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

220S.: But she is dead and gone.Tom: She may be dead to your physical senses, as it were; but her spirit lives, and her spiritdoes not go so far away but that the love she bore to the loved ones left behind draws her back tothem.S.: Well, she was my little darling; but what has that to do with my condition? Could youtell me how I can escape?Tom: You have nothing now to escape from on the mortal side of life.S.: How has the matter been adjusted, if I have no fear?Tom: The matter has been adjusted by your paying the penalty of your life.S.: What do you mean by that? You talk so strange to me. I really hope that I have met afriend, but you talk so strange I don’t understand you at all.Tom: Quite true, my friend; it is an enigma, I know; but let me say to you, John, that many,when they are instantly deprived of life and go out in great anger or fear, don’t always understandthat they have made the change called death. There are many that make the change in that manner,and you are one of the many. You have left your mortal form.S.: Do you mean that I have died?Tom: You have.S.: How? When? What way?Tom: All there is of death is simply leaving your old body, moving out of the tenement ofclay.S.: But you certainly make some change?Tom: Not any for a time, only as you understand with your spiritual senses, and take inyour surroundings, which you have not done yet; but you have been brought here for that purpose,of making you acquainted with what has taken place with you.S.: I feel no different.Tom: No, you cannot, leaving the body in the manner that you did—you died suddenly.You were shot by the parties that were after you.S.: Was that it?Tom: That was it.S.: Was that terrible sting a shot?Tom: Yes.S.: I felt it; and am I just the same?Tom: Just the same. How would you be any different?S.: Why shouldn’t I be different, if I am a dead man? I am quite sure I would bedifferent. There must be some change in me.Tom: It is only a step. If you would be different you wouldn’t be Mr. Blake—you would besomeone else.S.: I see all things just the same. Why did you talk to me about my little daughter?Tom: Because she is anxious to have you become acquainted with your condition, andanxious to have you work and take up the duties pertaining to the life which you have now entered,so that you may be able, after you have made restitution for all the mistakes committed in the body,to go where she is.S.: In what way can I make restitution?Tom: You will be taught and shown the way by kind, loving spirit friends.S.: Must I always remain here?Tom: No.S.: Where shall I go?Tom: You will be led and taught what way by kind spirit friends, whose mission it is to helppoor misguided souls like yourself out of the darkness into the light.S.: Oh, but I feel so!Tom : It is only part of that old feeling, that old condition, that rushes over you; but that willpass off soon. You retain the same thoughts, you have the same feelings; they are your own, theybelong to you. You have your own experiences that you take with you, your thoughts and your acts.S.: I don’t know that I ever met you before.