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
The boy--I call them all boys because I was over a hundred
when I lived here and they are all boys to me--he says, he
is here, but he says:--
"Hitherto it has been a thing of the head, now I am come
over it is a thing of the heart."
What is more (here Peters jumped up in his chair,
vigorously, snapped his fingers excitedly, and spoke
loudly)--
"Good God! how father will be able to speak out! much
firmer than he has ever done, because it will touch our
hearts."
(_Here ends extract from Peters sitting of 27 September 1915. A
completer record will be found in Chapter VII._)
At a Leonard Table Sitting on 12 October 1915--by which time our
identity was known to Mrs. Leonard--I told 'Myers' that I understood
his Piper message about Faunus and the Poet; and the only point
of interest about the reply or comment is that the two following
sentences were spelt out, purporting to come either indirectly or
directly from 'Myers':--
1. He says it meant your son's tr[ansition].
2. Your son shall be mine.
* * * * *
The next 'Myers' reference came on 29 October, when I had a sitting
with Peters, unexpectedly and unknown to my family, at his London
room (15 Devereux Court, Fleet Street)--a sitting arranged for by Mr.
J. A. Hill for an anonymous friend:--
Peters went into trance, and after some other communications,
gave messages from a youth who was recognised by the control and
identified as my son; and later on Peters's 'control,' whom it is
customary to call 'Moonstone,' spoke thus:--
_From Sitting of O. J. L. with Peters on 29 October 1915_
Your common-sense method of approaching the subject in the
family has been the means of helping him to come back as
he has been able to do; and had he not known what you had
told him, then it would have been far more difficult for
him to come back. He is very deliberate in what he says.
He is a young man that knows what he is saying. Do you
know F W M?
O. J. L.--Yes, I do.
Because I see those three letters. Now, after them, do you
know S T; yes, I get S T, then a dot, and then P? These
are shown me; I see them in light; your boy shows these
things to me.
O. J. L.--Yes, I understand. [Meaning that I recognised
the allusion to F. W. H. Myers's poem _St. Paul_.]
Well, he says to me: "He has helped me so much, more than
you think. That is F W M."
O. J. L.--Bless him!
No, your boy laughs, he has got an ulterior motive for it;
don't think it was only for charity's sake, he has got an
ulterior motive, and thinks that you will be able by the
strength of your personality to do what you want to do
now, to ride over the quibbles of the fools, and to make
the Society, _the_ Society, he says, of some use to the
world.... Can you understand?
O. J. L.--Yes.
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