Month: May 2021

Every age which has been distinguished by the development of any vitally important idea has appealed to the world through its leader or prophet. Moses, Confucius, Gautama, Jesus and Luther were exponents of mighty tides of human unfoldment. Their insight and spiritual power made them incarnations of the thoughts and aspirations of thousands of lives. Behind each of these representative characters were racial tendencies and purposes seeking expression in the profound life of a great soul, and calling for utterance in the comprehensive declarations of a great mind. The “word…

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The inductive method has been applied to every department of knowledge relating to the outer world, until sciences have been established, one after another, upon a basis of fact. They are now studied not only individually, but relatively, as interdependent branches —as integrant parts of one complex system, each of which throws some light upon others and gives a larger significance to all. But physical sciences take account of only one side of life —the outer. When they have been pursued to their utmost capacity, elements of experience still remain…

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Ever and anon, in the world’s history, the mind of man has been seized with an irresistible passion for investigation and exploration. The tendency to consider first the outer, and after ward the inner side of life, is characteristic of the race as well as of the individual. When the mind of civilization awoke out of its slumber during the night of medieval darkness, a new light dawned upon it. As one rising in the morning after a sound sleep, with vigor renewed and faculties alert, it began to reach…

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An inborn craving for knowledge forever impels the mind to reach out in all directions for an unknown something with which to satisfy its desires. Attention is at first attracted by the outer world of objects —appearances that appeal to the senses. But after analyzing all that the senses can perceive, and even carrying the process by inductive reasoning and aid of the imagination far beyond the boundaries of actual sense perception, it finds itself no nearer the goal of its search than at the outset. In fact, it finds…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook But my belief in the boundless possibilities of this Law extends much further than the present measure of its justification. I have said before, I am neither exalte nor emotional, nevertheless I plainly discern in the spiritual manifestations, described in these pages, premonitions of the waxing of a mighty compelling-power which, once understood by man and utilised in the way intended by the Creator, will completely revolutionise life on this planet. General belief in the…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook Had God’s purpose been to show me but one picture of the After-Life; to give me but one brief glance of what men regard as the ‘Hidden Future,’ He could have done so by simply permitting my mother, for example, to manifest herself to me. That His Purpose meant more than this is made clear by the additional evidence which it was His will to reveal to me. I believe in His Omnipotence and He…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook My mind, indeed, often dwells upon the simple beauty of the life of many of the Indian people, and my soul is therefore attuned to, and in affinity with, their souls. This being so, it would be passing strange if their spirits failed to speak with mine. ” Like attracts Like ” is the Law, and if it failed to operate here it would not be a law, but a caprice. That it is a…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook To those whose creedal belief is as broad as heaven itself, and who understand the meaning of Christ’s words: “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me,” the idea of God making use of the discarnate-spirits of Eastern people is not only not repugnant but quite intelligible, fitting and just, and in accordance with Christ’s promise and God’s eternal laws. God’s way are always sound and intelligible,…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook One remarkable incident that I have failed to record is the fact that both my Guides, from what men call the ” Shadowland ” are of Eastern origin. ” Maharaj ” is unmistakably Indian, but the racial origin of ” Maira ” is not so clear. The picture of rows of kneeling women, engaged in some act of worship, would denote that some Eastern country, other than India, claims the birth of “Maira’s ” physical…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook This last proof of the ease with which communication between discarnate and incarnate-spirits may be set up now becomes vividly interesting. Not only do we find that the intermingling of spirit life on the two planes is, under certain conditions, not difficult of accomplishment, but that it may even enter into the domesticities of our daily life. If a parent, a few months after his translation to another state, can find means of again entering…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook In the circumstances I determined that my young friend should hear nothing further from me about the spiritual truths which are being revealed to mankind every day, and which are pearls of great price to those who value them at their true worth. Further, that she would, so far as I am concerned, have to work out her own redemption on those narrow, unsatisfying conditions which a world-wide theocracy has set up in all countries…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook I said I had long been a believer in the vast power which underlies and intermingles with our lives, but which mighty force man persistently ignores. I added, ” I am the more convinced of this because certain spiritual manifestations of spirit-power have recently been made to me of a nature that I could not possibly disregard. Scenes in my own life have been so faithfully reproduced by benign spirit-agency; so many evidences of beneficent…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook The next thing my spirit-friend did was to show the Medium a letter which he held up in a prominent manner and pointed to it as though it was of the utmost importance. Not knowing what it was intended to convey I asked for information, and to Mr. Beard was at once shown a young fair-haired girl sitting at an easel. I then remembered that the letter had a distinct meaning for me and I…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook The Medium’s description of my brother’s person is most accurate. My brother died while I was in India. On my return to England I heard full particulars from my brother’s widow, and from other relations of my own family of his condition and illness. His beard was allowed to grow, and, owing to his severe illness, it was irregular and unkempt, a fact which is not explainable by either thought-reading or telepathy. He was extremely…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook Another piece of evidence is that of my brother Fred, who died 3½ years ago. His was one of the spirit-forms introduced by ‘ Maira.’ The Medium said, ” I am now shown the form of a well-knit, broad shouldered man who, before he became emaciated by disease, must have been a robust, athletic figure. His brow is broad and open, rather prominent cheekbones, large, fine brown eyes, well shaped, but broad nose, hair dark…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook 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…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook My beloved mother was prominent among my spiritfriends, and I was desirous of getting from her some further evidence of my last parting with her on the occasion of my leaving home for India, referred to in Mr. Beard’s previous visit. This was the last time I saw my mother, and the memory of it has never faded from my mind. On a former occasion she showed the Medium a house quite close to our…

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