This year we celebrate the 200th anniiversary of the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of our gtreatest poets. In his poem “Adonais”, his tribute to John Keats, Shelley demonstrates his insight into life in the world of spirit compared wit that of earth. One stanza will do.
He has outsoared the shadow of our night;
Envy and calumny and hate and hate and pain,
And that unrest which men miscall delight,
Can touch him not and torture not again;
From the contagion of the world’s slow stain
He is secure, and now can never mourn
A heart grown cold, a head grown gray in vain;
Nor, when the spirit’s self has ceased to burn,
With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn.
Surely all Spiritualists can share Shelley’s vision.
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