After Death: The Disembodiment of Man.

the world of spirits, its location, extent, appearance; the route thither; inhabitants; customs; societies; also sex and its uses there, etc. etc.; with much matter pertinent to the question of human immortality.
Boston: Randolph and Company.. 1870.

Thank God for Death.

Third edition, revised, corrected and enlarged. 202x130mm. pp. [2], 6, 9-260, [6]. Black cloth, decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Some rubbing and bumping to extremities and slight marking to boards. A little foxed and soiled internally but overall a very good copy of a commercially rare book, none appearing in the auction records. After Death was first published in 1866 with a second edition appearing in 1868 and then this third, expanded edition in 1870. A fourth edition was published in 1873.
The introduction to After Death, by a fellow Rosicrucian, describes Randolph as "a mystic in the true sense of the word, and a mystic of the very loftiest order". Randolph's notion of the mystical lies in his interest in "the great unknown Beyond". He was obsessed with death, or more correctly, the new life after death. At the beginning of this book he exclaims: "Thank God for death! and thank him for the life beyond the gloomy sea!"

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