- 61 - creek, a river or a lake, in lovely valleys between hills and mountains or alpine regions or near the ocean. Their locations differ, but the building style is always adapted to the region they are in. Furthermore, they are arranged like all the large cities and have everything they have, because spiritual life finds the same promotion in small and in large cities. Every city has a name that describes its character. The names always have a meaning that reminds us of God. We have a home here that stills all the homesickness for Earth and this for ever. Every city has the leadership of an eminent leader. He arranges what has to be arranged. Corporations, town councils and the like do not exist. All the reports Dr. Schwarz received via Priest Landmann have a lot of footnotes in the original and they point to parallel reports or divergent narrations by other authors. Those that are very interested in descriptions of the beyond should absolutely loan the book (11) from a public library. About the above report I would like to emphasise that he only describes the conditions in a particular region of the hereafter. We have already seen that completely different conditions can be encountered in the hereafter, the way we also find very different living conditions on our Earth. Even though Dr. Rudolf Schwarz was 33 years younger than Ph. Landmann, he died on the 25th of February 1963, 3½ weeks before his medium, who left our Earth on the 22nd of March 1963. This short interval was sufficient time for us to receive a report about his own death. He describes it (20, P. 123): 1.) Received on the 13th of March 1963, in the morning: “Dear pastor, you are probably surprised that I am able to make contact with you so soon after my arrival. The season for this is that my present experience is in most parts the fulfillment of my expectations. I can proclaim with a grateful heart that the information you gave me through your psychic gift is the best and the most analogical in regards to reality. After my own experience, I am now pleased to be able to verify the correctness of the writing your gift made possible in particular that our paths crossed in the terrestrial world and that they ran parallel to each other. It is my expressed wish that the booklets that I produced through your gift will find quite a wide distribution. I can unfortunately do nothing from this side and I do not see a way that this could happen through you. You know the attitude “metaphysics”21 adopted as well as I do. It strictly follows the scientific axiom, namely to print only verified facts, facts that can be exposed to scientific investigation methods. A series of reports by me, from my present situation and via your psychic conveyance, would hardly comply with the exactness of their scientific concepts. And now a little about my present situation. Hearing the whistle of the conductor was a real surprise to me. To use a metaphor, I sat in the train but had believed that my stay at the physical station would last a little longer. I felt better again and we had, as I informed you in a letter, all kinds of plans for the near future. But things turned out differently and after having survived the initial shock, my family as myself can now live with the certainty of one’s personal immortality and accept and rejoice with me that I now have a healthy and happy existence on a higher level, one that constantly develops into what is called enjoyment of life, something that can only be achieved to an imperfect degree in one’s terrestrial garment, and in most cases not at all. For the time being I will remain where I am for some time to come, namely in a wonderful rest house where all newcomers can expect to receive what they initially require. Rest in every respect, as well as light and warmth whose experience you cannot begin to imagine. I am not doing anything to begin with but to allow these glorious surroundings wash over me or close my eyes and stretch my limbs sitting on a soft chair. I have a glorious, extremely comfortable room with furnishings that are completely to my taste. When I stand at the open window – the windows are always open here and a balsamic scent comes wafting inside – I look across to a superb park with wellmaintained lawns, flower beds and clumps of bushes. Water features are also present. Smiling and 21 This refers to the journal of the late “Gesellschaft für metaphysische Forschung” in Hannover, whose president he had been at times. Contrary to his fears, the reports was published just the same.
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