BUILDING A FORTEAN LIBRARY

NO 61. A GRACIOUS GUIDE TO THE AFTERLIFE

THE HIEROPHANT’S APPRENTICE PRESENTS BUILDING A FORTEAN LIBRARY NO 61. A GRACIOUS GUIDE TO THE AFTERLIFE “Life after death will hardly be worth calling life if it remains merely static. That is one reason why nobody believes any more in the playing of harps.” So writes our chosen author, the late Paul Beard – reminding one of the excellent Rabbi Isodore Epstein, who in his Judaism similarly scorned the idea that the hereafter might be spent “in sheer idleness”. Judaism as a whole is really rather vague, undecided even, about whether there actually is an afterlife, and modern Christianity doesn’t seem to have come up with a decent alternative to the harps, as far as we know. Beard’s compact book, on the other hand, is pretty definite about the work we…

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