Future life -- Early works to 1800
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The World to Come: or, Discourses on the Joys or Sorroes of Departed Souls at Death (Bungay: Brightly and Childs, 1813), by Isaac Watts (multiple formats at Google)
- The World to Come: or, Discourses on the Joys or Sorroes of Departed Souls at Death (Bungay: Brightly and Childs, 1813), by Isaac Watts (multiple formats at Google)
- The Salvation of All Men Strictly Examined (second edition; Boston: C. Ewer and T. Bedlingon, 1824), by Jonathan Edwards (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Enquiry into the Nature and Place of Hell (London: Printed by W. Bowyer, for W. Taylor and H. Clements, 1714), by Tobias Swinden (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Enquiry into the Nature and Place of Hell (second edition, with supplement; London: T. Astley, 1727), by Tobias Swinden
- Recherches sur la Nature du Feu de l'Enfer, et du Lieu Où Il Est Situé (in French; Amsterdam: Chez les Wetsteins et Smith, 1728), by Tobias Swinden, trans. by Jean François Bion (page images at HathiTrust)
- Recherches sur la Nature du Feu de l'Enfer, et du Lieu Où Il Est Situé (in French; 1757), by Tobias Swinden, trans. by Jean François Bion (page images at HathiTrust)
- Vita Mirabile, et Dottrina Santa della Beata Caterina da Genova, Nella Quale si Contiene una Utile, e Cattolica Dimostratione, et Dichiaratione del Purgatorio; Con un Dialogo tra l'Anima, et il Corpo, Composto dalla Medesima (in Italian; Florence: Nella Stamperia de' Giunti, 1580), by Cattaneo Marabotto and Ettore Vernazza, contrib. by of Genoa Catherine (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Treatise Concerning the Resurrection (1662), by George Bishop (HTML and page images at Earlham)
- On the Resurrection of the Flesh, by Tertullian, trans. by Peter Holmes (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
- A Dissertation on the Phaedon of Plato, or Dialogue of the Immortality of the Soul; With Some General Observations Upon the Writings of That Philosopher; To Which is Annexed, a Psychology, or an Abstract Investigation of the Nature of the Soul, in Which the Opinions of All the Celebrated Metaphysicians on That Subject are Discussed (London: Printed for the author and sold by T. Evans, 1773), by Charles Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Excellent Treatise of the Immortalytie of the Soule (London: Printed by I. Daye, 1581), by Jean Calvin, trans. by Thomas Stocker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Two Treatises: In the One of Which, The Nature of Bodies, In the Other, The Nature of Mans Soule, Is Looked Into, In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules (Paris: Printed by G. Blaizot, 1644), by Kenelm Digby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Two Treatises: In the One of Which, The Nature of Bodies, In the Other, The Nature of Mans Soule, Is Looked Into, In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules (London: Printed for J. Williams, 1645), by Kenelm Digby (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Des Dominicus Gundissalinus Schrift Von der Unsterblichkeit der Seele (with William of Auvergne's De Immortalitate Animae; in Latin with German commentary; Münster: Aschendorff, 1897), by Dominicus Gundissalinus, ed. by Georg Bülow, contrib. by William of Auvergne
- Johannis Pechami Quaestiones Tractantes de Anima (in Latin; Münster: Aschendorff, 1918), by John Peckham, ed. by Hieronymus Spettmann
- Pneumatologia: A Treatise of the Soul of Man, by John Flavel (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
- Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit, by Joseph Priestley (page images here ay Penn)
- A Treatise on the Soul, by Tertullian, trans. by Peter Holmes (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
- A True Interpretation of the Witch of Endor (second edition; London: Printed by subscription, 1724), by Lodowick Muggleton, contrib. by John Reeve
- Select Works of Porphyry: Containing His Four Books On Abstinence From Animal Food; His Treatise on the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs; and His Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures; With an Appendix Explaining the Allegory of the Wanderings of Ulysses (London: Printed for T. Rodd, 1823), by Porphyry, trans. by Thomas Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chinese Tales: or, The Wonderful Adventures of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam, Related by Himself to Divert the Sultana, Upon the Celebration of Her Nuptials (second edition, with some added thoughts on transmigration; London: Printed for J. Osborn, 1740), by Thomas-Simon Gueullette, trans. by Thomas Stackhouse, contrib. by Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Soul's Testimony, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
- Tertullian On the Testimony of the Soul and On the "Prescription" of Heretics (SPCK, 1914), by Tertullian, trans. by T. Herbert Bindley (HTML at tertullian.org)
- Via Vitae Aeternae (2 volumes in Latin; Antwerp: M. Nutij, 1620), by Antoine Sucquet, illust. by Boëce van Bolswert
- Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen, by Emanuel Swedenborg, trans. by John C. Ager (HTML at newearth.org)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Future life- After Death -- What? (revised electronic edition, c1998), by Leoline L. Wright (HTML at TUP)
- Mediumship and Survival: A Century of Investigations (London: W. Heinemann, c1982), by Alan Gauld (illustrated HTML at esalen.org)
- Claude's Book (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1919), by L. Kelway Bamber
- Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life, by E. A. Wallis Budge
- The Hopes of the Human Race, Hereafter and Here (New York: J. Miller, ca. 1876), by Frances Power Cobbe
- The Hopes of the Human Race, Hereafter and Here (second edition; London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1880), by Frances Power Cobbe (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Immortality of the Soul, by Hiram Mattison (page images at MOA)
- Lumen (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1897), by Camille Flammarion
- The Passing -- And Life Afterward, by Max Heindel (illustrated HTML at rosicrucian.com)
- The Powers of the World to Come, by George B. Cheever (page images at MOA)
- After Death -- What? (Theosophical Manual #5; Point Loma, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1939), by Leoline L. Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
- After Life in Roman Paganism (1922), by Franz Cumont (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) (based on the 1913 Medici Society text), trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge (HTML at Lysator)
- The Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani (based on the 1895 text and commentary), trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Book of the Psychic Society: A Study of the Fourteen Unseen Powers That Control Human Life; and Containing Immortality, A Scientific Demonstration of Life After Death (Washington: Ralston University Pub. Co., 1908), by Edmund Shaftesbury
- The Doctrine of Annihilation in the Light of the Gospel of Love (London: Henry S. King and Co., 1875), by James Baldwin Brown
- Here and Hereafter, or, Man in Life and Death: The Reward of the Righteous and the Destiny of the Wicked (Washington: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1897), by Uriah Smith (HTML with commentary at lionofjudah1.org)
- How I Know That the Dead Are Alive (Washington, DC: Plenty Pub. Co., 1917), by Fannie Ruthven Paget
- In After Days: Thoughts on the Future Life (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1910), contrib. by William Dean Howells, Henry James, John Bigelow, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Mills Alden, William Hanna Thomson, Guglielmo Ferrero, Julia Ward Howe, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
- The Intermediate World (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1878), by L. T. Townsend (multiple formats at archive.org)
- On the Threshold of the Unseen: An Examination of the Phenomena of Spiritualism and of the Evidence for the Survival After Death (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1918), by William Barrett, contrib. by James H. Hyslop
- The Other Side of Death, Scientifically Examined and Carefully Described (Chicago: Theosophical Book Concern, 1903), by C. W. Leadbeater
- Raymond, or, Life and Death; With Examples of the Evidence for Survival of Memory and Affection After Death (New York: G.H. Doran Co., c1916), by Oliver Lodge (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Contact With the Other World: The Latest Evidence as to Communication With the Dead (New York: The Century Co., 1919), by James H. Hyslop
- Death-- and After?, by Annie Besant (Gutenberg text)
- The Immortality of the Soul (New York: Pub. at the Wesleyan Methodist Book Room, 1849), by Luther Lee (multiple formats at Google)
- The Nature of Spirit, and of Man as a Spiritual Being, by Chauncey Giles (HTML at swedenborgdigitallibrary.org)
- Nearing Home: Comforts and Counsels for the Aged, by William Edward Schenck (page images at MOA)
- Paradoxical Philosophy: A Sequel to The Unseen Universe (second edition; London: Macmillan and Co., 1879), by Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait
- Stories of Infinity: Lumen; History of a comet; In Infinity (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1873), by Camille Flammarion, trans. by S. R. Crocker (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Ministry of Angels Here and Beyond (fifth edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920), by Joy Snell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Polynesian Analogues to the Celtic Other-World and Fairy Mistress Themes (extract from Vassar Mediaeval Studies; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923), by Martha Warren Beckwith (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Unity of Man, or, Life and Death Realities: A Reply to Rev. Luther Lee (1850), by George Storrs (PDF at a2z.org)
More items available under broader and related terms at left.