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
He says it appears to him too, that the spirit spheres
are built round the earth plane, and seem to revolve with
it. Only, naturally, the first sphere isn't revolving
at such a rate as the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and
seventh spheres. Greater circumference makes it seem to
revolve more rapidly. That seems to have an actual effect
on the atmospheric conditions prevailing in any one of the
spheres. Do you see what he's getting at?
O. J. L.--Yes. He only means that the peripheral velocity is greater
for the bigger spheres, though the angular velocity is the same.
Yes, that's just what he means. And it does affect the
different conditions, and that's why he felt a bit careful
when he was on a higher sphere, in hanging on to the
ground.
[A good deal of this struck me as nonsense; as if Feda had picked it
up from some sitter. But I went on recording what was said.]
Such a lot of people think it's a kind of thought-world,
where you think all sort of things--that it's all "think."
But when you come over you see that there's no thinking
about it; it's _there_, and it does impress you with
reality. He does wish you would come over. He will be
as proud as a cat with something tails--two tails, he
said. Proud as a cat with two tails showing you round the
places. He says, father will have a fine time, poking into
everything, and turning everything inside out.
There's plenty flowers growing here, Miss Olive, you will
be glad to hear. But we don't cut them here. They doesn't
die and grow again; they seem to renew themselves. Just
like people, they are there all the time renewing their
spirit bodies. The higher the sphere he went to, the
lighter the bodies seemed to be--he means the fairer,
lighter in colour. He's got an idea that the reason why
people have drawn angels with long fair hair and very fair
complexion is that they have been inspired by somebody
from very high spheres. Feda's not fair; she's not brown,
but olive coloured; her hair is dark. All people that's
any good has black hair.
Do you know that [a friend] won't be satisfied unless he
comes and has a talk through the table. Feda doesn't mind
now, 'cos she has had a talk. So she will go now and let
him talk through the table all right.
Give Feda's love to all of them, specially to
SLionel--Feda likes him.
* * * * *
(Mrs. Leonard now came-to, and after about ten minutes she and M. F.
A. L. sat at a small octagonal table, which, in another five minutes,
began to tilt.)
[But the subject now completely changed, and, if reported at all,
must be reported elsewhere.]
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