13/55 SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.

SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.
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I would here add that I was so ” taken aback,” in common parlance, that I had no fitting word to say, and I fear I let my dear wife drift away, so to speak, without asking any questions. At any rate I cannot remember if I said anything or what I said, beyond the reply above given in response to Mr. Beard’s question: ” Does the picture convey any meaning? “

So that this manifestation may become more in-telligible I would explain that, during her lifetime, my wife was continually suffering from certain ailments, chiefly nervous disorders, which induced exactly the symptoms in her physical body which she so marvellously assumed in her spirit body, and which she even more marvellously, but temporarily, transferred to the body of Mr. Beard, so that the evidence of communication being established with the spirit-world should be more complete and convincing.

Distressing fainting fits, preceded by severe pains about the region of the heart, and followed by struggles for breath and fighting for life, were of fairly frequent occurrence during the twenty-four years she was my wife, while she was constantly complaining of severe pains in the side. Neuralgic headaches were also of frequent occurrence, and during the last years of her life she invariably used that white “cloud” about her head whenever she suffered from these attacks.

This particular ” cloud,” I should mention, plays an important part in the case, because, being a favourite with my dear wife before she passed away, I especially selected it from among her little belongings after she died. Since I came to Bournemouth I placed it in the top drawer of a chest of drawers in my bedroom, so that for the last ten years it has lain within a couple of feet of my pillow whilst I slept.

Obviously there was a most excellent reason for the spirit-body of my wife making this ” cloud ” assume so prominent a part in her manifestation of actual existence, and, although the connection between this article of attire and her earth-life was perfectly intelligible without this added information, with it the evidence becomes not only clear but startlingly vivid.