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

248Tom: Your dear friends Sarah and Lucy, and many others, are here at the present time.S.: Oh, don’t tell me!Tom: You are not afraid of them, are you?S.: Yes, I am afraid. Oh God! I am afraid.Tom: What are you afraid of? They love you, and have come to help you. Say, John, do youknow there has something very strange happened to you?S.: Well, never mind. I know you know all about it, so I will give myself up. You can takeme and have me arrested, if you want to.Tom: I don’t want to have you arrested. You are perfectly safe here, John. You have paidthe penalty now.S.: Oh, I am tired and sick of it.Tom: Yes, I know; and your friends are sorry for you, and they will help you.S.: Torture! torture! Oh, don’t speak to me.Tom: I am very sorry for you; but don’t you know there is a chance for you ?—a chance towork out this wrong?S.: There is no chance—no chance.Tom: Oh, yes there is, John.S.: After all these years of torture? Oh, it is no use. I might as well give myself up; I cancover it up no longer—no longer—no longer.Tom: Why did you do that? Tell the friends all about it, and you will feel a great dealbetter; and then I have got something to tell you that will make you feel better. Come, now, John,do it for Lucy’s and Sarah’s sake, because they both love you; and here, now, you have anopportunity and chance; we are all friends. Say, John, did you ever think how it would be when youcame to make the change called death?S.: Oh, I have thought and thought until it has burned into my heart and brain.Tom: Did you ever think, or could you ever realise, that sometimes people make thatchange called death, and they are not aware of it?S.: No, I don’t know that.Tom: Do you know, I have had that experience with a great many? I have come in contactwith many souls that had made the change called death—that is, had laid aside their body—andthey didn’t know it. But their friends see and realise their condition—the friends that have passedout of their bodies and gone on and up into higher spheres—and it makes them feel sad when theyrealise the condition that those they once loved and still love are in. So it is with your friends at thepresent time; they realise your condition; they love you, if possible, more than they ever did.S.: That would seem impossible if they know.Tom: They do know, and they see the unfortunate train of circumstances which forced youto do as you did; and they feel a pity for you, and are anxious to have you started right, that youmay as far as possible make restitution for the wrongs which you have committed, so that your souland spirit may unfold and grow, and that you may outwork the deeds which you committed whilein the body.S.: I haven’t done anything. You talk as if I had done something. Oh!!! There he is! Ikilled him! I killed him! I killed him! I have said it. I could not endure it any more. I can’t live andsee that face— no, no, no. Take and do what you like with me.Tom: John, do you know you have made the change called death?S.: I don’t know. Dreadful things have come over me and entered my life. What can Ido? I have told you. I have said it. I am glad I have said it. You can send for the authorities as quickas you please.Tom: The authorities in earth life can have no control over you now. You are where theycannot touch you, cannot harm you, for you have left your old body.S.: Have I?Tom: You have.S.: Well, it matters not—matters not.