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

260Tom: When you were in that shoe store trying on a pair of shoes, you had a stroke, andyou died without regaining consciousness; you left your body almost immediately. At the presenttime kind spirit friends have clothed your spirit body with material which enables you to speak asyou are speaking now. And when you came back and expressed yourself on the earth plane, youtook on your last thought which was “trying on a pair of shoes.”S.: It is most mysterious; I can’t seem to realise it.Tom: No, because it is so natural. You are George just the same; George left the body; youretain your individuality; you are just the same as you were when you were in the body. There is agreat band of loving spirits (you would call them angels, they are so bright), whose mission it is toaid and assist spirits like yourself, who have made that change not knowing it; and you werebrought here to this place to-night to be made acquainted with the fact. You will be taken in chargeby kind, loving spirit friends, who will teach you about the duties pertaining to the life you havenow entered.S.: I am glad to know that the spirits of my friends are interested, and will help me.Tom: You have entered a life now of progression; it is a wonderful life, and you will seeyour friends. Many spirit friends who will aid and assist you are those who never knew you in earthlife. And I want to tell you, my friend, all are saved, and in time all are happy. No matter what youbelieve; that doesn’t save you. It is what you do. If you live unselfish lives and try to help others allyou can, you send the good on before you, and you have a great deal stored up in nature’sstorehouse for you when you come to make the change called death. They are bright pictures tolight up your pathway. If you lead selfish, wrong lives, you paint dark pictures; for the life you leadwhile in the body shapes the beginning of the next life.S.: Yes, I feel that something different has certainly taken place with me.Tom: We will take you where you can become prepared, each and all of you, and be madeacquainted more with your conditions, because now you will be betterable to understand me as a spirit through having come in contact with me in this manner than youcould have if I had not addressed you as I have at the present time.S.: Thank you—I thank you. That must be heavenly music. I only catch a strain now andthen. It is from the heavenly band, is it not?Tom: Yes, from the upper spheres; it is wafted to you on the wires of love and sympathy.Now look, George!S.: I see a great many—a great host. Will we go to them?Tom: Yes. Now you bid the kind friends adieu, and we will go.S.: Good-bye, friends!We have done a beautiful work to-night. We have helped a great many of the same class ofmind as this one.—EVA.