After Death : The Immortality of Man

by Paschal Beverly Randolph

1886. One of Randolph's literary labors on behalf of Rosicrucia. The text also discusses the world of spirits, its location, extent, appearance, the route thither, inhabitants, customs, societies, and sex and its users there, etc. with much matter pertinent to the question of human immortality. Partial Contents: Why? Is There Any God? Are Souls Created Here? Certain Very Important Questions; Why is Man Immortal? The Reply, Singular Proofs, Invisible People, Religion the Liver, What is God? The Answer, The Exact Locality of Hell, White-Blooded People of the Future, An Astounding Prophecy. See other works by Randolph available from Kessinger Publishing.

272 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1970

About the author

Paschal Beverly Randolph was a medical doctor and occultist, notable as perhaps the first person to introduce the principles of sex magic to North America, and, according to A.E. Waite, establishing the earliest known Rosicrucian order in the United States.

Randolph died at the age of 49, under disputed circumstances. According to Professor Carl Edwin Lindgren, D.Ed., many questioned the coroner's finding that Randolph died in Toledo from a self-inflicted wound to the head, for many of his writings express his aversion to suicide. The evidence was conflicting. R. Swinburne Clymer, a later Supreme Master of the Fraternitas, stressed that years later in a death-bed confession, a former friend of Randolph conceded that in a state of jealousy and temporary insanity, he had killed Randolph. Randolph was succeeded as Supreme Grand Master of the Fraternitas, and in other titles, by his chosen successor Freeman B. Dowd.

In 1996, the biography Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician by John Patrick Deveney and Franklin Rosemont was published.

(source: wikipedia)