40/55 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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On this Guide leaving the Medium, and the latter assuming his normal condition, I asked—” What Guide came through? ” He replied—” ‘ Pilgrim ‘ is the one who has just left; the former Guide was unknown to me.” (Pilgrim, I should mention, is a Guide who often controls the Medium). He added, ” He (the Eastern Guide) is standing near your left shoulder now, and he is a man of noble presence and evidently of Eastern origin.”
He described his features and general appearance, including his dark complexion, white hair, and long, flowing white beard. He told me he wore robes of shining texture and of a beautiful blue colour, or pink and blue, enriched at the waist with a flashing girdle of a golden colour which sparkled and scintillated and threw out from itself brilliant rays of light,
while his whole presence coruscated with brightness. The Medium added—” I judge that this Guide has been on the spiritual-plane a long time, no doubt for many centuries, and that he is from a higher sphere than that which is immediately beyond the earth-plane.”
I said, ” I wonder if it is possible to ascertain the name of this spirit-friend”? The Medium said “He who is standing close to you gives his name as ” Myaraj.” I said “Would you ask again, as this does not sound like an Eastern name, and I am anxious to get it correctly.”
Almost immediately the Medium said ” Myaraj,” ” Mearaj,” “Maharaj,” and then repeated the latter name two or three times, as if to make sure of it. ” Maharaj! ” ” Maharaj! ” I said, ” I quite understand ; the word is—Maharaj.” This word is Hindustani with a Sanscrit root, the A’s pronounced hard like—Ah, and it means Great Ruler, Maha—Great, and Raj—Rule, Dominion, State.
In getting the name so clearly and unmistakably I thanked this benign visitant from beyond the Border Land devoutly for his gracious and kindly act in coming to my aid, and in opening the windows of my soul to the wondrous possibilities before the spirit of men incarnate, and the Medium said ” This radiant being inclines towards you in acknowledgment of your tribute to his beneficence,” or words to that effect.
I should now relate that before this Eastern Guide assumed control of the Medium, that is to say, when the Medium was in a normal condition, he described to me a female form of great beauty and of Eastern origin, who showed him a series of landscape-pictures symbolical of my life. He afterwards told me that this was the same form which came through on the first occasion I met him;
she who brought me into the first realization of spiritual phenomena by aiding my mother, wife, and others to show themselves to the clairvoyant in my aura. On both occasions she was clothed in the same shining robes and wore on her brow the same brilliant star or cross, denoting her emanation from the Christ-sphere.