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

71Q.: “Do you mean ‘mirror-writing’ ?”A.: “Yes, it will come to you. You must let me rest.”(I explained to Mrs. Georgia how I came to believe in the existence of the spirits of departedfriends.)A.: “An agnostic before.”Q.: “Mrs. Georgia said, ‘Tell us something about Admiral Moore.’”(53) A.: “That he has four children, 3 girls and 1 son.” (Correct.) He is a magistrate insome small court in the same town (Gosport, Fareham Division of Hampshire). He has lived in thesame house a great many years, near 35 years(should be 28 years in the same town and 20 years inthe same house). You married 30 years or 31 years ago (31 years correct) in some distant place,not in England but under your flag. (Correct ; Sydney, New South Wales). He knew her 35years. You will live on that house 35 years (probably).”Q.: “How do you find out these things ?”A. (Handwriting changed to that usually adopted by Hudson): “By the guide that standsnear you. She tells me. I am waiting for strength. I must come again.”Q.: “Is my guide you spoke of, here now ?”A.: “Yes, but she can never come through the hand.” (Here I asked a question on a privatematter about an event at home. The prognostication given turned out to be correct. It wasunexpected.)Q.: “Can you give us any more information Dr. Hudson ?”A.: “You don’t hear the rain and the hail and the snow ? (The atmospheric conditionswere of the very worst.) Hodgson and Myers want to try again—Wednesday and Thursday.Yes, if the weather is good. Myers was a very poor prophet !” (Alluding to Mr. Myers forecastof the weather given in the script of the 13 th .)Wednesday, February 17, 1909. With Mrs. Georgia, who wrote :—“Dr. Hodgson and Professor Myers can’t gather strength enough to come. I am the manwho came in with you. You left the Dr. you expected down town.”Q.: “I hope if Mr. Myers cannot come Mr. Hudson will give me a message.”(Mr. Hudson did not manifest directly, but helped Iola, my guide, to come in. This was thefirst time she had made herself known through Mrs. Georgia. She identified herself completely,referred to a séance with another private medium at Toledo that had taken place a fortnight before,and in such a way as to put thought-reading out of the question. I think Hudson was doing thewriting for her. It was an interesting conversation, about matters that are of no concern to thereader. Mrs. Georgia, with great kindness and patience, continued writing for an hour and a halfabout things that could not possibly have been of any interest to her when they were translated.)February 19, 1909. Atmospheric conditions most unfavourable. There was a thaw, and itwas raining.With Mrs Georgia who wrote :—Q.: “Is Iola here ?”A.: “Yes I am here, but you must talk a bit. I like her, and I like to come by her hand.”Q.: “Shall we talk, or have the graphophone ?”A.: “Talk. Weather so bad.”(I said, “We know the conditions are very bad.”)“I am the founder of the Psychical Society. I was the first president of that society.”Q.: “Are you Professor Sidgwick ?”A.: “I died in Rome. No I am Frederick William Henry Myers. I was at Trinity andCambridge.”Q.: “Delighted to hear of you, Mr. Myers. Please give me some test.”A.: “I promised that I would come back if it were possible, and left a jingle, but I can’tremember it. I wrote a great many verses in my time, as well as my prose work. I wrote theScientific future life, prose ; and St. Paul, poetry.”(I said : “What he means is Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death.”)