33/55 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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It should not be overlooked here that Mr. Beard was a stranger to me and had never seen the photographs, nor had I ever talked to him of my mother, nor of the fact that I possessed certain photographs of her. He could have had no opportunity of talking to any member of my family because, except an elder brother who lives in comparative seclusion, I am the only living member of it.

I would add that Mr. Beard is not known to any of my few relatives; nor was he at the time acquainted with any of my friends. Then it is unlikely that I, who regarded the part my father played in the family life as its bitterest experience, would have willingly opened the book at a page I had, as I thought, for ever turned down.

Family secrets, such as these, are, by all men, jealously guarded and kept inviolable, but, as this painful page of my life has been re-opened by spirit-influence and, as I believe, with some wise purpose behind it, I have now no hesitation in submitting it to the scrutiny of those who are seeking in these pages for a living truth.

SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS.
PART II.

I will now pass on to the third visit of my friend to me at Hume Towers, and I will here narrate certain manifestations of psychic-power under conditions differing from those hitherto recorded.
The following manifestations commenced with the Medium, Mr. Beard, becoming controlled by what I regard as a spirit from a higher sphere than are those discarnate-spirits of my dear ones and friends whom I had known in their earth-life.

I had, as before mentioned, already been addressed by these higher influences, but, being somewhat startled by the suddenness of this, to me, unwonted communication, my mind was a good deal disturbed and confused, and I failed to remember what was said.

I was, indeed, more struck with the marvel of being brought into actual contact with those whom most men regard as beyond the possibility of communication, than with the words uttered, but in this instance my mind was less disturbed and, therefore, in a better condition to receive and record the wise exhortations of my spiritual-visitants.

I therefore propose that the following narrative shall stand apart from what has hitherto taken place, although certain parts of the manifestations are but a continuation of previous communications.