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What if death is a doorway, and love is the bond that carries the soul beyond it?
In The Life Everlasting, Marie Corelli turns romance into an exploration of the soul. She presents love as something deeper than a bond between bodies or families, and imagines a life that reaches beyond death. Her central claim gives the book its stakes: the body ends, but the soul does not.
Corelli also seeks a meeting place for faith and science. Writing amid discoveries in physics and electricity, she argues that religion and science point toward one power rather than opposing truths. This is a romance of ideas as much as feeling, offering warmth and wonder through its vision of a meaningful universe.
What you’ll discover
- A soul beyond death Explore Corelli's conviction that the soul outlasts the body and gives life a larger meaning.
- Love without an ending Discover a romantic vision in which the deepest bonds belong to souls, not bodies alone.
- Faith beside science Follow an attempt to bring religious belief and scientific discovery into one picture of existence.
- Wonder in a changing world Enter a spiritual vision shaped by an age of fast science and changing religious habits.
- Comfort through meaning Encounter the warmth and sense of wonder that draw readers to Corelli's spiritual romances.
Who will love it
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.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A cruise begins with a silent ship
- A rich man and his daughter need help
- Rafel Santoris steps aboard the Diana
- Visions at Loch Coruisk show old lives
- Doubt, a haunted collar and a decision
- A letter, a collapse and a farewell
- The House of Aselzion tests a visitor
- Shadows, voices and a book of secrets
- What the book teaches and how it speaks
Who’s who
- The narratorA woman who studies the unseen side of life and tells the story, and who wants proof of eternal love before she accepts it.
- Rafel SantorisA youthful, wealthy scholar who sails the electric yacht Dream and teaches that death is only change and love is a law.
- Morton HarlandA bitter American millionaire who writes against religion and fears the illness that is slowly killing him.
- Catherine HarlandHis ailing daughter, wounded by a false engagement, who clings to her illness and feels an uneasy dread of the narrator.
- Dr. BrayleThe Harlands' smooth physician, who keeps his patients dependent on him and distrusts Santoris from the start.
- AselzionMaster of a hidden Brotherhood in a fortress above the sea, who tests the will of anyone seeking life and youth.
- Captain DerrickThe practical captain of the Diana, baffled by a ship that sails without wind.
- HonoriusAselzion's young guide, who leads the narrator through the fortress and warns her how few pass the final trial.
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La Vie éternelle
by Marie Corelli · 1911
A silent schooner glides into a Highland loch without wind, and its owner already knows the woman aboard the Diana.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The author
Marie Corelli
1855–1924 · British novelist
Marie Corelli was an English novelist and one of the best-selling authors of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, at her height outselling most of her famous contemporaries. The Sorrows of Satan, her 1895 tale of a devil's bargain in literary London, is often called one of the world's first modern bestsellers.
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