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

264Tom: Don’t you think you had better be thinking about it?S.: Possibly I had.Tom: You can’t live always; and when you die you can’t take your money along with you—so what will you have? Where will you be, and what will you do then? You will have to leaveeverything behind you when you die.S.: I suppose I will have to.Tom: Of course you will have to; and how much have you got stored up on the other sidefor you? How much good have you done in your life? You have only just looked out for yourselfevery time.S.: Oh dear! you startle me so.Tom: Why should I startle you? I am sorry for you, and so is your sister Rebecca.S.: I never had anyone talk to me that way before.Tom: It is my pleasure as a spirit to help poor souls like you, because you are poor.S.: I have thought sometimes I would try and get religion and live a better life.Tom: Religion won’t do you any good.S.: Then why do you talk to me in that way? I thought you wished me to get religion.Tom: No; but I want you to live a more unselfish life, and be kind to those about you. It ismy mission to help poor souls like you. There are a great many people who make the change calleddeath and don’t know it, and you know it is very bad for you to get angry; you know the last timethe doctor saw you he told you you must avoid that, because you know you have that heart trouble.S.: I can’t help being angry. I have a temper, I know, but I can’t help it.Tom: That quarrel you had with James your coachman was very bad for you; and a greatmany people die and don’t know they are dead—isn’t that funny?S.: Why, yes, that seems strange.Tom: And these people that are dead and don’t know it go hunting around, and they giveexpression to the thoughts that were last in their mind before they made the change called death;you know just simply dying don’t change you at all. You are just the same individual; the spiritonly escapes from the physical body. Now you mustn’t be frightened when I tell you you have madethat change called death, and that is why you couldn’t get anyone to pay any attention to you,because they don’t know you are there.S.: Oh, dear me!Tom: It is true.S.: Oh, no—oh, no—it isn’t true.Tom: It is so, or how could you be talking to me in the way you are, and how could you seeme as a spirit? You never saw a spirit before, did you?S.: I never saw anything like that before.Tom: If you hadn’t moved out of your old body, you couldn’t see me that way.S.: You are a very strange man. I never saw anyone like you in my life before.Tom: No, of course not, because you never saw anyone in this way before.S.: It cannot be.Tom: It is so.S.: Oh, no.Tom: Hold up your hand now, and you will see something go from it.S.: I do. Oh, mercy! I am dropping to pieces.(She is dematerialised and rematerialised.)S.: Oh, I never could imagine that death was like this before. It must be that I havechanged some way.Tom: Yes, you have; but you weren’t aware when you made that change, because you diedvery suddenly in anger, and that was bad for you.S.: What will I do?Tom: Do you want to turn me out now?S.: No, don’t go.Tom: Just look about you now.S.: Strange—strange.