The influence of grief on the deceased

- 21 - bless the mediators. A letter from Dr. Andrews arrived on Thursday wherein he told them that he found the whole thing very strange (he was not a Spiritist at that time), but that he immediately began a search with the help of the police, because the facts had been correctly specified. He had also found the children and all the details from the deceased mother had been correct. He had now taken care of the children, but he asked for an explanation about how the editor of the ‘Banner’ got hold of all the details that eventually proved to be true. The doctor received all the details and he was encouraged to look into Spiritualism, to examine the facts and to study the philosophy therein. These facts had naturally been published in the ‘Banner of Light’; Dr. Andrews accurately described all the processes involved in the ‘Albany Argus’ and concluded his dissertation by saying that he could no longer doubt the fact that the spirits of the dead could really announce their presence and proclaim their wishes. He was from then on a convinced spiritist. And Dr. Andrews was right. Those that are not convinced of the reality of one’s personal survival after death and the inter-communication between both levels of existence after receiving such facts, will never ever become spiritualists. One may consider the fact that a trip between Boston and Albany took 14 to 15 hours in those days and that therefore a letter posted in Boston on the Saturday, could only be in the hands of the doctor on Sunday. It took quite an effort to find the flat of the people who had taken the child in according to the doctor’s information and as they had not been at home, he couldn’t get hold of the child until Monday. He drove to the farm early on Tuesday to collect the other child and then wrote the letter that reached the hands of the editor Luther Colby on Thursday that afternoon. Now if the whole affair had not been arranged between Mr. Colby and Dr. Andrews in order to create a hoax (something that is refuted by the fact that the doctor was not a spiritualist), there is no other explanation left but the one that the spirit of the Irishwoman did actually manifest through the medium in Boston. If one was able to wipe all hitherto facts of Spiritualism from the memory of people, one could reconstruct the structure of Spiritualism almost solely from the above narrated manifestation.” 18. A murder Victim feels thoughts of Compassion The following example doesn’t deal with the grief over a deceased person, but where the deceased intercepts thoughts of interest and feels a certain sympathy from a terrestrial human being and, because he is psychically gifted, he then communicates with him. We are dealing here with a murder for political reasons. This event takes place in 1934 and it concerns the then chief of staff of the SA, Ernst Röhm. He was a particularly unpleasant and brutal proponent of the national-socialistic elite. He was one of the few who was on a first name basis with Adolf Hitler. Röhm had been a captain in the General Staff during the First World War and an injury disfigured his face. He hoped that the SA (abbreviation for Sturmabteilung), it comprised three million men and he was their leader, would in conjunction with the Reichswehr (German Armed Forces under the Weimar-Republic) build the foundation of the new German Wehrmacht after 1933. But Hitler decided that the new Wehrmacht would only be built upon the old Reichswehr. He simply dropped Röhm, even though he had sent him an exuberant thankyou letter on New Year’s Eve of 1933. Röhm on his part called Hitler a ridiculous Lance Corporal on the 28 th of February 1934 in a confidential conversation with SA leaders and he said: “If one could only free oneself from this sissy.” Incited by Himmler and Göring, Hitler decided to liquidate Röhm and all higher SA leaders. Röhm’s homosexual tendency, something Hitler had been aware of for a long time, played a major role and he accused him of planning a putsch. “Countermeasures” were put in place to prevent this alleged attempted coup. They led to the arrest of all detainable higher leaders of the SA by the SS between the 30 th of June and the 2 nd of July in 1934. All those arrested were shot without legal proceedings, a large number of them at the Stadelheim Prison in Munich. This is where Röhm was also murdered on the 1 th of July 1934 by SS-Sturmbannführer Lippert in Cell 474 through three pistol shots. In connection with this action, Hitler had other inconvenient customers he wanted to settle a bill with,