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Resumen de La vida eterna
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Readers who love spiritual romance, Scottish sea scenery, ideas about the soul and former lives, and stories of two people drawn together across the centuries will find plenty here to enjoy.
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The Life Everlasting is a visionary romance by Marie Corelli, an English novelist who died in 1924. She wrote it in the early years of the twentieth century as the latest in a chain of spiritual novels, which began with A Romance of Two Worlds and went on through Ardath, Barabbas and The Master Christian. In a long prologue she explains her aim. She wants to show, in the form of a story, that life does not end, that the soul is a living radiance, and that love between two souls is the force that holds a universe together.
The tale is told in the first person by a woman who studies the unseen side of life. She is invited on a summer cruise through the Scottish islands by a rich, bitter unbeliever and his ailing daughter. Then a sailing yacht that needs no wind begins to follow them, and its owner turns her quiet life upside down. You get a sea voyage, a mountain loch, glimpses of former lives, a lonely fortress above the Bay of Biscay, and a series of trials of the will.
Along the way the book argues that thought shapes health, that fear is learned from other people, and that nothing in nature works against love. Let us begin with the cruise itself, and the strange schooner that comes in out of the dark.
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- 1A cruise begins with a silent shipFree
- 2A rich man and his daughter need help
- 3Rafel Santoris steps aboard the Diana
- 4Visions at Loch Coruisk show old lives
- 5Doubt, a haunted collar and a decision
- 6A letter, a collapse and a farewell
- 7The House of Aselzion tests a visitor
- 8Shadows, voices and a book of secrets
- 9What the book teaches and how it speaks
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A cruise begins with a silent ship
The story opens in a hot summer, when the narrator, a woman who works hard and studies the hidden side of life, receives an urgent invitation. It comes from Morton Harland, an American millionaire who has become a British subject and who once wrote a cold attack on religion. He has a fatal illness, he says, and his daughter Catherine is always ailing. He wants company for a cruise on his steam yacht, the Diana, through the Western Isles.
She agrees, though she dislikes him, and travels north by train with her friend Francesca, who warns her that invalids make tiresome company. At Rothesay she boards the Diana and finds her cabin filled with roses, while Catherine's own rooms are bare and plain. On board are also Dr. Brayle, a smooth physician with watchful eyes, and Mr. Swinton, a secretary who thinks only of shorthand. The narrator senses at once that Brayle gains from keeping his patients ill.
At dinner Harland sneers at the idea of an immortal soul and tells of an Oxford friend, a brilliant, uncanny student who believed in a higher life. The narrator stays silent, but she finds herself picturing his face. Later, from the deck, she sees a huge schooner anchor behind them, outlined in electric light. No wind has blown all day, yet Captain Derrick swears she sailed in with every sail full.
Music drifts across the water from the stranger, and the narrator listens at her porthole until she sleeps. In a dream a Voice speaks to her about love as the keynote of the universe. It tells her that the earth has chosen hate, that there is no death, and that one true love comes only once in a universe of worlds. A warm hand clasps hers and leads her gently out of the dark, and she wakes sure that she still holds a crimson rose.
By morning the schooner has vanished. A Highland boatman named Jamie sells eggs, mutters about a gentleman who pays for everything, and gives her a sprig of pink bell heather that he says fairies made. She pins it to her dress, and it never fades. Harland teases her that she has already made a link with the mystery ship.
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Questions about La vida eterna
What is The Life Everlasting about?
It follows a woman who joins a rich unbeliever's yacht cruise in the Scottish islands and meets Rafel Santoris, a man who sails without wind. Her search for proof of eternal love and life leads her to a mountain fortress and a series of trials.
Who is Rafel Santoris?
He is a wealthy, youthful scholar who studied at Oxford with Morton Harland and now sails an electric schooner called Dream. He teaches that death is only change, that health is a law, and that souls are paired across time.
Who is Aselzion and what is the House of Aselzion?
Aselzion is the Master of a hidden Brotherhood in a fortress by the Bay of Biscay. He teaches that the will can rule the atoms of the body and tests students with solitude, silence and shocks to their courage.
What is the main message of The Life Everlasting?
Corelli argues that life cannot die, that love joins two souls for good, and that our thoughts shape our health and fate. She adds that the doubts of other people are the greatest obstacle to the soul.
Is The Life Everlasting a true story?
It is a romance and a work of imagination, written in the early twentieth century, although the narrator insists the ideas behind it are fact. It mixes sea voyage, visions and teaching in one tale.