Life after physical death

- 37 - As he now looked at a hand of the medium and recognised that it was a woman’s hand, he recoiled most violently, was quite concerned and screamed: ‘Take this hand away! Take it away! I no longer want to see it!’ When we asked him what his concerns were with the hand, he explained: ‘This is something I will never tell! – I rather die! Oh! There is also her face! And the hand I cut off in order to get the diamond ring! This has haunted me the whole time!’ Filled with terror he looked around and seemed to see an enormous assembly of spirits. ‘Look at all these faces! Have I murdered all these people? Have they come to accuse me? There! There is also this boy amongst them! He was hanged at that time, but he also seems to be after me! I killed this woman and I encouraged him to take the blame in order to safe my own skin. But just you wait you little devil! I will get my hands on you when I get out of here. I chop all of you to pieces!’ It eventually dawned on him that all further reluctance was in vain and that his days of robbing and murdering had come to an end. He narrated his gruesome life of crime to us and said that he killed out of revenge, that he stole to buy whisky and that he drank to benumb his conscience and to escape the ghosts that were constantly pursuing him. He had been very happy under the care of his own mother, but his stepmother had mistreated him so mercilessly after his mother’s death that he often ran sobbing to his room to pray on his knees asking his dead mother to help him. This had really brought out the jealousy and rage in his stepmother and in spite of all the pleas of his weak fathers, she had savagely beaten him and forbidden him to ever mention the name of his mother again. Her mistreatments degenerated into such a cruel tyranny that an uncontrollable hatred against her developed in the boy that filled with thirst for revenge, he swore that once he had grown up, he would kill as many women as he could. He then went ahead and actually put his terrible intent into planned action and devoted his whole life to conceive and commit misdeeds and crimes, crimes mainly women were victims of. He lost his own life in 1870 during a violent fight with his associates, but he had not become aware of it. He boasted that he had committed new crimes over many years and that the police never caught him. ‘I wanted to beat a policeman in Boston to death one day. I crept up behind him and hit him over the head with a club. But the club went right through him and didn’t harm him, he didn’t even turn around to look at me.’ The spirit thought that he was in the hands of the authorities and declared that he was ready to yield in order to escape the faces of his numerous victims that pursued him. ‘To get rid of this torment, I would gladly go to hell.’ Whereupon I explained a number of things about the Law of Cause and Effect to him and how it also affected the circumstances and the conditions in the world of spirit. Whilst he was still listening to my explanations he saw his real mother stand before him. Her appearance made an overwhelming impression on him. The die-hard criminal collapsed on his chair and cried miserably whilst his mother persuaded him to come with her so she could show him how he could atone for his crimes. Most contrite and filled with a sense of guilt and remorse he parried her request: ‘I cannot go with you! Dear mother, leave me, I cannot go with you! You go back to heaven and I must go to hell, where I belong. I deserve to be chopped into pieces and burned in the fires of hell!’ But motherly love won the day and the spirit followed his mother, remorsefully and cap in hand.” The following case concerns a female spirit entity that was freed from her derangement. Dr. Wickland reports (23, P. 114): Meeting: 23rd of January 1918 Spirit: Emily Julia Steve Patient: Mrs. L. W. Doctor : Tell us who you are. We are interested in all the spirits that are in darkness. Tell us how long you have been dead for. Spirit : Something must have happened to me. Doctor : Are you clear about the fact that you have lost your own body?

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