William Penn. (1644–1718). Fruits of Solitude.The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. Part II Union of Friends
127. They that love beyond the World, cannot be separated by it. 1 128. Death cannot kill, what never dies. 2 129. Nor can Spirits ever be divided that love and live in the same Divine Principle; the Root and Record of their Friendship. 3 130. If Absence be not death, neither is theirs. 4 131. Death is but Crossing the World, as Friends do the Seas; They live in one another still. 5 132. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is Omnipresent. 6 133. In this Divine Glass, they see Face to Face; and their Converse is Free, as well as Pure. 7 134. This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal. 8
