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
No, he doesn't remember how he looked.
O. J. L.--No, no, I mean was he standing up?
No, he doesn't seem to think so. Some were raised up
round; he was sitting down, and some were raised up at the
back of him. Some were standing, and some were sitting, he
thinks.
O. J. L.--Were they soldiers?
He says yes--a mixed lot. Somebody called C was on it with
him; and somebody called R--not his own name, but another
R. K, K, K--he says something about K.
He also mentions a man beginning with B--(indistinct
muttering something like Berry, Burney--then clearly) but
put down B.
O. J. L.--I am asking about the photograph because we haven't seen
it yet. Somebody is going to send it to us. We have heard that it
exists, and that's all.
[While this is being written out, the above remains true.
The photograph has not yet come.]
He has the impression of about a dozen on it. A dozen, he
says, if not more. Feda thinks it must be a big photograph.
No, he doesn't think so, he says they were grouped close
together.
O. J. L.--Did he have a stick?
He doesn't remember that. He remembers that somebody
wanted to lean on him, but he is not sure if he was taken
with some one leaning on him. But somebody wanted to lean
on him he remembers. The last what he gave you, what were
a B, will be rather prominent in that photograph. It
wasn't taken in a photographer's place.
O. J. L.--Was it out of doors?
Yes, practically.
FEDA (_sotto voce_).--What you mean, 'yes practically';
must have been out of doors or not out of doors. You mean
'yes,' don't you?
Feda thinks he means 'yes,' because he says 'practically.'
O. J. L.--It may have been a shelter.
It might have been. Try to show Feda.
At the back he shows me lines going down. It looks like a
black background, with lines at the back of them. (Feda
here kept drawing vertical lines in the air.)
* * * * *
There was, for some reason, considerable delay in the arrival of
the photograph; it did not arrive till the afternoon of December 7.
Meanwhile, on December 6, Lady Lodge had been looking up Raymond's
Diary, which had been returned from the Front with his kit, and found
an entry:--
"_24 August._--Photo taken."
(A statement will follow to this effect.)
Now Raymond had only had one "leave" home since going to the Front,
and this leave was from 16 July to 20 July. The photograph had not
been taken then, and so he could not have told us anything about it.
The exposure was only made twenty-one days before his death, and some
days may have elapsed before he saw a print, if he ever saw one. He
certainly never mentioned it in his letters. We were therefore in
complete ignorance concerning it; and only recently had we normally
become aware of its existence.
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