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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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook Still the solitary swimmer sped his way down the waters of the broad stream, and again and again were perils encountered, only to be overcome by some inherent power in the man himself or by some controlling influence of which he may, or may not, have been conscious. On asking Mr. Beard what these scenes meant, he replied, ” They are but symbols of your own life; you will know if they are faithful representations…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook The first picture she showed was a long row or rows of kneeling female forms, all facing in the same direction towards some building, probably a temple, evidently in the performance of some sacred ceremony. Their bowed heads denoted reverence, adoration or supplication, but, on being asked if this symbolical picture had intelligent meaning for me, it at once disappeared, on my replying in the negative. Although this picture may appear to the ordinary mind…

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

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook I then remarked there was a brief silence on the part of the Medium, who remained quiet and passive. After the space of, perhaps, a minute I noticed a certain disturbance in the body of my friend, who apparently received a somewhat violent shock, after which another voice commenced to talk in a more rapid, commanding manner. The voice was different from that of the previous speaker, and I was puzzled to account for the…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook Then I was told that there was no limitation set to man’s possibilities or powers in regard to his spiritual development, because limitations form no part of God’s Great Plan of Life. The law that ” Like attracts Like ” being universal, no limitations to spiritual development, to the soul’s progression, can possibly exist, or this great Law would be stultified. God cannot stultify or deny Himself, nor does He set limitations. Man sets his…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook This slight digression is pardonable, since it leads to evidence of much value. I said I had been particularly struck with the beauty of the simple yet perfect plan which God had set up, where under soul might know soul, so that each spirit-entity might have no difficulty in finding its appointed sphere in the illimitable Beyond. The ” colour ” thought had, indeed, been running so much in my mind that when the Guide…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook I would here add that this Law is more fully described in ” Through the Mists.”When I was reading this work I was especially struck not only with the beauty of the idea but with its simple effectiveness. Realizing that there can be no ” law breakers ” on any of the spiritual-planes, it at once becomes evident that the simple plan of adopting a distinctive colour, denoting the condition of the wearer, must prove…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook After being favoured with much clear manifestation from some of my dear ones who have passed over, and a visit from my radiant Guide—”Maira”—a celestial being of Eastern origin—which I will refer to later on, the Medium became under the control of some potent influence and presently a voice commenced to speak in slow, measured tones, low, yet perfectly clear. This noble Guide began with a powerful exhortation in which I was first told that…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook I designate the experiences as: —A Fragmentary Recordof certain communications from friends ‘ beyond the veil,’ who manifested themselves to me through my friend, Mr. Percy Beard, at Hume Towers, on October 23RD and 24TH, 1909 I have learned to realize, even in my limited experience of spiritualistic manifestations, how difficult it is to remember the loving words of those spirit-helpers who come to us from ” Beyond the Veil,” partly because of the unbroken…

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

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook Some days after this I was leaving my library when something impelled me to come to a standstill in front of a large roll-top American desk, standing against the southern wall of the room. Some power suggested— Search! I opened the desk and pulled out the top left-hand drawer which was a book rack, and not a drawer in its ordinary sense, and it was empty. The next drawer—which was in reality the top drawer…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook Meantime, then, indeed until the priesthood can be brought to see eye to eye with those whom men to-day call ” Spiritualists,” the human race must necessarily draw its spiritual truths from—Spiritualism. But this spiritualism, although it may in the process of time receive another name, will be found to be the only source of knowledge, wisdom and power, because it is, in itself, the Living Truth. Theocracy will, no doubt, die hard, and Theology…

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When my mother, then, led up a repentant spirithusband and informed me that my unforgiveness had ” kept him from rising ” the horror of what I had done possessed me. For over forty years, since my father died, I have been asking my God daily to ” forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us,” with the sin of an unforgiven trespass against myself in my own heart. Truly we are weak, witless, frail creatures at the best, and the danger of setting ourselves up…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook My father’s nature was unsympathetic, selfish and hard. He had a large family and rarely did he ever speak to his children or say a kind, loving word to them. There was no bond tying father and children together, either of love, goodwill, affection, or confidence, nor did he take interest either in his children’s welfare or their future. His attitude to his wife was no less cold, unsympathetic and hard, and outwardly his children…

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