The Secret of Life, Death and Immortality - A Startling Proposition, with a Chapter Devoted to Mental Therapeutics and Instructions for Self Healing: With an Essay From Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde By Oscar Wilde
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The Secret of Life, Death and Immortality - A Startling Proposition, with a Chapter Devoted to Mental Therapeutics and Instructions for Self Healing - Henry Fleetwood
The Secret
of Life, Death
and Immortality
A Startling Proposition,
with a Chapter Devoted to
Mental Therapeutics and
Instructions for Self Healing
WITH AN ESSAY FROM
Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde
BY OSCAR WILDE
By
HENRY FLEETWOOD
AUTHOR OF
Music as a Cure
First published in 1908
This edition published by Read Books Ltd.
Copyright © 2019 Read Books Ltd.
This book is copyright and may not be
reproduced or copied in any way without
the express permission of the publisher in writing
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Contents
THE BROKEN RESOLUTION
PREFACE
CHAPTER I LIFE
CHAPTER II ELECTRICITY AND LIFE
CHAPTER III LOVE AND MUSIC
CHAPTER IV IMMORTALITY
CHAPTER V THE SUN
CHAPTER VI FEAR
CHAPTER VII DEATH
CHAPTER VIII HEALING
CHAPTER IX RESUME AND CONCLUSION
THE BROKEN RESOLUTION
AN EXCERPT FROM
Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde
BY OSCAR WILDE
We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, and fire purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all. As a consequence our art is of the moon and plays with shadows, while Greek art is of the sun and deals directly with things. I feel sure that in elemental forces there is purification, and I want to go back to them and live in their presence.
Of course to one so modern as I am, ‘Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at the world will be always lovely. I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me. Linnæus fell on his knees and wept for joy when he saw for the first time the long heath of some English upland made yellow with the tawny aromatic brooms of the common furze; and I know that for me, to whom flowers are part of desire, there are tears waiting in the petals of some rose. It has always been so with me from my boyhood. There is not a single colour hidden away in the chalice of a flower, or the curve of a shell, to which, by some subtle sympathy with the very soul of things, my nature does not answer. Like Gautier, I have always been one of those ‘pour qui le monde visible existe.’
Still, I am conscious now that behind all this beauty, satisfying though it may be, there is some spirit hidden of which the painted forms and shapes are but modes of manifestation, and it is with this spirit that I desire to become in harmony. I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.
All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death; and three times have I been tried. The first time I left the box to be arrested, the second time to be led back to the house of detention,