death by Alphonso Ligouri 1854

Reflections on Death by William Dodd 1806

Curious Epitaphs by William Andrews 1899

Epitaphs: Quaint, Curious, and Elegant by Henry J Loring 1873

Gleanings in Graveyards - a Collection of Curious Epitaphs by Horatio Edward Norfolk 1861 ("Here lies the body of Thomas Proctor, Who lived and died without a doctor.")

A Practical Discourse Concerning Death by William Sherlock 1814

The Book of the Craft of Dying and other early English tracts concerning Death by William Caxton 1917*

Between Two Worlds by John H Willey 1919

The Fear of Death by Edward L Keyes 1910

The Last Enemy by George Burgess 1850

The Assembly of Gods - The Accord of Reason and Sensuality in the Fear of Death by John Lydgate 1895

The Blessed Peace of Death by Augustine Wibbelt 1915

The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit World by JR Francis, Volume 1 1895

Looking Forward - Poems for the Bereaved 1885

Thoughts on love and Death 1918

A Book Written by the Spirits of the so-called Dead by Mrs Lizzie Green 1893

A Word for Help from the Wider World by William Comstock 1920

After Death and Other Mysteries by Samuel Schieffelin 1898

After her Death 1897



The Secret of Life, Death and Immortality by Henry Fleetwood 1909

The Psychology of Sleep by Bolton Hall 1917

Life's Last Hours 1850

The Place of Death in Evolution by Newman Smyth 1897

Key to Ghostism: Science and art unlock its Mysteries by Thomas Mitchell 1880

Leaves from Heaven by HB Townsend 1921

Light on the Hidden Way by James Freeman Clark 1886

Penclings from Immortality by Laura Sunderlin 1876

People from the Other World by Henry S Olcott 1875

Spiritual Communications by Henry Kiddle 1879

Wisdom of the Ages by George A Fuller 1916

Aspects of Death and their Effects on the Living by F Parkes Weber 1910

The Biology Of Death by Raymond Pearl 1922

How the Ancients Represented Death by GA Lessing by 1914

The Book of Sorrow by Andrew MacPhail 1916

The Babylonian Conception of Heaven and Hell by Alfred Jeremias 1902

The doctrine of the human soul by C Vandusen 1878



An Inquiry Into the Scriptural Import of the Words Sheol, Hades, Tartarus
by Walter Balfour, Otis Ainsworth Skinner

After Death, and Other Mysteries by Samuel Bradhurst Schieffelin 1898

Mysteries of Life, Death, and Futurity by John Timbs 1861

Death and Its Mystery by Camille Flammarion 1922

Studies in Eschatology - Existence after Death by Ulysses S Bartz 1900

The Gospel of the Hereafter by J Paterson-Smyth 1910

Human Destinies as taught in the Bible by Joseph Cooper 1902

Death and Beyond by T Selby Henrey 1910

Voices of the Night by John Cumming 1854

The Life Beyond - The Best Thoughts of over 300 of the World's Leading Authors and Scholars by James Henry Potts 1899

A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life in Israel, in Judaism, and in Christianity - Hebrew, Jewish, and Christian eschatology from pre-prophetic times till the close of the New Testament canon by RH Charles 1913

This Life and the Next - impressions and thoughts of notable men and women from Plato to Ruskin by Estelle D Adams 1902

Beyond the Shadow - The Resurrection of Life by James Morris Whiton 1884

Immortality and the Unseen World - a study in Old Testament Religion by W.O.E  Oesterley 1921

The Four Last Things - Death, Judgment, Hell, Heaven by Martin von Cochem 1899

Eternal Life - a Study of its Implications and Applications by Friedrich von Hugel 1913

The World Beyond by John Doughty 1883

The World to Come and Final Destiny by Joseph Leckie 1922

The Eternal Life by Hugo Munsterberg 1905

Is the Life of Man Eternal? by Franklin Blades 1911

Thoughts on Eternal Life by William R Hart 1888

The Struggle for Eternal Life by E Petavel 1875

The Day after Death - Our Future Life According to Science by Louis Figuier 1874

God, the Soul and the Future State by Thomas Cooper 1873

The Philosophy of a Future State by Thomas Dick 1869

Do the Dead Still Live, by David Heagle 1920

Four Great Questions Regarding a Future Life by John Balcom Shaw 1897

Hereafter or the Future Life According to Science and Faith by J.M. Leleu 1904

Life After Death by Emanuel Swedenborg

The Assurance of Immortality by Harry Emerson Fosdick 1913

The Future State by FC Gayford 1903

There is no Death by Florence Marryat 1919

There is no Death by Basil Wilberforce 1916

Quiet talks about Life after Death by S.D. Gordon 1920

Death and Beyond - a Study of Hebrew and Christian Conceptions of the Life to come by C.T. Wood 1920



The After Life - a help to a reasonable belief in the Probation Life to Come by Henry Buckle 1907

Life beyond Death - being a review of the World's Beliefs on the Subject, a consideration of present conditions of thought and feeling, leading to the question as to whether it can be Demonstrated as a Fact by Minot J Savage 1899

The Doctrine of Eternal Misery reconcilable with the infinite benevolence of God and a truth plainly asserted in the Christian Scriptures by Nathan Strong 1796

Bible Theology and the Word Hell

Hell by Robert Green Ingersoll

Should Kolasin be Translated cutting-off or punishment?

The Occurences of Sheol in the Old Testament

The Hereafter - Sheol, Hades, and Hell by J. Fyfe 1890

The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Alger and Ezra Abbot 1880

Questions of the Soul by Isaac Hecker 1855

On Life After Death by Gustav Fechner 1882
Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is continual sleep;  the second, sleeping and walking by turns; the third, waking for ever.

The Redeemed Life after Death by CC Hall 1905

Death and After by Annie Wood Besant (Theosophy) 1914

The Little Book of Life after Death by Gustav Fechner 1904

Quiet Talks about Life after Death by SD Gordon 1920

Life after Death and how Theosophy unveils it by CW Leadbeater 1918

IS THERE LIFE AFTER DEATH? by Marshall J. Gauvin

Why we may believe in Life after Death by Charles Jefferson 1911

The Proofs of Life After Death by Robert John Thompson 1902

The Spirits in Prison, and other Studies on the Life after Death by Edward Hayes Plumptre 1884

Life After Death, Problems of the Future Life and Its Nature by James Hyslop 1918

Realms of the Living Dead: A Brief Description of Life After Death by Henrietta Curtiss 1919

Our Life after Death or, The teaching of the Bible concerning the Unseen World by Arthur Chambers

Life after Death or Reason and Relaxation on the Immortality of the Soul by John Vaughan 1908

The Hopes of the Human Race, Hereafter and Here, Essays on the Life after Death by F.P. Cobbe 1880

The Evolution of the Soul by Thomas J Hudson

Human Destiny by John Kost 1903

Man and His Destiny by Joel Tiffany 1881

Man's Life and Destiny: Four Sermons by George A Macdonnell 1861

The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of his Origin by J. Fiske 1895

The State of the Dead and the Destiny of the WickeD by Uriah Smith 1873

The Philosophy of a Future State by Thomas Dick 1831

Meditations on Death and Eternity by Heinrich Zschokke 1863

A Study of Death by Henry Mills Alden 1895

On Suicide by David Hume 1854 (Hume claims that suicide can be compared to retiring from society and becoming a total recluse, which is not normally considered to be immoral)

Essays of Schopenhauer 1897 (As far as I can see, it is only the followers of monotheistic, that is of Jewish, religions that regard suicide as a crime. This is the more striking as there is no forbiddance of it, or even positive disapproval of it, to be found either in the New Testament or the Old; so that teachers of religion have to base their disapprobation of suicide on their own philosophical grounds)

The Morals of Suicide by James Gunrhill 1900

Is Life Worth Living by William James 1896

Suicide not evidence of Insanity by Olive Palmer 1878



Is Suicide a Sin? by Robert Green Ingersoll, Prefaced by a Startling Chapter, Great Suicides of History! 1894

Is Suicide Murder? by William Mikell 1903

The Philosophy of Death by John Reid 1841

Suicide - Studies on its Philosophy, Causes and Prevention by James J O'Dea MD 1882

The Anatomy of Suicide by Forbes Winslow 1840

Elements of moral philosophy by Jaspar Adams 1837 (Duty of Preserving Life and Death)

Paley's Moral and Political Philosophy 1845 (has a section on Suicide)

Suicide: an essay on comparative moral statistics by Enrico Morselli 1882

The Problems of Suicide by George Kennan 1908

Is life worth living? by WJ Mallock 1890

Eight Historical Dissertations in Suicide, in Reference to Philosophy, Theology and Legislation by H.G. Migault 1856 (over 1000 pages)

The Value of Life - a reply to Mr. Mallock's essay "Is life worth living"? 1879

Psychotherapy including the history of the use of mental influence by James Joseph Walsh (has a section on Suicide)

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1902 (this is an epistolary novel, and when it was first released in the late 18th century led to a rash of copycat suicides. As a matter of interest, a Hungarian suicide song released in the 1930's called Gloomy Sunday had a similar effect. You can find that song on youtube, I especially like the Sarah Mclachlan version.)

Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton 1915 (Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It Is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men; as far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.)

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics by Immanuel Kant 1895 (from wikipedia: Immanuel Kant argues against suicide in Fundamental Principles of The Metaphysic of Morals. In accordance with the second formulation of his categorical imperative, Kant argues that, "He who contemplates suicide should ask himself whether his action can be consistent with the idea of humanity as an end in itself." Kant's theory looks at the act only, and not at its outcomes and consequences, and claims that one is ethically required to consider whether one would be willing to universalise the act: to claim everyone should behave that way. Kant argues that choosing to commit suicide entails considering oneself as a means to an end, which he rejects: a person, he says, must not be used "...merely as means, but must in all actions always be considered as an end in himself." Therefore, it is unethical to commit suicide to satisfy oneself.)

Suicide and Insanity - a physiological and sociological study by S.A.K. Strahan 1893 (poor quality scan, but a lot of interesting information)

Reflections on suicide by Madame de Stael 1813

Esquirol and Falret on Suicide, article in The Medico-Chirurgical Review and Journal of Medical Science 1824

The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, Volume 1 by Edward Westermarck 1912

The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, Volume 2 by Edward Westermarck 1912

The psychology of the emotions by Th Ribot 1898 ("The act of suicide results from two very different mental states, that of reflection and that of impulsion.")

Suicide by GA Shurtleff 1877 (Let me say, then, that sane persons do commit suicide, and that an act of self-destruction is not, in itself, conclusive evidence of mental unsoundness.)

Neurotic books and newspapers as factors in the mortality of suicide and crime by Edward Phelps 1911

The mind of Shakspeare as exhibited in his works by Aaron A Morgan 1860
(It is interesting to note that Shakespeare's most famous bit has to do with Suicide: "To be, or not to be; that is the question:
Whether't is nobler in the mind, to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And, by opposing, end them?")

Thoughts on suicide 1819

The Gallows of Judas Iscariot by Archer Taylor 1921

The Mediaeval Legend of Judas Iscariot by Paull Baum 1916

Did Judas Really Commit Suicide? J Rendell Harris 1900

Suicide and its relation to climatic and other factors (often difficult to read) by John Rice Miner 1922

Life - Is it Worth Living? by John Marshall Lang 1883

Is life worth living without immortality by MM Mangasarian 1911

Is Life Worth Living? A Debate between Frederick Starr and Clarence Darrow 1915

Happiness - Essays on the meaning of life by Karl Hilty 1903

The Meaning of Life by WL Courntey 1914

The Meaning of Life by A Edwin Keigwin 1922

The Meaning and value of Life by Rudolk Eucken 1913

Philosophy of the Practical by B Croce 1913

Philosophy, What is it? FB Jevons 1950

The Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer 1890

Tolstoy on God, and the Meaning of Life 1904



Has Life Any Meaning, a Debate, by Frank Harris, Percy Ward 1920

Benthamiana - Select extracts from the works of Jeremy Bentham 1843 (greatest happiness principle)

Suicide: History of the penal laws relating to it in their legal, social, moral, and religious aspects, in ancient and modern times by RS Guernsey 1883

DEATH AND ITS MYSTERY AT THE MOMENT OF DEATH - Manifestations and Apparitions of the Dying; "Doubles;" Phenomena
of Occultism by Camille Flammarion 1922 (first 368 pages only)

The Eminent Dead: Or, The Triumphs of Faith in the Dying Hour by Bradford Kinney Peirce 1851

Religion and the Future Life - the Development of the belief in life after death by Elias Sneath 1922

The Soul Here and Hereafter: A Biblical Study
by Charles Marsh Mead, Congregational Publishing Society - 1879 - 455 pages

Hades; or, The intermediate state of man
by Henry Constable - 1873


How to speak with the Dead by Sciens 1918

Talks with the Dead: Luminous Rays from the Unseen World by John Lobb - 1907

I Heard a Voice, by a Kings Counsel 1918

The Spirit World by Clarence Larkin 1921

My Tussle with the Devil by Spirit O Henry 1918

Golden gleams from the heavenly light by Spirit Samuel Bowles 1898

The Twentieth Plane - a Psychic Revelation by Louis Benjamin 1919

The Next World Interviewed by SG Horn 1896

Historical Revelations of the relation existing between Christianity and paganism since the disintegration of the Roman Empire by the Spirit of Emperor Julian, called The Apostate, 1886

Fragments of spiritual knowledge pertaining to the spiritual world by BF Woodcox 1922

Spirit Teachings by William S Moses 1898

Poems and Essays from many Authors of this and earlier centuries given by them through the Organism of a Modern Psychic by Ira C Fuller 1897 (Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Joan of Arc, Hypatia etc)

Voices from Spirit-land through Nathan Francis White, Medium 1854

After-death communications by Bazett, L. Margery 1920

Strange Visitors by Washington Irving (Spirit) 1869

Do the Dead Depart? by EK Bates 1908

Angel Voices from the Spirit World by James Lawrence 1874

Spirit Messages with an introductory Essay on Spiritual Vitality by Hiram Corson 1911

The Wayside of Life, being a collection of poems, essays and paragraphs by Laura Ellsworth 1907
"The Wayside of Life is the result of what has been written supposedly by disembodied spirits through the instrumentality of a medium")

The Two Worlds of Attraction by Anne Abbott 1921

Spirit Communion a Record of Communications through H.B. Champion 1888

A Study in Spirit Wisdom - Automatic Writing by Paul W Trewhitt 1921

Photographic Copies of written messages from the Spirit World by William H Burr 1918 (messages from Lincoln, Garfield, Ingersoll etc)

A Wanderer in the Spirit Lands by Franchezzo (Spirit) 1896

Life and labor in the spirit world by Mary T Longley 1885

On the Threshold of the Unseen by Sir William Barrett 1918

Neither Dead nor Sleeping by May Wright Sewall 1920

Automatic or Spirit Writing by Sara Underwood 1896

Teachings and Illustrations as they Emanate from the Spirit World by Mary T Longley 1908

The Angels' Diary and Celestion Study of Man by Effie Shirey 1920

Post-mortem Confessions by Allen Putnam 1886

Flashes of light from the spirit-land by Allen Putnam 1872

Rending the Vail by WW Aber 1899

Beyond the Vail, a sequel to "Rending the Vail" by WW Aber 1901

The Seven Purposes, an Experience in Psychic Phenomena by Margaret Cameron 1918

Spirit World and Spirit Life, descriptions received through Automatic Writing by Charlotte E Dresser 1922

Voltaire in the Spirit World by Elizabeth Sweet

Letters from the Spirit World by Franz Petersilea (spirit) 1905

Echoes from the Spirit World by Alice L Kane 1899

How I know that the Dead are Alive by Fannie R Paget 1917

Broken Beams from the Summer-land by Helen N Connor 1905

Backward Glimpses by John Bunyan 1873

Body and Soul by J Clegg White 1902

Direct Writing by Supernormal Means by William Stainton Moses 1882

Psychography, a Treatise on one of the objective forms of Psychic or Spiritual Phenomena by William Stainton Moses 1882

Spirit-Identity William Stainton Moses (MA Oxon) 1902

Messages from the Superior State by SC Hewitt 1853



The Hill of Vision - A Forecast of the Great War by FB Bond 1919

War Letters from the Living Dead Man by Elsa Barker 1915 (THERE was one demon who seemed to be a leader of demons. He was unlike many of the others more personal, more egocentric. As we stood opposite each other I entered into conversation with him, partly to satisfy my curiosity, partly to throw him off his guard.)

Further Communications from the World of Spirits, on subjects highly important to the human family by the spirit of Joshua (of the Bible) 1862

Are the Dead Alive? by Fremont Rider 1909

Beyond the Grave
by Hermann Cremer - 1885 - 150 pages

The State of the Impenitent Dead
by Alvah Hovey 1859 - 160 pages

Spiritism and the Cult of the Dead in Antiquity
by Lewis Bayles Paton - 1921 - 320 pages
 
Is Hell Eternal: Or, Will God's Plan Fail?
by Charles Hamilton Pridgeon 1920

The Bible Hell: The Words Rendered Hell in the Bible : Sheol, Hadees
by John Wesley Hanson 1878 - 69 pages
It has exactly the same meaning as Sheol, literally the grave, or death, and
figuratively destruction, downfall, calamity, or punishment in this world, .

A Handbook of Scientific and Literary Bible Difficulties
by Robert Tuck 1891 - 566 pages

Proof-texts of Endless Punishment: Examined and Explained
by Daniel Parker Livermore - 1864 - 384 pages

Concerning Heaven and Its Wonders, and Concerning Hell: From Things Heard
by Emanuel Swedenborg- 1837 - 420 pages

The Doctrine of Endless Punishment
by William Greenough Thayer Shedd 1886

A Discussion of the Conjoint Question: Is the Doctrine of Endless Punishment taught in the Bible
by Ezra Stiles Ely, Abel Charles Thomas - 1893 - 286 pages

Modern Universalism Exposed: In an Examination of the Writings of Rev Walter Balfour
by Parsons Cooke 1834 - 240 pages

The Origin and History of the Doctrine of Endless Punishment
by Thomas Baldwin Thayer - 1856 - 240 pages
 
Is "eternal" Punishment Endless?: Answered by a Restatement of the Original by James Morris Whiton 1878 - 109 pages

The Revealed Doctrine of Rewards and Punishments
by Richard Winter Hamilton - 1847 - 545 pages

The Doom of the Majority of Mankind
by Samuel June Barrows - 1883 - 147 pages

A Discussion on Universal Salvation and Future Punishment
by Erasmus Manford, John Steele Sweeney - 1870 - 400 pages

That Unknown Country: Or, what Living Men Believe Concerning Punishment - 1888 - 940 pages

Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men
by John William Harris - 1901
 
The Doctrine of Eternal Hell Torments Overthrown: In Three Parts
by Thomas Whittemore, Samuel Richardson, Marie Huber, David Hartley - 1833 Edited by Thomas Whittemore.

Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations: Demonstrating the Existence of Spirits and their Communion with Mortals
by Robert Hare - 1855

Death Not Life: Or, The Theological Hell and Endless Misery Disproved
by Jacob Blain 1853 - 110 pages

True Ghost Stories
by Hereward Carrington- 1915
The reverse of this is also true. Ghosts of animals have been seen—spectral dogs,
cats, horses as well as human beings. These apparitions are very ...

Haunted Houses: Tales of the Supernatural, with Some Account of Hereditary Curses and Family Legends
by Charles George Harper - 1907 - 183 pages

The Great Amherst Mystery: A True Narrative of the Supernatural
by Walter Hubbell - 1915 - 211 pages

The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
by Andrew Lang - 1899 - 300 pages

Fallacy of Ghosts, Dreams, and Omens by Charles Ollier - 1848 - 245 pages
SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD by Jonathan Edwards

Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter
by Elliott O'Donnell - 1917 - 223 pages

A Review of Rev. Charles Beecher's Report Concerning the Spiritual Manifestations
by Samuel Byron Brittan - 1853 - 70 pages

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