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

74Q.: “Dr. Hudson, were you with me last night when I delivered your message ?” (anaddress given at the hotel).A.: “Yes I was. If you want my girl to attract Iola, you must keep the first commandment.Have no other Gods before this ; in this respect the gods are spelled with small letters ; noirreverence. Read, read. (I said : “I think Myers came in here.”)“I mean can’t write with noise in brain at all. I mean this : don’t read as Iola can’t use thementality unconsciously of this sensitive for this reason—she wants no gods before her writing.”“That is from Myers.”“Mrs. Georgia discontinued reading Victor Hugo’s play,)Q.: “I hope you will answer a letter at Chicago on Monday next, 11 a.m. ?”A.: “Yes, do ; I will try and come. I want to explain something to you ; it is this : We usethis sensitive’s sub-conscious mind to draw our earth material from. You impoverish ourresources if you occupy her conscious mind ; she is a reservoir upon which we draw. . Cut offour supply, and we can’t give you a very brilliant achievement.”Q.: “Can you give me a test for Sir —— ——?”A.: “I could come, and would exhaust the strength of this perfect condition. That’s why sherecalled the first commandment. The other gods was a metaphor, the sub-conscious being ourdivine principle of working ; the conscious is physical and human."” (Mrs. Georgia said : "“o notall mediums have that ?"” I replied : Everyone has it."” "”it not developed by education norexperience."” (Here came Iola with a private message.)Q.: “Did Mr. Myers sign ?”A.: “Here is my signature, ‘F. W. H. Myers.’ I never used anything but initials. I wantanother sheet.”(Iola now came in, and occupied the remainder of the sitting giving some interesting reminiscencesof her time on earth.)In a previous sitting I had inquired how it was that Iola, who was in a high sphere andrealm, required the assistance of Hudson, who is in the third sphere and realm, to manifest to me.The reply was ; “She is higher in the spiritual ; he in the intellectual.” Hudson also said that hehad made a study of the methods of communication with the earth plane, and was better able tocome to me. I take it to be a fact that, the longer spirits have been progressing away from earthconditions, the more difficult it is for them to adopt material means of making themselves known.I am now going to show how I was nearly misled through a communication signed by Iola, butwhich really emanated from Hudson. It Is a story that does not redound to the credit of Hudson.When the deception was found out, he asked me to keep it to myself. At first I intended doing so,not so much on his account as on that of the Bangs sisters. A superficial critic, on reading thefollowing narrative, may think that it contains evidence against those mediums. I do not ; and Ifeel bound to relate it, as it is a first rate evidence of spirit action, and shows how people not faradvanced in the spirit world have the same human instincts as people here.I had, during the third week in February, written to the Bangs Sisters to say I was returningto Chicago for more tests, and adding that I should probably sit for a portrait of Hypatia ; at thesame time ordering a frame the same size as that already ordered for the picture of Cleopatra.(The frames take four weeks to complete.) I told Iola of my intention. Much to my surprise, sheobjected strongly to the project, as will be seen below. Pressed for reasons, she (or Hudson,writing for her) declared the picture was already done, and gave some sort of idea what it was like.But it became clear, as the writing went on, that Hudson was apprehensive that the effect of hisscript would be weakened in England if it were put side by side with accounts of the Bangs’spictures. He therefore used every endeavour to prevent me getting more, and unscrupulouslyattempted to discredit the Bangs Sisters by challenging them to answer a letter that he wouldhimself dictate to Mrs. Georgia.February 26, 1909. With Mrs. Georgia.(I said to Mrs. Georgia : “I wonder if Iola was with us last night in Plymouth Church ?”)