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123A.:” Certainly. This will make no difference to their sharing a home.”Q.: “Take the case of a man who has married twice.”A.: “One wife will be attracte4l to the man more than the other.”Q.: “What about the other one?”A.: “She will find happiness in another.”Q.: “Why should not the three live together?”A.: “Two form the union.”Q.: “Have you houses on your side?A.: “Yes. They are formed by thought, and are of different degrees of beauty, accordingto the development of the spirits who inhabit them. We have beautiful flowers and forests.Everything is far more beautiful than in your world. Good-bye. We have done all we can for you.January 11, 1909, 9 to 9.30 a.m.Music for five minutes. Then Josephine spoke through the trumpet. She promised to helpIola to manifest at the Jonsons’. I questioned her as to her nationality; she said she was not anAmerican, but had lived in the States some time before she passed over.Iola now spoke, but, in our conversation, there was nothing of public interest. I asked herhow many were then living in my home; and she said, “Three, I think.” (This was correct.)Dr. Jenkins came last, as is usual with him. He explained, in answer to my queries, thatbeings live together in the spirit world in the same way as they do on the earth-plane, enjoyingharmony and peace. Two people may be in different spheres, and yet live together. The receptionrooms,and all large halls, are round; the materials of the buildings are formed by concentration ofthe vibrations.Q.: “Have you counterparts of everything in this world?”A.: “Yes; we have beautiful forests, and streams, and music such as is not understood atall on earth. Animals? Yes; but when they leave• the body they cease to be savage and cruel. Ourforests are full of animals. No spirit dies.”February 2, 1909. Atmospheric conditions very good; freezing.(89) The evidential feature in this seance was the coming of Thomson Jay Hudson. I wasnot thinking about him particularly at the moment, and the announcement of his presence gave megreat surprise. I thanked him for taking the message for Mrs. Georgia from Chicago in January,and we talked about the Bangs Sisters’ pictures, and our future meetings at Rochester. He spokeclearly, and remained about ten minutes. Apropos of the names given in Mrs. Georgia’s script, andto enable me to find out something about him in Detroit, I asked him if he had a sister in spirit lifecalled “ Hester” and a brother called “William.” He replied, “Yes.” “How could I find out in anormal manner? Would Mr. Hodges know?” He replied, “ He most certainly would.” (I found,however, that Mr. Hodges knew nothing of Dr. Hudson’s relatives, and very little of Hudsonhimself. It must be remembered that Hudson, though he lived and died in Detroit, held anantagonistic view to that of spiritualists.)During this conversation I found that Hudson emphatically agreed with me that it was purefolly to endeavour to make converts to spiritism. The proper course was to let others know of whatyou had seen and heard in the course of your investigations, and there leave it.The other visitors were my guide (Iola), my brother-in-law, my mother, and Dr. Jenkins, thecontrolling spirit. I asked my brother-in-law if, when he was talking to me about our relatives, itnecessarily followed that our conversation was understood by other spirits around him. He replied:“No! It is possible to isolate ourselves.”Towards the end of the seance I suggested to the psychic that it would be satisfactory if Icould hear him speak at the same time as Jenkins; also that I should like the latter to speak from aposition on the other side of me to that from which he spoke first. Both these requests werecomplied with.It is the duty of every investigator to consider carefully, after every seance he attends, allpossibilities of fraud. I can truthfully say this has been my universal practice. In considering theabove record, imperfect as it is for some obvious reasons, I naturally took the chief feature, the