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Concept

Future life

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  • A man rises from behind a gravestone as a skeleton in a shroud attempts to keep it closed. Etching by J. Haynes after J. Mortimer.
  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
  • An angel leading a soul into hell. Oil painting by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch.
  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
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    Hercules brings Alcestis back from the dead and restores her to her husband Admetus. Engraving by L. Desplaces after A. Coypel, 1715.

    Coypel, Antoine, 1661-1722. | Date: [1715?] | Reference: 2854644i
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    Afterlife : a history of life after death / Philip C. Almond.

    Almond, Philip C. | Date: 2016
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    Surviving death : a journalist investigates evidence for an afterlife / Leslie Kean.

    Kean, Leslie | Date: [2017]
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    Theory of pneumatology, in reply to the question, what ought to be believed or disbelieved concerning presentiments, visions, and apparitions, according to nature, reason and scripture / By Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling. Translated from the German, with copious notes by Samuel Jackson.

    Jung-Stilling, Johann Heinrich, 1740-1817. | Date: 1834
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    The ancient Egyptian pyramid texts / translated with an introduction and notes by James P. Allen ; edited by Peter Der Manuelian.

    | Date: 2005
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