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
He seems to know what the work is. The first work he will
have to do, will be helping at the Front; not the wounded
so much, but helping those who are passing over in the
war. He knows that when they pass on and wake up, they
still feel a certain fear--and some other word which Feda
missed. Feda hears a something and 'fear.' Some even go
on fighting; at least they want to; they don't believe
they have passed on. So that many are wanted where he is
now, to explain to them and help them, and soothe them.
They do not know where they are, nor why they are there.
[I considered that this was ordinary 'Feda talk,' such as
it is probably customary to get through mediums at this
time; therefore, though the statements are likely enough,
there is nothing new in them, and I thought it better to
interrupt by asking a question. So I said:--]
O. J. L.--Does he want to send a message to anyone at home? Or will
he give the name of one of his instructors?
[I admit that it is stupid thus to ask two questions at once.]
He shows me a capital H, and says that is not an
instructor, it is some one he knows on the earth side. He
wants them to be sure that he is all right and happy. He
says, "People think I say I am happy in order to make them
happier, but I don't".
[_And so on as already reported in Chapter III._]
Now the first gentleman with the letter W is going over
to him and putting his arm round his shoulder, and he is
putting his arm round the gentleman's back. Feda feels
like a string round her head; a tight feeling in the head,
and also an empty sort of feeling in the chest, empty, as
if sort of something gone. A feeling like a sort of vacant
feeling there; also a bursting sensation in the head. But
he does not know he is giving this. He has not done it on
purpose, they have tried to make him forget all that, but
Feda gets it from him. There is a noise with it too, an
awful noise and a rushing noise.
He has lost all that now, but he does not seem to know why
Feda feels it now. "I feel splendid," he says, "I feel
splendid! But I was worried at first. I was worried, for I
was wanting to make it clear to those left behind that I
was all right, and that they were not to worry about me."
You may think it strange, but he felt that you would not
worry so much as some one else; two others, two ladies,
Feda thinks. You would know, he says, but two ladies would
worry and be uncertain; but now he believes they know more.
Then, before Mrs. Leonard came out of trance, came the description
of a falling dark cross which twisted round and became bright, as
reported in Chapter III.
After the sitting, and before I went away, I asked Mrs. Leonard if
she knew who I was. She replied, "Are you by chance connected with
those two ladies who came on Saturday night?" On my assenting, Mrs.
Leonard added, "Oh! then I know, because the French lady gave the
name away; she said 'Lady Lodge' in the middle of a French sentence."
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