Glimpses Of The Next State.Pdf - Spiritualists' National Union

110so dense and clouded, that for the time being memory of these matters are renewed only as youmake reference to them; thus again the Science of Spirit communicating with mortals is so intricatethat it is quite difficult to master this alone, without entering into other branches; or is it designedby the Great overwhelming power, that Intelligence men call God, that mortals should be able topenetrate all pertaining to this or higher life? Were it so, the people of Earth would become verydissatisfied with life, and more often tap (?) the time of their stay short, or, in other words, undo theset laws of Nature. Conviction is individual. Science in the material world can never reach a pointof understanding to explain these things; it is utterly useless, but each member can receive andbecome satisfied to his or her own understanding: this is all. However the law of evolution iscarrying you onward and upward until you all feel a close correspondence in your own soul to theGreat One’s Soul, and little things like these manifestations do and will confound the mighty. Givemy very best wishes to our great brother and co-worker, Sir ——, also Sir —— ——. I am withthem heart and hand in this great cause and though they have been able to reach the point wherethey can determine this question for the world greater achievements are being made right away,until in a very short time sufficient evidence will be given that may be able to give to the world aclear solution that shall occasion mortals to accept it in great majority as a truth, absolutely fixedtruths.I urge you to continue in your research my friends, I find since entering this great world ofworlds that I knew but little, nay nothing, in comparison with that which is to be known. I am stilldeeply interested in research and shall give you matters of interest from time to time, for oursensitives are growing more sensitive each day and this is the element required to give freedom ofexpression that brings evidence of identity.Yours ever in the cause of all truth and light,F. W. H. MYERS.We commenced to sit at 7.3 p.m., and at 8h. 5m. the letter was finished. Lizzie Bangs joinedus at 7.55 by request. On both sides of the outside of the envelope was a message from Iola abouther portrait and other matters. The writing inside the envelope occupied six pages of hotel paper. Itis in the same writing as other letters that I received through the mediumship of the Bangs Sisters: Ihave not the faintest idea whether it was dictated by Mr. Myers or not. There is nothing evidentialin it. I did not know Mr. Myers; but he came to me, unasked, through Mrs. Georgia, at Rochester,and this led me to request him to correspond through the Bangs. It may have been dictated by somepersonating spirit, for they are legion. I have thought it best to record it, if only to show how muchcan be done in an hour. The style is not that of Myers, certainly; but, in my opinion, the sentimentsare above the modest conceptions of the normal Lizzie Bangs. Moreover, if we are to assume thepossibility of the letter being juggled out of the room (which I do not), the time for writing the replywould have to be reduced to less than forty minutes. Neither on this nor any other occasion was Iable to detect any sign of the envelopes having been tampered with.I obtained replies to four other letters at the Bangs Sisters’ house, and the Hudsoncommunication referred to in Chapter V. It would be tiresome and uninteresting to record themall; they dealt with private matters. But I propose later to mention some curious happeningsconnected with two of them which struck me at the time as first-rate evidence of spirit power (seeNos. 80 and 81).I have referred to three test-letters — two with lithium ink, on my first visit to Chicago, andone with ordinary ink, on my second visit. In the first of these letters there was a postscript frommy guide Iola, alluding to some chaff that had taken place during that particular sitting. I hadspoken to May Bangs (the only other person in the room) about some miss-spelt words in aprevious letter which was also written by my guide or at her dictation, and the alleged writervigorously defended herself. The doors of the room were always closed.Again, when we sat for the last of the three letters, that on February 27, 1909, May Bangsasked me to cut off a small piece of wood, point it, and put it between the slates where the letterreposed; she thought the invisible writer would make use of it for his script. When the letter wasfinished, I was told not to open it. It was addressed across the flap to “Sir William Crookes, F.R.S.”