“You bet you do! But you do it for the best of reasons. You can’t take
chances of giving the wrong message.”
To a question about the desire of others on his plane to communicate with
those here, he replied: “They are all eager to get in touch, just now.
Every one of us here is pulling every thread of connection he can there,
because this is a critical time and because never before in the world’s
history have so many people been reaching out for the thing that means
co-operation and progress, in the biggest and broadest sense, if we can
only reach them and convince them that we are all working together, and
that we here can help if they will let us.”
Mr. Wylie spoke of some one whose “make-up,” he thought, might enable him
to receive these communications.
“Make-up has a lot to do with it,” Frederick returned, “but the peculiar
quality of following accurately a thought put forth by a force so
subtle that science has failed to detect it is a thing that none of you
recognize until it has demonstrated itself.”
Some one asked about a prominent politician, whom Frederick had known
well in this life, and he replied: “—— is working his way back to a place
in the forces of Production. He had a great opportunity, and used it for
personal ends, and now he is learning how to use it for Progress. He
is not destructive, nor even deterrent. He is a fine force, delayed a
little.”
“Have you ever seen my mother and father?” Mr. Gaylord asked, thereby
eliciting the most rapidly written communication—with the possible
exception of one coming the next night—that I have ever taken, the force
moving the pencil being so strongly applied, at moments, that the
instrument was almost pulled out of my fingers.
It should be explained that in this appeal to his father Frederick was
addressing neither reluctance nor doubt, but a certain mental tensity,
resulting from deep emotion, deeply repressed.
“Yes, I had Grandmother at Mrs. Z——’s one day,” he began. “She is very
anxious to talk to you, but she has gone on to a life, or a plane, beyond
the one I am on, and I can’t always reach her. I hope to get her some
time before Margaret goes home.... She never wholly left you, any more
than I have. She tried for years to tell you she was there, and she wants
to come back as soon as possible and tell you herself that there is no
death, no separation, no cause for pain, or grief, or fear, or sadness of
parting, except as it is made in the hearts of those who do not know the
truth.
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