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

211Tom (s.) : You will see them in a little time.—They know you have got to be made readyfirst to come to them. You have got to understand that you have made the change.S.: Oh—oh—I am falling—I am falling—Tom (s.): Oh, that’s all right, George; don’t get frightened.S.: I thought I was falling down, never to stop.Tom (s.) : Oh, no, George; you mustn’t get frightened when that goes off .—It won’t hurtyou.S.: I don’t remember you.Tom (s.): No, I don’t know you.S.: You talk to me as if you knew me.Tom (s.) : Well, all I know is what your friends tell me.S.: Are they talking to you?Tom (s.) : Well, they told me before I came here that you were coming, and that I should seeyou; and they told me that your name was George, and that Lizzie was here, and little Dottie; andthen they told me about your grandfather, and about Richard, and I was to tell you that.S.: Well, I thank you.Tom (s.): Oh, no.S.: Yes, I am very thankful to you.Tom (s.): All of these good people here are sitting here to help poor souls like you, that havemet with such accidents and don’t know that they have got out of the body.S.: How kind you are.Tom (s.): You have made the change called death, but there is no death, it is only a change. Ihave made that change too. I am a spirit talking through this young man here.S.: You are talking through him! Why, how do you do that?Tom (s.): You watch now—can you see me plain? You watch and I will come out of him andshow you.S.: You will come out of him! Oh dear, what do you mean?Tom (s.): Now you watch—you lookS.: Oh my! oh my! That is very strange.Mr. Th: What do you see?S.: Oh, it is a man—the smoke is made into a man.S.: My! oh my! It is most wonderful!Mr. B.: What do you see now?S.: Why, he went back into him like vapour.Tom (s.): Now, didn’t I tell you? That is the way it is done. You see, I am in the spirit life.S.: Can you get into everybody like that?Tom (s.): Oh, no. Only those whose organism is so constituted. We call them instruments.You call them mediums.S.: Rapping mediums?Tom (s.): No. He is one through whom we can talk and use his organism that way.S.: Is that young man dead?Tom (s.): Oh, no, he isn’t dead—he is still in earth life. We have to show these things so thatyou will understand them, you see. Well, I declare! if there isn’t the funniest looking old womanhere, and she tells me to say that “Aunt Polly is here.”S.: Aunt Polly! Aunt Polly! Is she here?Tom (s.): Maybe she will show herself to you.S.: I can’t see her anywhere.Tom (s.): Just look up to your right a little.S.: Oh, yes, I see her, but she is so far away.Tom (s.): She will come nearer after a little. She has held you on her knee many a time.S.: Yes, that is true—that is very true.Tom (s.): Now look, George.S.: Do they live up in that world?Tom (s.): You are going up there to them after a little.