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After Her Death: the Story of a Summer. Thoughts from the Afterlife

by Lilian Whiting

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

Lilian Whiting (October 3, 1847 – April 30, 1942) was an American journalist, editor, and author of poetry and short stories. Her father was Illinois State Senator Lorenzo D. Whiting. She served as literary editor of the Boston Evening Traveller (1880–1890), editor-in-chief of the Boston Budget (1890–93), and afterward, spent much of her time in Europe. Whiting was the author of The World Beautiful, From Dreamland Sent, a book of poems, A Study of the Life and Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Record of Kate Field, The World Beautiful in Books, Boston Days, Florence of Landor, The Outlook Beautiful, Italy, the Magic Land, Paris the Beautiful, and others. Emily Lilian Whiting was born in Niagara Falls, New York (or Olcott, New York), on October 3, 1847, though she often claimed her date of birth as October 3, 1859. Her parents were Hon. Lorenzo Dowe and Lucretia Clement Whiting. Her ancestry included Rev. William Whiting, the first Unitarian minister of Concord, Massachusetts, in the early part of the 17th century. Her paternal grandmother was born Mather, and was a direct descendant of Cotton Mather. On her mother's side, her ancestry was also from New England, largely of the Episcopal clergy. While Whiting was an infant, the parents removed to Illinois. For some time, the parents served as principals of the public schools in Tiskilwa, Illinois, a village near their farm. Subsequently, the father became the editor of the Bureau County Republican, published in Princeton, Illinois. In that work, he was assisted by his wife. Later, he was elected to the Illinois General Assembly as representative from his district, and, after some years in the lower house, was elected State senator, in which capacity he served for 18 consecutive years. He was one of the framers of the constitution of Illinois. Little was left to the children after the death of Senator Whiting, in 1889. The mother died in 1875. Whiting, the only daughter, was educated largely under private tuition and by her parents. She attended the Mount Carroll Seminary (later known as Shimer College) in Illinois. Books and periodicals abounded in the family home with the best literature of the world available to her. She inherited from her mother much of the temperament of the mystic and the visionary, and her bent was always towards books and the world of thought. For several years, she lived in the Brunswick Hotel in Boston. She was interested in the Baháʼí Faith and Theosophy. Whiting died at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston on April 30, 1942. "Moksha from Earth" about the lighttrap: https://bit.ly/3ghTUZU "Archons rule Earth" about the 7 planetary rulers: https://bit.ly/3D0RDfl "Dark Side of Jesus" about John, the true Christos: https://bit.ly/3xZLP24 Watch: "Jesus was a Usurper" https://odysee.com/@SergeantSchultz:2/Lynn-Picknett---Jesus-was-a-Usurper,-John-the-Baptist-was-the-True-Christ.-The-Johannite-Tradition.:9 Watch: "The Templar Revelation" https://odysee.com/@SergeantSchultz:2/Lynn-Picknett---Mary-Magdalene:9 !!! MUST WATCH - Psychic project on "Freedom from Soul-Loosh Harvesting"!!! https://odysee.com/@SergeantSchultz:2/Samsara-and-Rebirth:b

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences, Psychic healing, auras, and subtle energy, Ritual magic and grimoires, and Theosophy, Anthroposophy, and New Thought.

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