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

6411.15 a.m., December 26, 1908, with Mrs. Georgia who wrote:—“I am here ; but you will have to read my writing in your fine voice, so I can gather strengthI want you to give me.”(I remarked : “I think our sittings should not last more than two hours, as it is injurious tothe psychic, and I feel considerably drawn upon ; the messages, also, become confused after thattime.”)“I will speak to you later ; you dictate in the interim, so I may come strong on the vibration.Then I will help you send the message to the minister or reverend gentleman across the sea.”Q.: “Mr. W. T. Steed is not a minister, but his father was one. His son passed over to thehigher life some months ago. I hope you will soon know him.”A.: “I don’t know the son. Dictate now, so I come strong enough.”(After dictating to Mrs. Georgia a telepathic message to Mr. W. T. Stead, we sat down torepeat it over and over for half an hour.) Hudson then wrote the following approximation to themessage through the hand of Mrs. Georgia :—“I have got into communication with Thomson JayHudson, of Detroit, Michigan, the author of several efforts to enlighten the inquiring minds in thisphase of life through my girl at Rochester. Some day I will identify myself to the son of William T.Stead ; also to his father, a strong divine of the Baptist persuasion—a man who made an outcryagainst social evils. He has come to the son often. He is very proud of William T. Stead. I willsee them both when my girl comes to England. This is all this a.m., as my poor girl is very weak ;I dare not tax her more.—T. J. H.”(The message we attempted to telepath was as follows:—“Through Mrs. Georgia, a mirrorwritingsensitive at Rochester, I have got into communication with Thomson Jay Hudson, theauthor of The Law of Psychic Phenomena and The scientific Demonstration of a Future Life…….”This message was not taken in by Mr. Stead.)Q.: “How can we attract those we desire to come to us from a spirit life ?”A.: “I will tell you Sunday.”Q.: Have you not made a mistake about the Baptist minister ?”A.: “I was talking about the father of the man you were sending the message to.”Q.: (by Mrs Georgia) ; “I do not feel that I am weak.”A.: “No ; your pressing on, your soul strength and squeezing the life out, was the reason. Imean any demand makes them weaker ; I mean the sensitive.”(48) Sunday, December 27, 1908. With Mrs. Georgia.Q.: “How can spirits be attracted to a sitter ?”A.: “You take the picture you have with you, put it in your pocket, if you have one ; then,Mrs. Georgia, go to your case under the weathered-oak table, present the plate-holders to thedistinguished envoy ; then take your smaller camera in the room, adjust it, throw the red robe overthe camera, and expose it for twelve counts. Develop alone at the hour of twelve at night. In twodays later the ambassador is to concentrate on the picture at the agreed hour ; and, if possible, Iwill transfer the picture in his pocket on to the plate with him. This is a very important test.Then, if I am successful, the spirit will always be with him.”Q.: “That is not quite what I wanted. I doubt if this is Mr. Hudson.”A.: “Yes—yes it is ! I am.”Q.: “I cannot do that.”A.: “You miss a great test if you do not ! C—— was born two years before me ; this willprove what I say, that I am Hudson. (Correct.)(Mrs. Georgia wished to see if the camera-case was where the spirit said it was located. Shewent to the weathered-oak table, and did not find it.)“It is under the table, on the floor, not on the shelf.” (I now went to look, and found it, asdescribed by Hudson, on the floor, a little on one side of the edge of the table. Mrs. Georgia hadonly searched the shelf. She said that she had not used the camera since the fall, and that theplate-holders were loaded. While she was telling me this, she suddenly became intensely cold andhysterical. She was unable to control herself for twenty minutes. Eventually writing wasresumed.)