The Life Elysian

About this book

The dead have crossed into another life, and someone on Earth claims to have followed their experiences through a series of spiritual visions. R. J. Lees turns those accounts into a narrative of the world beyond death.

The Life Elysian belongs to his cycle of visionary spiritualist writing, where unfamiliar landscapes and the progress of souls give structure to the journey. The prose offers reassurance and moral instruction alongside imaginative scenes. It is especially revealing as a picture of what a hopeful Victorian and Edwardian afterlife might contain.