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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Dream-God - or, A Singular Evolvement of Thought in Sleep - -Author: John Cuningham - -Release Date: August 8, 2021 [eBook #66009] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was - produced from images generously made available by The Internet - Archive/American Libraries.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DREAM-GOD *** - - - - - 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. 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Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)</div> - -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DREAM-GOD ***</div> - -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/cover.jpg" width="40%" alt="" /></div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_title.jpg" alt="" /></div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>THE DREAM-GOD,</h1> - -<p>OR</p> - -<p><span class="large">A SINGULAR EVOLVEMENT</span><br /> - -OF<br /> - -<span class="xlarge">THOUGHT IN SLEEP.</span></p> - - -<p>BY JOHN CUNINGHAM.</p> - - -<p>NEW YORK:<br /> -PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY<br /> -<span class="xlarge">ANDERSON & RAMSAY.</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">28 Frankfort Street.</span></p> -</div></div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p class="center"> -Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1873, by<br /> -JOHN CUNINGHAM,<br /> -In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak">TO MY FRIENDS.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> -<p><i>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.</i></p> - -<p class="right"><span class="indentright">JOHN CUNINGHAM,</span><br /> -<i>of So. Ca.</i></p> - - -<p><span class="smcap">April, 1873.</span></p> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[5]</span> -<p class="ph1">A SINGULAR EVOLVEMENT OF<br /> -THOUGHT IN SLEEP.</p> -</div> - - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h2 class="nobreak">A REMARKABLE DREAM.</h2> - -<p><span class="smcap">The</span> 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.</p> - - - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[6]</span>One evening in midwinter, a few weeks after -the accident, the almost exhausted sufferer, -having taken the prescribed nightly dose of -morphine, fell asleep.</p> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[7]</span> - -<p class="ph1">THE DREAM-GOD.</p> - -<h2 class="nobreak">PART I.</h2> -</div> - - -<p><span class="smcap">The</span> 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 <i>esprit</i>, 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 <i>immortal</i> 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.</p> - -<p>The sleeper with surprise inquired, “How -can I go with this stricken and impotent -body?”</p> - - - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[8]</span>The Immortal replied, “You must leave -your body here; your spiritual being can accompany -me.”</p> - -<p><i>Sleeper.</i>—“But I fear that before my return -my friends may see and regard my inanimate -body as dead, and bury it.”</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“Fear not. I will restore you -in due time to your body; and I will prepare -you for our adventures as I am prepared.”</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“What route do you prefer?”</p> - -<p><i>Mortal.</i>—“I wish to have a birdseye view -of Charleston, (once my home,) by gas-light -and then toward the Arctic Pole.”</p> - -<p>The aerial <i>voyageurs</i> 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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[9]</span> -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.</p> - -<p><i>Mortal.</i>—“I would see the borealis.”</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“You shall, anon.”</p> - -<p>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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[10]</span> -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 id="FNanchor_1" href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</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.”</p> - -<p>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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[11]</span> -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.</p> - - - -<p>A cry of terror and awe escapes from the -sleeper. He is conscious of it, but does not -awake. The dream resumes.</p> - -<p>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 <i>en -voyage</i> for the Court of Russia.</p> - -<p>They alight at the Winter Palace of the Czar.</p> - -<p>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,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[12]</span> -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.</p> - -<p>The scene changes. They are seated in a -small ice-crystal<a id="FNanchor_2" href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a> <i>salon</i>, 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:</p> - -<p>“How can your humanity conscientiously -hold and wield the power of imperial despotism?”</p> - -<p><i>Emperor.</i>—“The one-man power in the -light and dignity of a <i>principle</i>, appeals to -reason and fascinates the soul. It is the true<span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[13]</span> -theory of human government. I am God’s -vicegerent, as king and priest, for the well-being -and good order of my people.”</p> - - - -<p><i>Prime Minister.</i>—“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.”</p> - -<p><i>American.</i>—“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.”</p> - -<p><i>Prime Minister.</i>—“Indeed!”</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“There is a golden mean for all -finite governments. Uncontrolled power is -only for the Infinite.”</p> - -<p><i>Emperor.</i>—“Is even political self-government -a <i>right</i>?”</p> - - - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[14]</span><i>American.</i>—“Surely mankind is entitled to -it and should possess it.”</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“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 <i>privilege</i> 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!”</p> - -<p><i>American</i> to <i>Emperor</i>.—“Sire! it is then -your best mission to <i>do well your part</i>!”</p> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[15]</span> - -<h2 class="nobreak">PART II.</h2> -</div> - - -<p><span class="smcap">Farewells</span> are spoken. The <i>voyageurs</i> 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.</p> - -<p>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.”</p> - - - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[16]</span><i>Immortal.</i>—“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.”</p> - -<p><i>Mortal.</i>—“What wonders! Can this be nature?”</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“We are approaching others.”</p> - -<p><i>Mortal.</i>—“Yes, look! What a vast lizard -or crocodile yonder encased—five hundred -feet long! But I see fins, also.”</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“It is of the primeval species of -<i>sauroid</i> 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.”</p> - -<p>They wheel southward—anon traverse Chinese -Tartary—sweep over the Chinese wall, -and alight in Pekin. They poise themselves -on a lofty pagoda.</p> - -<p><i>Mortal.</i>—“These Chinese are a mysterious -people. I am curious about them. That -wall was a great enterprise in its day, and a -singular one.”</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“They are a swarm from an ancient<span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[17]</span> -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. -<i>Necessity</i> 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, <i>per se</i>. It is the conception -which most expands man!”</p> - -<p><i>Mortal.</i>—“But this pagoda (truly it is a grotesque -structure!) is a temple devoted to some -worship.”</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“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 <i>essences</i>. But of this, anon.”</p> - -<p><i>Mortal.</i>—“The Chinese have, however, a -demi-god—their ‘Celestial Emperor.’”</p> - - - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[18]</span><i>Immortal.</i>—“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.”</p> - -<p><i>Mortal.</i>—“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!”</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“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.”</p> - -<p>Soon the vision embraced a scene of Oriental -pomp—a pageant, with its ceremonies, gorgeous -displays and vain-glorious crudities.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[19]</span> -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.</p> - -<p>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 <i>voyageurs</i> suddenly appear before -and among them.</p> - -<p><i>Emperor.</i>—“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!”</p> - -<p>The Immortal, with a gesture, awes all into -silence and composure.</p> - -<p><i>American to Emperor.</i>—“Man, what mean -these presumptions? What does your ridiculous -and despotic power claim?”</p> - - - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[20]</span><i>Emperor.</i>—“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.”</p> - -<p><i>American.</i>—“What means he? What of -Confucius?”</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“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 <i>Kings</i>) were the basis of his system of -philosophy. He maintained that the universe -was generated by the union of two <i>material</i> 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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[21]</span> -system, which is one of pure despotism, -has been give by the Emperor. Spirit of Koong-Foo-tse, -come forth!”</p> - -<p>The apparition of Confucius here takes visible -shape, and startles the assembly. The -other or American immaterialized human, addresses -him:</p> - -<p>“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?”</p> - -<p><i>Confucius.</i>—“<i>I had no revelation!</i>”</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“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.”</p> - -<p><i>Confucius.</i>—“I dimly perceived that there -were <i>two</i> principles, but not precisely those of -good and evil. <i>I did not reason sufficiently at -large. I thought only of earth, not of religion; of -the material, not the divine.</i> Zoroaster surpassed -me in these regards.”</p> - -<p><i>American.</i>—“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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[22]</span> -the ‘outside barbarians’ of the far West, to -scatter the darkness from your land. Your -dynasty is doomed.”</p> - -<p>The spectre of Confucius nods confirmation, -and disappears.</p> - -<p>The <i>voyageurs</i> pass out, and soar into the -air.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>“What is yon bright object?”</p> - -<p>“It is the ‘Temple of the Sun.’”</p> - -<p>The speed of thought brings them to its full -view. They swoop down; and pause in riveted -contemplation of the sublime pile.</p> - -<p>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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[23]</span> -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 <i>tout ensemble</i>, -thrilled with rapture even an immortal soul! -Above the dome, and from a staff like the lightning’s -streak, floated a tri-colored <i>oriflamme</i>—a -rainbow flag.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="verse">“One tint was of the sunbeam’s dyes,</div> -<div class="verse">“One the blue depth of seraph’s eyes,</div> -<div class="verse">“One, the pure spirit’s veil of white</div> -<div class="verse">“Had robed in radiance of its light;</div> -<div class="verse">“The three so mingled did beseem</div> -<div class="verse">“The texture of a heavenly dream.”</div> -</div></div> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[24]</span> -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.</p> - -<p>Emblematic frescoes of light in varying -hues, play over and adorn every portion of -the wondrous edifice.</p> - -<p>The countless throng pressing from many -entrances, with faces turned upward to the -Idol, and with odorless flambeaux aloft in their -right hands, chanted,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="verse">“Fire! Genial Fire! Glorious Fire!</div> -<div class="verse">Element of light! Hail, Father Sun!”</div> -</div></div> - -<p>The flying companions had already taken -their station in the space reserved around the -Colossus, and near his feet.</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“This has degenerated into Fire -Worship—another form of Materialism. The -wretches adore the emblems, but know not -their meaning. Silence! Attention!!”</p> - -<p>The people in awe put their left hands over -their eyes, and kneel with bowed heads. All<span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[25]</span> -the lights, large and small, become dim and -wan; an ominous twilight prevails.</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“Zoroaster, in the name of Light -appear!”</p> - -<p>The apparition of Zoroaster stands before -them.</p> - -<p><i>Immaterialized American.</i>—“I have heard of -him, but what of him?”</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“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 <i>Zendavesta</i>. The -<i>first being</i> (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 -<i>good</i>) and Ahriman, (representing <i>evil</i>,) each -disposed to exercise his <i>powers</i> of <i>creation</i> in -different ways. The first formed man capable -of virtue; the latter, changed into <i>darkness</i> -from <i>light</i>, introduced evil.”</p> - - - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[26]</span>“Zurdusht taught that, at the last day, -Ormuzd would triumph.”</p> - -<p><i>American.</i>—“I see. Zoroaster compared the -<i>two principles</i> to Light and Darkness, and to -each attributed <i>creative</i> power. And now that -I reflect, I note that dual-elements of some -kind, material or spiritual, and associated with -the idea of <i>good</i> and <i>evil</i>, are averred in most -religious creeds. It is the great mystery!”</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“Zurdusht, speak!”</p> - -<p><i>Zoroaster.</i>—“Death further opened my finite -eyes. There are not <i>two discordant essences</i> nor -<span class="allsmcap">TWO CREATIVE POWERS</span>. The One God is the -One Creator. He alone can solve the inscrutability -of Evil.”</p> - -<p>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: <span class="smcap">I am the -Light!</span></p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[27]</span> -<h2 class="nobreak">PART III.</h2> -</div> - - -<p><span class="smcap">This</span> 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.</p> - -<p>The aerial <i>voyageurs</i> took a general view of -the Ganges and its deltas. They paused to -observe a Hindoo maiden, of the better <i>caste</i>, -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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[28]</span> -females. The dreamy expression of soul -on her countenance enthralled the American. -For a time he was human.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[29]</span> -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.</p> - -<p>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.”</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“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. -<span class="smcap">The Future is His own.</span> But as His<span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[30]</span> -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 -<i>me</i> to declare to <i>you</i> in your mortal <i>status</i>, all -I know in my immortal <i>status</i>. 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.”</p> - -<p>The dream assumes a new phase. In a -grand hall, of shadowy sides, suspended in -mid-air, the parties recline in voluptuous chairs.</p> - -<p>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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[31]</span> -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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>With their usual facility they next visit the -palace of the Sultan. Their presence surprised, -but its character was deferred to and welcomed.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[32]</span> -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.</p> - -<p>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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[33]</span> -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.</p> - -<p>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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[34]</span> -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!</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p><i>Mahomet.</i>—“Brother disembodied! You are -still human in your thoughts. Death alone -can free you from them. Yet I know them; it -is permitted to <i>me now to learn what transpires in -the universe</i>. 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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[35]</span> -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.”</p> - -<p><i>Disembodied.</i>—“In this regard you were -right, as an expounder.”</p> - -<p><i>Mahomet.</i>—“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.”</p> - -<p><i>Disembodied.</i>—“Clever excuse! But how -will you defend the propagation of your creed -by the sword?”</p> - -<p><i>Mahomet.</i>—“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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[36]</span> -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.”</p> - -<p><i>Disembodied.</i>—“Clever pretext, again! But -you seem <i>now</i> to think that you were a better -giver of law than of religion.”</p> - -<p><i>Mahomet.</i>—“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. -<i>Know thyself!</i> It is both duty and instruction. -Come! sister spirits would confer -with thee.”</p> - -<p><i>Disembodied American.</i>—“But, oh, I would -see more of <i>her</i> whom I met to-night.”</p> - -<p><i>Mahomet.</i>—“She is your <i>affinity</i>; 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!”</p> - -<p>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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[37]</span> -the first Heaven. They proceed on by other -worlds—all abodes of Spiritual Progression, -and arrive at the seventh Heaven.</p> - -<p><i>Mahomet.</i>—“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 <i>first</i> 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.”</p> - -<p>On the globe at which they had arrived, -there was, as on Earth, all variety of its own -kinds or peculiarities.</p> - -<p>The disembodied American was soon thrown<span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[38]</span> -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.</p> - -<p><i>Heavenly Houri.</i>—“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.”</p> - -<p><i>Disembodied.</i>—“Then there is no Love here! -I mean the feeling peculiar to the sexes.”</p> - -<p><i>Houri.</i>—“Yes. But there is no <i>material</i> desire. -<i>The sexes are essentially complements of -each other</i>; but these complements may differ -in their substance and proportions. When -they are counterparts of each other, then affinity -is perfect. This affinity is <i>heavenly Love</i> -and unalloyed happiness. Such a pair are the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[39]</span> -Bride and Bridegroom of Eternity. Their -children are the heavenly <i>thoughts</i> which spring -from such affinity.”</p> - -<p>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.</p> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[40]</span> - -<h2 class="nobreak">PART IV.</h2> -</div> - - -<p><span class="smcap">The</span> dream changes; the <i>voyageurs</i> 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.</p> - -<p>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.”</p> - -<p><i>American.</i>—“And yonder is Venice! Its -romance has ever excited and interested my -imagination.”</p> - - - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[41]</span><i>Immortal.</i>—“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.”</p> - -<p>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.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[42]</span> -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.</p> - -<p>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 <i>he</i> had been to Alexander—the third that -made a trio of the world’s mental and imperial -masters.</p> - -<p>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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[43]</span> -cathedral of Milan, in comparison with what -they had seen!</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“Italy is still nearer to national -regeneration, power and influence than Greece. -The full power of modern enlightenment will -ere long be felt there.”</p> - -<p><i>American.</i>—“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.”</p> - -<p>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 <i>salons</i> of governmental -and social civilization. In such palatial halls -were its Court; and there the <i>finesse</i> 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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[44]</span> -found temptations addressed to both his head -and heart. It was there thought that even -angels could be corrupted “on earth as in -heaven.”</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p><i>American.</i>—“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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[45]</span> -in which the Past and Present seem to -blend and harmonize.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.”</p> - -<p>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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_46">[46]</span> -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.”</p> - -<p><i>American.</i>—“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?”</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“Yes. Settled law and not fluctuating -opinion should govern and protect.”</p> - -<p>The good-byes are genial. While crossing -the Straits of Dover for the Continent, the Immortal -said with emphasis:</p> - -<p>“The Anglo-Saxons everywhere furnish the -best wives and mothers of your globe.”</p> - -<p>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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_47">[47]</span> -“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.</p> - -<p>They proceed to Versailles, and indulge in -mocking criticisms upon its costly and useless -structures and empirical history.</p> - -<p>They surveyed with care, Paris and its environs. -They thought of it as a communistic -volcano or as the cradle of revolutions.</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“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 <i>have</i> 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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_48">[48]</span> -surpass them in mental speculations and innocuous -transcendentalisms.”</p> - -<p>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 <i>representative</i> 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.”</p> - -<p>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.</p> - - - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_49">[49]</span>At Court the ethereal party received the attentions -of the <i>savans</i> 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.”</p> - -<p><i>American.</i>—“Will they hold conversations -as if in a tête-à-tête?”</p> - -<p><i>Immortal.</i>—“Yes. Without using language, -Americans will thus converse with Chinese.”</p> - -<p>They visited in the <i>Invalides</i> 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.</p> - -<p>The travellers now proceed to Bordeaux; -where, seated in a <i>salon</i>, and the American being -thirsty, the best brandy and claret are set<span class="pagenum" id="Page_50">[50]</span> -before them. They taste them with relish, -and discuss their merits.</p> - -<p>Suddenly the Disembodied exclaims, “Day -is approaching, I must return to my body. -Let us fly.”</p> - -<p>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—<span class="allsmcap">AWAKES</span>!</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - - -<p class="ph2">FOOTNOTES:</p> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_1" href="#FNanchor_1" class="label">[A]</a> This sea was then unknown to the dreamer. His dream revealed -to him its existence. 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