hereafter vs the past

hereafter

noun
  • A future existence or state. 

  • Existence after death. 

adv
  • Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.) 

  • From now on. 

the past

noun
  • the period of time that has already happened 

How often have the words hereafter and the past occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )