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

235Mr. B.: It is worth thinking about, isn’t it?S.: It certainly is.Mr. B.: This spirit has seen your father, mother, and sister, and can tell you about them.Tom: Well, now, did you see me?S.: I should say I did.Tom: You see, then, I don’t have to wear socks.S.: You don’t!Tom: Why, no; because I am a spirit in spirit life. We don’t have to wear material clothessuch as you wore when you were in the body.S.: Why do you go into that man and come out of him in that way? Where is the man?Tom: The man is here just the same. I am simply using his organism to talk to you. Becauseif I were to talk to you as a spirit, until you are prepared and understand what has happened toyou, you wouldn’t understand me.S.: What has happened to me?Tom: Well, there has something happened to you, and I will tell you.S.: The gentleman said you could tell me something about my people—my father andmother.Tom: Yes, I can.S.: What can you tell me about them?Tom: They are happy, and they send their love to you, and they want to help you all theycan.S.: Well, by G , I need help badly sometimes. I tell you, I have had a hard road of it, but I amnot going to give up.Tom: Say, John, Hannah is here.S.: Is she? How does she look?Tom: She is beautiful.S.: Is she happy?Tom: Yes; she is very happy.S.: Well, I am glad she is happy. Well—well—well. That is strange, too, isn’t it?Tom: No, there is nothing strange about it. Didn’t you suppose that your father and yourmother, and all your people that belonged to you, lived after they died?S.: Well, I didn’t know; I supposed they went to heaven.Tom: You don’t suppose because they left their old body they are going to forget they lovedyou, do you?S.: Well, I don’t know.Tom: Do you think if you got out of your old body you would forget little Flora?S.: Well, if I was myself I wouldn’t, of course.Tom: Who is it that gets out of your body but yourself?S.: I can’t tell that, you know.Tom: It wouldn’t be anybody else but you. Say, John, I have got something queer to tell you.It will seem queer to you.S.: Well, tell me.Tom: Now, don’t get excited. Do you know, John, there are lots of folks that die, get out oftheir body, and don’t know it?S.: Well, maybe they don’t know anything; perhaps that is the end of them.Tom: Oh, no, because if it was it would have been the end of me, and I have been out of thebody a good while; and I know that we live for ever, and keep growing and progressing andlearning more and more of the wonderful knowledge of God.S.: Well, that is all right enough if everybody is well off; but if they have to go down with“The Old Gentleman” it isn’t quite so pleasant.Tom: There is no such thing. Those teachings are erroneous. But, of course, you have got toreap just what you sow. I was telling you, you remember, that sometimes people make the changecalled death and don’t know it.S.: Yes, you were saying that.