Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox ( born November 5, 1850 in Johnstown, near Janesville, Wisconsin; † 30 October 1919 Short Beach, Connecticut) was an American writer.

Biography

Ella Wheeler was born as the youngest of four children on November 5, 1850 on a farm in rural Johnstown, east of Janesville, in the state of Wisconsin. Her family soon moved to the capital, Madison. Ella began very early with the writing poetry and was already on leaving school in a well-known Wisconsin poet. At the age of 28, she married Robert Wilcox. Together they had a son, who passed away shortly after birth. Wilcox and her husband dealt in the sequence strongly with theosophy, spiritualism and the New Thought movement.

Early in their marriage, both promised each other that the one should of them who would die first, come back and communicate with the other. Robert Wilcox died in 1916, leaving Ella with great sorrow that from week to week, in which they received no news of him, worse. Then she traveled to California to visit the Rosicrucian Max Heindel astrologers, from which they expected help and an answer as to why her husband had not yet been put in touch with her.

Follows, she talked about their meeting:

" In an interview with Max Heindel, the leader of the Rosicrucian philosophy in California, he made me the effect of severe distress significantly. Mr. Heindel assured me that I would get in touch with the spirit of my husband when I learned to control my worries. I replied that it strikes me as odd that an omnipresent God could not send a light beam in a suffering soul, if this conviction would be most needed. Were they ever beside a pond with clear water, asked Mr. Heindel, and saw the sky and the trees are reflected in it? And they threw a stone ever in this pond and saw him tarnished and restlessness located so that it was no reflection? But the sky and the trees were waiting up there to be reflected when the water would have calmed down. Just wait to reveal to them God and the spirit of her husband, when the confusion of concerns have subsided. "

A few months later, she wrote an affirmative prayer, which she repeated over and over again. "I am the living witness: The dead live: And they speak through us and to us: And I'm the voice that these glorious truth of the suffering world proclaims: I'm ready, God: I am willing to Christ: I'm ready, Robert. "

After extensive meditation she finally claimed contact with her ​​husband to have had and that her soul would now be reassured.

Wilcox sought to bring the world almost occult things. Her works were popular in the New Thought movement, and until 1915 their book What I Know About New Thought reached 50,000 copies.

The following quote typifies Wilcox's unique blend of New Thought movement, spiritualism and the Theosophical belief in rebirth: " The way we think here today, act, and live, so we form the structures of our homes in the spiritual sense after we left the earth, and we form the karma of later life, thousands of years before us, on this earth and other planets. Life will take on new dignity and provide new interests for us when we come to understand that death is a continuation of the life and work at higher levels. "

The last words of her autobiography, The Worlds and I:

" From this mighty department store ( spiritual of God and the hierarchical nature ) we may gain knowledge and wisdom, and light and power to receive, as we wander through the preparation room of the Earth, which is just one of the many rooms in our father's house. Consider these things. "

Their most well-known verses open her poem Solitude: