Raymond; or, Life and Death: With examples of the evidence for survival of memory and affection after death.Lodge, Oliver, Sir
Religion
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
I want you to know that when first I came over here, I
thought it a bit unfair that such a lot of fellows were
coming over in the prime of life, coming over here. But
now he sees that for every one that came over, dozens of
people open their eyes, and want to know where he has
gone to. Directly they want to know, they begin to learn
something. Some of them never stopped to think seriously
before. "He must be somewhere," they say, "he was so full
of life; can we find out?" Then I see that through this,
people are going to find out, and find out not only for
themselves, but will pass it on to many others, and so it
will grow.
He wants to tell you that Mr. Myers says that in ten years
from now the world will be a different place. He says that
about fifty per cent. of the civilised portion of the
globe will be either spiritualists, or coming into it.
O. J. L.--Fifteen per cent.?
Fifty, he said.
Raymond says, I am no judge of that, but he isn't the only
one that thinks it. He says, I've got a kind of theory,
in a crude sort of way, that man has made the earth
plane into such a hotbed of materialism and selfishness,
that man again has to atone by sacrifices of mankind
in the prime of their physical life. So that by that
prime self-effacement, they will bring more spiritual
conditions on to the earth, which will crush the spirit of
materialism. He says that isn't how I meant to put it, but
I've forgotten how I meant to say it.
O. J. L.--Well now, Raymond, Mr. Myers sent me a message to say that
you had got some tests ready to get through, and that I was to give
you an opportunity of giving them.
Oh yes, he says. But I can't get anything through about
the Argonauts: that seems worst of anything.
He's showing Feda a thing that looks like a canvas house.
Yes, it must be a canvas house. And it looks to Feda as
though it's on a place that seems to be open--a wide
place. Yes, no, there's not much green showing where Feda
can see. There's a kind of a door in it, like that. (Feda
made some sign I didn't catch.) The canvas is sort of
grey, quite a light colour, but not quite white. Oh yes,
Feda feels the sound of water not far from it--ripple,
ripple. Feda sees a boy--not Raymond--half lying, half
sitting at the door of the tent place, and he hasn't got
a proper coat on; he's got a shirt thing on here, and
he's like spreaded out. It's a browny-coloured earth, not
nice green, but sandy-coloured ground. As Feda looks at
the land, the ground rises sharp at the back. Must have
been made to rise, it sticks up in the air. He's showing
it as though it should be in some photograph or picture.
Feda got wondering about it, what it was for. It's a
funny-shaped tent, not round, sort of lop-sided. The door
isn't a proper door, it flops. You ought to be able to see
a picture of this. [See photographs opposite.]
O. J. L.--Has it got to do with the Argonauts?
No.
O. J. L.--Oh, it's not Coniston then?
No.
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