Isis Unveiled

"A flower blooms; then it withers and dies. It leaves a fragrance, which, long after its delicate petals are nothing more than a bit of dust, still lingers in the air. Our material senses may not be aware of it, but it exists nonetheless. Let a note be played on an instrument, and the faintest sound produces an eternal echo. A disturbance is created in the invisible waves of the shoreless ocean of space, and the vibration is never wholly lost. Its energy, once carried from the world of matter to the immaterial world, will live on forever. 

And man, we are asked to believe, man, the living, thinking, rational entity, the resident deity of our nature's crowning masterpiece, will evacuate its coffin and be no more! Would the principle of continuity that exists even for so-called inorganic matter, for a floating atom, be denied to the spirit, whose attributes are consciousness, memory, mind, LOVE!”