Chapters 3 to 5 - Communication with Spirits during the Post-Apostolic Period and in Modern Times

- 57 - that I thought I was losing my mind. More than once I said to the physician: ‘Doctor, I am losing my mind.’ The fateful moment came at last. A gasp, the odic body writhed to and fro, my wife stopped breathing. To all appearances she was dead, but a few moments later she began to breathe again. After she had drawn two breaths, everything became quiet. • At the instant of her last breath the connecting cord had broken, and the odic body vanished. The clouds and the spirit figures also disappeared immediately. And, strangely, the sensation of heaviness that had weighed upon me was gone all of a sudden. I was my own self again, cool-headed, calm and collected, and from the instant of my wife’s death I was perfectly capable of making all the arrangements necessary regarding her earthly body and its burial. I must leave it to the reader to judge whether I was the victim of a hallucination brought on by grief, sorrow and exhaustion, or whether perhaps my mortal eyes had been granted a glimpse of the spirit world in all its beauty, happiness, repose and peace.” The deathbed experiences described above were no hallucinations; they were real. The dying woman’s husband was able to see the spirit figures because two conditions were fulfilled: • First, the husband had to have a mediumistic predisposition to clairvoyance, even though it was not fully developed in his case. • Secondly, enough od had to be present in the room to allow the spirit beings to make their figures visible. The source of the od is to be sought primarily in the dying woman herself, for at the time of death, the od is liberated from the body. Her husband also was able to contribute odic force because of his mediumistic disposition. The feeling of oppression, sleepiness and exhaustion that rested upon him during those hours was caused by the surrender of his od and consequently disappeared when the od he had contributed flowed back into his body after the spirit apparitions had disappeared. Here, too, the od was seen in the form of clouds, which enfolded the whole deathbed, and from which the figures of the spirits were subsequently formed. The husband’s inability to see all of the figures floating above the bed clearly was due to the fact that the amount of od on hand was not sufficient to allow all the spirits present to show themselves with equal distinctness. Spirits from the Beyond surround every dying person. Generally, they are deceased friends and relatives, and also the spirits that protected and guided him during his lifetime. Many dying people can themselves clairvoyantly see these spirits, for in the final hours the spirit of the dying is already partially released from the body and, hence, endowed with the power of spiritual sight, and so it recognizes the spirits present at the deathbed of those who have gone before and calls them by name. These spirits not only escort the dying into the Beyond, but they also assist in freeing their souls from their bodies. Whenever a number of spirits are gathered for a definite purpose, they are under the command of a leader. In the case before us, this spirit leader was the beautiful female figure the husband saw floating above the bed of his dying wife. She supervised the work her subordinate spirit beings were called on to perform with the dying woman.

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