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

67The Admiral is in a hotel opposite old City building on the fourth floor in a city on a lake.Day is cold and cloudy, he is rather tired and exhausted ; tell him rushing too much, he shouldrestrain well his forces ; they overwork him. I can’t just get the thought, so I will say there is anattractive dining-room which is a feature of the hotel ; he has had breakfast. His message is tellingme he expects to have splendid results from the Hudson sitting. He tells me he is convinced of theimmortality of the soul. He is satisfied with the trumpet medium.He has not found out about the Hudsons ; he must speak of “Hudson,” that’s me, in youraddress ; many people have accepted my hypothesis of the sub-conscious. I want him to say thathe has heard from me.He must be very quiet, and not over exert himself.My Girl will sit for him here and in N. Y. For James and Hyslop, in concert. I shall bringF. W. H. Myres and Dr. Hodgson if I can.T. J. H.Two hours after this Hudson came to me at the home of a trumpet medium called “Kaiser,”in Detroit, and spoke to me in the direct voice in the dark. He said he had done his best to impress“the light,” but thought he had only partially succeeded.Now what I wish to point out is that, although my message is not accurately carried, Hudsonhad transferred my thoughts. I was just then unwell from too frequent sittings. I was satisfiedwith the trumpet medium ; I was looking for the Hudsons in Detroit ; it was here Hudson had livedfor some years, and here he died. I had not found them. It is curious that this profound thinker,whose works are the only ones worth a rap in denial of spiritism, was not known in his own city.At last I found one man who had been a friend of his. While at Rochester, in February, Hudsontold me that he saw me with his friend, and, by way of test, gave me such a very unflatteringdescription of the gentleman, including his weight in pounds avoirdupois (every word of which Ibelieve is true), that I cannot repeat it, as I might lay myself open to an action for libel.There is one feature in the message worthy of strict attention. The Hotel Hudson describesis not the one I was in at the time—i.e., the “Cadillac”; but it is the one I put up at on my previousvisit three weeks before, the “Pontechartrain.” I asked Hudson at Rochester why he described thehotel and room I was not in at the time of taking the message. His reply was, in effect : “When Icame to you at K.’s (the trumpet medium) I did not wait to go home with you, as another spiritwanted to come in ; and therefore I did not see the ‘Cadillac.’”I suppose I must go through the formality of mentioning that Mrs. Georgia knew nothing ofmy movements, and nothing of Detroit.The lecture referred to by Hudson was one I was to give on February 26, 1909, at Rochester.In March Mrs. Georgia did sit in my room in New York for Dr. Hyslop and Dr. Funk, in concert.At the time this message was written such a séance seemed most improbable. Mrs. Georgia’s playwas a success.Monday February 8, 1909. With Mrs. Georgia, at Rochester, who wrote :—“I am here, but must hear your voice before I feel strength to come. Tell my girl what youhave done. I want once more to come on. [Does he want the graphophone ?] No, I want myman of the sea !“I helped with the play, and I hope it is a success. I have planned with her so her guideswould let me in her circle. Read the plan I sent to your brain to him ; then I will come.”(Mrs. Georgia here read to me a neat essay on the salient points to have in mind whenwriting a play. This, she said, had come into her head a few days before, and she was impressed towrite it down there and then. She also described to me the plat of the drama she had written. Iobjected to the extreme innocence of the heroine, and gave it as my opinion that the public mightthink such a character a fool.)Hudson : “If you read the Admiral some dialogue, he will not despair of your play.”Q.: “Do not all women know that they are loved, from the age of ten ?”