Glimpses Of The Next State.Pdf - Spiritualists' National Union
Glimpses Of The Next State.Pdf - Spiritualists' National Union Glimpses Of The Next State.Pdf - Spiritualists' National Union
216your childhood if necessary, and tell you thoughts that you never expressed to anyone; but Ithink there are some things you wouldn’t like the people sitting here to know. Still, I will tell you ifnecessary, in order to prove to you that this is true.S.: Well, the most I want to know is if I have died of apoplexy, as you say.Tom: Yes, you have left your body.S.: Can a man die and feel no change?Tom: Certainly he can, because it is only moving out of one house into another. When youleave a house in earth life to move into another, you don’t feel any change; you feel the same.S.: But we know that we have moved—we know we have moved from one place toanother.Tom: Very true; but when you lie down and go to sleep at night, no one can realise howthat is; but when you sleep for a time you are dead to all things; and you died in your sleep, in thatunconscious condition, not knowing that you were going to make the change.S.: Well, am I to remain for ever in this room? Is there no light beyond?Tom: Yes, there is the light of eternity wherein to unfold the capabilities of the soul. Sarahwas instrumental in your being brought here to-night, that you might be instructed how to get outinto the light.S.: Can’t I see her, if this be true?Tom: I don’t know.S.: After you tell me all these things, that she lives, that I am alive and dead and alive,and yet you tell me you don’t know if I can see her; if you have been telling me the truth, you knowwhether I can see her or not.Tom: I can’t tell whether you will be permitted to see her at present, because we aregoverned by laws.S.: I am sick of law—sick of law—law!Tom: You will have to submit to the laws of your being. If you have lived a good, pure,honourable life, everything will be bright and clear; but if you have lived a selfish, double life, youwill have to overcome it, and you will have to work very hard to right the wrongs you havecommitted. You will have to meet every act of your life. They may rise up as obstacles in yourpathway, and prevent your reaching the one you are so anxious to see; but in time you will be able,by patience, labour, and sincere repentance, to overcome these things; but you must put awayyourself, and all this haughty pride that you have.S.: I don’t wish to remain in this room any longer.Tom: What are you going to do when you get outside? If you talk to anyone, they can’t hearyou.S.: Oh, I am smothering-—I feel I can’t exist—oh, I am going—I am going—sometimes Ican’t even speak— I feel so confined—I feel all crushed in!Margazona: You have been brought here by kind spirit friends who wish to show you howyou may better your condition. Your spirit is clothed with earth material to give you the force tospeak; when that is gone you can’t speak. That will explain to you the feeling you have.S.: If I could only get out of this close condition!Margazona: Where will you go?S.: I don’t know—I don’t know. Why don’t you tell me?Tom: Would you like to have me talk to you now?S.: Yes, talk on—talk for ever.Tom: Would you like to take up with the poor Irishman for a little while?S.: Anything to get out of this close condition; but this closeness is smothering me—it issmothering me.Tom: My dear sir, I am sorry for you, but you have no one to blame but yourself. You havewrapped yourself up in such a cloak of selfishness, you are like a mummy now, wound with manythicknesses of cloth, and this cloak of selfishness has got to be unwound little by little byunselfishness. Everyone who has lived a selfish life, all their life, it is the hardest thing for them todo a purely unselfish act.S.: In the name of God, is there no way out of this?
217Tom: Yes, there is a way; but did you have any mercy or any compassion on anyone who stoodin your way in earth life? Did you have any pity, any sympathy, there? If you did, why, it will begiven you here; if you didn’t, how can you expect to reap what you didn’t sow?S.: Can’t you say anything else to• me, only taunt me with the things that are past?Tom: It is always best that the truth should be given, and truth should be spoken. You havea chance given you to right the wrongs, but you must commence at the foot of the ladder and workto gain the top.S.: What can I do shut up here in this room?Tom: You will be shown the way.S.: If I could only get out of this!Tom: I will ‘take you to a school where you will be taught how. Will you go with me?S.: I will go to get away from this.Tom: What are you going for, to get rid of that which is disagreeable to you?S.: Certainly—certainly—Tom: Or will you go for the sake of doing good and for right?S.: Certainly.Tom: Will you go to work for a labour of love, a labour of unselfishness? Will you go downin the very depths of woe and despair to lift up some poor fallen creature?S.: Why, if it is necessary, and I must, I will. How will I begin to do such a thing as that?Tom: I will take you to this school of unfoldment, where you will be taught and instructedhow to right these wrongs, and advance step by step to Sarah, for she is far above you in the scale ofsoul unfoldment. You I must work to go where she is, for she cannot come down and dwell in yoursphere, she is too pure and bright a spirit.S.: How may I reach her, then?Tom: You will be taught at this school. Now I will leave the young man to take you. Willyou go?S.: Young woman, will it be all right?Mrs. E.: Yes, sir, most certainly it will.S.: Then I will go.Tom: And will you pledge yourself?S.: I never make pledges, but I will try to do the best I can. I never made a pledge in mylife that did any good, or that I kept.Tom: Now it is time that you begin. There are many things to draw you back, and I want you tokeep right ahead.S.: I will go with you, and I will do the best that I can. It seems to me to be in the dark. Idon’t know where you are going to take me, but I will go and do the best I can.Tom: I am going to do all I can to help you, because I feel sorry for your condition, and nothingwill give me greater pleasure than to help you out into the light and better your condition.Sarah: James—James—Tom: Did you hear Sarah speak to you?S.: Sarah—Sarah, dear, is that you?Sarah: Yes, James, yes.S.: Oh, the years! the years! the sorrowful years, Sarah! Why didn’t you hear me? Let usgo—let us go.Tom: There, now, didn’t I tell you? Didn’t you hear Sarah speak to you?S.: I heard her—I heard her—Tom: Yes; and now I will do all that I can to help you and to help her, because I know itwould make her very happy. Now you bid the kind friends good-night, because they have helpedyou, too.S.: Good-night, young woman.Mrs. E.: Good-night. I am glad you are going on your pleasant journey, for I know it will bein the end.
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- Page 193 and 194: 193wish the Pontiff had issued such
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- Page 221 and 222: 221Tom: No, my dear sir.S.: Then ho
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- Page 225 and 226: 225Tom: Good evening, Mrs. Lacy.S.:
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- Page 243 and 244: 243S.: No, something fell off from
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- Page 263 and 264: 263Tom: So you think; but I am not.
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217Tom: Yes, there is a way; but did you have any mercy or any compassion on anyone who stoodin your way in earth life? Did you have any pity, any sympathy, there? If you did, why, it will begiven you here; if you didn’t, how can you expect to reap what you didn’t sow?S.: Can’t you say anything else to• me, only taunt me with the things that are past?Tom: It is always best that the truth should be given, and truth should be spoken. You havea chance given you to right the wrongs, but you must commence at the foot of the ladder and workto gain the top.S.: What can I do shut up here in this room?Tom: You will be shown the way.S.: If I could only get out of this!Tom: I will ‘take you to a school where you will be taught how. Will you go with me?S.: I will go to get away from this.Tom: What are you going for, to get rid of that which is disagreeable to you?S.: Certainly—certainly—Tom: Or will you go for the sake of doing good and for right?S.: Certainly.Tom: Will you go to work for a labour of love, a labour of unselfishness? Will you go downin the very depths of woe and despair to lift up some poor fallen creature?S.: Why, if it is necessary, and I must, I will. How will I begin to do such a thing as that?Tom: I will take you to this school of unfoldment, where you will be taught and instructedhow to right these wrongs, and advance step by step to Sarah, for she is far above you in the scale ofsoul unfoldment. You I must work to go where she is, for she cannot come down and dwell in yoursphere, she is too pure and bright a spirit.S.: How may I reach her, then?Tom: You will be taught at this school. Now I will leave the young man to take you. Willyou go?S.: Young woman, will it be all right?Mrs. E.: Yes, sir, most certainly it will.S.: <strong>The</strong>n I will go.Tom: And will you pledge yourself?S.: I never make pledges, but I will try to do the best I can. I never made a pledge in mylife that did any good, or that I kept.Tom: Now it is time that you begin. <strong>The</strong>re are many things to draw you back, and I want you tokeep right ahead.S.: I will go with you, and I will do the best that I can. It seems to me to be in the dark. Idon’t know where you are going to take me, but I will go and do the best I can.Tom: I am going to do all I can to help you, because I feel sorry for your condition, and nothingwill give me greater pleasure than to help you out into the light and better your condition.Sarah: James—James—Tom: Did you hear Sarah speak to you?S.: Sarah—Sarah, dear, is that you?Sarah: Yes, James, yes.S.: Oh, the years! the years! the sorrowful years, Sarah! Why didn’t you hear me? Let usgo—let us go.Tom: <strong>The</strong>re, now, didn’t I tell you? Didn’t you hear Sarah speak to you?S.: I heard her—I heard her—Tom: Yes; and now I will do all that I can to help you and to help her, because I know itwould make her very happy. Now you bid the kind friends good-night, because they have helpedyou, too.S.: Good-night, young woman.Mrs. E.: Good-night. I am glad you are going on your pleasant journey, for I know it will bein the end.
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