“Suicide, like any other murder is a sin because it is a sudden disturbance of the harmony of the world… Nature exists for the sake of the soul and for no other reason, it has the design, so to say, of giving the soul experience and self-consciousness. These can only be had by means of a body through which the soul comes in contact with nature, and to violently sever the connection before the natural time defeats the aim of nature, for the present compelling her, by her own slow processes, to restore the task left unfinished. And as those processes must go on through the soul that permitted the murder, more pain and suffering must follow.”

— William Quan Judge

Suicide Is Not Death The Lamp, September 1894

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American occult writer 1851–1896

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“The soul is bound to the body by a conversion to the corporeal passions; and again liberated by becoming impassive to the body.
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Context: The soul is bound to the body by a conversion to the corporeal passions; and again liberated by becoming impassive to the body.
That which nature binds, nature also dissolves: and that which the soul binds, the soul likewise dissolves. Nature, indeed, bound the body to the soul; but the soul binds herself to the body. Nature, therefore, liberates the body from the soul; but the soul liberates herself from the body.
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