30/55 SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.

When my mother, then, led up a repentant spirithusband and informed me that my unforgiveness had ” kept him from rising ” the horror of what I had done possessed me. For over forty years, since my father died, I have been asking my God daily to ” forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us,”

with the sin of an unforgiven trespass against myself in my own heart. Truly we are weak, witless, frail creatures at the best, and the danger of setting ourselves up above our neighbours, or of judging others, becomes more apparent each day of our lives.

For over forty years has a soul-discarnate been doomed to a stagnant condition of, perhaps, hopeless misery and despair because of the ignorant inconsideration of a living mortal. A whole generation of punishment—as men count time—has been meted out to one who once was mortal, because in our blind folly, or worse, we permit our unforgiveness to pursue our fellowmortals beyond the portals of the tomb.

This single manifestation will do more to refute the “telepathic” theory than anything else I know of. The Medium, being a stranger to me, knew nothing of my family; had never met any of my few remaining relatives, and had no opportunity of obtaining information of my early home life, for the simple reason that none of my friends are acquainted with its incidents.

Then my father, and the part he played in the family drama, was neither in my thoughts at the time of the manifestation nor at any other period during these investigations, so that the Medium could not possibly have tapped thoughts which did not exist.
To those who uphold this telepathic theory, or the power of drawing thoughts from others, this statement of facts, it is to be hoped, will strongly appeal!

To those who would discern the tremendous meaning underlying this single manifestation will come the knowledge that the awful truth of the incessant operation of these universal laws, which may not be evaded, has been kept back from the human race too long, and that the time has come for its revealment. Through ignorance man has erred towards himself and his fellows for many thousands of years, and he has waited in vain for knowledge and wisdom.

Those who should have led the way; those who were ordained as “spiritual leaders ” of the people, have themselves been blind. The great ” theocratic institution ” which envelops all peoples, creeds, and countries, has produced a priesthood which, although well enough versed in the cold, unsatisfying science of the various man-made theologies, is, with some rare exceptions,

notoriously deficient in that subtle spirituality which attracts the soul of man with magnetic power. The Church has failed in its mission, while its ministers, for numerous reasons which need not be mentioned here, are drifting further and further away from the great spiritual-life of the people.