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

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook The Lalla knew that I had forgotten his earth- name and took his own way in recalling it to my memory. It may be that he was instrumental in causing the forgetfulness, but, be that as it may, his method of writing his name once more on the tablets of my mind was certainly more efficacious, more startling, and, therefore, more belief-compelling than had he simply given his name in response to my question. In…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook This is evidently but the working of one of God’s universal laws. Those who seek the Truth will not fail to note this. The only remaining point that need be referred to in this synopsis of events is that of the Lalla’s name. It will be remembered that, for some inscrutable purpose, my old friend’s name, which was as familiar to me as my own, was blotted out of my memory during the time he…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook That my old friend had never ceased to remember, even in his spirit-state, what I did for him, affords not only evidence of immortality but of life’s continuity. It, moreover, proves that we carry with us into the Hereafter all our remembrances of the Here. To say that we enter upon a fresh life in the ‘ Beyond ‘ is only true in a sense. It would be more correct to say the life is…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook The fact of the spirit- visitant causing conditions which produced the effect which Mr. Beard described as of a “cob-webby,” “thready’ nature to cling to his hands, arms and feet, so that he might realize the quality and substance of the material he was being shown in this spirit-picture, must be regarded as evidence of exceptionally high value, and absolutely inexplicable by any known laws of physical science. Indeed, to the uninitiated, it seems incredible…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook In confounding this figure with that of an old ” servant ” I was at once authoritatively told that — “this is no servant but a friend.” This turned out to be true, but how did the Sensitive know? I was shown a curious looking animal believed to be a cow. This animal was regarded of sufficient importance to necessitate re-introduction on the second occasion of my old friend appearing to me. Why? The answer…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook I confessed astonishment at this because, just for a moment, it appeared as though a sense of the ridiculous, or any indication of amusement among spirit-people seemed so unorthodox and incongruous as to amount to levity, but second thoughts suggested—Why not? Why should it be all solemnity over in the bright land beyond? What right have we to assume that amusement is only intended for us, and not for the inhabitants of other spheres? My…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook The Sensitive continued, ” Your old friend is particularly anxious that I should express to you his gratitude for something you did for him during the last few years of his life, which was not only of immense service to him personally—by preventing some great misfortune which would otherwise have overtaken him—but which enabled him to live out the remaining portion of his earth-existence in comfort and comparative peace. I gather that the misfortune he…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook A few weeks after this I again invited Mr. Beard down and, on resuming our investigations, I was again favoured with even more conclusive evidence of the continuity of life on the plane beyond this, but which indubitably interplanes with it. Mr. Beard was in his normal condition, and, after sitting in the music room for a few minutes in silence, said, ” There is again your Eastern friend standing near the piano and he…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook I then added—” Can my dear mother give me some evidence of our parting on the occasion of my leaving home for India. It was the last time I saw her on earth, and as there were peculiar circumstances connected there- with, it would be interesting and convincing if she could show me some of the incidents. ” Mr. Beard said ” Your mother is showing me a scene of your parting in a room…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook Mr. Beard then said, ” Is this intelligible to you? ” I replied, ” I think it must be the spirit of my old Khansamah, of whom I was very fond.” Mr. Beard at once said, ” What is a Khansamah? ” I replied, ” A butler or head servant.” My friend at once said, “No! this is no servant, but one in a higher position; one who was your friend. I say this because…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook It will, moreover, be discovered that this power, although latent to-day, will change its potentialities into a mighty, compelling, living force which will do more to uplift the human race than anything that has heretofore transpired in its long history. It is a power that, throughout the ages, has always been held by the few, but when man realizes that it is part of his mortal heritage, that it belongs to every human being, and…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook Not being possessed of clairvoyant powers, or rather, as I have since learned, not having developed those clairvoyant, clairaudient, or other spiritual gifts which it is conceivable are immanent in every human entity, the evidence I earnestly and reverently sought for had necessarily to be communicated to me through a Medium who had developed his own power, in precisely the same manner that those who have not learned to become telegraphic operators have to employ…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook Questioned as to the meaning of these, to me, miraculous manifestations, my friend explained that there was nothing superhuman or supernatural about such phenomena, which are, in reality, nothing but the operation of one of God’s natural laws, as yet but imperfectly understood by man. Each one of us, he said, possesses, whether he knows it or not, a psychic aura in which such spirit experiences as those just referred to can and do take…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook I will pass over a number of minor manifestations of the actual existence of several other friends included in that number of spirit-forms which my friend told me were about me when he first informed me of their presence, for the reason that I have so much to relate that, unless I confine myself to but one or two of the more prominent features of these spiritual manifestations, I shall prolong this narrative indefinitely. Connected…

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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 I was so ” taken aback,” in common parlance, that I had no fitting word to say, and I fear I let my dear wife drift away, so to speak, without asking any questions. At any rate I cannot remember if I said anything or what I said, beyond the reply above given in response to Mr. Beard’s question: ” Does the picture convey any meaning? “ So that this…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook Following immediately on this, to me, supernatural phenomenon, came another startling discovery. My friend said, ” I see another female form. She is of a taller and fuller presence than your mother; a handsome, commanding woman with a full open brow, large, clear, blue-grey eyes, straight nose, beautifully shaped lips and mouth, and a full, rounded chin. Her hair is luxuriant, dark brown, streaked freely with grey, and worn so as to show a high…

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SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.Audiobook It is true that my friend, who was describing these events to me, most clearly delineated my mother’s form and features, particularly a somewhat remarkable feature, my mother’s eyes, which were large, brown and liquid and full of love and pathos, and which he described as ” stag-like ” eyes, full, clear and brown; but as it is difficult for one person to convey to another an accurate description of form, feature and expression by…

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