Raymond; or, Life and Death: With examples of the evidence for survival of memory and affection after death.Lodge, Oliver, Sir
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Raymond; or, Life and Death: With examples of the evidence for survival of memory and affection after death.
Lodge, Oliver, Sir
Future life; Lodge, Raymond, 1889-1915 (Spirit); Spiritualism; World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British
_Then the photograph episode came, as reported in Chapter
IV._
Then it went on (Feda talking, of course, all the time):--
He says he has been trying to go to somebody, and see
somebody he used to know. He's not related to them, and
the name begins with S. It's a gentleman, he says, and he
can't remember, or can't tell Feda the name, but it begins
with S. He was trying to get to them, but is not sure that
he succeeded.
O. J. L.--Did he want to?
He says it was only curiosity; but he likes to feel that
he can look up anybody. But he says, if they take no
notice, I shall give up soon, only I just like to see what
it feels like to be looking at them from where I am.
O. J. L.--Does he want to say anything more about his house or his
clothes or his body?
Oh yes. He is bursting to tell you.
He says, my body's very similar to the one I had before.
I pinch myself sometimes to see if it's real, and it is,
but it doesn't seem to hurt as much as when I pinched the
flesh body. The internal organs don't seem constituted on
the same lines as before. They can't be quite the same.
But to all appearances, and outwardly, they are the same
as before. I can move somewhat more freely, he says.
Oh, there's one thing, he says, I have never seen anybody
bleed.
O. J. L.--Wouldn't he bleed if he pricked himself?
He never tried it. But as yet he has seen no blood at all.
O. J. L.--Has he got ears and eyes?
Yes, yes, and eyelashes, and eyebrows, exactly the same,
and a tongue and teeth. He has got a new tooth now in
place of another one he had--one that wasn't quite right
then. He has got it right, and a good tooth has come in
place of the one that had gone.
He knew a man that had lost his arm, but he has got
another one. Yes, he has got two arms now. He seemed
as if without a limb when first he entered the astral,
seemed incomplete, but after a while it got more and more
complete, until he got a new one. He is talking of people
who have lost a limb for some years.
O. J. L.--What about a limb lost in battle?
Oh, if they have only just lost it, it makes no
difference, it doesn't matter; they are quite all right
when they get here. But I am told--he doesn't know this
himself, but he has been told--that when anybody's blown
to pieces, it takes some time for the spirit-body to
complete itself, to gather itself all in, and to be
complete. It dissipated a certain amount of substance
which is undoubtedly theric, theric--etheric, and it
has to be concentrated again. The _spirit_ isn't blown
apart, of course,--he doesn't mean that,--but it has an
effect upon it. He hasn't seen all this, but he has been
inquiring because he is interested.
O. J. L.--What about bodies that are burnt?
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