-10 - As from 1898, my father and myself dealt with the technical problems of flying, they took centre stage, but this did not interfere with our quiet, further spiritual education. I was to get another opportunity to receive new evidence for the workings of otherworldly entities a few years later. Early April 1914. - I found myself in company of a befriended family in Trautenau when I received the following assignment during a meeting: “Igo, tell your father that he should hold a meeting with a medium called Seidel from your factory.” We went through the list of our employees to see whether a man named Seidel was amongst them and discovered that a carpenter in the workshops was called Seidel, he admitted that that he acted as a medium for a circle in Oberaltstadt. The following was announced to him in the next meeting: The German people will be confronted with a severe test. The Austrian heir to the throne, Franz-Ferdinand and his wife will die of unnatural causes and a war will soon follow that Austria and Germany, and eventually more and more nations will be embroiled in, so that a world war that will last a few years, will ensue. My father took this message very serious, but he could not imagine that this prophesy would already be fulfilled within a few months. When the Austrian heir to the throne and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo at the end of June 1914, we were convinced that the proclaimed world war would take place. My father arranged for a trusted employee of our factory to immediately go to Vysochansk to our Russian factory to take over from my brother who was in charge there, because he was convinced that Russia would be one of our enemies if a war broke out. When my brother wanted to travel home, the Russian authorities refused his visa, so that he and his family had to remain there. At the outbreak of the war, he and his family ended up in Viatka and they were later deported to Siberia. As from August 1914, we once again conducted our meetings every Sunday with the medium Seidel where I recorded everything in shorthand. We received a lot of interesting and important tips in regards to the development of this Earth; but we were not informed about the sad ending of this war. - These interesting notes and protocols were unfortunately confiscated by the Gestapo in 1942. When my father suffered a severe concussion in Trautenau during an attack by communists in June 1920, he was only able to deal with the management of the company to a small degree and this claimed all of my attention so that spiritual work had to be pushed to the back. My father died in 1927. When he felt that his terrestrial career had reached its end, he said to my wife and myself that he wanted to give us a sign when his time was up, if he was allowed to do so and that this should also serve as evidence. For three days my father lay there in agony and we remained in his room. There was no time to think of sleeping during these days, we did decide on the third day to have a little rest and we asked the nurse to immediately wake us if our father’s death was near. At around 5 o’clock in the morning, we were awakened by a loud shot. We jumped up and ran to the room where the nurse came towards us telling us that our father was poorly. All the other relatives also emerged from their rooms telling us that they were also frightened by a shot that was fired in their respective rooms. When we entered my father’s room my father whispered his last word with a transfigured face: “Anna”, this was the name of his first wife who had obviously greeted him in the hereafter.
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