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-The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Dream-God, by John Cuningham
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-Title: The Dream-God
-       or, A Singular Evolvement of Thought in Sleep
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-Author: John Cuningham
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-
-
-  THE DREAM-GOD,
-
-  OR
-
-  A SINGULAR EVOLVEMENT
-  OF
-  THOUGHT IN SLEEP.
-
-  BY JOHN CUNINGHAM.
-
-  NEW YORK:
-  PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY
-  ANDERSON & RAMSAY.
-  28 FRANKFORT STREET.
-
-
-
-
-  Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1873, by
-  JOHN CUNINGHAM,
-  In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
-
-
-
-
-TO MY FRIENDS.
-
-
-_Although requested by a number of you at various times to write this
-condensed narrative of an event in my life, associated with much
-misfortune, sadness and suffering which have continued for some years,
-it was not until during a lonely period of quietude at Brooklyn, N.
-Y., in the summer of 1872, that I made the effort. I do not expect the
-public to give much credence or interest to the matter, but to you who
-know me I can trustingly give the assurance that this little book is an
-unaffected and truthful production. It is published as an affectionate
-memorial to you of mutual esteem and friendship._
-
-                                                     JOHN CUNINGHAM,
-                                                            _of So. Ca._
-
-  APRIL, 1873.
-
-
-
-
-A SINGULAR EVOLVEMENT OF THOUGHT IN SLEEP.
-
-
-A REMARKABLE DREAM.
-
-The peculiar and startling effect of morphine on a person unaccustomed
-to its administration, was happily illustrated in the instance of a
-gentleman to whom, under its influence, (about three eighths of a
-grain,) the dream to be related occurred. This individual, (a South
-Carolinian resident on a plantation,) a few years ago, had lately
-received a severe and extensive burn, which confined him to his bed six
-months. An allusion by him in a casual conversation in the city of New
-York recently to the eventful dream and its circumstances, brought out
-a solicitation to him to write its narrative, which in substance he
-here gives.
-
-One evening in midwinter, a few weeks after the accident, the almost
-exhausted sufferer, having taken the prescribed nightly dose of
-morphine, fell asleep.
-
-
-
-
-THE DREAM-GOD.
-
-
-
-
-PART I.
-
-
-The sleep was serene, the mind active, and the dream promptly and
-vividly supervened. A being in the form of a handsome and matured man,
-full of _esprit_, in a white and easy-fitting garment, with bright,
-broad and sweeping wings coming out from each side of his back below
-the shoulders, appeared to the patient at his bedside, and announced to
-him that he was the Spirit of Morphine, of a heavenly and _immortal_
-nature, and that he had come to carry him on an aerial voyage over many
-parts of the world; to show him many attractive regions and things,
-to introduce him to various races, royal personages, distinguished
-celebrities, etc.
-
-The sleeper with surprise inquired, “How can I go with this stricken
-and impotent body?”
-
-The Immortal replied, “You must leave your body here; your spiritual
-being can accompany me.”
-
-_Sleeper._--“But I fear that before my return my friends may see and
-regard my inanimate body as dead, and bury it.”
-
-_Immortal._--“Fear not. I will restore you in due time to your body;
-and I will prepare you for our adventures as I am prepared.”
-
-Thus assured, the somnipathist crept gently out, headway, from his
-“mortal coil,” glided over the headboard of his bedstead, glanced back
-upon his sleeping frame in his very image, then sprang lithely to the
-sill of the window, where the sash had already been thrown up by the
-Morpheus, and finding himself equipped with needed dress and wings,
-soared with his companion into the air.
-
-_Immortal._--“What route do you prefer?”
-
-_Mortal._--“I wish to have a birdseye view of Charleston, (once my
-home,) by gas-light and then toward the Arctic Pole.”
-
-The aerial _voyageurs_ were, as if in a moment, hovering in a slow,
-scrutinizing flight over Charleston, with stars above, and looking
-as upon stars below; and in front, athwart the ocean, a long line
-of light, gleaming from a newly-risen moon, invited their quickened
-pinions into the illimitable spaces over the far-bounded deep. Curving
-in a wide ocean-sweep northward, and moving with lightning-speed, they
-perceived, although having a full sense of comfort, varying currents
-of icy gales and warm breezes; and from their transparent height
-saw beneath them the dark, girdling strata of cyclone hurricanes,
-or sheeny, swathe-clouds of crystal congelations; or, within their
-extended girdles, broad, oval areas of clear-rolling sea, and far down,
-by a peculiar dim lighting of its depths, the plains, hills and vales
-it immersed, and the myriad tribes of the deep in their amazing animate
-forms.
-
-_Mortal._--“I would see the borealis.”
-
-_Immortal._--“You shall, anon.”
-
-The dream seemed to change. The parties suddenly found themselves
-lying in open sea-shells, structured to their lengths and sizes,
-floating side by side on a tranquil waste of waters, feet foremost,
-heads pillowed, and eyes bent upward and northward. A lowered and
-murky sky appeared as a dun-colored ceiling, of little height above
-them; and they were thoughtful, and in low tones they occasionally
-uttered weird thoughts on life--mankind--earth--God. A drowsy moment
-ensues. Then slowly lifts the gloomy canopy, and along the distant
-northern horizon, the fog having rapidly disappeared, a lengthened
-arc of whitish light spans itself. The heavens are again clear. From
-the bright arc dart upward along their northern hemisphere radiant
-streams of every lighter hue, and in incessant changeful brilliancy--a
-panoramic spread of incandescent splendors. A whirl of cold, shimmering
-light dashes around and over towering icebergs, and amazes the eye. It
-closes, and when again it opens, the Arctic travellers find themselves
-soaring aloft, and they look upon an open, calm, unfrozen polar sea.[A]
-The Spirit of Morphine remarks: “You now see, and will see, things
-unknown to man. This comparative warmth comes from the fire and glowing
-heat in the bowels of the earth, as you will soon ascertain.”
-
-They move on; they are at the Pole; the north star is in the zenith. A
-magnetic needle appears hanging in mid-air, like the visioned dagger
-before Macbeth, and dips southward and westward toward the other--the
-magnetic--pole, degrees away. A glare disturbs the eye, and terrible
-sounds surround them. Behold! the Pole is a large cylindrical aperture
-(miles in diameter) in our globe, down through which are seen the
-molten mass and fiery flame within the crust of earth! The watery
-billows, like a whirlpool, surge in loud roar around its circumferent
-shore, but enter not; and a column of heat ever rushes on the Arctic
-air.
-
-A cry of terror and awe escapes from the sleeper. He is conscious of
-it, but does not awake. The dream resumes.
-
-They are now flying southward, and the somnipathist has a vision (a
-dream in this dream) of a midsummer circling sun shining a day of
-months. They view the peculiarities of Iceland, examine the maelstrom,
-(that singular natural wonder, gurgitating into another earth-aperture,
-off Norway,) and comprehend by a glance Lapland, Norway and Sweden,
-their curiosities, peoples, customs, etc. There is not time or space
-for details. They are _en voyage_ for the Court of Russia.
-
-They alight at the Winter Palace of the Czar.
-
-The Immortal with his pupil enters with free and commanding
-port--obstructions vanish. A festive scene of splendor--gayety, glitter
-and ceremony commingled--is at its height. Through the maze of an
-amazed, gorgeous, throng, they advance to the Emperor, surrounded
-by rank and beauty; and through the influence of a celestial majesty
-more enthralling than his own, they secure his deferential and cordial
-attention. Then follows a confused but charming association with
-“beautiful women and brave men,” amid all social bewitcheries.
-
-The scene changes. They are seated in a small ice-crystal[B] _salon_,
-glistening on all sides except the carpeted floor, with the Emperor and
-his prime minister alone, all exhilarant with wine, and now sipping
-the potent subtlety of China’s most famed and fragrant tea, priced at
-its weight in gold. The philosophy of government, from a republican
-standpoint, rushes upon the soul of the American, and he exclaims to
-the mighty potentate of all the Russias:
-
-“How can your humanity conscientiously hold and wield the power of
-imperial despotism?”
-
-_Emperor._--“The one-man power in the light and dignity of a
-_principle_, appeals to reason and fascinates the soul. It is the true
-theory of human government. I am God’s vicegerent, as king and priest,
-for the well-being and good order of my people.”
-
-_Prime Minister._--“This system derives its type from the One-God
-control of the universe. It has divinity from above, it has patriarchal
-sanction here below. It can bear comparison with its opposite extreme
-in absolutism--a pure democracy, the mere many-power, unrestrained,
-unregulated and uninstructed. What is more irresponsible, more
-selfishly callous, more heedlessly unstable, and more grinding than the
-vulgar tyranny of a bare popular majority? Extremes meet and have a
-singular affinity; it is the secret of the growing friendship between
-Russia and the United States.”
-
-_American._--“Ha! Our American people are not a mass democracy. The
-United States are republics federated under a Constitution--a system
-which excludes both your extremes.”
-
-_Prime Minister._--“Indeed!”
-
-_Immortal._--“There is a golden mean for all finite governments.
-Uncontrolled power is only for the Infinite.”
-
-_Emperor._--“Is even political self-government a _right_?”
-
-_American._--“Surely mankind is entitled to it and should possess it.”
-
-_Immortal._--“No! Self-government is the eventual prize of intelligence
-and virtue. The ignorant or vicious are incapable of it. In the
-meantime, it is the _privilege_ of the human race to secure it by
-attempered wisdom, and to guard it against the passions and ignorance
-of the many, the few, or the one. Goodness in the use of power, more
-than the form of government, is the great desideratum. Seek most to
-elevate the mind and heart of man!”
-
-_American_ to _Emperor_.--“Sire! it is then your best mission to _do
-well your part_!”
-
-
-
-
-PART II.
-
-
-Farewells are spoken. The _voyageurs_ are again a-wing. They reach the
-Arctic along the vast Siberian coast. There the cold is most intense,
-and of the frozen regions it is the wildest and grandest. A shimmering
-light seems to permeate it ever, even in its darkest periods. The
-ice presents plains, abysses, mountains. Everywhere are the débris
-of long-frozen animals. Over its dry waste of congealed waters, the
-fierce blasts, as if by frictional action on its rugged surfaces, ever
-generate electrical phenomena. In midwinter and darkness, scintillating
-flashes gleam along them in the nether air. Such was their vision.
-
-The disembodied, as one startled, exclaims: “See yon iceberg like a
-mountain of glass. What is that within it? It resembles the carcass of
-a dead animal, but it is too huge. It is at least sixty feet long, and
-of elephantine proportions.”
-
-_Immortal._--“It is an ancient specimen of the behemoth (B’Hemoth)
-tribes. Its species is extinct. Its bulk is many times that of
-the mastodon. Its massive ivory tusks are similar to those of the
-walrus. Its remains have been frozen in there for thousands of years.
-Putrescence is here unknown.”
-
-_Mortal._--“What wonders! Can this be nature?”
-
-_Immortal._--“We are approaching others.”
-
-_Mortal._--“Yes, look! What a vast lizard or crocodile yonder
-encased--five hundred feet long! But I see fins, also.”
-
-_Immortal._--“It is of the primeval species of _sauroid_ fish. It
-has been frozen during cycles of time. This region was once warmer.
-Nature’s changeful developments are a curious mystery to man, but it
-ever unfolds in increasing knowledge.”
-
-They wheel southward--anon traverse Chinese Tartary--sweep over the
-Chinese wall, and alight in Pekin. They poise themselves on a lofty
-pagoda.
-
-_Mortal._--“These Chinese are a mysterious people. I am curious about
-them. That wall was a great enterprise in its day, and a singular one.”
-
-_Immortal._--“They are a swarm from an ancient human hive, and have
-long been numerous and astute. They have been, and are superior to
-the average of mankind, but inferior to the more illumined and most
-cultivated. Their numbers and limited geographic sphere have made
-them feel want; yet their inventions, although multiplied, have been
-petty, fanciful, crude and clumsy contrivances to meet emergency, in
-comparison with the grander discoveries and more studied and beautiful
-designs of other and higher civilizations. _Necessity_ has stimulated
-their cunning, but precludes their reflection; it has pinched their
-faculties, as the ‘iron shoe’ has their feet. Their mental contraction
-has been rendered more compressive by their moral and spiritual
-defects. They have had no conception of a God, _per se_. It is the
-conception which most expands man!”
-
-_Mortal._--“But this pagoda (truly it is a grotesque structure!) is a
-temple devoted to some worship.”
-
-_Immortal._--“It is a fane of the merest idolatry, and dedicated to
-idols, ‘of the earth, earthly,’ not to any images which are even
-typical of divine _essences_. But of this, anon.”
-
-_Mortal._--“The Chinese have, however, a demi-god--their ‘Celestial
-Emperor.’”
-
-_Immortal._--“Yes, he is their immediate authority, temporal and
-spiritual. Yet he and his mandarins, alike with his subjects, are
-constrained, by the dominancy of twenty-four centuries of veneration
-for the great Chinese philosopher and moralist, Koong-Foo-tse,
-(latinized, Confucius,) to worship in the temples dedicated to that
-extraordinary statesman and expounder. This pagoda is one of these
-temples, which have been reared in all chief cities and towns.
-His ‘nine books’ constitute the creed and code--the bible--of the
-‘Celestial Empire,’ and you will deem it a singular fact that they
-contain no mention of a Creator--no allusion to God.”
-
-_Mortal._--“It is indeed strange for so intelligent a people. All other
-peoples have some kind of a belief and worship of a Supreme Being.
-Hark! I hear sounds from below--I hear chants!”
-
-_Immortal._--“Yes, they are from the Emperor and his court, performing
-idol-service, offering fruits, wines, flowers and fancy articles, and
-now singing chants. We will witness their return to the palace, and
-then visit them.”
-
-Soon the vision embraced a scene of Oriental pomp--a pageant, with
-its ceremonies, gorgeous displays and vain-glorious crudities. This
-narrative must dispense with the description, nor could the reader be
-made to receive the impression produced on the visitor from the West,
-while gazing on the dramas of the East.
-
-His Celestial Majesty--“brother of the sun and cousin of the stars”--is
-now enthroned in his extended residence, amid princely persons,
-political potentates and priestly dignitaries, surrounded by every
-burnishment and administered to by varied flattery and all servility.
-The _voyageurs_ suddenly appear before and among them.
-
-_Emperor._--“Ha! what means this intrusion? Chamberlain of the Palace,
-accursed Mandarin! you shall lose your life for this. How came these
-persons into the Celestial Presence without permission and the salaam
-reverences? Hold! they have wings! Can they be Celestial? Spirit of
-Koong-Foo-tse! come, protect, guard us! Let all the great gongs be
-beaten! let dreadful sounds frighten them away!”
-
-The Immortal, with a gesture, awes all into silence and composure.
-
-_American to Emperor._--“Man, what mean these presumptions? What does
-your ridiculous and despotic power claim?”
-
-_Emperor._--“Not read the ‘Books!’ Read them. My power is immemorial
-and supreme. Yang and Yn, time and Koong-Foo-tse have founded it--yes,
-founded it on the analogy of parental authority, which they declare
-absolute. The nation is my family, and I am its father. I am sole
-entitled ruler, and I am--holy and sacred! Nor will I have contact with
-strangers and barbarians.”
-
-_American._--“What means he? What of Confucius?”
-
-_Immortal._--“Confucius was a Chinaman, who lived 550 years before
-Christ. He was a teacher of morals, rather than a founder of religion.
-For those dark ages, he was an extraordinary man; he was great as
-a philosopher, a moralist and a statesman. He made no pretence to
-inspiration. He inculcated the training of the physical system. The
-five elements, fire, water, wood, metal and earth (he called them
-_Kings_) were the basis of his system of philosophy. He maintained that
-the universe was generated by the union of two _material_ principles--a
-heavenly and an earthly--Yang and Yn--but there is no mention of a
-Creator in his system. Man, he asserted, fell from purity and happiness
-by his own act; and by his own act he can or must recover them. His
-political system, which is one of pure despotism, has been give by the
-Emperor. Spirit of Koong-Foo-tse, come forth!”
-
-The apparition of Confucius here takes visible shape, and startles the
-assembly. The other or American immaterialized human, addresses him:
-
-“Confucius, thy soul has now learned wisdom. How is it, that in life
-your great reason did not perceive and conceive that there must be and
-was a Being, all wise, all powerful, all good, eternal, and with His
-infinity universally present--the God and Creator?”
-
-_Confucius._--“_I had no revelation!_”
-
-_Immortal._--“Creation itself suggests and proves a Creator; it is His
-greatest revelation. The dual-elements in man (mind and matter,) should
-recognize His existence and essence.”
-
-_Confucius._--“I dimly perceived that there were _two_ principles, but
-not precisely those of good and evil. _I did not reason sufficiently at
-large. I thought only of earth, not of religion; of the material, not
-the divine._ Zoroaster surpassed me in these regards.”
-
-_American._--“Emperor, the hand-writing of destroying Fate is on your
-wall. The hands of hundred of millions will pull it down. God will
-send light, by the invading influence of the ‘outside barbarians’ of
-the far West, to scatter the darkness from your land. Your dynasty is
-doomed.”
-
-The spectre of Confucius nods confirmation, and disappears.
-
-The _voyageurs_ pass out, and soar into the air.
-
-Intense cimmerian darkness now seems to prevail everywhere, and the
-aerialists see themselves, as it were from a distance, flying as
-illumined transparent shapes through it. Afar off, and in another land,
-there is seen a small luminous spot on the horizon.
-
-“What is yon bright object?”
-
-“It is the ‘Temple of the Sun.’”
-
-The speed of thought brings them to its full view. They swoop down; and
-pause in riveted contemplation of the sublime pile.
-
-What a house, built by supposed hands! It is a structure from masses
-of the purest crystal; a mile long; two-thirds of a mile broad; a
-half-mile high to its eaves. A steeple, itself of a mile’s height
-and of beautiful proportions, towers with a superb aplomb a mile and
-a half above its front base. It is radiant with a whitish internal
-illumination, that shoots its apex of light upward to the dark
-empyrean. Over a central point of the temple, a third distance from
-its rear, a lofty dome uplifts in grand majesty its imposing symmetry,
-and from which hangs pendent within, a vast globular light resembling
-and sacred to the sun, permeating and illuming with its golden rays
-the mighty mass. The double-tinted splendor of the _tout ensemble_,
-thrilled with rapture even an immortal soul! Above the dome, and from a
-staff like the lightning’s streak, floated a tri-colored _oriflamme_--a
-rainbow flag.
-
-  “One tint was of the sunbeam’s dyes,
-  “One the blue depth of seraph’s eyes,
-  “One, the pure spirit’s veil of white
-  “Had robed in radiance of its light;
-  “The three so mingled did beseem
-  “The texture of a heavenly dream.”
-
-The occasion is a holy period to a people in southern Asia, of whom
-tens of thousands throng the columned interior. The flying visitors
-enter. Their eyes are instantly attracted upward to the high-vaulted
-ceiling, appearing like a slightly concaved sky, and of a deep cerulean
-hue, studded with stars (mystic phenomenon!) as if in deference to
-night.
-
-In the centre of the vast tessellated floor is a colossal opalescent
-human statue, typical of and dedicated to the God of Light, seated
-on a purple throne bordered with plates of gold--the whole eight
-hundred feet high, and the figure in a commanding attitude, and as
-dispensing wisdom and exacting reverence. A space around it is paled
-by a balustrade of sapphire. Behind it, on the wall to the East, is
-pictured in marvellous glory the rising sun. In its front, outside
-the sapphire enclosure and toward an entrance in the West, is a broad
-low altar of polished granite. On it are piled votive offerings of
-flowers--creatures of the sun.
-
-Emblematic frescoes of light in varying hues, play over and adorn every
-portion of the wondrous edifice.
-
-The countless throng pressing from many entrances, with faces turned
-upward to the Idol, and with odorless flambeaux aloft in their right
-hands, chanted,
-
-  “Fire! Genial Fire! Glorious Fire!
-  Element of light! Hail, Father Sun!”
-
-The flying companions had already taken their station in the space
-reserved around the Colossus, and near his feet.
-
-_Immortal._--“This has degenerated into Fire Worship--another form
-of Materialism. The wretches adore the emblems, but know not their
-meaning. Silence! Attention!!”
-
-The people in awe put their left hands over their eyes, and kneel with
-bowed heads. All the lights, large and small, become dim and wan; an
-ominous twilight prevails.
-
-_Immortal._--“Zoroaster, in the name of Light appear!”
-
-The apparition of Zoroaster stands before them.
-
-_Immaterialized American._--“I have heard of him, but what of him?”
-
-_Immortal._--“Zoroaster or Zurdusht was a great thinker, who lived in
-primeval times; computed by Aristotle to be about six thousand years
-before the death of Plato. He was born in ancient Bactria. He was
-the founder of the Magian religion, which prevailed long before the
-Medo-Persian monarchy. His doctrines are set forth in the book called
-_Zendavesta_. The _first being_ (according to that transcript) is
-denominated ‘Time without bounds;’ thus showing on the part of Zurdusht
-a vague perception of the Eternal One. His creed maintains that from
-the operation of this ‘infinite Time,’ the two active principles of the
-universe were produced from all eternity, Ormuzd (representing _good_)
-and Ahriman, (representing _evil_,) each disposed to exercise his
-_powers_ of _creation_ in different ways. The first formed man capable
-of virtue; the latter, changed into _darkness_ from _light_, introduced
-evil.”
-
-“Zurdusht taught that, at the last day, Ormuzd would triumph.”
-
-_American._--“I see. Zoroaster compared the _two principles_ to Light
-and Darkness, and to each attributed _creative_ power. And now that I
-reflect, I note that dual-elements of some kind, material or spiritual,
-and associated with the idea of _good_ and _evil_, are averred in most
-religious creeds. It is the great mystery!”
-
-_Immortal._--“Zurdusht, speak!”
-
-_Zoroaster._--“Death further opened my finite eyes. There are not _two
-discordant essences_ nor TWO CREATIVE POWERS. The One God is the One
-Creator. He alone can solve the inscrutability of Evil.”
-
-The lights die out. Sounds cease. The temple disappears. Utter darkness
-ensues. A sudden murmured exclamation of wonder arises from countless
-beings, enshrouded in the night. The Heavens above have opened; an
-amazing glory of radiance shines through them, amid which “the great
-White Throne” and “He who sitteth thereon” are seen, and His resounding
-voice utters to the Universe: I AM THE LIGHT!
-
-
-
-
-PART III.
-
-
-This dream had one feature in common with ordinary dreams; parts of it
-were confused and fitful. But its unusual length and coherence were
-remarkable. It consisted of a series of vivid scenes and singular
-events in conformity with its general character and design. These were
-announced (a notable fact) in its outset, and sustained throughout
-(still more strange) in their appropriate relations.
-
-The aerial _voyageurs_ took a general view of the Ganges and its
-deltas. They paused to observe a Hindoo maiden, of the better _caste_,
-launch upon its waters, in her amative superstition, one of those
-small lights, votive to love and imagination, which floating down the
-stream would by its course, accidents and fate, indicate what might be
-the chequered destiny of her affections, or the fortunes of an absent
-lover. And they noticed her as a specimen of the delicate symmetry of
-form and sentient beauty of face, characteristic of southern Asiatic
-females. The dreamy expression of soul on her countenance enthralled
-the American. For a time he was human.
-
-Geographical details but seldom attracted their attention. Their
-general consciousness was that of travelling at night; yet there was
-ever light enough when and where it was desired. The American conceived
-the mortal wish to view a scene from the highest mountains in the
-world. They were near the Himmalayas, and flew to their most commanding
-peak. It appeared to be a bright day, and all the sensations of sublime
-awe and admiration which a man could feel under such circumstances were
-realized. This experience was entirely distinct from any impressions
-produced during their usual aerial observations. The landscape seemed
-to comprise every variety of object, from the grandest and most
-startling, to the softest and most serene, and a delicious mellowing
-sublimated the enchantment.
-
-Now, anon, they are looking down upon the Euphrates and the Tigris,
-and the classic slip of land between them. And in another moment a
-twilight envelopes them, a contemplative mood ensues; and, then,
-steals upon their consciousness the knowledge, inducing a singular awe
-or uneasiness, that they are hovering over the Plain of Shinar. The
-biblical Babel, the confusion of tongues and the scattering of the
-nations crowd upon their reflection, and again immortal thoughts arise.
-
-The disembodied remarks, “It is written that a drama occurred below,
-which, it appears to me, is as mysterious in its meaning as it is
-wonderful in its happening. The Divine frustration of the building of
-the Tower of Babel, as a rebuke to the presumption of man, in the light
-of an allegory, finds analogies in every-day life. But, as a fact, it
-is classed among the miraculous. Which is it? The unity or variety of
-origin of the human race is a vexed question; and man’s distinctiveness
-from other animals, especially in the characteristics of reason and
-immortality, may be regarded another. It has occurred to me that
-attributing the ‘confusion of tongues’ to the miraculous, may have been
-but an ancient priestly, as well as theoretic, pretext in favor of
-the doctrine of the unity of the human race. The Babel statement is a
-strange story of God’s ways.”
-
-_Immortal._--“Even to immortals, God’s designs are not revealed, and
-in many respects His ways are inscrutable. The past may declare His
-nature, but never wholly His purposes. THE FUTURE IS HIS OWN. But as
-His laws are unchangeable, inferences may be drawn by any being in
-proportion to his faculties and knowledge. Their gradations are as
-numerous as the stars. Nor is it permitted to _me_ to declare to _you_
-in your mortal _status_, all I know in my immortal _status_. But the
-unity or variety of human origin is of no present importance. The
-differences of the human races, in language, color and structure, give
-assurance against their amalgamation and homogeneity on earth.”
-
-The dream assumes a new phase. In a grand hall, of shadowy sides,
-suspended in mid-air, the parties recline in voluptuous chairs.
-
-It is as if fitted for exhibitions. A moving superb panorama passes
-before them, representing in their greatest glory, the following
-cities: Babylon, Nineveh, Thebes, Troy, Tyre, Jerusalem, Bagdad,
-Alexandria and Damascus. They alike saw them and seemed to be in them.
-It was a curious, instructive and wondrous display. A reverse movement
-of the picture then presented these cities or their sites as they are
-now. Their inhabitants at the different periods, in varied masses
-and actions, and male and female in every style and hue of Eastern
-costume and countenance, created a strange and absorbing interest. The
-kaleidoscopic phases of human nature will ever challenge curiosity,
-excite observation and engender thoughts. The desire “to see and be
-seen” by our kind, has a more suggestive and philosophical source than
-mere vanity.
-
-The winged adventurers of a night recross from Asia to Europe, traverse
-the famed Bosphorus, and reaching Constantinople, alight for a moment,
-each on a minaret of the mosque, (formerly church of St. Sophia,) the
-grandest temple to Mahomet and of the Turks. The view was grand, novel
-and crowded with objects and memorials. It was the most noted point on
-the line between the East and the West, and there were the remembrances
-and insignia of both. These philosophic observers had carefully
-noticed, of late, the influences and traces of men and events, systems
-and creeds, times and powers, from Alexander the Great, in his primary
-institution of commerce and in its mighty effects, down to the
-condition produced by the late struggle by Turkey, France and England
-on one side, against the aggressions of Russia and Northern hordes on
-the other.
-
-With their usual facility they next visit the palace of the Sultan.
-Their presence surprised, but its character was deferred to and
-welcomed. Turkish hospitality and courtesy are genial, when once
-enlisted. The Grand Vizier himself directed their entertainment near
-the person of his Majesty of the Crescent. In a stoical manner,
-but with liberal temper, they discussed with the guests matters of
-religion, government, social customs, moral subtleties and modern
-developments and tendencies. The preconceived ideas and prejudices of
-the American were greatly modified. The former Turk and Mohammedan of
-haughty bigotry, fierceness and the sword, had subsided into tolerance
-for the Christian, amity with the European, and deference to the
-civilization, learning and powers of the Caucasian race. Once the chief
-guardian and lookout on the ramparts of the ignorance, despotism and
-superstitions of the East, he now would open its portals to the more
-active spirit and mightier enlightenment of the West. All this was
-elicited and defined in the harmonious discussions that interluded the
-ceremonial observances.
-
-The suite of apartments allotted to females in the larger
-dwelling-houses of the East (called the Harem) is a portion sacred
-to them and the head of the family, and forbidden to other masculine
-intrusion. But, for the winged spirits, there was no objection to
-their admittance to even the imperial Seraglio. Upon the invitation of
-the Sultan, who led the way, they retired with him into the delicious
-abode of the Sultanas and lady favorites of that mysterious Court.
-Here for the first time gallantry so inspired the American that he
-bowed, kneeled--yes, salaam-ed! This choice collection of beautiful
-women, selected from beauties of different climes, and from races of
-the higher types, presented every species of female loveliness in
-form, feature and complexion. The Circassian prevailed in numbers and
-attractions.
-
-A golden-haired blonde from the North, with seraphic blue eyes and
-lily skin, robust yet lithe and sprightly, was evidently the favorite
-of the Sultan. But in contrast with her style, yet equal in subtle
-fascination, reclined upon a divan in more haughty retiracy a tropical
-being, (a near relative of the Sultan,) in whose hair was the sheeny
-darkness of a thousand starry nights, on whose brunette cheek was the
-rose’s richest red, and whose flashing black eyes and queenly figure
-were now in dreamy repose. But they grew animated on the entrance and
-in the presence of the party; and during their stay and devoirs, her
-look often rested on the American, “and eyes looked” affinity “to eyes
-that spoke again.” He became enthralled. His imagination conjectured in
-her the contrarient higher qualities of a Semiramis, a Cleopatra and a
-Zenobia. She filled it!
-
-At an appropriate time, eunuchs from among the number in attendance,
-conducted the guests to private apartments. The American dreamed he
-slept and had a vision.
-
-The warm radiance of Zulika’s black eyes still thrill his soul with a
-loving passion. Mahomet, too, was associated with her in his thoughts.
-He calls upon him to come and take him among the celestial Houris--“the
-beautiful eyed--the black eyed.” The apparition of Mahomet is suddenly
-seen; it somewhat startles, yet, also, composes his other excitement.
-
-_Mahomet._--“Brother disembodied! You are still human in your thoughts.
-Death alone can free you from them. Yet I know them; it is permitted
-to _me now to learn what transpires in the universe_. It is also
-vouchsafed to you, in your immaterialized state, to hold converse with
-the departed spirits, yes, even the Houris, as you request. Among other
-matters you wonder at the apparently inconsistent decrees I made in
-regard to wine and women, for my followers on earth. The inhibition of
-wine was for the masses, who are largely composed of the inconsiderate
-and craving. Its use will induce the habit and disease of intoxication,
-which is fatal to mankind, especially in warm climates. Temperance
-should ever be a moral duty, and abstinence alone can secure it among
-the many. ‘The joys of wine’ are only for the prudent and thoughtful,
-and its healthful quality for the ill. It has its proper uses.”
-
-_Disembodied._--“In this regard you were right, as an expounder.”
-
-_Mahomet._--“In permitting polygamy and even concubinage to some, I
-reflected that as marriage would not be suitable or convenient or
-possible to a number of men, I would be making a needful, wise and
-saving provision for surplus women. The deprivation of wine, too,
-rendered it more salutary; man will have one, and if he can, both. My
-system was, also, designed to diminish promiscuous prostitution.”
-
-_Disembodied._--“Clever excuse! But how will you defend the propagation
-of your creed by the sword?”
-
-_Mahomet._--“Mankind, so generally stolid or perverse in untoward
-ignorance or selfishness, will usually require more or less coercion in
-some shape, to be aroused into useful animation and effort, and to the
-pursuit of good and happiness. The sword, like necessity, stimulates;
-it is at times a great vivifier. It is even, occasionally, justice on
-a large and peculiar scale; it is for man and nations, what the rod is
-for the child.”
-
-_Disembodied._--“Clever pretext, again! But you seem _now_ to think
-that you were a better giver of law than of religion.”
-
-_Mahomet._--“I was not a Prophet. I was right in but one religious
-dogma: the declaration of the one God. And of Him, man is to himself
-the most direct and proximate revelation. _Know thyself!_ It is both
-duty and instruction. Come! sister spirits would confer with thee.”
-
-_Disembodied American._--“But, oh, I would see more of _her_ whom I met
-to-night.”
-
-_Mahomet._--“She is your _affinity_; and when you are both freed
-from the earthly, you will abide together on some Olympus in the
-Illimitable. Let us to the Seventh Heaven!”
-
-They sweep upward and onward, and on their passage see a vast and
-bright globe, (a star or sun,) many times larger than the Earth. There
-they see the souls of the most ignorant and obtuse of the dead, in
-their second stage of existence or ordeal of improvement. It is the
-first Heaven. They proceed on by other worlds--all abodes of Spiritual
-Progression, and arrive at the seventh Heaven.
-
-_Mahomet._--“The more favored and self-elevating of Earth when they
-die, are at once transferred to the sphere most suited to them--some
-few even reaching the sixth Heaven, at the outset upon eternity.
-The seventh Heaven is the _first_ abode of achieved Goodness and
-translucent Reason in the initial state of perfection. After and
-beyond that, these become identical with Knowledge, which I believe
-is eternally acquisitive and expansive. Here is my attainment through
-centuries. I began my after-death career in the third Heaven. Zoroaster
-his in the fourth. Confucius was permitted to pass the first, because
-of his great mind and good intent; but he was assigned to the second to
-learn there was a God and a Creator. Your travelling companion, who was
-never mortal, is beyond me, and I know not his origin. Here I will show
-you the most glorified women, who have come originally from earth.”
-
-On the globe at which they had arrived, there was, as on Earth, all
-variety of its own kinds or peculiarities.
-
-The disembodied American was soon thrown into social intercourse. The
-inhabitants appeared to have the human form glorified--called “the
-image of God.” Here there was ideal beauty, infinitely varied like
-the flowers of earth. The females were of heavenly and indescribable
-loveliness. Their countenances beamed with sublimated purity and
-affection. They thronged around him as “administering angels.” Their
-sweet voices accompanied the music of the spheres, and their swelling
-chorus joined the song of the morning stars, in the eternal anthem to
-the Most High.
-
-_Heavenly Houri._--“Mortal! Know that thy thought is vain, that
-the passions of the body--of the earth--are here in some riper and
-heaven-ized existence, and that their indulgence is but enhanced in
-pleasurable degree. Here there is attraction--affinity--but it is of
-the soul.”
-
-_Disembodied._--“Then there is no Love here! I mean the feeling
-peculiar to the sexes.”
-
-_Houri._--“Yes. But there is no _material_ desire. _The sexes are
-essentially complements of each other_; but these complements may
-differ in their substance and proportions. When they are counterparts
-of each other, then affinity is perfect. This affinity is _heavenly
-Love_ and unalloyed happiness. Such a pair are the Bride and
-Bridegroom of Eternity. Their children are the heavenly _thoughts_
-which spring from such affinity.”
-
-The startled brain of the visionist caused him to awake into his dream,
-and he saw his Immortal companion bending over him with a smile.
-
-
-
-
-PART IV.
-
-
-The dream changes; the _voyageurs_ are flying over Greece. This small
-but wondrous nation, so remarkable in the annals of mankind, and so
-full of historic and classic associations, was seen by them as in one
-view of its ancient and modern times, and of its geographic and art
-attractions under the illumination of genius and heroism, or in the
-twilight of mental and moral decadence.
-
-The Immortal remarked, as it faded in the rear from their sight, “This
-favored land, emerging as it is, again, from the contact and influence
-of barbarism and moral depression, and with the native talents and
-sprightliness of its race, throwing off their frivolity and supineness,
-under the stimulating agencies of civilization now in contact with it,
-is once more destined to appropriate distinction.”
-
-_American._--“And yonder is Venice! Its romance has ever excited and
-interested my imagination.”
-
-_Immortal._--“Its history has been like a meteor; but in more ways than
-one: it has dashed into obscurity! It may be of continued interest as a
-locality and a city, but it can never, again, be a power.”
-
-Italia! Oh, Italia! with what emotions, evolved from considerations
-of the present as of the past, they approach thee! In a southerly
-sweep they note the position of the ancient Brundusium, and gaze
-upon Vesuvius, Pompeii and Naples. They move up the course of the
-“yellow Tiber,” and at last, they hover over the “Eternal City.” They
-descend into Rome! traverse its streets, visit its famed places and
-sanctuaries, examine its ruins, think of its noted dead, observe its
-new features and present people, and, more than all, ponder upon the
-meaning of its history, its situation and its attitude. It is not
-within the compass of this narrative to present the volume of feeling
-and thoughts of the sleeper. In the Vatican and in the fane of St.
-Peter’s, as he did after in St. Paul’s and in London, he ruminated on
-the religion of civilization, and on the new speculations of infidel
-philosophy. In the Coliseum he reflected upon the impulses and ways
-of the populace. In the Forum he analyzed the systems of law and the
-subtleties of eloquence. In Senate halls he eliminated the science,
-the experiments, the élan of statesmanship, in both State and Church
-matters. Within the classic area of the Seven Hills, Man had exhibited
-every phase of his nature, inclination and power. Here Humanity had
-been borne upon every wave of destiny, and had travelled upon every
-highway and byway of fate, on earth. Rome is the epitome of the world’s
-Past. Its mission is ended.
-
-Moving northward the aerialists glance upon Pisa, Florence, Milan and
-Mantua, the Po and the Adige. To gratify the curiosity of the American,
-they divert and descend to the point where the Rubicon was passed, and
-he thinks of Cesar, and of all the so-called Cesars, down to the last
-Czar and Kaiser. They visit, also, the plain of Marengo, which assured
-in power and prestige the true successor to Cesar, as _he_ had been
-to Alexander--the third that made a trio of the world’s mental and
-imperial masters.
-
-Inasmuch as the travellers were threading the animate gallery of the
-world, they gave but a glance at the art galleries of Italy. What was a
-marble Venus or Apollo--what was a painting of the Transfiguration or
-of a Madonna--what was the tower of Pisa or the cathedral of Milan, in
-comparison with what they had seen!
-
-_Immortal._--“Italy is still nearer to national regeneration, power and
-influence than Greece. The full power of modern enlightenment will ere
-long be felt there.”
-
-_American._--“The names of Cavour and Mazzini are already enrolled on
-the true roll of fame. And, too, the biographies of Rienzi and Lorenzo
-the Magnificent are peculiarly attractive.”
-
-This was said as they were observing the beauties of lakes Garda and
-Como. From thence they bent their pinions for Vienna. They circled
-it to view the fields made memorable by Sobieski and Napoleon. They
-enter it; and a cold and silvery twilight seemed to prevail as if its
-most consummate imperialism and refinement preferred the blinded and
-curtained _salons_ of governmental and social civilization. In such
-palatial halls were its Court; and there the _finesse_ of closet and
-boudoir intrigue had attained to its most exquisite development in this
-epoch. And the decorated white cloth coats of its costume delighted the
-eyes, but were significant of hypocrisy to the brain, of the American.
-Winged as he was, and probably because of it, he found temptations
-addressed to both his head and heart. It was there thought that even
-angels could be corrupted “on earth as in heaven.”
-
-They seek the purer air of Switzerland and the Alps. They “did” Mont
-Blanc and the Simplon, slid upon an avalanche, looked upon Geneva and
-its lake, and thought of Tell, the Cantons, and Calvin. They next seat
-themselves in human style on the deck of a steamer, and make the trip
-of the ever disputable and picturesque Rhine. They dash off on wing to
-Brussels, and imagining they hear the “sounds of revelry by night” and
-“the cannon’s opening roar,” they ponder on Waterloo.
-
-_American._--“Now for the dear old cliffs of Albion. Oh, Great Britain
-and Ireland, land of my fathers, let me see thee!” Stretching their
-wings in full sympathy and in joyous flight across the Channel, they
-scan with loving and careful eye England, Scotland and Ireland. They
-take in their all and every part and place; and terminate their British
-tour in London. Everything indicated genuine maturity and stability.
-Both the material and spiritual developments proclaim solid sense and
-judicious cultivation. It is the only country in which the Past and
-Present seem to blend and harmonize.
-
-There is a Royal levee at St. James palace, and there all appear royal.
-The British nobility and gentry! what a superb body of men and women!
-What glorious types of the mental and physical--what exemplars of
-education and refinement, character and tone! It is in Great Britain
-that industry, honesty and intellect have acquired gold; and gold has
-not debased but elevated humanity--has not disintegrated but cemented
-the social elements.
-
-They were graciously received by Majesty; and they congratulated the
-Queen, not as sovereign, but as the royal representative of such
-a nation. Her peers, with calm satisfaction and cordial dignity,
-exclaimed, “That the just appreciation of the British people by native
-white Americans, involved the highest compliment to both.”
-
-The Lord Mayor took them in charge, visited with them the notable
-places and buildings of London, and à l’Anglaise, entertained them
-at a banquet. On the occasion the Premier, who was a guest, remarked
-in his speech: “Great Britain, at last, although a monarchy in name
-and form, is a republic in fact. Its government combines the more of
-the advantages and the less of the disadvantages of the one-man power
-and of the many-power, than that of any other nation does. Hence it
-is, that the rights of the citizen equal those of even America, and
-are more practically protected and left in undisturbed satisfaction,
-politically and socially, than in any country in the world. There is
-more nominal but less real personal liberty in the United States than
-in England. Yet in these regards it is the just and proud boast and
-boon of these two nations, that their peoples alone can be called free.”
-
-_American._--“Is it because popular opinion in America is a tyrant
-toward each individual, that Great Britain has the advantage in
-practical, if not theoretical liberty?”
-
-_Immortal._--“Yes. Settled law and not fluctuating opinion should
-govern and protect.”
-
-The good-byes are genial. While crossing the Straits of Dover for the
-Continent, the Immortal said with emphasis:
-
-“The Anglo-Saxons everywhere furnish the best wives and mothers of your
-globe.”
-
-La Belle France! Inimitable Paris! what a medley of expectations
-attends upon visiting these centres of travel. They run the gamut of
-pleasure from the exhilarating boards of the “light fantastic toe,”
-to the arenas where learning and skill walk in solemn mental pomp,
-and genius essays its wings for loftier flights from the heights of
-knowledge. There the heart vibrates from all the phases of frivolity,
-through the glows of vanity, love and ambition, to the glamours of
-suicide.
-
-They proceed to Versailles, and indulge in mocking criticisms upon its
-costly and useless structures and empirical history.
-
-They surveyed with care, Paris and its environs. They thought of it as
-a communistic volcano or as the cradle of revolutions.
-
-_Immortal._--“Blessed is the person or nation, who has a Faith, however
-crude! But, in truth, the French have no faith of any stable or
-guiding kind. Nor do they permit themselves to be either calm enough
-to study or rational enough to understand the mission of Reason. They
-do not truly apply it to either religion or government. Their women
-are practically wiser than their men; in their domain of society the
-former _have_ instituted a system of mere life. Both have some tangible
-notions on the art of living on earth. Neither think very coherently
-on the Beyond. Natural (not mental) Philosophy, in all its branches,
-is their most successful sphere. Their German rivals surpass them in
-mental speculations and innocuous transcendentalisms.”
-
-They enter the Tuileries. The Emperor of the French expressed his
-keen appreciation of the objects of their grand and adventurous tour.
-With respectful earnestness he asked many questions in regard to
-it; especially in relation to political developments. In reply to a
-question by the American in reference to the assumptions of his own
-dynasty, he asseverated that it was a Napoleonic conception, maxim and
-design, “that the virtues and rights of the people could and should be
-asserted under the one-man _representative_ power--that Imperialism and
-Republicanism could be identicalized in and under governmental action.
-That no other kind of government either suited or would satisfy the
-French. And that he ever studied Great Britain and the United States as
-among the leading examples before him, in devising the measures of his
-action and the formulas of his policy.”
-
-He, also, assigned this as a reason why he and his uncle had not been
-favored by the old imperial or royal régimes. His Empress, the lovely
-Eugenie, was marked in her gracious deference, and uttered some angelic
-sentiments in support of her husband’s theory.
-
-At Court the ethereal party received the attentions of the _savans_
-of the world’s scientific metropolis, and with them visited their
-meeting. Abstruse topics were discussed. In reply to an inquiry upon
-electricity, the Immortal intimated “that, although it was not his
-province to discuss the connection between mind and matter, or to
-expound what agency magnetism had in relation to it, yet as the brain
-and body of man were a series of electric batteries, and electricity
-a fluid that pervaded the earth, it would in time, by an effort of
-the will, and by an action of the human body under and in certain
-conditions, become a medium of thought and converse between any two
-persons at different spots on the earth.”
-
-_American._--“Will they hold conversations as if in a tête-à-tête?”
-
-_Immortal._--“Yes. Without using language, Americans will thus converse
-with Chinese.”
-
-They visited in the _Invalides_ the Tomb of Napoléon le Grand. Before
-it the American was irresistibly affected by the awe, wonder and
-curiosity, which may be felt for the majesty of mind.
-
-The travellers now proceed to Bordeaux; where, seated in a _salon_, and
-the American being thirsty, the best brandy and claret are set before
-them. They taste them with relish, and discuss their merits.
-
-Suddenly the Disembodied exclaims, “Day is approaching, I must return
-to my body. Let us fly.”
-
-They once more essay the aerial passage of the Atlantic. At the
-instance of the Spirit of Morphine, who suggested that they had
-time for a swoop to south of the Equator, and for a view of the
-constellation of the Southern Cross, the American, who affected
-astronomy, readily assented. They whirl southward, see it, and repass
-“the Line.” They enter the United States at Savannah, and soon reach
-the abode of the sleeper in the upper part of South Carolina. His
-spirit enters his chamber through the window and glides into his
-body, when he experiences a sense of relief as to its safety, and of
-satisfaction in his wondrous trip. He nestles in comfort of thought and
-matter, and--AWAKES!
-
-The day has dawned, and soon the rays of the rising sun greet his
-mortal eyes. During that day he spoke of the dream, and was pale and
-excited. This dream occurred in the early part of January, 1868, and
-lasted between nine and ten hours.
-
-
-
-
-FOOTNOTES:
-
-
-[A] This sea was then unknown to the dreamer. His dream revealed to
-him its existence. He thought it a delusion, until he heard of its
-discovery.
-
-[B] This refers to the once famous palace, built of blocks of ice, in
-St. Petersburg.
-
-
-
-
-TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
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-  Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_.
-
-  Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
-
-  Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.
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