- 16 - tell you very little about it. Its shape seemed to be similar to my old body. There is a fine difference, but I cannot attempt to describe it in detail. Each one of us creates their own purgatory-like conditions. How different I would organise my life if I had another chance at life! I neither lived intimately enough with my fellow men nor did I sufficiently participate in their affairs.” The next report stems once again from a man who lost his life under violent circumstances. We are dealing with the British journalist William T. Stead (1849 – 1912) who was a correspondent for various English newspapers and besides, was also interested in parapsychology. He wrote a number of books about it (for instance “From the Old into the New World”) and he was also psychically gifted. In my book “Der Tod, die Brücke zu neuem Leben” (17) I presented one of his reports wherein he describes how he got hold of a paranormally produce photo in 1902 of Petrus Johannes Botha, a Boer officer who was killed in the Boer War in 1899. In 1912, Stead was a reporter on the British passenger steamer “Titanic” on her maiden voyage as she was trying to win the “Blue Ribbon” on her trip to America. Due to careless navigation, the liner hit an iceberg during the night between the 14th and 12th of April in the North Atlantic. This ship, thought to be unsinkable, was slit open at the side and sank within a few hours whereby 1517 people lost their life. William Stead was also amongst them. Two days after the disaster he was already able to give accurate details about the sinking of the ship via the medium Mrs. Wriedt from Detroit. He announced himself even more comprehensively via his paranormally gifted daughter Estelle Stead. She psychically wrote down the reports from her father and the following statements are taken from them (22, P. 15f): “To begin with, I want to tell you where people find themselves in the world of the hereafter after their terrestrial demise. But I want to state a priory once again that: This book will interest a relatively small number of people and it will help even fewer. But our endeavour is dedicated to them and our highest remuneration will be the satisfaction to have helped them progress just a little further. There is something that I want to emphatically bring to the attention of all those that read this booklet – the interested parties as well as the disinterested ones, the believers as well as well as the sceptics: ‘Never forget that you are still here on Earth and that above everything, you have to give all of your attention to your terrestrial duties first. Your terrestrial life is over in no time at all. Every endeavour that you ever started should be completed – and completed as best as you can. One should never neglect the present in favour of a future that promises to fulfil all of our wishes. Engage all your heart in whatever you have started. Only think about a more auspicious tomorrow within a still corner of your heart.” And one more word for the “believers”, the Spiritists and Spiritualists amongst you. Remember that Spiritism is not necessarily good for everyone. Many can simply not process the greatness and force of spiritistic phenomena and their associated enormous mental impressions and therefore prefer to continue to live their life along familiar tracks by actually encapsulating themselves against everything occult to an ever higher degree. These people find that the phenomena of Spiritism are simply not suitable to open their spiritual development for them. They are well advised to pursue the path of collecting terrestrial knowledge from books and from the hands of other people. Many years ago, I was fascinated by a book that contained a description of the hereafter. After I had read this book a number of times with great interest, I was forced against my own will to accept that it was absolutely clear and sensible and to the highest degree meaningful. The simple and practical ideas of the writer captivated me. This book turned into the originator of my constantly growing interest in a great and astonishing movement. From time to time, I did everything within my power to collect evidence in order to promote this movement. A lot of people are informed these days. Those that are looking for higher insights can familiarise themselves with the details of the doctrine of this movement at any time, it they wish to do so. This is why I will go from my first encounters with the occult here on Earth straight to my first own experiences during my transition to the other world. My surprise was just as great as it was with my first encounter with that book about the hereafter, when I ascertained – now that I arrived here myself – that the knowledge I had gathered on Earth about life in the hereafter was utterly correct in almost all details. This naturally gave me great satisfaction. I was happy about the fact that there was so much truth in everything that I had heard
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