28/55 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 only refer to this as an instance of how prone men are to fight against the truth. Spiritualism, for example, may have many a truth of high importance to the human race in its keeping, but instead of opening the doors of the mind to the incoming tide, man endeavours to shut it out, to his own detriment, by all sorts of ingenious devices. Truly the human entity is a veritable enigma!
To all who regard this narrative as that of a sane man of the world, and not as the emotional outpourings of a visionary, the manifestations recorded so far, and their results, are plain enough.
I will now take up the other manifestations which took place on this second visit of Mr. Beard—about the end of July, I think.
After this Eastern visitant had retired, Mr. Beard said: ” I see your mother is again present, and her hands are folded together as in supplication. She is now leading forward an elderly man with grey hair and side whiskers.
His head is bowed as though in great sorrow. She desires me to say that because of your unforgiveness he has not been able to rise; your unforgiveness for what he did in his earth-life is keeping him back, and, until you forgive him, he cannot rise or change his condition. Her hands are again raised to you in supplication, and her beseeching looks plead for mercy and forgiveness.”
I at once perceived that this picture was that of my father, and that my attitude of anger and unforgiveness- which I had assumed towards him in his earth-life, because of his having failed to realize his responsibilities and obligations, both as husband and father-had, as my dear mother put it, ” kept him from rising.”
On perceiving how terribly my unforgiving, hostile attitude had operated against my poor father in his discarnate-condition, I at once said ” Assure my dear mother of my full and unreserved forgiveness, as I myself hope to be forgiven, and say how sorrowful I am that my anger and unforgiving attitude against my father should have been the means of causing him pain or punishment,” or words to that effect.
As this episode is full of significance I propose to give the facts, although to do so will re-open a painful page in my life, and lay bare certain family secrets which most men shrink from. In the interests of Truth, however, I will undergo the pain.