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
On 24 March, we had some more unverifiable material through Mrs.
Leonard; it was much less striking than that given on 4 February, and
I am inclined myself to attribute a good deal of it to hypothetical
information received by Feda from other sitters: but it seems unfair
to suppress it. In accordance with my plan I propose to reproduce it
for what it is worth.
_Sitting with Mrs. Leonard at our Flat, Friday, 24 March 1916, from
5.45 p.m. to 8 p.m._
(_Present_--O. J. L. AND M. F. A. L.)
REPORT BY O. J. L.
(Mrs. Leonard arrived about 5.30 to tea, for a sitting with M. F. A.
L. I happened to be able to come too, in order to take notes. She
had just come away from another sitting, and had had some difficulty
in getting rid of her previous sitter in time, which rather bothered
her. The result was not specially conducive to lucidity, and the
sitting seemed only a moderately good one.
When Feda arrived she seemed pleased, and said:--)
Yes it is, yes, it's Soliver!
How are you? Raymond's here!
M. F. A. L.--Is he here already?
Yes, of course he is!
(Feda, _sotto voce_.--What's he say?) He says he hasn't
come to play with Feda, or make jokes; he's come about
serious things.
Do you remember, Miss Olive [Feda's name for Lady Lodge],
some time ago, about that beautiful experience what he
had? He's so glad that you and Soliver know about it, even
though the others can't take it in. Years hence he thinks
they may. He says, over there, they don't mind talking
about the real things, over there, 'cos they're the things
that count.
He thinks the one that took it in mostly was Lionel.
Yes, it seemed to sink in mostly; he was turning it over
afterwards, though he didn't say much. He's more ready for
that than the others. He says he would never have believed
it when he was here, but he is.
He hasn't been to that place again, not that same
place. But he's been to a place just below it. He's
been attending lectures, at what they call, "halls of
learning": you can prepare yourself for the higher spheres
while you are living in lower ones. He's on the third, but
he's told that even now he could go on to the fourth if he
chose; but he says he would rather be learning the laws
ap-per-taining to each sphere while he's still living on
the third, because it brings him closer--at least until
you two have come over. He will stay and learn, where he
is. He wouldn't like to go on there and then find it to be
difficult to get back. He will wait till we can go happily
and comfortably together!
Would it interest you for him to tell you about one of
the places he's been to? It's so interesting to him, that
he might seem to exaggerate; but the experience is so
wonderful, it lives with him.
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