44/55 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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Young, adventurous, full of ardent hopes and ambitions, I am conscious now of thinking more of my own plans at that time, than of her who loved me so well, and whose tender mother’s heart must have been crushed by inconsolable grief. My thoughts of her were neither cold nor heartless, nevertheless, there were not in my heart at that period those feelings of bitter, crushing sorrow which should have been there at the supreme moment of agony in my mother’s life.

I do not presume to say I was her favourite child but, being her youngest, there was a tender yearning love for me which was evident, and on that June morning, so full of dread for her, that loving maternal heart must have been wrung with unspeakable grief and anguish. It was this condition of exquisite pain that I neither realized nor felt, and it is this fact that now causes the remorse—a fitting reward!

I afterwards learned from my brother and sisters that my dear one knew she would never again behold me on earth, and it was this knowledge that added to the poignancy of her grief and rendered the pain of parting indescribable. Dear mother, how I wish I had shown her more tenderness! But the parting is over, and I am justly bearing the consequences of the inexorable yet equitable law: ” Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

This is not only a digression, but a confession. It has to be made, because I feel that introspection is good for the soul’s welfare. After waving the final farewell to my mother I proceeded up the street, entered the railway station and there found the train waiting,

just as it was shown to Mr. Beard by my mother; the carriage doors were open and I entered one of the carriages on my way to London, en route for India. The accompanying rough sketch indicates the relative position of the points referred to in the preceding narrative.

It will be noticed that the account of the parting manifested to the Medium corresponded so accurately in detail to what actually took place 46 years ago as to leave nothing incomplete. The only point about which there may be some doubt is the shape of the meadow which, on the first occasion, the Medium thought appeared to be something in the shape of a triangle,

but as I cannot myself remember the exact shape of the piece of land in question, it is possibly more like a triangle than I have sketched it. This cannot, however, invalidate the testimony of the other evidence in connection with this particular case, which must stand as a clear proof of communication with those ” Beyond the Veil ” having been established.