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

SUNDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1890.250To-night we bring a man who fell into a vat of boiling liquid. We will have to dematerialise hima good many times, on account of the unnatural manner of his death.—EVA.S.: Hm!—Oh!(He has got to make those sounds before he can get the forces to talk.—EVA.)S.: Why, yes, I remember I fell in! Oh, yes, I fell in! What has happened to me? I feel sovery strange.Mr. B.: You remember falling into the vat?S.: Yes, I remember; but I feel awful strange. I feel that burn. (He is dematerialised.) Iam glad that I feel better. That was a dreadful fall. I felt it strike me. Well, this is verystrange! It has all dropped off from me, and I have new flesh on!Mr. B.: You have flesh on you now, haven’t you?S.: Yes, that feels better. That was a very bad feeling, that dropping off. Where are theboys?Mr. B.: I presume they are in the factory. Where were you when you got hurt?S.: I was just over there—you see, don’t you? I went up there to fix something, and Islipped and fell.Mr. B.: Didn’t you feel very badly when you fell into the vat of boiling liquid?S.: How in the world did it happen that I am alive?Mr. B.: Would you be surprised if you found that you didn’t live?S.: My skin is going off!(We have materialised him and thrown it off twelve times since I spoke to you first. It is a~ bigcase, on account of his flesh having been fried to a crisp. In a spirit’s dissolution from the body, it isnatural for the gases to pass out, and they assist the spirit in taking up its spiritual body. We have aspiritual body within us that we take possession of when we leave the old body. And in a case like thisthe passing out is very slow indeed; and while they don’t suffer, they lie in kind of a trance state agood deal of the time until this process is completed; and by bringing them here and materialisingthem, taking on and throwing off, it becomes a more natural death.—E VA.)S.: I suppose I can go to work now?Tom: Not just yet. Wait until you feel a little better.S.: Oh, I feel very well now!Tom: But it is better for you to rest a little bit.S.: I have been resting.Tom: Yes, I know you have; but I wouldn’t be in a hurry.S.: I feel about as well as I ever was.Tom: That may be; but I think it is just as well not to hurry back too quick. They can getalong without you for a day or two—don’t you think so?S.: Yes, I guess they can; but, then, I would like to see some of the boys.Tom: You can wait a day or two, I guess?S.: No, I don’t feel exactly right—that’s so.Tom: I thought it wouldn’t be best for you to be in too much of a hurry.S.: I must take it “easy.”Tom: Yes, take it “easy.”S.: Where are you from?Tom: I came from New York.S.: You did! That’s a big city, isn’t it?Tom: Yes; that’s a big place.S.: I was there once. They do a lot of business there, don’t they?Tom: Oh, yes! there’s lots going on there.S.: I once thought I would go there to live.Tom: There’s a great deal of life there; there’s a great deal to be seen and learned there.S.: Sometimes people learn what they don’t want to, too, don’t they?